Episode #18 – ft. Dystopia
This week we have Ryan (Stenchy - Moddb) and Mike (Urinal Cake - Dystopia) on the show. William is smitten with Eye of the Storm Episode 1 and we allow Ryan & Mike to have a very long (but interesting) discussion after the interview.
Transmission Code: 11561
Extended Show Notes
Introduction
- 00:00:40 – William, Thomas, Ryan (Stenchy – Moddb), Mike (Urinal Cake – Dystopia)
Podcast 17 News
- 00:03:00 – New Flash Stream on the website!
- 00:03:40 – Neptune apology – We are sorry.
Follow-up/Errata
- 00:04:40 – Strider Mountain Pre-Release
- 00:05:10 – Goldeneye Source Beta 3
Straight from the mouth of Valve
- 00:06:40 – Left 4 Dead Survival Pack to be free on the 360 too!
Portal Releases
- 00:10:05 – Think with Portals – Anyxius Chamber 2
Left 4 Dead Releases
- 00:12:40 – Dead City & Get out alive.
The Release List
- 00:14:00 – Eye of the Storm Episode 1
- 00:17:45 – Half-Life Rally 1.10 Beta 59 Maps
- 00:18:40 – Portal Project Beta Demo
- 00:19:00 – Coop Labyrinth
- 00:20:20 – Combine Surveillance
- 00:21:10 – Eternal Silence Update
- 00:21:20 – The City Discussion
- 00:27:25 – Fortress Forever 2.3
- 00:28:30 – Cybercape
Media Blitz
- 00:32:00 – My Wonderful Nightmare
- 00:32:50 – The Citizen Part 2
- 00:33:20 – Half-Life Arangement Coop
- 00:37:10 – Petrified Media
Topic of the Week
- 00:39:20 – Half-life Escape from City 17 Episode 1
- 00:48:15 – Jailbreak gives us a demo tutorial
Listener Audio Question
- 00:49:40 – Jeff asks about first maps and passes on some details about the L4D SDK he came across.
Interview
- 01:03:20 – Extended interview with Mike from Dystopia.
- 01:52:40 – Wrap-up
Download Links
- Direct Download (104.14 MB)
Follow-up/Errata
From the mouth of Valve
Portal Releases
Left 4 Dead Releases
The Release List
- Eye of the Storm Episode 1
- Another new version of HL Rally
- Coop labyrinth
- Combine Surveillance
- Eternal Silence Update (lag fixes)
- The City Demo
- Fortress Forever 2.3
- Cyberscape
Media Blitz
Topic of the Week
Listener Question
- Zombies Optimization Guide
A great introduction to many aspects of map optimization.
The audio is really staticy :(
Audio player has playback issues. Specifically sound distortion. Direct download is fine.
Doesn’t sound staticy to me… what version of flash are you guys running?
Yeah, the flash stream is buggered for me too. I also apologize in advance for lengthening the show with my rants :P
Running Flash 10.0 R12 and get static
I’ll update my Flash to 10 like Editor and see if I get it then, because right now its working fine with Flash 9 on XP SP3 in every browser I have (IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, Opera 9.61 and Chrome) and I know Cubic (who it’s also fine for) is on Flash 9 too.
I updated to flash 10 and it instantly went incredibly poor quality. I’ll try all the others and patch in an alternate if I find one which works.
This is exactly how the old streamer sounded in Flash 9 with the higher quality audio.
EDIT: Patched flowplayer in, which is working fine for me in Flash 10. If people can confirm it works for them (preferably with your flash version mentioned) then I’ll skin it to fit and update the other posts which are using the temporary player.
EDIT2: Seeking seems to be broken (it opens another stream overlaid onto the current stream), but it’s broken in the official examples too so I think it’s a known bug. I’ll look into it more later tonight. Pausing and playing seems fine though so it should be ok for now.
Damn you for putting the idea in my head! Now I REALLY want Valve to pick up the Purchase Brothers and get them to make something with an even higher budget.
Hey thanks William for taking the time to answer all of my questions! I know I bombarded you with a lengthy email but I really enjoyed the discussions that followed. Of course now I have even more questions! Haha!
As soon as I get something uploaded I’ll pass on the link. And hey, it’d be an honor to have my map ripped apart by Phillip. Of course I’d want to HEAR his commentary because that would be most amusing I think.
FYI, I listen to the podcasts on either my iPhone or in iTunes so no static problems there. But I have had problems before with Flash Player 10 on other websites (Using Safari and Firefox on a Mac, haven’t tried it on my PC).
Jeff
MMMM crisp audio :D
IMO best show so far. Mike & Dystopia interview was just awesome.
^ Agreed
Really good interview with Mike there, keep up the good work!
Excellent show!
It’s interesting to see on this Podcast fresh people. Also, the Dystopia’s interview and Mike were really enjoyable!
Thanks for mention our project! Anyways, I didn’t agree with some comments. I want to say we aren’t make this mod because we want to create a dev group. In fact, the source code was closed. It’s nice to talk about the good things and the bad ones. That’s cool, but we do create our own content as well. Just for the record ;)
Regards!
PS: I haven’t experienced any problems with the audio.