Some Insights into my Orcs Must Die play-through - Part 13

Part 13 of my Orcs Must Die! play-through featured The Arena, a really close quarters map with two rifts and two doors. Having never attempted this level before, I went into it thinking there was no way I'd complete it in one go. What I've liked so far about my Orcs Must Die! play-through is that the levels have all been pretty straightforward, so recording each level hasn't been much of a problem.

I stumbled across the portal which leads to the upper bit by accident, thinking that maybe it was some way to get to each rift quicker. Placing a bunch of Steves up on that elevated middle bit turned out to be quite a good move, especially once they were upgraded with flaming arrows. Once I had a couple of spike traps and arrow walls down, that combination with the elevated Steves turned out to be quite deadly and eventually saw me win the map without any major issues (or leakage).

Recording this level was also pretty straightforward. My son was sleeping next to me quite soundly for most of it, however near the end he decided to wake up and instantly started crying, which obviously had to be edited out. This was the first time since I started posting videos where I re-recorded myself in bits and pieces where there was clearly a lot of unwanted background noise. I'd listen to what I was saying a couple of times to get the timing and the tone right, then record myself saying it in isolation so that I could lay the new recording into the rest of the track and remove the piece with the background noise. This worked out quite well in the end, but there were a few points where the tone wasn't *quite* right with what I was saying, not sure if anyone will pick up on that or not.

Following on from this episode and Enviro-Bear 2000 yesterday, I'm going to start using different software to record myself speaking. I think this will improve the overall quality of my recorded voice, as currently I seem to get quite a few complaints about needing to get a new mic. The weirdest thing is that on vent for most people I sound very clear, so there's just a lot of confusion surrounding what exactly is causing me to sound so muffled and "tinny" when I render my projects.

Anyways that's enough of that. Hope you enjoyed the episode and hopefully you're also enjoying these little insights into what goes into making these vids in the first place.

Here's a link to episode 13 of my Orcs Must Die! play-through:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S4bP_e78A0

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