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🗓️ 25 April 2025
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This is part two of a two-part series on the aesthetic profiles. This time, I talk about Mel, the player who aesthetically appreciates mechanics.
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0:00.0 | I'm pulling my driveway. |
0:02.0 | We all know what that means. |
0:03.6 | It's time rather drive to work. |
0:06.1 | Okay, so today, I did a series of podcasts where I talked about the psychographics, |
0:11.5 | Timmy, Tammy, Jenny, and Spike. |
0:13.7 | And then I decided to do a two-part podcast on the aesthetic profiles, |
0:18.1 | Vorthos and Mel. |
0:19.5 | Well, I did one on Vorthos already, so it's time to talk Mel. |
0:24.3 | So, as I explained in my Vorthos podcast, the idea of us, the psychographics are about psychologically, |
0:32.8 | why do you want to play? What do you get out of it? The aesthetic profiles are, what is it about the game that you |
0:38.1 | appreciate? And early on, I used to think that Vorthos and Mel were opposites, but they're not. |
0:45.0 | It's possible that you can appreciate both the creative elements and the mechanical elements, |
0:50.1 | that those don't contradict one another. Often, people care about one more than the other. |
0:54.4 | That makes sense. |
0:56.1 | But, so real quickly, something I didn't explain in the Vorthos podcast is where Vortos came from. |
1:01.8 | Where did that name came from? |
1:02.8 | I did not name Vorthos. |
1:05.4 | Vortos actually, there's an article by Mac Cavada called Savor the Flavor that was talking about, his article was all about the creative team and all the work they did. |
1:16.3 | And so he was trying to explain what he did and explain that there are people that really enjoy this. |
1:22.0 | So he named them. He called them Vorthos. That's where the name Vortos came from. |
1:26.4 | Mel, I named Mel, in response to |
1:29.1 | Vorthos, I originally called him Melvin, but in trying to be more gender neutral in the names, |
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