A long time coming: my own kind of video

You may or may not know about VideogameVacation.com, the tumblr blog I started back in December to promote the stickers I’ve been schlepping for even longer. It hasn’t generated a single penny of income since 2006 and, in fact, I’ve spent way more on it than I’ve ever made. That’s especially true now after the recent purchase of Hauppauge’s HD-PVR video capture device that ran, oh, $200 or so.

I’ve wanted capture hardware again ever since my Snappy — a SCSI box that took 320×240 snapshots of composite inputs — stopped functioning around the time the world abandoned SCSI ports. I’ve also always been keen on the idea of “video postcards”, simple scenes of life playing out in front of a camera. Combine the two and that’s what I’m creating right now for Videogame Vacation.

It’ll wind up being a series of 17 videos from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (which I’m borrowing from Maxx) and I plan on posting a new scene every day in quality, 720p, direct-feed goodness. I turned out to not like the game so much but I do love looking at the world and watching its virtual populace pretend they’re really in Rome in the 16th century. I could watch even this one single video here endlessly

There’s much more in store after this excursion into Italy (like a wider variety of footage from many more games, I promise) and that can all happen much quicker with your help. Comment, link, reblog, buy a sticker. Let me know this isn’t all merely for my own self satisfaction and I’ll entertain you people for years. So here’s some links to follow along however you’d like:

Videogame Vacation.com is the site with the pretty views; not just of Brotherhood but videos, music and images from games throughout time. This is a link to only the Brotherhood  posts at Videogame Vacation and here’s the YouTube playlists for all of the Videogame Vacation videos as well as one for the expanding-by-the-day Brotherhood stuff. You can even follow GameLuv on Twitter and it’ll tweet out links when the videos go up. And if you’d like to support this ridiculous adventure with your local currency, there are loads of Mushroom Kingdom and Raccoon City stickers always on sale with new designs on the way… if I ever sell a dozen of the ones I’ve already got.

Thanks to everyone who happens to read this, I didn’t mean for this to come out like a pleading sob story.