Bestestplayerever4

Bestestplayerever4, also known as "Velvet the Lion" on social media, is one of the developers who worked on Blox Vegas. Outside of the game, he is the creator of Vegas 80s, and outside of Roblox, Casino City. He is also the owner of the Hospitality Research Group.

He first joined Roblox back in November of 2010 with a completely different username. He came up with the name "Bestestplayerever4" some time in mid-2011 after a series of other "bestestplayerever" names. He eventually joined in with the developing of Blox Vegas after meeting Gabfer and Marla in early 2019.

History
Velvet first joined Roblox on November of 2010 with an unknown username. Eventually he would constantly create new usernames including "UnequaledColten", "coltenelton", and "bestestplayerever." Eventually, in mid-2011, he created bestestplayerever4, which is his main account that he still uses today.

His first major project was an attempt at recreating the first three Sonic the Hedgehog games beginning in 2014. However, the last update was back in 2016 and has since been abandoned due to him losing interest with the video game franchise.

On July 12, 2016, Velvet created his YouTube channel, originally named "SnakySoft Studios." Eventually it would be shortened to just "SnakySoft" for a couple of years until mid-2019 when it was tempporarily named "Red Velvet." Not even a few days later, it was changed to "Velvet the Lion", due to confusion with the Kpop group, Red Velvet. Originally, his channel was based on creating Roblox videos. Today, it's mainly about different hotels and casinos. As of September 20, 2020, his channel has over 2,150 subscribers.

Velvet's interest in Las Vegas was after August of 2017, when he took a vacation to the city and became heavily interested in it. Back then, he lived in Washington but then moved to Vegas. At this point, Velvet began development on a Roblox game called Vegas 80s, but after two years, the game was abandoned due to an incident involving Roblox user cgsimsek secretly installing backdoor viruses to the project that rendered the game unplayable.

Eventually, he would begin development on the Las Vegas Valley in late 2019, and it is still being developed to this day. In August 2020, he created the the Hospitality Research Group, which would be dedicated to recreating many casinos and casino-based cities from around the world, mainly Las Vegas. However, in early September, he silently left the group and was later caught insulting the developers for quote unquote "being toxic." This caused controversy for him and later apologized to the developers. He rejoined the group and is now the owner again.

During the leaving, he managed to remove the viruses on Vegas 80s and has resumed work on it as "Family Friendly: Las Vegas in the 1990s."

Velvet the Lion:

 * Casino City: Minecraft megaproject focused entirely on recreating real life hotels and casinos and putting them into a realistic city. Different videos on the project can be seen on best's YouTube channel, Velvet the Lion.
 * Casino History: YouTube webseries that provides information about the history of different hotels and casinos in Nevada. It is currently the largest series on his YouTube channel and is the first to surpass six episodes without a break/hiatus.


 * Casino of the Week: A weekly solo podcast hosted by Velvet himself that talks about many different casinos from around the world, especially in Las Vegas and other Nevada-based casinos.

Roblox:

 * 'The Las Vegas Valley': Small project that focuses on recreating a miniature version of the entire Las Vegas Valley, including the Strip, Downtown, Summerlin, Primm/Jean, Lake Mead, Henderson, etc... So far, it has only got up to the middle area of the Strip.
 * Atari Combat: A remake of the Atari 2600 game, Combat. It is a brick battle game where users are divided into two teams (Tanks and Biplanes) and must earn as many KOs as possible by killing the opposite team with rocket launchers.

Former Works

 * Vegas 80s: Roblox project that has been in the works since late 2017. It was an educational Roblox game focusing on Las Vegas in 1985. It is currently closed because of a vaccine-based virus and is now being worked on as Family Friendly: Las Vegas In The 1990s.
 * Sonic the Hedgehog: Velvet's first attempt at creating an actual game. It was supposed to be a recreation of the older Sonic the Hedgehog games, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Knuckles. Development only lasted until 2016 when it was abandoned because of him losing interest in the franchise. As of today, the only playable zones are Green Hill Zone, Death Egg Zone, and Starlight Zone, all of which are unfinished.
 * Vegas World: A series of short animations on Velvet's YouTube channel that is based off of his DeviantArt characters, which are all personifications of different Las Vegas casinos. Only six were made, with the last video being made in late 2018. While these videos are no longer being made, he still creates art of the characters on his DeviantArt profile.


 * Models:
 * LED Marquee for the Palms Casino Resort. (Project Place and BV Remake)
 * Part of the Tropicana facade. (BV Remake)
 * Mandalay Bay lettering. (BV Remake)
 * M&M's World Signage. (BV Remake)
 * Flamingo Hotel Towers (BV Remake)
 * Desert Dunes (Las Fortunas)
 * Cali Cala Resort and Casino (Las Fortunas)
 * Sky High Hyperesort (Las Fortunas)
 * Sands Hotel and Casino marquee (Vegas 60s)
 * Westward Ho Sign (Vegas 60s)

Trivia

 * He usually says "hi pplz :D" whenever he joins a game.
 * Despite using it since 2011, he has always hated his username.
 * Velvet's favorite hotel and casino is the MGM Grand and the Excalibur.
 * His avatar is nicknamed "Modern Anubis."
 * Velvet is the second longest BV developer to have been playing Roblox. Mar beats him by just a few months.
 * Despite his games mainly focusing on Las Vegas, he is generally a fan of hotels and casinos in general, especially ones from Reno, Laughlin, Macau, Tunica, Biloxi, etc...
 * He has his very own hotel/casino pen collection, consisting of over fifty pens from Las Vegas, Laughlin, and other areas.
 * Velvet is the only BV developer who happens to be a furry.
 * He also has a DeviantArt page dedicated to personified casinos in which they all live in a universe known as "Vegas World."


 * Bestestplayerever4 can be seen in some of Velvet's oldest videos before he became a casino topic-based YouTuber.