Video recording integrated with user profiles

posted on March 17th, 2010, 6:54 am

I'd like to somehow be able to integrate video recordings with user profiles. I.e. click on a user name and they have a tab called "Recorded Replays" (or some title) that would list all of the games that they played (each linked to the youtube (or other site) video).


As more folks start recording, it would be nice if there was an easy way for a recorder to link everything together. (I.e. when posting a video recording, input the names of the players, and it update people's profiles automatically).

Not looking for this to be a win/loss record (you'd still have to watch the whole video to see who won) as I don't want to ruin the game by telling the winner up front.

posted on March 17th, 2010, 8:31 pm

Interesting - no substitute, but it is something that might potentially be possible with the guide once an individual user system is integrated, though I'm not promising anything as all will be a good deal of work  .

posted on March 17th, 2010, 8:35 pm

could be much like Phoenix did on his site with the community maps.

posted on March 17th, 2010, 9:00 pm

well we are suppose to get a forum redo at some point in the future.

posted on March 17th, 2010, 9:37 pm

why not create a youtube channel and set it as your homepage?

posted on March 17th, 2010, 9:50 pm

Coincidentally, if there are map makers who have video's of their maps, then they could add those vids to their CM page on Astrometrics. If there turns out to be a lot of vids then I could restructure Astrometrics and have a kind of video gallery page. In fact, now I think of it, I could put up a photo gallery too. It really depends on demand .

posted on March 17th, 2010, 10:21 pm

Perhaps there could be a new child board for replays?  Then you could do a search for someone's name.  Anyone who records could have their own thread or something.

[yandonman]

posted on March 17th, 2010, 11:48 pm

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@Optec
Ah... I see how I misstated that...

I want to click on a user and see how many games they have played (that were recorded), not how many recordings they made.

(basically, I want to index based on player, not recorder).

Astrometrics wiki might work, it would give me the ability to do the cross-referencing I want. Still, publisizing would be most effective on the FO site (it would still need to include a blurp on the FO site/forum) (musing... what if we had wiki functionality on FO's site?)

posted on March 18th, 2010, 12:01 am

Oh, I understood.  For example, you can do an advanced search for Mort in the replay thread, and it will give you everytime mort is mentioned in the board, which will be in the posts where the links are at.  I can see where I could be misunderstood, as I was saying two things, but didn't make that clear.  I just thought it would be an easy fix.  If Astrometrics had an index, that would be great too.

posted on March 18th, 2010, 5:27 pm

A child board would work pretty decent as well (maybe under Online Gaming?.... but that doesn't make sense for single player vs computer games). I wasn't sure if there were enough replays being posted to warrent its own child-board... so I instead ask for a new forum feature? ... yeah, sometimes I don't make sense . Actually, I wasn't sure if there were enough replay recorders out there yet... but maybe now we do? (!)

In addition to being (probably very) easy to implement, each game would have it's own thread, facilitating game/strat comments, which is a definite plus.