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Jon Shafer wrote:

Okay, last time I'll shamelessly plug my own work. :)

So you're saying that from now on when you do it you'll feel ashamed?

Jon Shafer wrote:

Okay, last time I'll shamelessly plug my own work.

We just posted Episode #3 of The Game Design Round Table today! This time we had Bill Abner on to talk about trends in games, our thoughts on the design of games we've been playing recently and what Dirk and Bill have been working on over at Conquistador Games.

And with that, we now return you to your regularly scheduled podcast thread!

- Jon

You really shouldn't; sometimes people just haven't gotten around to listening to them lately...or might just be nodding in silent solidarity!

Giantbomb has some weird fans but this was pretty good

Now I oddly want to listen to Mel Torme.

So I made a new episode of Downloathable Content with my friend Phil and fellow GWJer MysticViolet. We talked about The Walking Dead and stuff.

I'm starting to realize that the part of playing host is a lot more difficult than I'd like to think it to be. I figure once a conversation gets going then the pieces will fall into place, but there is more preparation than that. I need to be ready to explain what the topic is, I need to give them information as to what specific aspects I plan to cover before recording, and have questions at the ready in case the conversation begins to go dead.

This Friday we'll be recording a late-night podcast following a drunken viewing of Spike TV's VG Awards, though, so we'll see how random drunken shenanigans goes.

ccesarano wrote:

This Friday we'll be recording a late-night podcast following a drunken viewing of Spike TV's VG Awards, though, so we'll see how random drunken shenanigans goes.

Are there drinking rules for that yet? I can't believe this their 10th year, yet we still don't have a broadcast of the awards at GDC

I'm super late to this party, and it's not technically a podcast, but I've spent the last few days watching all of Hey Ash Whatcha Playin':

shoptroll wrote:
ccesarano wrote:

This Friday we'll be recording a late-night podcast following a drunken viewing of Spike TV's VG Awards, though, so we'll see how random drunken shenanigans goes.

Are there drinking rules for that yet? I can't believe this their 10th year, yet we still don't have a broadcast of the awards at GDC :(

I'm sure I'll start making some up. IGN forum goers started coming up with rules but the only good ones seem to be "Take a shot every time they skip to commercial" and "take a shot every time a celebrity that has nothing to do with gaming appears on stage".

I might add a "take a shot every time a woman is wearing something degrading", but that would basically mean I'm taking two shots every time they move on to a new category.

Original airing date: August 2011

I love Hey Ash so much. I have gotten lost in the archives on many a slow day at work.

ccesarano wrote:

I'm sure I'll start making some up. IGN forum goers started coming up with rules but the only good ones seem to be "Take a shot every time they skip to commercial" and "take a shot every time a celebrity that has nothing to do with gaming appears on stage".

I might add a "take a shot every time a woman is wearing something degrading", but that would basically mean I'm taking two shots every time they move on to a new category.

those aren't rules for a drinking game, they're a recipe for suicide.

OzymandiasAV wrote:

Original airing date: August 2011

I've never really watched HAWP, but that was pretty awesome.

I should really just go through and crawl through the HAWP archives. I've watched a dozen+ eps, and the tone and humor hits well with me. Its a thing I wish I watched, but haven't really and might not ever really dig through.

juv3nal wrote:
ccesarano wrote:

I'm sure I'll start making some up. IGN forum goers started coming up with rules but the only good ones seem to be "Take a shot every time they skip to commercial" and "take a shot every time a celebrity that has nothing to do with gaming appears on stage".

I might add a "take a shot every time a woman is wearing something degrading", but that would basically mean I'm taking two shots every time they move on to a new category.

those aren't rules for a drinking game, they're a recipe for suicide.

Yeah you can pretty much just stick with "Take a shot every time a celebrity that has nothing to do with gaming appears on stage", especially if you include audience members in there. Aside from the developers that went on stage to accept rewards (Gearbox, Valve, That Game Company, Telltale and....um...I think they actually announced another award?), the only developer they showed was Hideo Kojima in the audience.

Start of the show?

Samuel L. Jackson! Take a shot!
Linkin Park in the audience, take a shot!
Jessica Alba take a sh-Oh sh*t Linkin Park again!

Oddly enough, the women were dressed properly this year. No on-stage arm candy (except for the woman that had to pull the new Uhura awkwardly aside when Telltale got up on stage to accept their award, and then awkwardly pushed everyone off so Samuel L. Jackson could end ceremonies with Tenacious D).

This show is for a weird market, I'll tell you what. A market that cares more about television stars and D-list celebrities and whatever is coming next year than actually awarding games.

But it generates discussion, which is why I now have to sift through 3.5-4 hours of recorded audio to edit up my next Podcast. I think I found the downside to podcasting while drunk, and that is how little you care that the time is slipping by because dammit you're just having such a good conversation.

I'll probably make one last blatant plug here. But my cousin and my's podcast, Pixel by Pixel is now on iTunes! You can subscribe here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pixel-by-pixel/id586125743

Or you can go to my blog (link is in my signature)

We're six episodes in and have improved our audio quality. Our latest is a little side episode that we recorded live while watching the VGAs, so that one might be a little different, but episode 5 sure is good as well! We're going strong and don't have plans on stopping. After next Monday we're going to start our GOTY deliberations and that is where we'll go most in depth on the supposedly best games of the year.

Also, please, we love feedback, so give us a listen, rate us review us on iTunes and just communicate back to us anyway you want to. Thanks!

And after listening to Sean Vanaman's Bahaman experience with Monkey Island, I would think that his next game is going to be a bit more family friendly. If so, I am very excited to see what he does with all that talent in a less morose atmosphere.

On iTunes was enough incentive for me to subscribe and start listening in just 3 clicks (yeah I'm lazy). Audio sounds great so whatever the problem was, it's now fixed. You're coming through better than most of the podcasts on my rotation. Opening song is quite a bit too loud compared to the levels in the actual podcast so would be nice if you could tweak that. Just that I straight away turned it down but when the podcast itself started I had to turn it back up to hear what was being said.

VGA show seemed interesting but since I never actually watched it then it was tricky to follow so after about 10 minutes I went back to ep 5. Overall, some interesting chatter about ME2 and Walking Dead. I actually like listening to chatter about older games since I usually follow at least 12 months or more behind releases. Would like it if you did a spoiler section about Walking Dead, assuming that interests you, since the Conference Call's was, frankly, disappointing.

Nicktock wrote:

I'll probably make one last blatant plug here.

If you have something to say or add about it, then post away! It's the Gamer Podcasts thread after all ;).

Mr GT Chris wrote:

On iTunes was enough incentive for me to subscribe and start listening in just 3 clicks (yeah I'm lazy). Audio sounds great so whatever the problem was, it's now fixed. You're coming through better than most of the podcasts on my rotation. Opening song is quite a bit too loud compared to the levels in the actual podcast so would be nice if you could tweak that. Just that I straight away turned it down but when the podcast itself started I had to turn it back up to hear what was being said.

VGA show seemed interesting but since I never actually watched it then it was tricky to follow so after about 10 minutes I went back to ep 5. Overall, some interesting chatter about ME2 and Walking Dead. I actually like listening to chatter about older games since I usually follow at least 12 months or more behind releases. Would like it if you did a spoiler section about Walking Dead, assuming that interests you, since the Conference Call's was, frankly, disappointing.

Nicktock wrote:

I'll probably make one last blatant plug here.

If you have something to say or add about it, then post away! It's the Gamer Podcasts thread after all ;).

Awesome, thanks Chris! I'll work on the levels for that theme song, by episode 6 it should be fine. And also yes, our plans are to have most of the next episode be a Walking Dead spoiler cast.

Stepped away from this thread for awhile, but always nice to come back in and still see that Weekend Confirmed is as divisive as ever! I keep trying to find another "Meaty" video game podcast to add to my rotation, since whenever GWJ CC and the Bombcast is up for the week, I just tear through both of them in the next day at work (for the most part).

I also want to say thanks again to everyone saying that Idle Thumbs was worth listening to again past the Kickstarter Update Casts. I can't believe I was so skeptical at first, I really LOVE Idle Thumbs now and can't imagine not listening to those guys! Not so much for the "Now Playing" kind of segment, but just the banter and ideas that fly around about games on a deeper level is super cool. Thanks to everyone for saying to persist with it. And if you haven't, get to listening to Idle Thumbs ya'll!

I should have mentioned by now, Shawn Elliott on last weeks CC, best guest ever! Well, he's always great.

Finished listening to two months worth of Weekend Confirmed. I did not have bleeding from the ears as I had expected. Instead, I have to admit that Garnett seems to have improved. I wish I could snark, for I do enjoy the snark, but I can't. He caught himself interrupting, and stopped. He admitted that he hadn't played the game in question. He did not sidetrack the conversation about some boozy PR thing he was at, and he did not hint that his ten minutes of playing a game somehow gave him the same level of critical knowledge that Jeff Cannata had by actually finishing it.

It's like I can't believe in anything anymore.

Only the first two months? Keep listening, it'll happen.

Wait, Jeff Cannata finished a game? They must have been talking about Diablo.

I felt Garnett tried to get into the Walking Dead conversation a bit too much on the latest episode considering he'd only played a little past the first episode. He should have taken more of a back seat. Not that he wasn't gushing over the game or anything but I could help thinking "wait till you actually play the rest...".

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Only the first two months? Keep listening, it'll happen. :)

My faith may be restored!

Listened to this past week's ep of Weekend Confirmed. It was good to be reminded of what I liked about the show.

Just recently discovered The Duck of Death. I don't know how I missed this, but it's the cast of the much beloved The Oddcast, which was my favourite pod from 1Up after whatever Kat Bailey was doing.

Bah, I keep forgetting to post here.

So I, too, made a podcast on the VGA's that I managed to finally finish editing earlier this week. It features fellow GWJer Mystic Violet as well as two other friends (one of which fell asleep about 30 minutes in so she mysteriously vanishes from the conversation altogether).

I must caution that I am drunk, and I also stopped caring about time. I edited this down from 4 hours to about 3 hours 15 minutes (plus intro, outro and intermission music it is more around 3hr20min or so), so there's also the length. I've learned a valuable lesson: keep podcasts around the 1 hour mark, 1.5 at the most. It takes way too much time to edit that much audio.

I like this one more than the others as we seemed to be a lot more comfortable with the discussion, and my friend Sean is great at asking other hosts about their thoughts when they've gone quiet. I could learn a lesson or two from him.

It's always interesting to be around a table with friends, and everyone says "We should make a podcast, we have interesting conversations", yet the second that Record button hits the mentality changes. While that's partially necessary, I'd like to get away from that as much as I can so it's just a good discussion.

I think on some of the older In Game Chats they would have someone secretly hit the record button and the others would just be chatting away for some time before they would be let on on the fact that the podcast had started. Dunno of that's a method that would work for every podcast though.

I typically like to have an introduction so I can identify everyone, especially since thus far I don't have a consistent group of hosts. But depending on the podcast that could be a good method, definitely.

What they did was record a short intro at the end of the podcast and then slot it in at the beginning. Also, even if the conversation went off on tangents, they would still be able to give an overview of what was discussed and in what order.