Clock Tower Praise
I made a particularly talked-about level for the game Guild Wars 2. I was on a team within the company that is responsible for making special holiday content. Halloween was our first holiday, and our first time updating the game in a major way since we launched a couple of months ago. So I really wanted to make a splash. Previously, I championed the addition of jumping challenges in Guild Wars 2 during development, and eventually got enough traction that all the maps in the game were required to have one or two of these different-than-normal-GW2-play areas. So I thought it would be nice to make a new jumping challenge for Halloween. The main character in our game world for Halloween (he's been around since the first Guild Wars) is Mad King Thorn. A crazy, supernatural guy with a flaming pumpkin head. Now, I had been asked by many players during our beta process to make harder and harder jumping challenges. So I thought this was the p...