Soapstone youtube video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OipJYWhMi3k

S-Ahoy is a channel dedicated to deep dives into certain aspects of video games, ranging from weapons to tropes and oddities such as the first ever video game ever created.

O-The video seems to correspond loosely with the twentieth year since the release date of Quake 1 in 1996. 

A-Video game players, developers and historians who might be interested into the process of the making of such a famous game

P-To explain and showcase the development process, the context and the reception of the game to help explain many modern tropes and commonplaces taken for granted today.
S-Quake,FPS created in 1996 by Id software and other FPS games

Tone-Retrospective with emphasis on design elements and impact

A use of another games parody of the game as a demonstration of it’s long development cycle compared to its predecessor Doom or Wolfenstein 3D

The explanation of the 3d space allowing them to add a jump feature or the 

The anecdote of the physics systems working together to create rocket jumping, a form of movement which has been carried over into other games as a result of its physics and weapon knockback.

Anecdotes from magazines regarding review scores and drawbacks of the game.

This well paced documentary on the game which helped shape most of the ideas and games we see today, whether it be from it’s innovative new graphics system being able to allow even computers without heavy graphic rendering capabilities to play in three dimensions, or allowing for major overhauls to the code which has lead its elements and design choices to be transplanted into popular titles today. While being made under pressure with the doubts and expectations of Id being especially hard since their first two hits, compromises had to be made to push it out the door

I recently watched a Ted talk which related to something I had quite some experience with, the computer game Team Fortress 2 and it’s ever-developing economy. When I started to play the game around late 2011, I instantly became interested in the game, but there was a deep underlying market out of which would come to be a very interesting part of the game to me. For a frame of reference, a key is used to unbox items, the most prestigious of which being unusuals which were rare variation of virtual hats for the characters which would have very flashy effects on them such as hearts or thunderstorm. Each key, being worth $2.50, had a very close relation to another currency, metal, which was created from random weapon drops given to people for playing. Refined metal, the highest below Reclaimed metal and Scrap metal, was around 2-3 when I first got into the game. Now, in 2020, almost 13 years after the release of the game it is now about 54 refined to buy just one key. Refined is worth two or three cents and inflation has been a huge problem for a long time. I used to trade back then to varying degrees of success. In the video, they go over how this virtual economy is a microcosm of past economic developments, such as inflations and crashes such as the crate depression which allowed people for a few hours to get very expensive items with a 100% chance. Me and my friends participated in these exploits and it was a great example of a real life market crash. I wish in the video he went over how marketplaces have gone away over time, how the third generation of effects for unusual hats have deprecated in value due to the crate depression and how the use of real money as a platform has lead to certain countries reselling keys back to first world countries for cheaper prices, replacing it as an effective way to buy keys, or developmental currencies that have faded away over time

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