The third video in the series was a more of a beginning for us than the first video we put up. So far we had a series with a general (maybe even vague) direction we wanted to go. But this is the first time we actually show the main villain of season 1, the Dark Lord Telemindred. Telemindred's skin was designed and played by my younger brother, who still assists us with certain builds. At this point in the series, not a lot is known about Telemindred (Zach and I didn't even have much of a back story at this point), but it was evident (eventually) to our characters that his guy was bad news. After this point, Telemindred actually takes a step back and doesn't normally attack us directly, with the exception of a few episodes.
Also a first for us was the city we find. It was very small and only had a few houses and some other rooms, but this was a milestone for Zach and I because we hadn't actually done this much building before. As I mentioned before, Zach and I were still somewhat new to minecraft, and so much of what we know now was learned in the process of preparing and filming this series. We also began to see what our individual strengths and weaknesses were which allowed us to work on areas of the series that we were better at, and to this day we still work as a great team together, pooling our resources, knowledge, and skills together and making something awesome.
Another first for us was tinkering with texture packs and mods in this video. While we did use a mod for the redstone fire in episode 2, it was nothing compared to our elevator mod which allowed us to click a sign and be transported up or down. We haven't used this mod in a while, but we may be implementing it in later episodes. We also began changing certain things in the texture pack to suit our needs for the episode, and we end up making many changes later on in the series as the story progresses.
Finally, I've promised to add clues and insider information about upcoming episodes in this blog, and so far I have not put any in, so I've decided to give you guys a "spoiler" for season 2. The way I am going to do this is by asking for your help. I have two working titles for Season 2 and I want you guys to tell me which one you like more. Here are the titles:
"The Rise of Telemindred"
"Herman - From Man to Hermit"
For those of you who have speculated that Herman is actually Telemindred, you are wrong. However, there is a connection between the two, and all of those related questions will be answered in Season 2, so there's your first spoiler!
Fun Fact: In the scene where Zach and I fight Telemindred, we weren't actually supposed to die. Our characters were supposed to be "knocked out" and then rescued by Herman, but I couldn't find a better way to produce a "knocked out" without actually being killed. Looking back, I'm sure there were better way to do it that didn't involve people asking me if the series was over because our characters were killed, but the past is the past, and it's actually quite comical in retrospect.
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