I did set up the camera to film us, but I never intended to use the footage. My daughter was jealous because she wanted to do a fight scene as well, even though she'd got to voice a dragon. WHYYYYYīut every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The more observant amongst you will also notice I increased the Souls when Little Devil is defeated. Yes, for some reason having the health bars go down properly - with a secondary amber bar showing the damage sustained from each injury - was really critical. I actually had to show the health bars going down. In the end, I just took some screenshots and used Paint.NET to isolate and touch up the HUD elements.Īnd no, I still couldn’t stop there. You can get the DSFix mod to spit out textures but I could never find anything I was looking for. I wanted to add the Dark Souls HUD and my God, the hours I spent on trying to get hold of that.

I was impressed with the resulting footage but, no, I couldn’t stop there. The masterstroke was when my son stabbed me in the balls with his pitchfork and, realising this would obviously make for a comical death, rolled with it. After testing the boundaries of the shot, we filmed a good five minutes of footage doing various parries and deaths. I set up the tripod in the garden, smiled at our neighbours, then asked my son to dress up in his Halloween devil costume. I was pretty sure we weren’t even supposed to fight, he was just meant to walk towards me and that would be enough.įilming live action is always a right pain, so put it off until I could put it off no longer. My son, however, has been out of the frame for some time and I felt it was his turn, you know? Without having any idea how the footage might be used, I decided I’d film a short boss fight, maybe with him saying he doesn’t want to do his homework, and give him an onscreen boss name of “Unruly Child”. She was carried at the end of Bioshock Infinite is the Worst Game of the Year and threw crayons off the table in Into the Black. I wanted to do a silly skit in the Dark Souls film explaining the Hellkite Dragon wasn’t actually a dragon - and had the brainwave that I could do an homage to Steerpike’s captions, by having the Hellkite Dragon respond to this accusation in my daughter’s voice.īut my daughter keeps making appearances in my films. His screenshot captions were particular highlights and I was quite taken with the Hellkite Dragon who seemed to come across as very cute. I loved Steerpike’s Dark Souls Diaries over on Tap-Repeatedly and even devoted a whole Electron Dance post to them. Here's a little behind-the-scenes insight on The Drake Incident.

oh my god this is way harder than I thought.

OOH I'VE HAD A FANTASTIC IDEA I LOVE IT.

But, somehow, things never go according to plan. We'll not do anything crazy like half an hour about The Witness. Oh, I've got an idea for Dark Souls film, I thought. 24Nov/16 Off How I Made: The Drake Incident

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