Episode #4
More L4D News. Hours of HL News!! Moddb Interview Game Community Academy Discussion WOTW: The Half-Life Saga Website
Transmission Code: 9309
We were lucky enough to have Ryan AKA Stenchy from ModDB and Matt AKA CrowBarSka developer of Union for Half-Life 2: Episode 2. They discuss the week’s news with William and Phillip, along with an interview with Ryan about ModDB. There’s also a discussion about an idea Phillip posted on PlanetPhillip.com called Game Community Academy. Note: The L4D Infected Hack mentioned in this podcast is no longer available. We recorded the Podcast BEFORE Valve patched the L4D Demo.Extended Show Notes
- Introductions
- 00:01 – Phillip, William, Ryan (stenchy – moddb), Matt (crowbarska – Union).
- 01:30 – Ryan introduces himself
- 02:42 – Matt introduces himself
- 03:25 – Half-Life Anniversary
- 04:51 – Half-Life bundles and a discussion on release schedules.
- 05:54 – Crossplayer – Valve’s new game?
- Podcast News:
- 07:52 – New links coming – we promise!
- 08:06 – Apologies for previous late episode
- 08:32 – Forums are up, coming up on the menu soon. www.podcast17.com/forum
- 09:13 – Farcrab Demo – corrections and comments from last week
- Left 4 Dead Dig
- 00:10:51 – Left 4 Dead Demo discussion
- 00:11:59 – Play the infected over Left 4 Dead/console commands – No longer doable since November 11th
- 00:14:52 – Left For Dead randomization
- 00:16:33 – Custom Left 4 Dead maps
- 00:17:46 – Convincing Phillip to get Left 4 Dead
- 00:22:27 – Replayability of Left 4 Dead
- Half-Life News
- 00:26:02 – omfgzombieslol update/Review
- 00:27:50 – The Combine Force, Citadel 17 Update/Review
- 00:32:24 – Discussion on the Steam Cloud
- 00:35:20 – ESF Special Effects Editor Video
- 00:37:02 – Mortewood Plaza/Mentality Mod discussion
- 00:39:00 – Mods press release scheduling
- 00:41:50 – Greyshot concept
- 00:43:24 – Project Resident Evil Updates
- 00:44:44 – Does nostalgia take over aspects of gameplay?
- 00:46:56 – Half-Life 2 Short Stories… what is this?
- 00:48:41 – HoloReality discussion
- 00:51:12 – Teddy Wars. We discover it!
- 00:53:16 – Facewound. A third party platformer.
- 00:53:51 – Cry of Fear.
- Interview with Stenchy (Ryan) From ModDB
- 00:55:52 – Why is ModDB the best mod site out there?
- 00:57:36 – ModDB’s approval process
- 00:58:51 – What does the future hold?
- 00:59:53 – How to get your post on the front page of ModDB.
- 01:01:01 – What happened to addonDB?
- 01:02:08 – What happened to TopSites?
- 01:02:40 – New Feature: ModDB’s media profile.
- 01:04:01 – ModDB Staff count.
- 01:04:52 – Does ModDB stifle smaller sites?
- 01:15:22 – Discussion topic: “Game Community Academy”
- 01:27:39 – Website of the Week: Half-Life saga story guide – Half-life’s complexity
- Notes
- 01:30:49 – Transmission Sponsors Announcement
- 01:31:28 – Also looking for News Partners!
- 01:31:47 – Guest cancellation (16 Nov 08) :( Wanna replace him? email: feedback@podcast17.com
- 01:32:13 – Another ppology for the lateness of last weeks show.
- 01:32:22 – Who is Dyson Poincare? Answer within!
- 01:33:29 – Wrapup
Direct Download Link
Links
- OMGZombiesLOL
- The Combine Force: Citadel City17 mod Demo 2
- Steam Cloud
- Earth Special Forces
- Mortewood Plaza
- Project: Resident Evil Update
- Mentality
- Resident Evil Transistion Test Map
- Half-Life 2 short stories Trailer Video
- HoloReality
- Teddy Wars
- Grayshot
- Cry Of Fear
- Facewound
Website Of The Week
- The Half-Life Saga Story Guide A website to learn much, much more about the story of Half-Life.
Another great show guys. I have been hanging out all week for this one. I like how you have improved on the structure of the podcast.
@”01:04:52 – Does ModDB stifle smaller sites?” I think it does stifle smaller sites, infact it pretty much have wiped them off the face of earth. But as you have said, its not there fault as there site has great functionality and is great for giving your mod publicity. The main news sites if you will are moddb,interlopers and halflife2.net and planethalflife but thats a commericial piece of shit.
On another note, there is room for a few more mod news sites out there, i am planning to start one up myself. Maybe podcast17 and my site could be news partners or partner up if you will like you were talking about during the podcast
@Discrate: Sure thing! Give us an email at feedback@podcast17.com to stay in touch.
Another interesting podcast! when will the podcast become ‘downloadable’ on Itunes, because then I’ll have something to listen to on the bus tomorrow :)
I absolutely loved the union Mappack by the way!
Just so you guys are aware, you talk about the ability to play as the infected in the L4D Demo, unfortunately this is no longer supported and was patched yesterday evening. Just so your listeners know.
http://www.halflife2.net/2008/11/10/left-4-dead-demo-update-released/
The Combine Force Citadel City17.
I can understand my demo is not as well done but I will try to become bedere and listen to others if they have some ideas for my mod :)
@Punky: It’s already listed on iTunes. I just checked; it’s there.
@Hectic Glenn: Yea unfortunately we recorded the podcast BEFORE valve patched L4D. I’ll edit the show notes accordingly.
Oh, if I’m correct, my Itunes automatically downloaded the previous two episodes, but not this one, I got podcast C9309 by clicking on the podcast button on the site though, thanks :)
@Punky: usually how itunes works is it will download a certain number of “unlistened” podcasts, and sometimes ignores the newest based on how many you haven’t listened to.
Hello William and Phillip,
Thank you for a terrific show! I’ve been looking for something like this since Half-Life Radio was brutally raped and turned into the profit whore, GameShout.
I consider myself an experienced modder, and your gameplay discussions are cream in my ears. It’s fantastic to hear different opinions on various features like having no HUD and stuff like that – how you think modders should work around a daring concept like that for it to work properly.
I will certainly be listening in every week. You’ve got yourself a regular! :)
Hello again, this time I’m not here to complain about the podcast on Itunes ;)
I listened to this episode, and I had exactly the same experience with the Left 4 Dead demo, as your cousin did Phillip(I believe it was your cousin…) I played the demo, for the first time, with 2 friends of mine on advanced and we survived through the two maps in like 30 minutes, without taking to much damage, after that I was like, woah! sweet game, but it’s so damn short! Well, I played it again, and I have been playing it until now. This game really is addicting, you can play it forever :)
By the way, I really enjoy your podcasts, keep it up! :)
ps: Hey Snotball! :) remember me :D , I was working for a mod in the past (which is now abandoned…) it was some kind of puzzle, survive kind of mod, and we were also thinking of removing the hud, and having it in-game, someone should really do this, it would be sweet :)
Figured you haven’t gotten all those comments you deserve, so here’s one:
Absolutely adore the podcast guys. Lightens up the start of the week by giga-candela’s.
Keep it up.
Dang it, I knew who Dyson Poincare was and the name was so familiar but I couldn’t place my tongue on it! Ah well, thanks a lot for another great show. The site and forums are real excellent and couldn’t be any better, and I really enjoy listening to the interesting topics and discussion, thanks.
Firstly, sorry for the lack of replies from me.
@Discreate:
We haven’t changed the structure of the show. Perhaps because we didn’t get so sidetracked with discussions this week during the news it looked that way.
@Hectic Glenn: Thanks for the update. We’ll probably mention it in the next show.
@VaLvEr: Thank you for staying positive. You need to read the comments to your demos very carefully because they contain the changes you need to make to improve. A prefect example is the very beginning. I mentioned in my original comments that it was easy to get stuck behind the wire fence. I don’t believe you changed this. Generally try and ask yourself, why am I putting this feature here? Is it realistic?
@Snotball: Glad to have you along for the ride!
@azelito: Thank you sir. I love the phrase “giga-candels”
@Otto: We’ll probably be changing the format of the trivia to something moire like an explanation rather than a simple question. Glad you liked the show.
Hey,
I’m Dec, the only developer and team member of The Mortewood Plaza.
If you actually read about my mod you will discover its not just a bunch of “Crowbar Replacements” its a mas array of melee and normal weapons, all with different damage and animations. The reason their is so many is because the mod is based on Dead Rising for Xbox360 with the weapons.
If you do happen to read up on Mortewood you will find that it is really early, and that weapons are not the only feature, they happen to be the thing i’m furthest ahead in with the mod, and that is the reason allot of these are shown as of yet.
My main goal is to fill everyone needs with a mod. This includes:
- Many new maps.
- Many new weapons.
- Allot of game time and game play.
- Large variation of game types and game modes.
- Multiplayer & Singleplayer and eventually Co-op game play.
- Good storyline.
- Hours of zombie killing fun.
- And anything else that can be thought of i will tackle.
Just remember its hard being a one man team, the only thing keeping me going is the enthusiasm and praise i get for making it :P
And so there is so many features planned, and the weapons are just one of these many features.
I hope this will make you look more into my mod, maybe check some of the new media, and comment on the new ideas and give you feedback through another AMAZING pod cast!
I enjoyed it, and although i wanted nothing but praise, like everyone does :P, it was still an awesome listen, and i’m happy that you included me.
Thanks. x
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