Blockland Trailer Ideas - Let's look back
Currently, from What i've seen, there are two major Blockland Trailers, both made by Teneski.
Blockland - That game where you build stuff (Pre V21)
Blokcland Trailer 2013/2014And While these both are great Trailers, they didn't do what they should have intended in the first place.
Let's look back.
In the first video It flashes by maps that you can play in game, and this showed off a feature that the game offered, which was many different playable maps, and that's great. An Advertisement should show all the features a game has to offer. Then around ten seconds in, we have a player spawn, then it shows a feature of the game that really should be advertised, in game customisation. Despite what you may think, not many games allow for that, and while they do exist, they aren't usually sandbox-like games, Now this also could have been done better with other aspects, that I will get into as we move along. So right after that, we see the player (in the same avatar, continuity error?) traverse the other maps, and then end back at Bedroom, building his first house. Now this is where we should have a scene where the user discovers the build menu (and then in the four corners have different scenes of him choosing bricks.). Now after this it shows the player driving around in a vehicle, and then it shows off the wrench and by extension, eventing. But eventing should have lead to the jeep being spawned (and then the rocket thereafter, which shows of Blockland Physics.). Then the sweet building montage of one of the default city builds happens, which is cool. Then we have a montage of default and player-made builds, servers and then the final transition. But before the montage started three things should have happened, you have more players join, like you did earlier with the initial player, introducing multiplayer. Then after that you do a menu montage of mini-games, and show the players destroying the city, and transition between other builds and other activities. And if we updated this, replace all the maps with environment changes, along with other default and user-made minigames and servers.
As for the second video, I actually don't have a whole lot to say.
While it does fix some issues I had with the first one, it also breaks some of the good things it did before, like showing off avatar options. other than that, it wasn't better in terms of design, but the editing was fantastic.
Also, a bit of a side note, a bit of a change in music direction may be good, like start off with After School Special playing and then transition into something else. (preferably not the same type of music either.)
Also it would be great if these advertisement videos, would actually show up as advertisements. Funny thing is, I actually found out about blockland through one of the old Youtube corner ads.
