DROD - Treacle Stew Director's Commentary, Episode 12
00:00 Accessing SECRET Level Three 2S1E
2:41 SECRET Level Three 2S1E
21:08 Accessing SECRET Level Three 2N1E
32:13 SECRET Level Three 2N1E
48:12 Level Four The Entrance
57:35 Level Four 1S
Director's commentary for Treacle Stew, a DROD Smitemasters' Selection made by myself:
https://caravelgames.com/Articles/SmitemastersSelections/TreacleStew.html
https://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=45749
Today I take apart a couple of secret rooms that are both very challenging in terms of tactical manipulation, and in kind-of-esoteric DROD-specifics the player needs to know in order to make those rooms work. I think I kind of expected the player to have some basic foreknowledge about how a large mixture of DROD elements work, from having played The Second Sky before, Advanced Concepts, other usermade holds, or maybe having the courage to check on various situations in the editor. It is still a marked step up from what was otherwise required in the required rooms... which is why they're hidden away in secret rooms that don't block progression _immediately_. It is still true that they do block progression _eventually_ though.
Anyway, hopefully I can make them look straightforward enough with the right approach. I had to solve these rooms myself too, of course. And not get my beta testers too mad at me!
Title card / end card music:
Epic Revealing a Secret - Alena Smirnova - Musical Menu (2021)
Free Music Archive
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/alena-smirnova/musical-menu/epic-revealing-a-secretmp3/