Episode #42 – ft. Radiator
This week William and Emanuel are joined by Guest host Phillip Marlowe and later on by Robert "campaignjunkie" Yang of Radiator. Phillip has an announcement about the dm2sp.com competition and we go off topic a lot more than usual.
Transmission Code: 15593 (#42)
Posted a little later than usual this week. – NicExtended Show Notes
Introduction
- 00:00:40 – William and Emanuel are joined by guest-host Phillip Marlowe and later on by Robert Yang of Radiator.
- Segway: Phillip shares his likes and dislikes around the topic of Radiator – Emanuel decides to dig into him a bit.
- Segway: Talk a little about Research and Development.
- Segway: “The Bad Mod Mentality”
Podcast17 News
- 00:09:30 – Phillip announces the closing details of the dm2sp.com competition.
- Segway: Discussion about different competitions and possibly how another one could do better.
From the Mouth of Valve
- 00:13:20 – Zeno Clash SDK released
- Segway: Should SP Mods go straight to retail? Should MP Mods go straight to retail?
- Segway: Are you willing to pay for something that could be a mod that goes retail?
- 00:20:19 – Left 4 Dead Update Released
- Segway: Hint at the new TF2 Update, that turned out to be fake.
Releases
- 00:21:14 – Level 0-0 Rebuild (HL2 Map)
- 00:22:25 – The Great Escape
- Segway: PlanetPhillip yearly awards + hints at a Podcast17 mod of the year
- 00:27:55 – Physics Drydock (HL2 Map)
- 00:32:15 – Beyond Reality
- 00:34:15 – Pulse Episode One Beta 1
- Segway: Discussion about Demos.
Updates
- 00:37:11 – Modular Combat 1.75 Released
Media Blitz
- 00:40:10 – Obsidian Conflict’s birthday, 1.35 heads up.
- Segway: SMod and Counter-Life.
- 00:42:40 – Combine Insurrection Weekly Progress Report #2
- 00:44:00 – Blue Shift: Reassignment Media Release
- 00:46:00 – Morning Faith Development Special #1
- Segway: Discussion about narration.
- 00:48:45 – Logistique – Short News…
- 00:49:40 – Orion – IRC Server Relaunched.
- 00:51:20 – “Yama” L4D Campaign is beautiful.
- 00:53:15 – Triage – Just a quick little update.
- 00:56:00 – Firearms: Source – Blue Player Model, Map Updates, and Sako Rk.95 Showcase.
- 00:56:40 – The Lost World: Source – Weekly Update 03
- 00:57:48 – Robert Yang of Radiator arrives.
- 00:58:15 – L4D: Dead Before Dawn Trailer
- 00:58:54 – Insurgency Media Update
- 00:59:30 – Perfect Stride Continuum – v2 Coming Next Week
- Segway: Emanuel and Phillip argue about technicalities again.
- 01:04:10 – For Hire – Media Update
- 01:05:11 – BLACKSECTOR – Update #9 – Prepare For War
- 01:06:00 – Jailbreak! – King of the Hill
Articles
- 01:07:16 – Modular Combat: Server Files Coming Soon!
Interview
- 01:07:40 – Interview with Robert “campaignjunkie” Yang from Radiator.
- 01:11:04 – Connections between player and character + details on how a mod like Radiator can emotionally touch gamers.
- 01:16:30 – Details about the characters in the Radiator Series with a segway towards how he came to develop 1-2.
- 01:20:25 – Developers being Typecasted.
- 01:21:48 – Information about voice acting.
- 01:25:50 – Discussion about immersion.
- 01:35:32 – Why didn’t 1-2 have a time limit?
- 01:36:00 – Let’s talk game design school.
- 01:39:25 – Let’s talk about the difficulty and lack of “tutorial”.
- 01:42:50 – How many people actually beat the mod?
- 01:46:00 – Information about Radiator 1-3
- 01:48:18 – Engine limitations and further development.
- 01:51:30 – What’s more important, dialog or gameplay?
- 01:53:00 – What is in the future of Radiator?
- 01:55:15 – Development Cycle
- 01:57:00 – End of Interview
Question / Discussion
- 01:58:40 – PlanetPhillip Poll Question 134 – Do you kill when you don’t “need” to?
- 02:09:15 – Wrap-up.
Download Links
- Full Transmission (125 MB)
- Interview Only (47.9 MB)
From the Mouth of Valve
Releases
Updates
Media Blitz
- Obsidian Conflict 1.35 heads up
- Combine Insurrection Weekly Progress Report #2
- Blue Shift: Reassignment Media Release
- Morning Faith Development Special #1
- Logistique – Short News…
- Orion – IRC Server Relaunched.
- “Yama” L4D Campaign is beautiful
- Triage – Just a quick little update
- Firearms: Source – Media and HL2.net interview
- The Lost World: Source – Weekly Update 03
- L4D: Dead Before Dawn Trailer
- Insurgency Media Update
- Perfect Stride Continuum – v2 Coming Next Week
- For Hire – Media Update
- BLACKSECTOR – Update #9 – Prepare For War
- Jailbreak! – King of the Hill
The intro song sounds so familiar… trying to put my finger on it. Is it from the electro group, “The Knife”?
Again, wonderful show, Radiator is a great mod.
Going to recommend again getting the Obsidian Conflict developers on the show, after all, they made an incredible co-op mod, way better than Synergy.
That’s funny ya I didn’t play that mod right I guess, where is that video of oyu playing?
I’d like to let you know that the Hopwire was a cut weapon from Half-Life 2.
@Turkey:: Yeah I think so; Mr. nopk mentioned the name in the podcast before;
Oh my, Emanuel! Since when the size of a team differenciates between games and mods? Does Zeno Clash need a game in order to run? No? Then it’s a stand-alone game.
Does Neo Tokyo need a game to run (despite the contents and time put into it)? Yes? Then it’s a mod.
Going by the same logic of yours, Open Arena is not a game, it’s a Quake 3 mod.
@tbk He said previously: “I’m not going to tell anybody because they are just going to go out and download it, and lose the newness of it”.
there is a difference between editors and engines…
The intro song is a highly modified PS2 intro sound, that was modified and enhanced by MusicallyInspired. You can find it at HIT and HLC.
As for the Podcast, I appreciate the mention of Blue Shift: Reassignment, though I do not appreciate the uncontructive bashing of Gold Source. Please try to be nicer about things, rather than insulting a engine many modders have respect for.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
The intro song is The Knife – Hearbeats, nothing else.
Looks like Emanuel will have a full apology section :P
I put all the boxes in the correct spots … took like… 45 mins..