Creating animated GIFs of your game using FREE software

Hey there, and welcome to the third video of Tiny Fish, the "school" for newbie indie game devs. In the previous episode, I mentioned that one simple way to get attention for your game is to use animated GIFs when posting on social media, game portals, etc. For those who don't know how, this episode is for you, because we'll be creating animated GIFs of your game using free software.

BOOKMARKS
[00:00] Start
[01:07] Software - OBS Studio
[01:26] Software - VLC Media Player
[01:51] Software - FFmpeg
[02:18] FFmpeg set PATH on Windows
[03:01] STEP 1 -- Capturing a video of your game using OBS
[04:41] Using VLC to assist with video cropping
[05:30] STEP 2 -- Converting the video to an animated GIF using FFmpeg
[09:13] Trying out the conversion
[11:26] Using GIF previews on itch.io
[11:55] Credits

For the ffmpeg template to convert videos to GIF, you may copy and paste from here:
https://gist.github.com/plazatin/b46f...

Download OBS studio (https://obsproject.com)
Download VLC Media Player (https://videolan.org/vlc)
Download ffmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org)
FFmpeg documentation (https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html)
Play Gun in 60 Seconds at itch.io (https://plazatin.itch.io/gun-in-60-se...)
Play Toe II Toe at itch.io (https://plazatin.itch.io/toe-20-toe)

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