Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dustforce

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Dustforce[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 May 2013 at 22:01:25 (UTC)

OriginalDustforce gameplay trailer
Reason
Aside from playing a video game yourself, the best way to show a video game's mechanics and its style is in video format. There are some video game trailers which are full of theatrical trickery and outright fabrications, this isn't one of those. This depicts pure gameplay, the reader sees all the characters, a selection of the worlds they must navigate and the enemies which inhabit them. The typical 2D platformer style presentation of the game, and the techniques the characters exhibit, such as double jumping and wall jumping also serve the Platform game article well.
The original video was H264/AAC, you can see it on Youtube. I transcoded the video to WebM with VLC, keeping bitrates similar. But if you're a video guru, you might be able to do better.
Articles in which this image appears
Dustforce, Platform game, Humble Bundle, Trailer (promotion)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator
Hitbox Team, with music by Lifeformed. Uploaded by hahnchen.
  • Support as nominator --hahnchen 22:01, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support indeed a video is a much better way of showcasing gameplay mechanics than static pictures. dllu (t,c) 23:53, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support but mainly for the EV in Trailer (promotion). Can't think of any more recent trailers which could be used, especially for video games. Mind you, for the gameplay mechanics this is also pretty good. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:35, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per above – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 09:50, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:06, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]