Next SpyParty Masterclass Episode, Wednesday, 4pm Pacific!
The next episode of the SpyParty Masterclass will be streamed tomorrow, Wednesday, October 30th, at 4pm Pacific time!
As you will recall from the pilot episode writeup featuring r7stuart, the SpyParty Masterclass is the streaming show where I get the elite players to mentor me in-game and on-stream, so I can learn to suck a little less at the video game I’m making.
When you’re trying to design a deep player-skill competitive game, you have to be able to make tuning and balancing decisions, and to do that you have to have a clue about the way the game plays at elite levels. It’s a great feeling when players beat you at your own game (literally), but I felt like I was falling too far behind, so I decided to get some lessons from the top of the leaderboard, and to stream it and then upload it to the SpyParty YouTube channel afterwards so the whole community can learn from the lessons too!
This next episode will feature kcmmmmm, the player at the tippy top of the leaderboard, who you may remember lost me a bet with Seth Killian at Evo.
There are a few different things about this episode:
- I’m going to stream my side live on Raptr’s twitch channel, http://twitch.tv/raptr, and kcmmmmm is going to stream his side to the SpyParty channel at http://twitch.tv/spyparty. I recommend watching the dual-stream view so you can see both sides at the same time! I will edit them together before posting the final episode, like last time.
- We’re on Raptr’s channel because they’re working with extra life to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network and they invited me to stream, so I thought this would be a cool way to help out a good cause. You can join the Raptr extra life team here.
- We are going to keep it to one hour! The last one was almost four hours long, which is too long to watch and too long to edit! I’ll probably do some Q&A in the twitch chat on Raptr’s channel for a bit afterwards if folks are interested.
If you missed the last episode and have a spare 4 hours to go deep on SpyParty, here you go:
KC and r7 are both great players. r7 knows how spies move as they do. KC knows why they move as they do.
Nice meta-analysis!
That’s an amazing compliment! Thanks very much!
Cheers v! I should be able to catch this stream live, so I’ll see you all there :-)