That video about Source 2 explained!
Wow, pretty incredible to think that people who make mods or videos like me do sometimes get hired, Valve’s Chet Faliszek talks about getting into the game industry.
Innovative new technology deployed across Steam store
August 17, 2012—Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Ricochet) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the launch of Volume Control, a major improvement to video playback in the Steam store.
After two years, and six teams of engineers, Valve has added the ability for gamers to control audio volume of videos within the Steam store. As of today, all video players within the Steam store now have an intuitively-designed slider to let customers adjust their preferred level of audio while watching trailers, teasers, and short films.
“This is literally the most significant development in video playback technology on Steam since we added [Adobe] Flash movies years ago,” said Julius Willmott at Valve. “We finally had to form a special task force to address this long-standing feature, as it clearly wasn’t going to build itself. We’ve play-tested the feature with multiple focus groups and think we’ve finally hit on a winning combination of usability and sleekness.”
In addition to the volume slider, Valve has added subtle yet important gradients to both the video loading bar and the video playback progress bar.
For details and to experience the best video player on the web, please visit http://www.steampowered.com
Valve, such jokesters!
This year they’re using SFM now!
Categories:
- Best Action
- Best Drama
- Best Comedy
- Best Original Universe*
- Best Overall
Submission Rules:
- Entries must be no longer than five minutes.
- Each entry must be at least 720p.
- All entries must be submitted using the Source Filmmaker’s upload to YouTube™ and Steam Community menu option.
- Only entries submitted between Nov. 1, 12:00 AM and Nov. 15, 12:00 AM GMT will be considered.
- Voting begins Nov. 16.
- Winners, selected by Valve from the community-chosen nominees, will be announced by Dec. 31, 2012
- All co-creators must be finalized by submission deadline to be considered.
- You are free to use any Valve IP.
- If you use any non-Valve IP, you must be the copyright owner or have explicit permission from the owner.
- Multiple submissions per person are fine.
- Submissions must be free of advertisements.
*Must be the original creator of all content featured in the video.
Prizes:
- Winners will receive a Saxxy award in Team Fortress 2.
- Winner of Best Overall will be flown to Valve for a filmmaking session with Valve’s Source Filmmakers, and have the chance to see their work aired on GTTV’s VGA preshow this December.
GTTV aired an episode on Spike last night all about Valve. Full episode on their site.
I finally sent the Source Filmmaker team and email asking about receiving the beta! Hoping to hear back possibly.
Source Filmmaker Tutorials
Valve released a few tutorials for the Source Filmmaker yesterday. Still waiting to get a copy, completed the survey as soon as it came out. Too bad I don’t know anyone from Valve like some other people who cheated and got keys from their Valve friends!
Source Filmmaker! Open for beta, sign up here: http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/.
CLANG Cameo
Just in case you haven’t already heard about the CLANG Kickstarter video, watch it. Watch out for a certain cameo from someone whose name rhymes with Mabe Dewell.
