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Design with the Devs – August 1st from 3-5PM

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Hey there! Did you miss us? We’ve been away from Twitch TV for about a month now since we had the Rooster Teeth Expo and San Diego Comic Con, but we’re back!

This week we’re going to do another Design with the Devs on Thursday,  August 1st, from 3-5pm PST. It will be us, the Level Design Team, playing through three user created arena playlists against the community while chatting about their various positive qualities. Then we’ll announce the Featured Arena playlist the next day!

You know you want to join in the fun and learn more about what it means to us to design a thoroughly enjoyable BattleBlock Theater level.

Design with the Devs – June 14th

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On the next Very Special Episode of Design with the Devs, the BattleBlock Theater Level Design team faces a challenge unlike any they’ve encountered before…

…which wouldn’t take much because it’s only our second episode, but you get the idea.

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While we spent last episode discussing that week’s Furbottom’s Features candidates, this time around we’ll be putting our thumbs where our controller is by designing a new batch of Arena levels live on Twitch.tv. Each designer will take a turn on the Couch of Creation for a bit of building and friendly interrogation, and then once we’re done digging our virtual graves, we’ll host our newly minted levels online so that you can push us into our self made death-traps over and over again for your amusement.

Like what we made? Enjoy your favorite death-trap by punching us into it. Don’t like what we made? Well, maybe just punch us. See? It’s a win-win.

Whether you end up learning from us or just learning from our mistakes, you can join us at our Twitch channel on Friday, June 14th, from 3-5pm PST! We’ll be in the chat rooms per usual and there will even be a chance to win an autograph copy of Dan Paladin’s rare Watermelon CD!

ARE YOU NOT EDUTAINED!?

Design with the Devs: BattleBlock FF Selection

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>>EDIT: The live stream of Design with the Devs is finished, but the video is right HERE! Watch if you’re curious about how we select playlists for Furbottom’s Features or if you just want to see what silly things happened as we played through user made playlists.<<

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Since opening night, players everywhere have embraced the BattleBlock Community Theater as the best place in the whole world to share your thoughts and dreams, so long as your thoughts and dreams looked exactly like BattleBlock Theater levels. Otherwise, you may just want to start a journal blog.

But, far from the prying eyes of the Community Theater community, a new and awesome ritual was also being held each week to identify which levels would become the next Furbottom’s Feature (FF). It is a ritual so new and so awesome, that it has no name.

…though for awhile it was known as “The Pickening”, but that sounded dumb so it went back to having no name again.

Normally, this mysterious process would remain hidden away, deep within The Behemoth’s bowels- but no longer! This Thursday from 3:00pm-5:00pm PDT, three of The Behemoth’s level designers will emerge on our Twitch.tv channel to play and discuss this week’s Coop Adventure candidates; three playlists will enter, but only one will become the next Furbottom’s Feature!

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We call it “Design with the Devs”, and yes, that’s 3 playing 3 at 3, not only because that sounded cool, but also because that’s all the time and level designers we have. With any luck, all of those numbers will add up to you learning more about why we pick what we pick when we pick a playlist to be featured.

Whether you choose to chat with your hand flanges or stare with your seeing-eye-bulbs, we hope you enjoy this first opportunity to sit and judge the way we sit and judge you. Hurray!