{"id":2136,"date":"2013-12-16T17:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2013-12-16T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:13:16","slug":"designing-mandatory-co-op-play-in-left-4-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=2136","title":{"rendered":"Designing Mandatory Co-Op Play in Left 4 Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great video from GDC 2009 that has found its way over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/207022\/Video_Designing_mandatory_coop_play_in_Left_4_Dead.php\">Gamasutra<\/a> today about the game design choices that were made when developing Left 4 Dead. L4D is a game that I played quite a bit of back in 2009 and is really what got me back into PC gaming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t picked it up yet, both <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/500\/\">L4D<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/550\/?snr=1_7_15__13\">L4D2<\/a> (protip&#8230; all the L4D maps are now in L4D2&#8230; there&#8217;s really no need to pick up the original) (extra protip: Steam should be having a holiday sale very soon) are great first person shooters which, while great in single player mode, really shine in multiplayer online. There&#8217;s a co-operative mode as well as a versus mode, and both of which can be an absolute blast if you&#8217;ve got headphones, a microphone, and a nice dark room.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The multiplayer experience that I had playing this series is part of what made me interested in Sprixelsoft making a multiplayer game, though the genre of game is completely different than what we&#8217;ll be doing with Super Hematoma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/207022\/Video_Designing_mandatory_coop_play_in_Left_4_Dead.php\">GDC Vault video<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested in learning more about game design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great video from GDC 2009 that has found its way over to Gamasutra today about the game design choices that were made when developing Left 4 Dead. L4D is a game that I played quite a bit of back in 2009 and is really what got me back into PC gaming. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cool-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}