Hatchet Job #6 - Game Demos
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09/22/08 • 46 min
Guests: Souldaddy, Danjo Olivaw
00:00 - 19:14
What we’ve been reading, watching and playing. Stalker: Clear Sky, Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan in conversation, Bad Science by Ben Goldacre and Seismac, a seismograph for Mac laptops. (Links below.)
19:14 - 42:06
Discussion on game demos. Favourite demos, what we liked about them and some ideas on how to break the stereotypical way demos are presented, played and discussed.
42:06 - 46:15
Music. ‘Motor (Versión 2001)’ by Vate.
Links:
Mailer & McLuhan: http://tinyurl.com/2dlj8q
www.badscience.net
Seismac: http://tinyurl.com/kcfyp
A piddly 8MB or so.
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Guests: Souldaddy, Danjo Olivaw
00:00 - 19:14
What we’ve been reading, watching and playing. Stalker: Clear Sky, Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan in conversation, Bad Science by Ben Goldacre and Seismac, a seismograph for Mac laptops. (Links below.)
19:14 - 42:06
Discussion on game demos. Favourite demos, what we liked about them and some ideas on how to break the stereotypical way demos are presented, played and discussed.
42:06 - 46:15
Music. ‘Motor (Versión 2001)’ by Vate.
Links:
Mailer & McLuhan: http://tinyurl.com/2dlj8q
www.badscience.net
Seismac: http://tinyurl.com/kcfyp
A piddly 8MB or so.
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Hatchet Job #5- Too Human, Mercenaries 2, Bangai O-Spirits & Unlockable Content
Guests: Danjo Olivaw, Souldaddy, Someguy.
If you want to skip to a particular bit just use the times below.
00:39 Too Human (360) and games’ controls
10:12 Mercenaries 2, 360
16:36 Bangai-O Spirits, Nintendo DS
22:00 Starts with gaming and childhood, goes into discussion on filtering unecessary on-screen info
28:22 Why worrying about winning is bad for your score, then motivating players in team games
38:16 Unlockable content, drip feeding players with rewards and related issues
01:11:24 Game worlds and realism. Are all games just puzzlers in disguise?
All the way to the end!
1:27 long. It squeezed into a whalebone corset of (just under) 15 MB. There’s effing and blinding.
Music is ‘Slickster’ by OmTheory.
Next Episode
Hatchet Job #7 - Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Guests: Souldaddy, Danjo Olivaw, Someguy.
We discuss what we thought of Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway on the 360, Pure and even nibble on a slice of Splinter Cell: Double Agent.
00:00 - 28:32, Brothers in Arms.
28:32 - 30:30 - Pure
30:30 - 34:40 - Splinter Cell: Double Agent
34:40 - 40:44 - Music. ‘Open Up’ by Gideon K. A middling 40:44 and a skimpy less-than-ten megs. Swearing.
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