Free Running

15:30-Tuesday 21st June 2016

Hey guys,
Lately, I've been watching YOGSCAST Hannah (YouTuber)play through a game called Mirror's Edge and recently she has started the sequel Mirror's Edge Catalyst. In these games you play as the protagonist called Faith, and she is a runner, she free runs across the city's rooftops doing jobs. I'm not sure what she actually does for these jobs but I know that she gets around by jumping, wall-running, rolling and climbing. I absolutely love these games because of the whole feeling of freedom that they give, because that is what free running is about: the freedom to make you own route, it's your choice where to go and how to get there.

Now, yesterday I watched a video by another YouTuber. His name is Mathew Patrick, his audience call him MatPat and he runs a successful web-series called Game Theory. I've mentioned him before on the blog. A few weeks back he started releasing a new show called Game Lab. He made in partnership with the YouTube Red program.

If you don't know what it is, then I can kind of explain it, but it might be worth reading up on if you interested. Now YouTube Red is a service were you pay a monthly subscription fee and in return you can save videos offline, ad-free videos and have access to exclusive videos made by YouTube Creators. On the creator side of it there are some good things. They would produce new  videos that is based around stuff they do which are different from the rest of them. Now, these videos can have financial backing by YouTube. MatPat has used this backing to the full extent, in one episode of Game Lab, they rented a castle!

I don't have YouTube Red, but MatPat has released the first episode of Game Lab for free. This was probably because it's to give viewers a taste of what the show is like. Now the concept of Game Lab is to put game situations into real life. I know that some of the games that they have done include: 'Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes', 'Metal Gear Solid V' and 'Rocket League'. Now I really want to talk about this in more detail, so that will be in tomorrow's post in order not to mak this one any longer.

The free Game Lab episode is based on the free-running from Mirror's Edge. I watched this video and saw that what faith could do in the game is actually possible in real life. I think that is amazing, that some people have these amazing skills.
Now I want to learn how to free run. I know nothing except, how to do a safety roll (A roll that you do when you land to spread the impact force.)

I'll talk about Game Lab more tomorrow.

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