{"id":537,"date":"2010-11-09T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vidhero.wordpress.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2010-11-09T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:13:39","slug":"valve-commentaries-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/valve-commentaries-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Developer Commentaries (idea)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/left4dead.wikia.com\/wiki\/Developer_Commentary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-619\" title=\"Valve Commentary Node\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/200px-commentary.png?w=144\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>After reading Brandon Sheffield&#8217;s recent interview with Erik Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/6198\/rewarding_the_players_valve_on_.php\">at gamastura<\/a>, I had idea (might be a poor idea&#8230;):<br \/>\nIt&#8217;d be charming\/funny if Valve offered Easy, Medium, and Hard commentaries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Easy could be more for the casual couch potato who doesn&#8217;t care about game development at all. about the feel and fun. maybe invite celebrity types (critics? voice actors?) to chime in on what they enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Medium could be what we have gotten up until now. explanations of experiments that didn&#8217;t work out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Hard could let the brain trust step up and pat them selves on the back a bit for complicated things they invented. Bronwen Grimes gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmpevents.com\/GD10\/a.asp?option=G&amp;V=3&amp;id=642071\">great speech at GDC last year<\/a> about shading innovations for L4D2. It was a little over my head, but quite thrilling to sit through. I think it&#8217;d be nice to let people hear a commentary that is un-apologetically smart (let people choose to inspire themselves, and get a peek at how deep the rabbit hole of game design can go?)<\/p>\n<p>just a though. wee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;d be charming\/funny if Valve offered Easy, Medium, and Hard commentaries.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/valve-commentaries-idea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valve Developer Commentaries (idea)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[70,74,105,140,167,361,494],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-video-game","tag-brandon-sheffield","tag-bronwen-grimes","tag-commentary","tag-developer-commentary","tag-erik-johnson","tag-portal-2","tag-valve-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}