Keep up the great work!

mel, I strongly disagree, I think games and such is defiantly an art, everything from the environments, models and textures, to the story and the gameplay is an art. Just because games are fun has nothing to do if they are an art or not, some people may have “fun” while at an art gallery.

Which brings me to the point of all this; last weeks Podcast17. First let me say I very much enjoyed the show, and here I use the word show deliberately, please mister producer keep it a show. Now to the point; GAMING AN ART, come off it guys this is taking whole thing way beyond the realms of reason, GAMING IS FOR FUN and don’t say the obvious that art can also by fun, just give me more fun that’s why I play mods, if I want art I will go to the Art gallery.

Of course producing good mods may include an artistic approach to design, modeling and textures but does the author consider he is producing a work of art? I doubt it; equally does the gamer think to him self while in the middle of some mod; this is very artistic, I think not. I enjoy playing mods, if I’m not enjoying a mod I stop playing it and no amount of anyone trying to tell me it’s artistic will make any difference to the fact that I play for fun. Fun can mean different things to different gamers and maybe there are those that get fun by considering that either playing or creating a mod is a form of art, yes sure its creative, it’s design and artistic in ways but it’s a game. Maybe one reason that the community is losing some of its base is that it’s not catering for its members wants.

Anyway, great broadcast guys and the fact that I have penned the above is proof that Podcast17 is alive and kicking.

Jeromy

Can we make requests for Podcast 17 guests/interviews? I know it may be extremely difficult to catch this guy, but I’d love to hear from Neil Manke.

I mailed to: feedback@podcast17.com

but I’m not 100% sure if I got it right since I didnt get a reply in over a day.
though considering your popularity I’m assuming there’s a ton of chicks holding you down because they stored you like a herd of elephants and are unable to read and answer all your mail.
Or maybe it just got lost in the mail or I spelled the mail wrong.

So yeah lemme know if I got the mail address right, if not I can send it again.

Anyway so yeah great podcast, while I’m still a fan of multiplayer games I think that when it comes to zombies or funny singleplayer games then co-op is awesome to.
And alot of multiplayer games do bring alot of the same but there are some real jewels out there and multiplay does extend replayabilty. rated 5/5

@Rosco If you ever need someone to play decay with add me on steam: cubicvirtuoso (or panfrie), or cubicvirtuoso@gmail.com; try either one.

@SPY-maps We will keep the entire podcast Half-Life and Valve related so don’t worry!!!

@asdf This is in the works, but that’s all I can say for now

@Corey Willis I don’t believe his voice is changed :P are you referring to Phillip or Spy from Strider Mountain? We use Windows to record the podcast, we have a seperate box that is hooked up listening in on the Ventrilo conversation which is recorded over audacity. We are not using Skype because it doesn’t allow for proper “two people talking at once”. This next episode should be a lot better in terms of audio quailty cause I have an equalizer now running on the recording PC (everyones voices should be the same level); check out http://www.weeklygameclub.com for an example.

@Toc Most of us at Podcast17 LOVE coop mods. I personally am not really a fan of MP mods either, but I will play them to give them a shot.