The worst gameplay footage of all time

A couple days back I was trying to screen-record the first 5ish minutes of episode 1 using OBS to put together a new trailer. I just got let go from a contract job which was my primary source of income, so I'm trying to circulate the project and hopefully find more Patreon supporters to help bridge the gap in employment.

(Could it be you??)



I split my development time between Windows and Linux and I happened to be using Linux when I took the recording. Screen recording on Linux is always a crapshoot. But when I played back the recording in VLC it was SO MUCH WORSE than I was expecting. 

(To share this, I had to hold my phone up and record the video playing on my monitor. I'll explain why below.)

The audio is very corrupt and in the early frames that are just white text on a black screen, it appeared that the pixels of each frame were scrambled all around in pieces. I honestly couldn't imagine what went wrong with the graphics.

But when more colors and sprites appeared on the screen, I realized the video had been scrambled into Jigsaw puzzle pieces, and I knew exactly what was going on.

My side-project is a game called Habit Puzzles in which I used an open-source library to generate jigsaw puzzle piece shapes for an interactive puzzle. I wasn't quite satisfied with the results from the first library I tried, so I've been looking for other open-source puzzle generator algorithms I could use. Someone mentioned to me that VLC has a puzzle piece video filter in it (I have no idea why) so the last time I had VLC open on my Linux machine, I had enabled the jigsaw filter to see if it might be suitable for my project if I could delve into the source code and replicate their algorithm.

I forgot to turn off the filter, so when I played back my gameplay footage, it was chopped up into puzzle pieces. 

So the reason why I had to record the recording from my phone, is that the video doesn't actually have messed up graphics. That was VLC overlaying a filter on it. I could have used OBS to screen-record the video playing back, but then the audio would have been doubly corrupted, and I didn't want to hear what that would sound like.

Anyways... new trailer coming soon!