It’s a New Year, it’s a New Season! It’s us catching up for the first time in a couple of weeks!
In this week’s Gamecast we catch up on our holiday adventures, hangouts, and loot. Steve’s back from a short apartment hunting trip and about to embark of his family’s big move and Matt was inspired to play some of his Kickstarted boardgames. Did you find any good gaming deals over the holidays? Did anyone get you something particularly awesome? Let us know!
Well, another year has come and gone and in the time it took us to orbit the sun, I got up to a good deal of gaming! I’ve been pretty active this year on my blog as far as attempting to study both Japanese and C++, but when I wasn’t up to education I was for the most part either parenting, working, podcasting, or gaming. While the kiddo naps, lets take a moment to brag about our (my) nerdiness! Read More >
Cheers faithful ones!
Hopefully everyone had a fantastic holiday! We took some time off to visit with family and relax, and so this time around we’re pulling an unreleased podcast from our vault to discuss our backing histories on Kickstarter, as well as our general attitudes and experience with crowdfunding.
We aren’t extensive Kickstarter enthusiasts, but we have supported a somewhat diverse set of projects, and we toyed around with the idea of launching our own Kickstarter during our indie game dev days. As always, general chatter about games and what we’ve been playing creeps in a bit (certainly a happy addition to any serious conversation).
If you’re looking for talk of holiday grabs and gaming, then you’ll have to stay tuned for next time!
It’s time for the Holidays! I’m off work for a bit while I deal with… you know… the winter holidays and all that that entails. I’m also going to be moving to Montréal in about a week [!!?] so basically… I’ve got a little bit of time to take care of myself! I’ll get to an end-of-year update in the near future, but in the meantime, I’d really like to do a little bit of UE4. It looks like there’s no way I’m going to be able to finish going through Section 4 by the end of year, but that’s what happens when life steam rolls your to-do-list 🙂 Read More >
Hey Paisanos!
Matt’s back from Japan and Steve’s back from Black Friday shopping. That’s right, this podcast is actually coming a little later than recorded, but with Matt galavanting around the world who can blame us?
The gaming gods have provided a bountiful harvest this year and in this episode we discuss some of our recent aquisitions. It’s mostly a 40 minute geek out session about the marvelous physical media Matt got his mitts on in the land of the rising sun, and all the things Steve said he wasn’t going to buy this year that he picked up anyways.
Ever been frustrated that you can’t play your imported game on your domestic console? Ever have troubles with your Nintendo account because you now live in a country different than when you created the account? Ever experience the wonderful joy of scouring the internet to find a work-around for your region-locking blues?
In this episode, we discuss the woes we’ve faced as global nomads and avid game-geeks, including issues with online accounts, region locking on portable systems, importing international gems, hardware compatibility, and the like.
Hooooooooo boy. Well, I’ve been rather busy for the past two months. When I’m not at work I’ve been making a podcast, buying video games like a mad man, playing with my two year old, and preparing for a move to Montréal. Speaking of the podcast, we missed an upload this week but fear not… that’s not the end of the podcast, it’s simply a result of files that didn’t get saved correctly. There’s still more on the way!
In regards to learning C++… the year is almost over, and I don’t think I’m going to manage to finish everything in my to-do list (I have 90 more videos to go in this series I’m learning from) but that doesn’t mean I’m giving up just yet. The kid is napping, so it’s time to resume my studies. Read More >
In this episode, we discuss our long term career plans and impressions of what it means to work in the game industry. We touch on some of the challenges involved considering our plights as parents of young children, and contrast our respective chosen career paths as one who’s taken the plunge and works in games versus one who’s gone the risk-averse, stable route of a more traditional software/hardware development job. Adult stuff, folks!
Speaking of work… not much in terms of gaming this time. Life gets in the way like that.
Being a working parent means that side projects require effort outside regular hours. This time around, we got up at 5AM on a Tuesday to make sure we had our chance to catch up on everything important in the world of us gaming.
In this episode we start off catching up on the latest games we’ve been playing (Matt: Battlefield 1, Steve: Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright). Steve was able to finish off playing Birthright and has now moved onto reading up on the Reverse Design Forum’s Final Fantasy VI analysis. Bringing this up lead into a conversation about some of the books we’ve either read or have been intending on reading. For those who might be interested in checking out some of the titles we mentioned…
Some of these books include:
- ・I am Error
- ・Flow
- ・The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers
- ・Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Memorial Book Vol. 1
- ・Mention of the artwork that can be found in the special features of Final Fantasy Origins
- ・The Art of Final Fantasy IX
- ・Final Fantasy XIV: A Real Reborn The Art of Eorzea
- ・Tactics Ogre Art Works Book
- ・R20+5 Rockman
- ・Advanced Renderman: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures
- ・The Animator’s Survival Kit
- ・The Art and Science of Digital Compositing: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics
Stores that we mentioned that we like are:
With some brief discussion on the shows:
Sometimes podcasts don’t go 100% as planned. In this case we sat down with an important agenda… and instead just wandered where the road took us. Join us as we talk “Battlefield 1” and our experience playing multiplayer games such as “Marvel vs Capcom” and “Left 4 Dead”. This took us down Nintendo Power memory lane and finally to the new Nintendo Classic Mini launch.