More Comic Expo recap stuff is coming; will probably be three posts now as I’m such a long-winded bugger. Just wanted to drop a few things here.
News-wise…
‘Podcast 2.5′ as we’re calling it, is about done and should be online very soon I hope. It’s mostly more recapping of the MiniCon, including chats with some TF Omega teams and a long talk between Alex ‘GhostRaptor’ Weekes and me. Who has a blog, if you haven’t seen.
Speaking of MiniCon, the first official video for it went live yesterday… go see it on Blip.tv. (Yes, there will be a downloadable version soon.) There’s a lot more footage and a lot longer video coming.
Speaking of the podcast, Episode 3 is also half-way done already because we did an interview with a couple of the guys from the Tabula Rasa team. I wasn’t in on it but Chris tells me it’s real good.
In the (probably extreme) off-chance that you aren’t frequenting the EU COH Forums, just FYI, all of the sketches from Bristol are now live on Flickr, along with a fine selection of ‘official pictures‘ too.
Also: I’m playing with this. You might like to play with it too. Or offer me suggestions on what to do with it.
Some random linkage…
Adam Martin, who’s one of our top programmers in the fledgling internal NCE development team, spoke at ION 08 yesterday, on one of his favourite subjects - MMOs and Web 2.0. Massively did a write-up which makes it sound really interesting; I’d say it’s worth a read.
Adam will also be speaking at the MMOG-fest thing that I’m going to be at in early June at Staffordshire University, so if you wanted to come quiz him, that’s a great opportunity to do so.
If you’re in a reading mood, this post on MMOG Nation has some great ideas about guilds and how to keep guilds alive. It’s sort of aimed at developers but you might be interested regardless.
That’ll do. Work calls!
#1 by Gangrel at May 14th, 2008
Loved reading the 2 pieces you linked to… nice and interesting which also leads to more thinking….not enough room for an essay here though.
Watched the MInicon video as well, and am actually suprised that i was in it, although i do also have to admit that i think i could have been a bit more awake with my “only” comment (i know i was caught on camera a few times) BUT good times were had though
Full length movie next please (dont forget the 5.1 surround sound and super expensive special effects provided by ILM/WETA etc etc)
And my RSS reader is looking a little bit empty on the podcast section… HURRY UP (just kidding) but yes i have enjoyed episodes 1 and 2 so far (maybe 2.5 will be titled “The Smell of “?… who knows
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Can you tell that i might have a bit of time on my hands right now?
Anyway, nice to know that Bristol went well… shame i couldnt afford to make it, but have stuff to pay for (ie trips for sisters wedding etc) BUT still looking forward to more updates…
#2 by Geoffrey at May 14th, 2008
After battling somewhat (Quite a lot) with that toon thing, I made this:
http://toonlet.com/creator/Geoffrey
Quite a nifty little tool
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