Lessons From Dario

Dario created youtube videos for Half-Life's 25th, I learned much from them.

To learn a persons map takes a skill. There are a few ways.

- Self exploration

- Joint exploration

- Tour Guide

- Developer Commentary

All these are different ways of experiencing a map. You can learn to see a map much deeper and appreciate it more when you interact with the developer. Not all great ideas are explicit; like secrets for example.

It is important that a developers players a community map by themself, but also with the mapper. The mapper can give many insights into their decisions.

To coldly judge a map is to be an amateur judge.