When adding a video to your game, the maximum supported video length is 31 seconds which is extremely small and should be increased to at least 2 minutes. It’s very hard to work with 30 seconds, as it doesn’t show as much about your game as you would like. A stereotypical video works something like this ATM:
3-5 seconds of fading in/intro
about 23 seconds to work with (people usually do 5 ~4 second transition slides explaining certain aspects of their game)
3-5 seconds of fading out/end
That literally leaves us ~20 seconds to give a pitch of our game that isn’t extremely misleading; that’s absurd.
Why such a small limit? I’d love to hear what’s keeping this from being increased.
I don’t think anybody wants to watch 2 minutes of footage on a tiny embed player. I agree with you wanting more time, though. Maybe 45 seconds would be the sweet spot.
I disagree. Whenever I see a steam game that I think is interesting I’ll happily spend 10 minutes watching trailers on the game page, especially cool cinematic ones.
As someone who’s making games for 11 year olds who watch Snapchat stories that are 4 seconds long I don’t think they’ll have the attention span to watch 2 minutes of video, but I could be wrong.
I feel like it should be up to the person to make a good trailer. Some just suck, an extra minute of it wont make it any worse. But an extra minute of a really amazing trailer can only seal the deal for the viewer even more.
