Final Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project Episode & Making Astral Collision Part 4

This week, I finally finish the Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project by discussing lessons learned over the course of making it. I talk a lot about aspects related to making a game (or series of games) that have ideas similar to how Guild Wars 1 works.

I continue working on Astral Collision in the second video, where I finish the first draft of the world map. Some stuff I know I'll need to tweak, and other stuff I may tweak (as playtesting reveals the need to do so), but I at least figure out where everything is gonna go and which world map regions originate from which hero's world.

Review of Guild Wars 1 Common Skills & Making Astral Collision Part 3

For the Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project this week, I cover the last of the actual skills! That's right, I talk about all of the Common Skills, which are skills that can be used by any profession. Next week, I plan to make a summary of lessons learned from this whole endeavor, then it'll be off to new territory!

I also continue working on Astral Collision. I imagine I will be doing that for quite some time...anyway, this episode involves a lot of math, as I work on figuring out power formulas for a couple of the weapons. Of course, I talk a lot about what I'm wanting those formulas to do and why!

Paragon Skill Review & Making Astral Collision Part 2

This week I reviewed the Paragon profession's skills for my Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project. I talked about the design of the Paragon a lot in the introduction part.

I also continued working on Astral Collision, and probably will for a while yet. I experimented around with some new (for me) editing techniques for this video, with a couple of sped-up sections! I also don't have a great idea for how to name individual episodes, so I think I'm going to use the very generic name scheme I've got going here.

Guild Wars Skill Review Project for Dervish & Introduction to Let's Make a Game: Astral Collision

This week I reviewed the Dervish skills for the Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project. That means next week is the Paragon, and the week after are the PvE-Only skills not associated with a profession (and also Resurrection Signet). I'm thinking I might do those all in one video...

And this Sunday, I've started a new series where I make a game. I introduce it, and the game I've started making (Astral Collision) in this episode. Hopefully it's interesting to people! While this game is in RPG Maker MV, I'm planning on using Unity for future installments.

Guild Wars 1: Ritualist Skill Review & How to Make a Team Build

This week saw me complete the Ritualist portion of the Skill Review Project. So that's what Saturday was all about.

On Sunday, I decided to take a break from the Prebuild challenge that I was doing to talk about how to make a team build in Guild Wars 1. This is something I have somehow neglected to do thus far, a fact that was brought to my attention by a friend of mine.

Guild Wars 1: Assassin Skill Review & PvP Prebuilds only Challenge Run Continues

This week I covered the Assassin profession in my Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project. I've been both enjoying and getting a lot out of this project, but I'm also looking forward to the conclusion—it takes up a lot of time! Just three professions left to go...

I also continued my PvP Prebuilds only challenge run, this time making it over the Shiverpeaks and through the Gates of Kryta!

Guild Wars 1: Skill Review Project Monk & Start of a Challenge Run

On Saturday, I reviewed the Monk skills for my Guild Wars 1 skill review project.

On Sunday, I started a challenge run series, where I play through the missions of Guild Wars: Prophecies while only allowing myself to use some old PvP prebuilds (many of which are terrible, and some of which don't even work correctly anymore).

Guild Wars 1: Skill Review Project for Necromancer & Wayfarer's Reverie

This week, I reviewed the Necromancer for the Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project.

I also decided to play the Wayfarer's Reverie quests. All in one go. This...ended up longer than I was expecting. But, hey, I did it with four different characters! So you do get to see different playstyles across the course of the video.

Guild Wars 1: Ranger Skill Review & Journey from Lion's Arch to Ascalon City

This week, I did the Skill Review for the Ranger. I've again made it six parts, as that hopefully makes it more approachable!

I also learned last time that my female Dervish, Elandra, hadn't yet been to Ascalon, so the last video from this week is the journey from the port city of Lion's Arch to the ruined capital of Ascalon City.

Guild Wars 1: Skill Review Project Mesmer & Eye of the North Finale

This weekend saw a ton of videos drop on Saturday, as I split the Skill Review for the Mesmer up into sections (six, to be exact), so as to hopefully make it more approachable, as I felt the 3+ hour long videos I had made previously to be intimidatingly long.

I also beat Eye of the North on Elandra Yggdrasill, my female Dervish!

Guild Wars 1: Elementalist Skill Review & Orozar Highstone's Quests

The first episode this weekend was the very long Elementalist part of my Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project. Part of what made this episode so much longer than the previous one was wanting to go into more game design detail, which I think makes the content better, at the cost of making it longer. I intend to respond to this outcome by breaking up the next part into multiple videos. They'll all still come out the same day (according to current plans, anyway), but it should be more palatable!

The second video continues Elandra's journey through the Eye of the North content.

Guild Wars 1: Skill Review—Warrior & A Gate Too Far

The first (extremely long) video is the first of my profession-specific Guild Wars 1 skill review videos. In it, as you'd expect given the name, I review the Warrior's skills.

In the second video, I play more Guild Wars 1, completing the A Gate Too Far mission, which almost completely closes out the third leg of the first part of the Eye of the North story.

Guild Wars 1 Skill Review Project Intro & More Eye of the North

The first video this weekend is the start of what will (according to current plans) ultimately be a twelve part series analyzing the skills in Guild Wars 1. I'm looking forward to it, as I've been wanting to do this for a while!

The second episode continues my journey through Eye of the North on my female Dervish.