I feel this thread is derailing
...just a teeny bit.
On another note: After watching the EU crowd footage all I could think about was "FFFFFFF -- I really wish we had someone who could throw together a sick compilation movie". Man, I got some sick ideas but lack the skills to bring them to fruition.
I feel similar about the derailing bit. Everyone should get vocal though,
now. Anyway, maybe we should use a different list. I mean, I'm sure Living Shadow's list was very comprehensive but do half of these people even play the game? (Kind've rhetorical, I know a good handful definitely don't) I can't believe in a player list that has V-Akiha at the most played character.
Let's cut the source material down a bit so we can have a more accurate representation of tournament play. Basically, cut out players we haven't seen/heard from in over a year or so? I think that's reasonable.
Also, as for the actual chart itself, maybe we can make it pie chart/percentage style instead since our numbers are abysmal and I think that would actually hurt us in the end (if it was presented) Also, in the meltybread youtube profile page there is the Japanese listing for all the character names, so use those and put the English name on the side in paranthesis. You can also rename the chart itself character usage statistics.
As far as projects are concerned, I'm sure we all wanted to do compilation videos or what not - but in truth, we had years to do that and we were just sleeping on it the whole time. It's these sort of big project ideas we should
continue to pursue after HydraGP is over to keep the scene fresh and alive for when Current Code comes out. Then uploading good matches and tutorials from the start to get people interested and capable of playing the new game. The wiki and a lot of tutorial vids were done really slow, and I think it hurt the scene overall not getting around to them until around Evo time.
Like week one of current code we definitely need a system mechanic video like the one Curbeh did. But yes, derailing aside, let's keep what's possible into our hands. Let's ask ourselves these questions;
- What do we love about this game, and more importantly for this case, our community?
- What have we done for this game that is more amazing/makes us like it more than other communities?
- What do we have to offer people to the fighting game scene and the Japanese scene by being in constant communication?
- What business prospects does Ecole have out here?
- How fast can we take these answers and compile them into something that Dakanya or Curbeh wants to translate in under 3 days and something that represents us as well as motivate the Ecole CEO to read it and do something?
Here's what I want to include in the portfolio:
A solid collection of at most a dozen videos with descriptions. These videos should show some of the greatest matches of all time and be high quality. They should also include "hype" vids, showing our scene at it's best. Even though the gauntlet's at Team Sp00ky and BBGXII videos are some of my favorite matches, those were only recorded to stream and fairly low quality. Not to mention one of those vids is like an hour and no CEO is going to waste his/her time. We need to present a high quality video, a short line or two about why it's important, and why it's worth watching. I would include at the very least Rithli's NECX video, which showed how dedicated our scene really was and how much we love the game. It shows how many people are really willing to play. I know when Ashe saw that video, he commented "American Melty is like a war!" and was really amazed. Let's use videos that send the same signal to the Ecole CEO. I think EVO Finals would also be important so we can note the big difference between American and Japanese level of play, as proved by a mirror match. We could use this to explain how there are no game centers and a console release would help us. Furthermore, we should include the Evo match with Kusanagi to prove the international exposure this tournament has gotten. Maybe we could include a video like Zar's Option Select video so we can show that America does understand high-level play.
These sorts of things will be good to give them a well-rounded idea.About 5 good pictures of Melty Blood players and game moments. Feel free to start nominating pictures and making collages. Fire up that photoshop,
Chibi.List of events this community has hosted, and explanation of what we've done to help the scene. I'm sure if they know we carried a bunch of TV's into the center of NYC just to show off their game, they might see all sorts of potential, including advertising. Maybe someone who has been to a lot of tournaments like
Ehrik can help with this.
A list of potential companies to talk to about porting the game. Atlus is #1 on my list, you fighting game buffs should know a handful of others. I know someone like
Bellreisa has a lot of knowledge about the industry.
Character usage statistics and comments about the game. This is where the high level analysis of what could make the game better. Let's keep character buffs/nerfs out of this. I'd like to leave to this pretty exclusively to
Tonberry to come up with some intelligent overview, but the rest of us to cut down the usage list into something actually representative.
If you know a GODLIKE video editor who can take a lot of our better lower quality vids and turn it into something Rithli did by all means, but for now, let us focus on the humanely possible. I want something tangible I can print out, in Japanese, and hand to the Ecole soft producer. Which mean we're going to need to give
Dakanya/Curbeh a lot of time (if they even really want to do it). Essentially this means you only have a
couple days at most to really get something presentable in English.
You will definitely not have until Friday to get everything together. That's impossible for me, and anyone even remotely interested in getting the project to Ecole's hands. Especially if me and Kamina in the end have to translate.Who decides what gets into who's hands? Well, since Kamina has not much to do this week, is the founder of the Hydra GP International Relations group, and one of the reasons me and LK had a place to start in meeting Japanese players - I think it should be him. So
GET AT HIM. Since Evo he has been doing a lot of work.
I highlighted some people but if anyone can help 行け!行け!行けええええええええええええええええ!!!!, do work so Kamina can sort everything out ASAP.