There's a podcast of an interview with Brad at Flash of Steel.
(via Civfanatics with thanks to Kael)
Nice podcast, some good info on elemental.
good hit
Every minute of the demigod discussion made me cringe.
Can anyone explain what's so good about podcasts ? It's like information, but slower, without ability to search, quote, and skip to interesting parts. It's like trying spread information with Flash. I have seen single isolated cases of Flash being useful.
Well, it's good to get your info on the go or if you need to use your eyes for something else. I personally don't bother with them, but I definately see the uses.
Brad is very opened and strait forward. I like that. I like it when he is humble and says that he knows nothing about multiplayer network and that he underestimated the Demigod multiplayer demand. Hats off to you mr Wardell
The info is good. I love those interviews.
Reading and writing are just not as popular as they used to be. Sigh.
I sure would appreciate it if at least the mike and camera junkies would put up transcripts along with the audio/video clips. You are spot on about how useless that format is for someone who might want to use the 'info' as research material.
Their advantage is that you can listen to them while you do other things, like driving, walking, running or just accomplishing household tasks. Hell, even browsing the web while you listen. I don't know if it's true for anyone else, but I can read or do other things and listen for interesting bits just fine (at which point I pause and give it more attention).
There's also a significantly different feel to the rhthym, pace and interaction during a spoken conversation as opposed to email/chat/etc. So then, if you go with audio for to get that style of interaction, it becomes a very time consuming process to get that into a text format.
I agree that transcripts would be nice for searching and quoting, but maybe Google (or someone) can put up an audio-search style web app that can search for words in an audio stream and do basic speech to text.
Anyway, those are the bits that I value about them. [Edit] And I read voraciously, so it isn't a lack of interest in reading
So not only should they provide the audio for free, but they should type it all out for free too? Here's what I did while listening to the Podcast, played GalCiv2. Reading it would have been more difficult because there's no real downtime in that game.
Thumbs up for audio.
Heh. Loved it when Brad's daughter walked in.
Also, I believe Brad has now dubbed a new term: "Mordor-y". Hee!
That's what I thought when I saw the screens from Elemental. And when I showed them to my brother, he said he liked it because 'it looked like Ultima III'.
I agree, I really don't like podcasts. I wanted to hear about the Elemental stuff specifically, and 15 minutes later they're still talking about Demigod.
It's just like radio except that you can skip bits. So what's wrong with that?
But for those who want to skip the Demigod bit: Elemental gets discussed starting at 28:40 minutes and runs until 46:39 (total time of the podcast is 55:34 minutes).
The fact that you have no idea where to skip if you are listening for the first time. Do you ever wonder why newspapers tend to have a larger customer base than radio shows?
Don't you have the tense wrong there about newspapers? The business could be more or less dead soon, save for a small crew of folks who have deep physical needs to handle that same basic object every morning with their coffee or whatever. I'd still be reading my local rag that way if they hadn't gone from crap to megacrap during the '90s. That's one of the reasons I whine like I did above about reading going out of style.
p.s. I'd still rather have had some mostly-Demigod text to skim than a mostly-Demigod podcast to stab around in. But I'm a very demanding customer and fairly used to not getting much of what I want.
I think that someone should have at least provideda time to skip to when they started talking about Elemental. (Well, they did later, but 5 days after the actual thing went up.)
Thanks for the link Wahngrok it was a fun listen
Pleanty. I still haven't managed to get through it, several days later. I haven't had an hour of sitting around to listen to the thing. I could likely read it in 5 minutes.
I can't even try it now, since it's blocked at work, even though I could get through it at lunch.
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