Valve
07-11-2011, 10:05 PM
Coming up with a Meet the Team short is a lot like a game of Jenga. 99% of it involves making room for an idea and seeing what happens.
Most of the time what happens is the whole structure collapses. Then you have to figure out why it collapsed and rebuild it, this time making sure to add in some structural support for your idea so it doesn't bring the whole short down.
As you'll find out in this Behind the Scenes blog, though, sometimes you can spend so much time adding all that structural support that it’s not until you step back that you realize your short is now nothing but structural support.
You can spend a lot of time building around an idea, in other words, before it occurs to you that the simplest solution is to get a better one.
More... (http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=5816)
Most of the time what happens is the whole structure collapses. Then you have to figure out why it collapsed and rebuild it, this time making sure to add in some structural support for your idea so it doesn't bring the whole short down.
As you'll find out in this Behind the Scenes blog, though, sometimes you can spend so much time adding all that structural support that it’s not until you step back that you realize your short is now nothing but structural support.
You can spend a lot of time building around an idea, in other words, before it occurs to you that the simplest solution is to get a better one.
More... (http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=5816)