Conference Call

GWJ Conference Call Episode 309

Mark of The Ninja, Rock Band Blitz, New Everquest Expansion?, Making Sweet Game Community Love, Special Guest Jeff Green! Your Emails and more!

This week Jeff Green joins Shawn, Elysium and Julian to talk games and the challenges of community outreach for game companies!

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Chairman_Mao's Timestamps
00.03.13 Mark of the Ninja
00.11.04 Rockband Blitz
00.17.09 Games we're looking forward to
00.21.59 This week's topic: Reaching out to the gaming community!
00.38.41 Your emails!

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Show credits

Music credits: 

The Neverwhere - Apoplexia (Benoit Casey) - 21:30

Luna+Machina - Apoplexia (Benoit Casey) - 38:15

Intro/Outtro Music - Ian Dorsch, Willowtree Audioworks

Comments

"Welcome! Thank you for listening to our lovely podcast! Come join our community! Come play games with us! Also:, f*ck you."

Colon, comma?

lostlobster wrote:

"Welcome! Thank you for listening to our lovely podcast! Come join our community! Come play games with us! Also:, f*ck you."

Colon, comma?

I also thought to myself "WTF?" when I heard Julian, GWJ's professional writer, say that. Maybe he was visualizing a semicolon and his mouth farted out "colon comma." IMAGE(http://aahaaram.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/smiley-laughing002.gif)

Oh jeez, I was just daydreaming about Jeff being on during the 300th show. What a treat!

Always a pleasure to listen to the podcast on the way home from work. I am kind of surprised though on this specific podcast when going through upcoming games they didn't mention FTL! (LINK)

Last 3-4 podcast they raved about this game but the week it comes out, not a peep. Main reason I'll be purchasing this game was because of GWJ.

Thanks!

Great to hear Jeff's dulcet tones.

(Holy crap. That is a life sized Zelda.)

The discussion about justifying your gaming time reminded me of one of my favorite Green Speak columns that Jeff Green wrote in the June 1999 issue of Computer Gaming World called "A Real Grim Fandango." It basically reiterates what he said in the podcast, but is a good read anyway. You can find the column in the very back of the issue here:

http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/i...

DarkenSky wrote:

Always a pleasure to listen to the podcast on the way home from work. I am kind of surprised though on this specific podcast when going through upcoming games they didn't mention FTL! (LINK)

Last 3-4 podcast they raved about this game but the week it comes out, not a peep. Main reason I'll be purchasing this game was because of GWJ.

Thanks!

Wait until next show as then people who didn't Kickstart it will have their hands on it ... finally.

MeatMan wrote:
lostlobster wrote:

"Welcome! Thank you for listening to our lovely podcast! Come join our community! Come play games with us! Also:, f*ck you."

Colon, comma?

I also thought to myself "WTF?" when I heard Julian, GWJ's professional writer, say that. Maybe he was visualizing a semicolon and his mouth farted out "colon comma." IMAGE(http://aahaaram.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/smiley-laughing002.gif)

Sorry, but Julian is not GWJ's only professional writer. #hurtfeelings

Demiurge wrote:
MeatMan wrote:
lostlobster wrote:

"Welcome! Thank you for listening to our lovely podcast! Come join our community! Come play games with us! Also:, f*ck you."

Colon, comma?

I also thought to myself "WTF?" when I heard Julian, GWJ's professional writer, say that. Maybe he was visualizing a semicolon and his mouth farted out "colon comma." IMAGE(http://aahaaram.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/smiley-laughing002.gif)

Sorry, but Julian is not GWJ's only professional writer. #hurtfeelings

In this case professional means "old" and "shuts down magazines."

garion333 wrote:

In this case professional means "old" and "shuts down magazines."

Correct.

Demiurge wrote:

Sorry, but Julian is not GWJ's only professional writer. #hurtfeelings

Look at the bright side, now you can lord this faux pas all over him!

Higgledy wrote:

(Holy crap. That is a life sized Zelda.)

+1, also shared on G+.

Demiurge wrote:
MeatMan wrote:
lostlobster wrote:

"Welcome! Thank you for listening to our lovely podcast! Come join our community! Come play games with us! Also:, f*ck you."

Colon, comma?

I also thought to myself "WTF?" when I heard Julian, GWJ's professional writer, say that. Maybe he was visualizing a semicolon and his mouth farted out "colon comma." IMAGE(http://aahaaram.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/smiley-laughing002.gif)

Sorry, but Julian is not GWJ's only professional writer. #hurtfeelings

You're also an editor, though.

In Julian's defense, he is generally wise enough to know that he is a writer, not a copy-editor.

I'm a sh*tty editor.

rabbit wrote:

I'm a sh*tty editor.

But you're a damned good cop.

boo. Y'all should have grilled Jeff over the firing of George Fan right after announcing PVZ2.

also, "Colon, f*ck you" should be the title of a game where someone is really angry at their own colon.

wordsmythe wrote:
rabbit wrote:

I'm a sh*tty editor.

But you're a damned good cop.

And he was going to retire the day before all this sparkle pony sh*t started

juv3nal wrote:

boo. Y'all should have grilled Jeff over the firing of George Fan right after announcing PVZ2.

also, "Colon, f*ck you" should be the title of a game where someone is really angry at their own colon.

I propose that the GWJ community create a game in honor of Ianunderhill.