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Please keep those video playthroughs coming, was a good watch. Watched a bit of you and Cardo's Portal coop too, definitely get my vote as a less squeally Quakey version of Yogscast!
Might be interesting for anyone involved in games business.
http://www.slideshare.net/bcousins/when-the-consoles-die-what-comes-next I saw that yesterday and he certainly has a good point because I love the fact I can be mobile anyway and play games. Especially on planes for long flights.
How good this one was.
Maybe it's just not noticing all the almost subliminal details whilst playing it. weird, i missed your post daz. thanks for the kind words!
i remember something about that scripted area... there are 4 doors that open up there, but the majority of the monsters are behind the doors that had no marking (the other two doors have that statue texture). i wanted the player to be staring at those statue textured doors ready for monsters to pour out, only for the monsters to actually come out right behind them. i'm evil. ^_^ also, it's funny but i've always had trouble getting players to stay on my platform rides. they always push the button and then either get off or don't get on at all! i think i design things that look more like traps or something instead of rides. :P also, it's funny but i've always had trouble getting players to stay on my platform rides.
Yes I ballsed up every button operated lift in the map :P I think the problem is that the buttons are too far away from the actual platforms and there isn't enough wait before the platform starts to move. I was also unsure what the button did before I pushed it which is why I missed all the platforms the first time around :) There was nothing connecting the two visually and they were quite far apart, it also wasn't obvious that the platforms were actually moving parts before you pushed the button :D The other small gripe I had was the long run back to where you were after getting the RL secret, having to ride both the slow lifts again and walk a bunch wasn't very fun, add a teleporter next time :D Bloody good map. Where is that sound scripted sequence? I didn't notice it in the playthrough.
To be honest, when watching the video, the map didn't seem that bloody good to me, which is not to say I think it's bad, of course. The lava ambience is cool, and the level flows around the central pool nicely, but there's something about the architecture and style (textures?) of the rooms that felt somewhat off to me. Maybe it was just something from the video and the brighness filter? Dunno. @Daz, as always it was really cool to watch you play a map. :) I often felt the tension as you stopped and looked over a ledge wondering if it was safe to drop down for stuff. The map felt like a constant ambush to me and IMHO made the flow through the map too cautious.
@necros, your lifts look like traps, especially in that map. I think you used the 'ambush' idea too much and made people nervous about trying stuff. There were several rooms where it was just player being chased around by armies of knights. I did not feel there was much variety of encounter styles. I liked the idea of the 'show and tell' with the big teleporter in the middle of the lava but I think the map could of had more interaction with the middle. oh ricky, be nice to the creator and don't link some shitty re-uploading wanker asshole next time.
Here is the original URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4StOKFw7M He does a (comedy) rant channel on youtube, very funny. I saw the one recently about ME3, priceless!
Not sure if this has been posted before but here's a book by one of our old buddies:
http://www.amazon.com/Level-Design-Concept-Theory-Practice/dp/1568813384 I read just one of the intro pages (since they give you a sample there) and I was sold. As if it wasn't enough that it's a book by Borsato!)
I'm really looking forward to some sage advice from Mr Kremers!
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