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Adventure map interview with Merkage

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THIS IS AN INTERVIEW ON THE TEAM AND THEIR FIRST MAP: http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/the-trails-of-the-scared-temples/

Q: What is TST Studios? and your Role with it?
A: TST Studios is a group of 5 (Now 10) Minecraft players that came together and decided to create maps that would give the player adventures and keep them glued to the screen for hours etc, My role is community manager I am responsible for the ratings, views, downloads and broadcasting the maps for more viral success.

Q: Tell me about the first map you made and how it came to be?
A: It started just mainly as the 5 of us just on a server, building a temple to see if we could do it and it went from there really, we needed a story line obviously and just got together and storyboarded how it would fan out to the community. The Trials of the Sacred Temples story was quite brief but because self map deletion we were rushing the project to get it back on track.

Q: how did you design the temples and what did you have in mind for the inside
A:
Mainly just building the outside and going from there each had to have a "Marker" as we call it, to basically stand out from distance so no matter where you were you would still see it, because obviously your not just going to know where they are.

Q: What was your feedback from the "Beta Testing" and how it helped to make important changes?
A:
Feedback was positive and everyone really enjoyed it but the same thing was said everytime, "I got lost quite alot" and most of the Beta Testing was mainly can they complete the temples, so that was when we added the golden markers and paths and they we could have very successful results on all the temples.

Q: How did you find the overall feedback and did it pass expectations?
A: We were really impressed with the community and how they responded to it and we never expected that many views or downloads, we were expecting half on the views and downloads.

Q: What do you think are the 5 hardest temples in the map?

A: 1. Has to be the Obsidian temple, Beta Testers hated this map, it was just death all the time hahahahaha

2. Diamond just because it is the longest
3. Netherack was a few deaths a time for completion!
4. The Cloud Temple, if you miss jumped OUCH! that was a big fall! hahahahahaha
5. Cobblestone lava pit jumping is so frustrating but this has to be my favourite out of them all.

Q: Finally there are updates for this map, when will they be released and what is to come?
A: The first update is going to fix some doors, paths and other bugs basically just map correction and the second update will add some bonus temples just for more fun after completion but at max 4 new temples the first up date will be released sometime in may, the second will arrive at the start date of this map, kind of like a celebration.
CreditTST Studios & Merkage
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