The video cut out at around 8:10.

what was the part that got cut? i havn’t watched the video.

Sorry about the video cutting out on one of the most important parts, apparently someone tripped over the camera’s power cable. =/ About a minute ~ two minutes was lost, I think.

Blind_In_Texas: http://www.google.com/search?q=redder+map
I would also like to see the version of the map with all the arrows, though!

Daphny: Your I HEARD A RUMOR question was hilarious BTW

AGS: I don’t think most of us had even heard of ZZT! I knew what it was but I’d never seen it before.

GGN: Is http://www.dessgeega.com/flashmybox/ the one you mean? I guess we should start giving the camera guy a better spot in the room when we know the talk is going to be Popular On The Internet.

Hunty: I’m superglad that we record these things too! I wish I knew who jumped through the hoops to get us recording them initially, but the current cameraman/editor/uploader is a swell guy named Shea.

Auntie: The thing that happens when you get all the gems is my favorite ending in a game ever, by the way, I have been hoping for such a thing to happen in a game since I was THIRTEEN

I also took notes, I haven’t had a chance to write them up before now! I wrote them in lowercase on paper, I wasn’t going to post them but Conformity Calls

- vocab: “walls in place”
- since the level is out of the way, you can make it a harder section
- you have to pass through four areas to get to it

[sketch of that picture up there ^]

- theme of bottom-middle: jumping
- shape and height of the jump

- level made up of rails

“level flows” [a picture of level flows]
- lots of arrows, some one-way

- make use of negative space, since it’s already there

- this jump doesn’t work because you hit the thing after getting the thing

- game design/level design trick: “this was something else”
- fallen pipe

- visual symmetry is good, but not at the expense of ;aslkdfn;sd
- play symmetry: get at it from either side

- tileset first, for Anna
- design tiles for an area, then place them

- at the beginning Redder was linear
- she felt it wasn’t interesting like that

- have controls etc. in place (bouncing, jump shape) before designing levels

- use tiles and stuff not just for aesthetics, but for distinguishing parts of the world

- HAVE A LEVEL EDITOR lol

- she only uses Flash because it makes her money

- the differences in the way they look mirrors [something]

- GraphicsGale is wonderful
- Paint Shop Pro! now defunct
- exactly 400 tiles in the game

- Edmund yelled at her until she made the death animation short enough

- originally, every screen was a checkpoint
- but then the player could get stuck in a bad place, infinitely

- “life bar lends to sloppy design”
- something should happen -> then you die

It made me wonder how you designed it in the first place – but I never would have guessed that you used a working ZZT prototype…

I think it’s a bit of a shame that you didn’t answer (or possibly didn’t quite understand) the question about setting jump height – plugging numbers into the accelration formula to get the desired height from a jump.

Trying to avoid spoilers: I got all the gems. This kinda ruined the last area I was going to explore (I didn’t get to see your lovely sunset gradient much)
I did not enjoy the thing you got from your audio guy (did that avoid spoilers ok?) – the very end of it was kinda amusing, but most of it was just irritating and didn’t make me uncertain and interested – just cross.

Also many of your areas could stand being a little bit more interconnected – several times I had to take huge detours. On the other hand – the coloured-rooms multi-switch puzzle was, if anything, overly connected.

Do you have any comments to make on how you decide and implement connection and flow?

The biggest nugget of wisdom I got from this was “theme areas around a specific mechanic or method of movement”, but there were numerous smaller nuggets, as well.