Making Trailers for Path of Exile

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Pyromancer4 wrote:

Trailer quality has been increasing lately, thanks for your wonderful work! Looks like the funniest job in the world!

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In the past we've had minor conflicts over who "starts first"; I usually want to build my trailer around the music, and he understandably wants to build his music around a trailer!

I'm interested, how did you resolve that conflict? Both approaches seems they could work. In your experience, did one way or the other ended up being more efficient, or did something else happen?

Thanks for the kind words! Usually it comes down to whoever has the time to start working on the trailer. We often do a sort of hybrid, where I'll show him a rough draft, then he'll make a sample of the soundtrack, and we meet in the middle somewhere.

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eemmbbeerr wrote:

I absolutely love these views into actual development. Sometimes I imagine professional game studios mucking and fooling around less than the for-fun-game-jamming I sometimes do but I am pleasantly disappointed every time!

A question for you:
Do you ever test builds with the developer version of the game?
Seems like the perfect place to test the memest meme interactions that will eventually become a Wormblaster or Bootleg Firecracker.

Glad you enjoyed it. Personally I've experimented a lot with builds here, usually with the intention of finding something that looks cool on camera. Even with cheats, you still have to know a lot about the game to find interesting interactions. I'll sometimes browse our build forums for inspiration.