Howdy everyone, a new episode of the podcast is up for your listening pleasure.
Today’s episode is a little different as I have with me on the show is Richie of
YouTube fame, he is known as myasshassworms, check out his YouTube channel
and watch his videos, which are hilarious. Keep in my mind much language was used
and we don’t talk about games, well that much.
Your next guest should be Ryan Veeder.
Another new episode has been posted my dears.
I hope you enjoy it as we are trying out a new
style of recording and with some new software.
So with that said, I hope you enjoy it.
This is just my personal opinion, but I found the 12/12/2013 podcast (“a new beginning”) has gone in a completely different direction than what I expected. Maybe this wasn’t intended to be a text adventure show and iTunes sent it my way by mistake. I gave up after 25 minutes. It was too crass and juvenile for my taste.
If you are going to cover text adventures, I’ll give it another listen.
–Zack
I quit around the same point for the same reasons. Stoner aesthetic was up up up and text adventure content was down down down.
-Wade
But you see this is a test. With all the complaining and ragging on me for length and content
and I’m not doing it right and what not. Taking a look at the numbers no one even really
listened. The past two audio files I posted are past a hundred listens and the subscriber
count is threw the roof. So maybe if people stopped complaining and crying over the show
before I posted those last two episode then everything would be fine.
The guy who thought of doing a show and got egged on for it being too short and not being good
enough.
Well, one possibility is that you have found an audience which is large but doesn’t overlap this forum’s audience.
True enough – the Internet personality based show is going to have a bigger audience than IF, but with IF you get a small audience that is very committed. Why not keep your original format and create IF based shows that go for 30-45 minutes, in-between the longer, personality-based shows?
Is there any reason why one can’t have personality in a show about IF? (Not saying you don’t…just in general.) I think one thing that podcasts can do wrong is stick too rigidly to the structure/subject. I know that everyone told you to have segments and whatnot, but if you are monologuing, you need that. If you’ve got good conversationalists who will talk about IF that’s even better and you can let it go. You don’t want the podcast on rails, but you want to hit some tentpoles. Other than that, I’d much rather hear an interesting candid conversation that’s funny than a strict back and forth Q&A.
Some potential suggestions/ideas:
Find someone who is really funny that you have chemistry with and let them be your occasional sidekick. They can break up a Q&A if you interview an author.
Don’t worry about getting into a conversational tangent if it is inspired by the game or IF subject you’re talking about. If you’re talking about COUNTERFEIT MONKEY and your guest tells some hilarious stories about the linguist they once dated, let it go and keep it in.
Assign someone you have chemistry with to play and review a game that you haven’t, and then have them on your show to tell you about the game while you ask questions about it.
Possibly cover some peripheral stuff - hot topics on the forum, the ongoing “war” between web games and parser fiction. A show devoted to different authoring systems. (or a segment).
Possibly record a couple of short conversations about IF and splice them together instead of feeling you need to record a show all live in one take.
And as above - there’s no reason you can’t have a show with different subjects off the IF subject, then have something like TG-IF-Interactive Fiction Friday or something stupid like that. The more you podcast about anything the better you’ll get. If you can get the people you have chemistry with to join in on the IF stuff, you’ll have a winner. What about a segment where someone who has NO IF experience tries to play one and gives you their impressions? If you get a fun personality involved in your conversations it will be must-listen radio.
Oh…and have you had the IFComp winners on to discuss? Perhaps not all together, but do a Skype call with each one if they are amiable to it. We all love talking about our games.
Dave,
I think the input people have provided in this forum regarding prior shows has been in good faith. You are free to incorporate those suggestions or not. However, these two most recent episodes are completely different from the original premise both in subject matter and in style. I’m not even sure I can say what the podcast is about at this point. It mostly consisted of you guys saying “fuckin’ shit” a lot. If that’s where you want to take it, so be it. But I personally didn’t find anything to recommend in the new shows; to me they were neither interesting nor funny. Which is too bad, because I think the earlier podcasts demonstrated good potential.
This is not intended as any kind of attack. It’s just my personal feedback and I am happy to take the discussion off line if that’s helpful.
–Zack