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Game design 'podcast'?

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Wed, 09/21/2005 - 03:49
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So after listening to the podcast about podcasting at BoardGamesToGo.com, I downloaded Audacity and LAME, and found out my Karaoke Revolution microphones work when plugged into the usb port on my computer... I might try a podcast or two.

My friend Joe expressed an interest, so I might do something with him - I don't know how regularly. But I think I'd like to try a podcast to do with game design. I don't know what I'd say for sure, I'll probably look around the site and get ideas, maybe do playtest sessions, for example all the All For One I've been playing. Maybe a rules summary for my games in development?

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Have you done any podcasting or anything like that?

- Seth

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Wed, 09/21/2005 - 10:23
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Game design 'podcast'?

I think a nice series of podcast that breakdown and discuss the popular board games currently on the market would be good.

Think of it as a game design review of the mechanics used in popular games. If nothing else it gives you a specific topic each podcast, the game, and this should allow you to create a list of mechanics to discuss during the podcast.

You can make a standard outline that goes over items like

1) Which mechanics are used in the game.
2) What flaws are there in the mechanics, if any.
3) What mechanics work well, which dont.
4) What is unique about this games mechanics.
5) Talk about the designer, maybe a quick listing of other games they have created.
6) What mechanics would be good to model/reuse in another game design of your own?
7) And so on....

--Dave

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Wed, 09/21/2005 - 15:21
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Game design 'podcast'?

My friend Rob and I are working on a podcast that will include a breakdown of a game from a design standpoint each episode. I'm also, as a separate project, trying to work some interviews with designers from a bit more of an "inside" perspective -- I've enjoyed Aldie & Dirk's interviews with designers, and Tom Vasel's, but there are so many more design-oriented and process-oriented questions I'd like to ask.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to set my computer up so that I can record a Google Talk or Yahoo Voice conversation, so I can get solid quality (way better than phone). It must be extremely simple, since I can't seem to figure it out.

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Thu, 09/22/2005 - 05:18
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Game design 'podcast'?

FastLearner wrote:
Right now I'm trying to figure out how to set my computer up so that I can record a Google Talk or Yahoo Voice conversation, so I can get solid quality (way better than phone). It must be extremely simple, since I can't seem to figure it out.

I don't kno w how those work, but can you maybe just import into Audacity or something?

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Thu, 09/22/2005 - 12:11
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Game design 'podcast'?

FastLearner wrote:
My friend Rob and I are working on a podcast that will include a breakdown of a game from a design standpoint each episode. I'm also, as a separate project, trying to work some interviews with designers from a bit more of an "inside" perspective -- I've enjoyed Aldie & Dirk's interviews with designers, and Tom Vasel's, but there are so many more design-oriented and process-oriented questions I'd like to ask.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to set my computer up so that I can record a Google Talk or Yahoo Voice conversation, so I can get solid quality (way better than phone). It must be extremely simple, since I can't seem to figure it out.

The easiest way to do it would be to purchase a second sound card and use that to record the conversation played on your first sound card.

If you have a full duplex sound card you can do it without extra hardware, but these days most sound cards are half duplex.

-Darke

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