Making the Super Crate Box iOS Teaser Trailer
Making this trailer came up quite by surprise. I had no idea that Vlambeer was working on an iOS port of Super Crate Box for iOS, but I’m so pumped that they are! Rami shot me an email out of the blue...
View ArticleMaking the Aquaria for iPad Teaser Trailer
This was a really fun little teaser trailer to put together. Aquaria for iPad has been in the works for quite a while now, and Alec and I had originally discussed making a trailer for it way back in...
View ArticleMaking the Serious Sam: The Random Encounter Trailer
Of all of the video game trailers I’ve created in the past 10 months, this was by far the most fun to assemble, and easily the most complex of them all. I’ve been looking forward to having the...
View ArticleMaking Entertaining and Engaging Video Game Trailers
[UPDATE: June 11, 2012] Updated this post with some new and some additional information: Links to reviews of various capture software on Mac, PC and Linux from Pixel Prospector Link to my review of...
View ArticleMaking the Hunger Games: Girl on Fire Trailer!
“Hey dude! whats your schedule like?” was the subject-line of the email that I recieved from Adam Saltsman back in late January… The first thing that ran through my head was “Busy as hell!” but I can’t...
View ArticleMaking the Offspring Fling Trailer!
Ever since I saw the awesome 90′s Super Meat Boy commercial by James ID, I’ve wanted to make a trailer or video that had that same sort of vibe. There’s something so wonderfully awful and nostalgic...
View ArticleBlackMagic Intensity Extreme Review
This is a review of the BlackMagic Intensity Extreme from the perspective of using it to capture gameplay footage from video game consoles and iOS devices. There’s some functionality that I don’t cover...
View ArticleMaking the Gasketball Trailer!
The first time I saw Gasketball was when Mike Boxleiter of MikenGreg showed me the work in progress build at GDC 2012. I loved the look and feel of the game, and really wanted to find a way to put...
View ArticleA year of game trailers…
Man… 2012. This year has been an incredible ride! After speaking at the 2012 Game Developer’s Conference and more recently at GDC China, I’ve received a flood of requests for people looking to make a...
View ArticleKert’s Cutting Room Critique: Top Indie Game Trailers of October 2013
There’s been so many cool indie game trailers coming out the past few weeks I decided to do a little roundup and commentary of some of the best ones I’ve seen. I’ll try to explain why they work so well...
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