As previously reported, the cover art for Left 4 Dead has indeed undergone a minor change.
Yes, as expected, Valve went ahead and switched the right hand to a left hand. The pun circle of life is now complete.
Additionally, the first blog entry for Left 4 Dead went up today. Just as the case is with the Team Fortress 2 blog, the Left 4 Dead blog will focus on the development and behind the scenes aspects of the game. This week's entry talks about play testing the hell out of a game prior to its release.
Check out the rest of the entry here.
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Yes, as expected, Valve went ahead and switched the right hand to a left hand. The pun circle of life is now complete.
Additionally, the first blog entry for Left 4 Dead went up today. Just as the case is with the Team Fortress 2 blog, the Left 4 Dead blog will focus on the development and behind the scenes aspects of the game. This week's entry talks about play testing the hell out of a game prior to its release.
Then there's the kind we're doing right now, when we're just about to ship and well beyond the point of evaluating the design or tightening up the graphics. This testing is all about making the game crash in some spectacular way. The tests go on more or less around-the-clock and require everyone at Valve (plus whatever friends and family we can rope into helping) to playtest in shifts. This is pretty much the only part of the job where we can say we're literally getting paid to play games. And it sucks. I mean, Episode 2 is a great game. Until you have to play it 30 times in a row as fast as you can and also get the "Collect All the Grubs" achievement or you're fired. This is the dark secret the government doesn't want you to know about game design: At some point, playing your own game becomes torture. One company we know calls its weekly playtest session "The Hour of Fun" out of pure, ironic meanness. After three days of testing Half Life 2, Gabe Newell's cousin gouged out his own eyes, turned his bloody face to the sky and began screaming, "I can still see Alyx!" So what with the constant game playing and the eye trauma, it's all pretty horrific.
Check out the rest of the entry here.
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