Archive for category Pimpin’
Set the Stage videos
Posted by Rockjaw in Community, MMO-related, Pimpin' on September 13th, 2008
Almost the last hurrah, this. Below the ‘cut’, if you will, you’ll find two videos that I edited and subtitled (well, except for the actual translation). Both were shot by Jörg ‘Kerensky’ Koonen during the Games Convention in Leipzig.
They’re performances of the winning entries for Set the Stage, the competition that we ran to get players to write scripts for the Aion and Guild Wars characters to perform. (The scripts were reworked by me to become suitable for performance, but these two are quite similar to the original material, with many lines remaining intact. You can download my script drafts for all six final entries at the official Aion and Guild Wars sites.)
The sound quality is not excellent – source was basically the speakers on the stand, which had to compete with everything around – so I’ve embedded the ‘normal’ and English subtitled versions. (There are also French and German versions of each – see below.)
As I said before, these stage performances were probably what I was most proud of achieving during Games Convention. Trust me; there were some obstacles to overcome! However, I personally feel the performances were excellent, given the lack of rehearsal time we had and the environment they were performing in, and I’m very proud to present them to you.
Four – no, five new podcasts
Posted by Rockjaw in Links of Others, MMO-related, Pimpin' on August 27th, 2008
In the heady rush of content from Games Convention, you may have missed that we slung out four new episodes of the Official NCE podcast. All of them were recorded live off stage, so you’ll find that there’s German and English in there (translations from the crowd to the stage, and then back).
As well as myself yabbering about getting into games, we also have the Aion community team, Izzy and Mike from ArenaNet and Tom Potter from Destination Games to listen to. Pretty good line-up really. You can listen to all four of ‘em online, subscribe, get the MP3s etc all right here.
Credit goes out to Chris for editing these at real short notice.
I said five podcasts though… and the fifth is a new kid on the block. John AKA Shuttler of TabulaCast fame, along with his co-host Matt, have moved on from talking about Tabula Rasa to talking about everything superhero – whether it’s comics, movies or indeed City of Heroes. I expect we gave ‘em something to talk about yesterday.
Anyway their new ‘cast is called Limited Edition, although confusingly the site’s at yellowspandex.com (and yes, I get the reference). You can grab episode 1 right here, and subscribe through the usual methods.
Live from Games Convention, Leipzig
Posted by Rockjaw in MMO-related, Pimpin' on August 19th, 2008
Hot and bothered on the show floor. That’ll be the lights, then.
While I swelter and work on final A/V touches I just wanted to let you know about the ‘Live!’ page that I’ve created here – easy enough to find, it’s at totheblogmobile.com/live/
The idea’s pretty simple – gather all the material that’s getting posted to the web from here at GC. There you’ll find my Twitter feed, streaming video files from Qik, our Flickr photos, the official Vodcast (currently just Quest for GC, but more is coming) and even more stuff probably before too long.
Anyway; if you don’t see any new posts here, feel free to visit that page and you’re bound to see something.
Quest for GC: Boot Camp
Posted by Rockjaw in MMO-related, Pimpin' on August 18th, 2008
Ah, the grand finale. I think in many ways this one covers all the bases. Lots of different styles here editing wise, lots of techniques… and more than a few very silly gags.
Hope you like. Should we do more, at some, future date? Let me know.
Quest for GC goes subliminal
Posted by Rockjaw in Community, MMO-related, Pimpin' on August 18th, 2008
You didn’t think I’d leave the country and not post this, did ya… actually you probably didn’t think about it. At all.
Oh and to the first smart-arse who points out that we released our stand renders days ago? That sure as hell wasn’t the plan when I scripted, filmed and edited this puppy.
Coach to plane leaves in about four-and-a-half hours. Hmmm. Better get to bed. Speak to you from Germany!
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