Honestly, I´d accept any job at Valve, even a janitor job! Could you imagine pick up trash related to EP3?
But I get what you mean, I´d prefer a normal mapping job, because I just love to create worlds and playing with players feelings. Going from a "meh" area to a "daim, this is a very creepy place!" On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Adam Sierra <[email protected]> wrote: > Honestly if I was working for Valve, I'd rather not be a level designer. > I'd want to be the guy who advises and directs the level designers, giving > them pointers on how to improve various things in their levels, offering > creative ideas and workarounds for issues. > For instance, one thing I noticed a lot in their level designers, is that > many of them don't seem to have a background in programming, which means > their levels suffer in areas that could have done something awesome if they > just leveraged the full power of all the logic entities. There is so much > unrealized potential, and it saddens me when I see the level designers > waiting on programmers to simply add something cool to the engine for them > to use, instead of being fully creative with the entities already available > and making something awesome. > Also I really enjoy looking over other mappers work, and offering advice > and > pointers, perhaps jumping into their map and showing how to do stuff hands > on myself. > > This also has the bonus of me being able to help add value to the game, and > keep the developers engaged and improving, while also being able to still > be > a hobbyist level designer at home, where I have full creative freedom to > build whatever I can imagine. Everyone wins. > _______________________________________________ > L4Dmapper mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/l4dmapper > -- Eugenio "Motanum" Roman [email protected] http://twitter.com/#!/MotanumR http://steamcommunity.com/id/Motanum http://www.youtube.com/user/motanium _______________________________________________ L4Dmapper mailing list [email protected] http://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/l4dmapper
