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Title: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Brian Rubin on December 03, 2014, 11:13:06 am
Hey guys, Brian from Space Game Junkie here! I'm writing to let y'all know today I'm going to have a special episode of our weekly podcast with four of the folks who worked directly on Freespace 2, namely Adam Pletcher, Mike Kulas, Dave Baranec and Jason Scott and we'll be streaming it live to Twitch at 1:30 PM Pacific! This post has all the details!

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/podcasts/special-podcast-today-freespace-2-talk-creators-omg/

If y'all wanna watch or try to get questions in, either hit me up here or during the stream. Hope to see y'all there!
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: headdie on December 03, 2014, 02:26:36 pm
Cool, going to try and tune in


edit:
also posted to FB and reddit
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: mjn.mixael on December 03, 2014, 03:04:50 pm
I'm in for that! Hopefully the kids take a long nap today. :)
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: headdie on December 03, 2014, 03:43:03 pm
and they are live
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Ulala on December 03, 2014, 04:48:13 pm
Caught the tail end, will have to go back and watch the VOD, but sounded like a great time from what I heard! Hoping next time we can get more notice! ;)
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: CKid on December 03, 2014, 04:50:32 pm
yeah, I missed the first 10 or so minutes (even rushed home from work) but still heard most of it. I loved the stream.  :yes:
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Brian Rubin on December 03, 2014, 05:27:19 pm
Thanks for watching/listening guys! I was sooooo super nervous. I mean these guys are rock stars to me. But they wanna do more! OMG!
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Goober5000 on December 04, 2014, 12:53:08 am
Wow!  Epic highlight posted.  Well done getting all four of these guys together!  I will certainly view this at my first opportunity.
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 04, 2014, 01:09:47 am
Did anyone save it?
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Goober5000 on December 04, 2014, 01:13:07 am
http://www.twitch.tv/spacegamejunkie/c/5612637
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Snarks on December 04, 2014, 03:42:47 am
This needs to be archived, a treasure for future HLPers.
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Black Wolf on December 04, 2014, 03:52:22 am
Just had a listen through, pretty cool. :yes:
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: headdie on December 04, 2014, 04:12:44 am
Just listened to the twitch as my computer wouldnt stream it properly, awesome stuff and would love to see a follow up as suggested.
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Brian Rubin on December 04, 2014, 01:35:14 pm
I'll hopefully have the audio/youtube version up today, if that helps folks with slower connections.
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Hunter on December 04, 2014, 07:06:35 pm
If it's ok with you I've created an audio file from the video. It can be streamed online or downloaded @ http://sectorgame.com/fsfiles/?dir=uploads/Uploads%20%28for%20FTP%20users%29

Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Brian Rubin on December 04, 2014, 08:12:57 pm
Hey guys, it's all up!!!

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/featured/sgj-podcast-85-some-of-brilliant-minds-freespace-2omg/

Thanks so much!!!
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: niffiwan on December 04, 2014, 08:34:08 pm
Woohoo!  Thanks for organising the interview(s) Brian   :D
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: CT27 on December 04, 2014, 10:41:54 pm
Can I link this thread to another forum I visit?  It has quite a few FS fans there too.
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: headdie on December 05, 2014, 01:49:34 am
Can I link this thread to another forum I visit?  It has quite a few FS fans there too.

of course you can :D
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Mongoose on December 05, 2014, 05:13:02 pm
Ooh, gotta give this a watch! :yes:
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: mrduckman on December 17, 2014, 06:35:34 pm
Watching this right now!
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 18, 2014, 07:33:32 am
Dave B was snipes :jaw:
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Luis Dias on December 18, 2014, 08:32:58 am
Great Snipes! Loved the podcast thank you!
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Goober5000 on December 18, 2014, 10:53:06 am
Dave B was snipes :jaw:

No, Jason Scott was.
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 18, 2014, 03:58:43 pm
They're the same.
By being different :yes:
Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: FIZ on December 18, 2014, 08:48:12 pm
Thank you Brian for putting this all together.  When I first saw this was an hour long I thought ****, do I really wanna commit?  After 5 mins I was hooked.

Also thanks Adam, Mike, Dave, and Jason for your time both here and back then!

As someone with an interest in development, those comments about the source code were amazing.  I'm glad such camaraderie still exists here (which to my loss I'm not very active in), when I do any coding work now (still basic stuff in school) it feels like I need to fill out 4 disclosure forms before showing someone how I went about with my solution.

My only anticlimax moment would be anything asked regarding FS2 seemed to quickly shift to some other topic.  It striked me as odd and evasive.  I know there is a lot of legal stuff involved, or just stuff that's already been answered (the desire for closure in this interview seems like a turn around from a previous discussion that without that ambiguity, there would be no room for a modding community to grow.)  I also acknowledge that some project from a decade and a half ago is tricky to answer right off the bat.  It just felt to me that you guys expressed the Descent series was the zenith, where we (erm presumptuously) here worship another deity.  I believe I may be starting to ramble, so if a mod wishes to just replace this entire paragraph with " :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: " that's fine.

TL;DR I enjoyed the interview, thank you to all parties,  :v-old:, HLP, SpaceGameJunkie, thank you very much.

Title: Re: Freespace 2 Special Podcast Today with Folks Who Worked Directly On The Game!
Post by: bigchunk1 on January 24, 2015, 03:00:50 pm
Good to hear this. Especially the comments about the engine and how it was developed. I also got a reinforced impression that games developed in the 90s were developed in a way which was much different than the way big titles are developed now.

I hope another interview comes along that's a little narrower in scope. Seems like the topics were so broad for a 1 hour interview of multiple big names in the project.

P.S. Let's hear it for snipes.