[omglazerkittens]

3D Realms Kickass Moments Contest!


Hey everyone! I’m Becky, the new Marketing Director at 3D Realms.



Did you know that we’ve released more than 35 games in the past 27 years? We’re lucky to have worked a range of historic and legendary titles.
We’re making a video montage in celebration of the Apogee / 3D Realms legacy and would like your help!
Record your favorite kickass moments from any classic Apogee / 3D Realms game and share them with us to enter our Kickass Moments Contest.

Winners will receive a free 3D Realms t-shirt, and a ton of free Apogee / 3D Realms classics.

The rules are simple:

1. Record some of your favorite moments in any Apogee / 3D Realms game
2. Make sure to export the video as a 1920x1080p MP4 (upscaling DosBox footage is fine!)
3. Upload your footage to YouTube with the hashtag #kickassmoment and share the link on Twitter, Facebook, or here on this forum
3. Host your footage on Dropbox, Google Drive or any other similar service so that we can directly download it



Entries must be submitted to the competition’s duke4.net forum thread before September 11th, 2014 at 12:00pm GMT.
After we’ve reviewed every submission, we’ll choose our favourites for entry into the video montage.
If your video was selected, we’ll send you a badass 3D Realms t-shirt, and some great yet-to-be-announced goodies!

Winners willl be sent a private message via the duke4.net forum after we post the montage containing the successful submissions.

[MusicallyInspired]

Nice. Like webcam or screen captured?

[Frederik Schreiber]

Screen-captures would be best 1080p.

[High Treason]

I'll try and get some done. From real DOS too - I have a rather unique setup.

What frame rate do you want? 60? 50? 30? 25? 24?

[Frederik Schreiber]

 High Treason, on 03 September 2014 - 09:43 AM, said:

I'll try and get some done. From real DOS too - I have a rather unique setup.

What frame rate do you want? 60? 50? 30? 25? 24?

The higher the better

[MYHOUSE.MAP]

Here is one of my favorite badass moments in an Apogee game.



Link: https://www.mediafir...h4qr1oiqxz1owd2

[The Commander]

1080p... pfft

I can't afford them upload speeds for that kind of quality.

EDIT: MYHOUSE.MAP your video links all broken and shit.

[OpenMaw]

Question! Before I waste my time.

You said "moments" in the rules. Does that mean we're good to upload a few or would you prefer each user keeps it to just one moment?

[NeoDukeNukem]

Hi i was wondering How long the video of our fav moments could be?

[Frederik Schreiber]

 Commando Nukem, on 03 September 2014 - 11:43 AM, said:

Question! Before I waste my time.

You said "moments" in the rules. Does that mean we're good to upload a few or would you prefer each user keeps it to just one moment?

The more the better!
Older Apogee games is a + in my book

[Frederik Schreiber]

 BlakeSongne, on 03 September 2014 - 11:45 AM, said:

Hi i was wondering How long the video of our fav moments could be?

As long as you want them to be

[ReaperMan]

So older the better? Does that mean we have more of a chance to win if we post a video of Kroz.

Also are you going to sell those T-shirts too?

[NeoDukeNukem]

(deleted this vid ) (my updated submission is on page 3) My #kickassmoment for 3d realms contest
the link to download my video https://drive.google...dit?usp=sharing

[omglazerkittens]

 ReaperMan, on 03 September 2014 - 12:54 PM, said:

So older the better? Does that mean we have more of a chance to win if we post a video of Kroz.

Also are you going to sell those T-shirts too?

Any time is fine! As long as they're kickass
You'll have to wait and see about the t-shirts!

 BlakeSongne, on 03 September 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:

My #kickassmoment for 3d realms contest
the link to download my video https://drive.google...dit?usp=sharing

Awesome!!

[Frederik Schreiber]

 ReaperMan, on 03 September 2014 - 12:54 PM, said:

So older the better? Does that mean we have more of a chance to win if we post a video of Kroz.

Also are you going to sell those T-shirts too?

Everything counts equally
But the natural thing would be to send a lot of Duke3D and Shadow Warrior moments.
That's great, but some smaller titles would be great to see as well. Stryker, Stone, Blaze, Harry, etc.

[Forge]

 omglazerkittens, on 03 September 2014 - 09:12 AM, said:

Hey everyone! I’m Becky, the new Marketing Director at 3D Realms.

are you single? what time does Fresch leave the office for the day? how much stuff is on his desk? does it have to be a video of a game?

[Frederik Schreiber]

 Forge, on 03 September 2014 - 02:00 PM, said:

are you single? what time does Fresch leave the office for the day? how much stuff is on his desk? does it have to be a video of a game?

It's midnight at the office atm.
Still have work to do before leaving for today!

My desk right now:

- My original Grey Gameboy
- Wario Land 1 (Super Mario Land 3) for Gameboy
- A Lego Businesscard Stand
- Bottle Opener
- Banana (I need to throw that out )
- A copy of Duke Nukem 3D
- The Fan Movie "Roughrider" by Will Martin on DVD
- A Zip Drive
- The 1993 book "The 22 immutable laws of marketing", by Al Ries and Jack Trout (Check it out. It's great!)
- An IDE Cable
- A Tiberian Sun GDI Soldier Steel figurine
- A Heavy Metal 2000 keyboard mat
- And the obvious. Mouse, Keyboard, Monitors, etc.

I'll let becky answer the rest ;P

[omglazerkittens]

 Forge, on 03 September 2014 - 02:00 PM, said:

are you single? what time does Fresch leave the office for the day? how much stuff is on his desk? does it have to be a video of a game?

You wish.

[Forge]

 Frederik Schreiber, on 03 September 2014 - 02:06 PM, said:

It's midnight at the office atm.
Still have work to do before leaving for today!

My desk right now:

- My original Grey Gameboy
- Wario Land 1 (Super Mario Land 3) for Gameboy
- A Lego Businesscard Stand
- Bottle Opener
- Banana (I need to throw that out )
- A copy of Duke Nukem 3D
- The Fan Movie "Roughrider" by Will Martin on DVD
- A Zip Drive
- The 1993 book "The 22 immutable laws of marketing", by Al Ries and Jack Trout (Check it out. It's great!)
- An IDE Cable
- A Tiberian Sun GDI Soldier Steel figurine
- A Heavy Metal 2000 keyboard mat
- And the obvious. Mouse, Keyboard, Monitors, etc.

I'll let becky answer the rest ;P

i'll carefully set aside the gameboy; everything else can get pushed to the floor

 omglazerkittens, on 03 September 2014 - 02:07 PM, said:

You wish.

[omglazerkittens]

 Forge, on 03 September 2014 - 02:13 PM, said:

i'll carefully set aside the gameboy; everything else can get pushed to the floor

You're seriously not gonna leave Duke Nukem 3D on the desk?

[Forge]

 omglazerkittens, on 03 September 2014 - 02:25 PM, said:

You're seriously not gonna leave Duke Nukem 3D on the desk?

well i was thinking maybe the banana could stay on the desk, but i didn't want to be presumptuous

[Hendricks266]

 omglazerkittens, on 03 September 2014 - 09:12 AM, said:

Hey everyone! I’m Becky, the new Marketing Director at 3D Realms.

Hi Becky, and welcome to Duke4.net.

Quote

2. Make sure to export the video as a 1920x1080p MP4 (upscaling DosBox footage is fine!)

From a technical standpoint, DOSBox footage should be hosted on Dropbox/Google Drive/etc before upscaling. That way, 3DR's video producers can upscale it themselves correctly, and in a uniform way.

 omglazerkittens, on 03 September 2014 - 09:12 AM, said:

Becky | @omglazerkittens | Marketing Director for 3D Realms | Power Level Over 9000

Protip: You'll get the best response from our community if your prose style is articulate and authentic. Our peanut gallery may not take PR-speak seriously. We're laid back here.

 omglazerkittens, on 03 September 2014 - 09:12 AM, said:

1. Record some of your favorite moments in any Apogee / 3D Realms game

I'll give it my best.

[Lunick]

I don't mean to also nitpick but the main post seems to contradict itself at least once.:

Winners will receive a free 3D Realms t-shirt, and a ton of free Apogee / 3D Realms classics.

If your video was selected, we’ll send you a badass 3D Realms t-shirt, and some great yet-to-be-announced goodies!

Anyway, as much as I'd like that cool shirt, I think the other guys here are better at recording things than myself. Not sure exactly why you locked the contest down to members of Duke4 though.

[Zavage300]

Here is mine, It's not in Dropbox or a Cloud yet. I'll do that soon.

http://youtu.be/SQB9Fgke464

[Mr. Nukem Roses]

well. here's 1 of my #kickassmoments i had on Duke Nukem 3D. it's not in HD though, but then again. i can't really do HD like videos. and i think that "rule" should be adjusted a bit. cause some people might not be able to do HD like videos

[omglazerkittens]

 Lunick, on 03 September 2014 - 06:51 PM, said:

I don't mean to also nitpick but the main post seems to contradict itself at least once.:

Winners will receive a free 3D Realms t-shirt, and a ton of free Apogee / 3D Realms classics.

If your video was selected, we’ll send you a badass 3D Realms t-shirt, and some great yet-to-be-announced goodies!

Anyway, as much as I'd like that cool shirt, I think the other guys here are better at recording things than myself. Not sure exactly why you locked the contest down to members of Duke4 though.

I'm going to blame Fred for that
But yes, you'll get the t-shirts, games, and other goodies

[omglazerkittens]

Also, feel free to use #kickassmoment or #kickassmoments

[Yatta]

 omglazerkittens, on 03 September 2014 - 02:07 PM, said:

You wish.

I certainly do.

[Lunick]

 Hendricks266, on 03 September 2014 - 03:00 PM, said:

From a technical standpoint, DOSBox footage should be hosted on Dropbox/Google Drive/etc before upscaling. That way, 3DR's video producers can upscale it themselves correctly, and in a uniform way.

 NukemRoses, on 03 September 2014 - 08:04 PM, said:

and i think that "rule" should be adjusted a bit. cause some people might not be able to do HD like videos

I think the idea here guys is that the team can make a quick trailer without having to bother with too many video resolutions and setting it up themselves it seems. Sounds kind of like making a launch trailer for the website.

[Hendricks266]

 Lunick, on 03 September 2014 - 11:11 PM, said:

I think the idea here guys is that the team can make a quick trailer without having to bother with too many video resolutions and setting it up themselves it seems.

That's the most basic part of video production! That would be like trying to cook but refusing to turn on the heat to the correct level yourself.