Make My Video: INXS
Make My Video: INXS is a video game based on real-time editing of music
video footage. The setup is that a pair of female friends is hanging around a
bar and monopolizing the pool table. The game explores the duo’s interpersonal
interactions with other patrons at the bar: There’s the Fly, an aloof cool
guy; Ted and Gomez, braindead surfer dudes trying to pick up the ladies, and
who are thinly-veiled parodies of Bill & Ted; Poindexter, the nerd who is also
trying to work up the courage to talk to the women; and Flo and Tiger, a pair
of leather-clad tough chicks whose interest is beating the main subjects of
the game so that they can control the bar music and play their Megadeth
videotape. Each person or pair has own their ideas about what an ideal INXS
video should or should not contain. The specifications normally come in the
form of a set of pictures they either do or don’t want to see, and perhaps
some effects. The game features three INXS videos from which to choose:
“Heaven Sent”, “Not Enough Time”, and “Baby Don’t Cry”.
After receiving the video specifications, the player enters the video editing
console in the EditChallenge mode. From this console, the player can view and
select between 3 video streams that are playing. The selected stream will be
edited into the final video. One stream is the original video while the other
2 feature assorted random footage that nonetheless often carries images that
happened to have been specified in the video request. The video editing
console also allows the player to apply a variety of real-time filters, such
as mosaic and blur filters, RGB color filters, strobe and motion filters,
lyric subtitles, among others.
The game also allows the user to enter a mode called U-Direct. Rather than
being competitive, U-Direct allows the player to use the console to create any
type of video and also save the results.
Make My Video: INXS