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Candurill··5 votes·808 views

Hey people!! I just wanted to bring this to your attention. It is not my channel and I am not involved in making it. They have just started and haven't gotten a lot of views yet but I really love what they are trying to do. The forums here have been a little harsh for concept creators lately with people down voting concepts without telling why or giving feedback. These guys go into detail about how they think about the concepts and give tips and feedback.

Maybe your concept has already been featured without you knowing, or maybe it will be featured in a future episode but either way: Watch it, subscribe and like!!! I see this becoming a very popular thing :)

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BowieTheNifty3 votes

You know I am glad to be seeing this. Never expected the podcast to start getting attention this quickly. So thank you Candurill for being a dedicated fan. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Candurill1 votes

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You know I am glad to be seeing this. Never expected the podcast to start getting attention this quickly. So thank you Candurill for being a dedicated fan. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

My pleasure ^^ I loved your review of my champion :) its nice to hear feedback on something you've worked hard for, in stead of just up/down votes. Especially in the form of a podcast ^^ even though its not that popular yet... So I figured I could return the favor :)

ModThe Djinn2 votes

So I stumbled across this a little late (on another thread, and then tracked you back to this one), but it's something that is near and dear to my heart (as someone who loves critiquing and reviewing ideas and concepts). Figured it was worth resurrecting it to offer some thoughts, especially as this is actually something I've considered doing before, but didn't know if there was any interest in. Responded to you directly, BowieTheNifty, so you could see this.


#Discussion Time Allotment You spend a lot of time on Base Stats, which are largely the least important part of a kit, since they're the easiest to change. A simple overview might be sufficient here, just to get an idea of how the champion is supposed to play (and commenting on any severe outliers).

I know I was growing bored during some of those segments: there's not really a lot of meaningful discussion going on at these points. Especially since one or two of them actually seemed to spend MORE time overall on base stats than on anything else. You're also discussing them (at least on Karvia) AFTER the abilities, meaning you weren't keeping the base stats in mind while looking at her abilities.

#Overall Analysis I don't think you discuss HOW the kit functions enough. You've discussed themes, but you're pretty light on actual in-depth analysis of what the champion does, what it adds, and how it does it.

Things to discuss: character/role fantasy, kit/lore/fantasy cohesion, desired gameplay outputs, unique gameplay niches, gameplay flow...the list goes on.

Definitely some good stuff here, but I'd say you're sometimes only digging on the surface -- you're discussing what is written, but not always what it means, what it COULD be, how it could improve, whether or not it hits the target fantasy, and a bunch of other really important stuff that goes into champion design.

Candurill1 votes

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So I stumbled across this a little late (on another thread, and then tracked you back to this one), but it's something that is near and dear to my heart (as someone who loves critiquing and reviewing ideas and concepts). Figured it was worth resurrecting it to offer some thoughts, especially as this is actually something I've considered doing before, but didn't know if there was any interest in. Responded to you directly, BowieTheNifty, so you could see this.


#Discussion Time Allotment You spend a lot of time on Base Stats, which are largely the least important part of a kit, since they're the easiest to change. A simple overview might be sufficient here, just to get an idea of how the champion is supposed to play (and commenting on any severe outliers).

I know I was growing bored during some of those segments: there's not really a lot of meaningful discussion going on at these points. Especially since one or two of them actually seemed to spend MORE time overall on base stats than on anything else. You're also discussing them (at least on Karvia) AFTER the abilities, meaning you weren't keeping the base stats in mind while looking at her abilities.

#Overall Analysis I don't think you discuss HOW the kit functions enough. You've discussed themes, but you're pretty light on actual in-depth analysis of what the champion does, what it adds, and how it does it.

Things to discuss: character/role fantasy, kit/lore/fantasy cohesion, desired gameplay outputs, unique gameplay niches, gameplay flow...the list goes on.

Definitely some good stuff here, but I'd say you're sometimes only digging on the surface -- you're discussing what is written, but not always what it means, what it COULD be, how it could improve, whether or not it hits the target fantasy, and a bunch of other really important stuff that goes into champion design.

Thanks for the critique :D It's not my podcast though XP I have alerted the owner and i will see to it they will see this :)

ModThe Djinn1 votes

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Thanks for the critique :D It's not my podcast though XP I have alerted the owner though and i will see to it they will see this :)

Oops! I know you're not the owner of this podcast, but I thought I had replied to his comment so he can see it. Might have messed that up!

Candurill1 votes

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Oops! I know you're not the owner of this podcast, but I thought I had replied to his comment so he can see it. Might have messed that up!

I don't see a reply sign thingy....but thats ok :) Bowie will have an alert from me now aswel so he will see it either way ^^ Nice of you to give feedback on this btw :) i think they will really appreciate it.

BowieTheNifty1 votes

Dont worry I got notified this morning about this. One thing is that it is actually nice to here this. We can definitely work on how to go about discussing a champion more. Sometimes it can be difficult to discuss a champion depending on how much info the creator puts out. Keep in mind though that this was our first episode that was linked here. Don't know if you have listened to the other ones or not but still bringing this to our attention is most definitely appreciated. We are recording tonight as a matter of fact and depending on what we get. We kinda free ball it and don't look at the boards tell the middle of the recording. Hopefully we can improve our quality little bits at a time, especially when we get feed back like this. So thank you Djinn for your input.

Candurill1 votes

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You said you were recording 3 days ago :O where is the new episode XP (totally not periodically refreshing Bravocado's youtube channel or anything).

BowieTheNifty1 votes

Yeah dont worry the video will be up soon. Right now it is up but set to private. It should be able to be viewed by tomorrow.

FloRaider421 votes

Thanks for doing such an amazing job :D

Candurill1 votes

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You know I am glad to be seeing this. Never expected the podcast to start getting attention this quickly. So thank you Candurill for being a dedicated fan. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Hey Bowie!! this post has had a new breath with some critique!! maybe take a look at what they say? They seem to think its MY podcast though XP

Zyorhist2 votes

I like the podcast, however, I have a couple critiques for you.

First I'd like to say that you should read the materials and make notes before you start recording. I feel like your presentation would be better if you knew what you were going to be going over first.

Second I'd like to see (if you're going to keep doing youtubes) a link during the lecture to which champion you're going over. I tried to find them as you were going through them and some of them I struggled to find, it would be easier if there was a link somewhere during the time you were talking about them.

Third, have some confidence. You guys talk like you're afraid a kraken is going to jump off the forums at you, be confident in what you're saying.

Candurill1 votes

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I like the podcast, however, I have a couple critiques for you.

First I'd like to say that you should read the materials and make notes before you start recording. I feel like your presentation would be better if you knew what you were going to be going over first.

Second I'd like to see (if you're going to keep doing youtubes) a link during the lecture to which champion you're going over. I tried to find them as you were going through them and some of them I struggled to find, it would be easier if there was a link somewhere during the time you were talking about them.

Third, have some confidence. You guys talk like you're afraid a kraken is going to jump off the forums at you, be confident in what you're saying.

Oh its not MY podcast XP maybe type it in a comment under the video :)

Also: they give the link to the champions underneath the video in the description :)

Zyorhist1 votes

well...bowtie was in here...maybe flag him back.

BowieTheNifty1 votes

Well our confidence has come from this first episode. This was both our first time recording so we were both nervous as hell to be honest. However there are links to every champion we discuss in the descriptions to every video. We have links and the times in which we discuss them. Making notes before a presentation might be a good way to go, it might help out a lot actually. So thank you for the input and we will work on it in with future episodes starting tonight actually. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Zyorhist1 votes

I'm gonna subscribe, I like your thoughts, and i'll check out guys out.

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