Skate 3 - The Grind - Rome wasn’t built in a day…

I hope everyone has been enjoying this amazing heat wave that is our short summer time. For those brave enough to skate in this heat, congratulations, I’m just grateful it’s a little cooler after I finish work. I have more freckles than I have plain skin and when in the sun those plane bits burn and turn a nice red colour, so I’m sticking to the shade and shadows where I can. When I am covering from the sun, I’m usually in front of my TV again, playing Skate 3.

After getting one million board sales and completing most of the challenges I’ve now been focused on the creative side of the game.

 

I’ve become totally involved with the creation of my own team, Mack Ink. I’ve been creating parks, logos and up loading film and photos.

 

The thing I’ve been using most in this game is the park editor. This last week I have been re creating London’s very own South Bank Skate Park, known worldwide as the centre of the London skate scene. Included are the legendary banks and stair sets, the concrete ledges and cheese wedge and last but not least the river Thames it’s self.

 

The best advice I can give to creating a replica of already existing place is to start with the basic layout. Get the rough shape down without wasting too much time developing little details, because they may not link up to other parts of the park.

 

Whilst re-creating south bank I actually created it twice. The first time I got the shape right, figured out where all the banks and stairs worked and how to build the roof over the banks. I found out two things.

 

First that everything was too big. In easy mode this wouldn’t be a problem, but I wanted it to be realistic. A way round this is to put the difficulty onto hardcore mode and test your park constantly throughout the building process.

 

The second was that my park had three levels. When creating the park the first time I used solid blocks to raise my platforms, which took up a lot of space and usage. Instead I used smaller platforms and make them hover in relation to the height of a large pad.

 

After creating the park I had space left over to build and add my own park elements into the location. For me this has been just epic. I’ve been to so many skate parks and skate spots only to say “If only that was there or that was slightly to one side.” And with the park editor I can fill in those gaps and skate the spot as I’ve always wanted to. So I created hidden mini ramps and even made the roof accessible to skate.

 

After creating my version of south bank I then went to work on branding my new home with banners and billboards using my own downloaded graphic using the graphic generator at www.skate.ea.com.

 

Check out my new and improved London south bank, search for me, Jaymack19 and my team Mack Ink where you can download, London SB.

 

Send me your realistic real life parks and join the Mack Ink team today!

 

Speak to you next week,

Jay Mack