If you want to see this played truly masterfully, Vechs did a developer's commentary of it. There's less random experimentation and snark in it and more proper developer commentary compared to the dev commentary of Waking Up, but I still recommend it, because Vechs.
He's also as good a player as he is a mapmaker and that combination is *frightening* (and sexy).
And don't forget, the *amazing* troll cat moment near the end of the series. =D That series is worth watching to better understand Vechs as a mapmaker - the new series is much more of an LP, and while there's nothing wrong with Vechs snark, I find the discussions of his creative process to be really interesting.
I really love that developer commentary, as it was hard for me to understand his creative development process until I heard him talk about it. I only played part of one map before giving up (after I turned a corner several times and happened to run into a creeper spawner immediately each time... nope, too much of a fraidy cat for that!) but I adore watching people play through his videos. I'm quite excited to see this series, as I found Brian's videos through the fanserver's UHC and I love his style of commentating.
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Date: Thursday, October 11th, 2012 04:49 am (UTC)He's also as good a player as he is a mapmaker and that combination is *frightening* (and sexy).
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Date: Thursday, October 11th, 2012 05:27 am (UTC)That series is worth watching to better understand Vechs as a mapmaker - the new series is much more of an LP, and while there's nothing wrong with Vechs snark, I find the discussions of his creative process to be really interesting.
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Date: Thursday, October 11th, 2012 11:26 pm (UTC)