Episode #66 – ft. Kreedz Climbing
William is joined by Dave Traeger and Glenn. Later, SoUlFaThEr of Kreedz Climbing joins for an interview. They talk about SHIFT, GoldenEye: Source, The Rising, Jailbreak!, Ivan's Secrets, Alters1, Framed and more…
Extended Show Notes
Introduction
- 00:00:30 · William is joined by Dave Traeger (ModDB, Desura) and Hectic Glenn (Halflife2.net).
Podcast 17 News
- 00:02:10 · New recording time announcement. 1pm EST (6pm UTC/GMT)
From the Mouth of Valve
- 00:04:20 · Left 4 Dead 2 Update (Tue, 12 Jan)
- 00:05:30 · Team Fortress 2 Update (Fri, 13 Jan)
- 00:11:40 · Team Fortress 2 Contribution site unveiled
- 00:14:15 · Gabe Newell Wins Industry Honour, the 2010 GDC Pioneer award.
- 00:14:15+ Segway: VVVVVV
- 00:16:25 · Steam Hardware Survey – December 2009
- 00:19:00 · Free Left 4 Dead 2 Xbox 360 Multiplayer Last Weekend.
- 00:19:15 · Razer & Sixense’s “Ultra Motion Controller” demoed on Left 4 Dead 2 at CES.
Releases
- 00:20:40 · Naruto: Naiteki Kensei R1
Updates
- 00:21:40 · Jailbreak! 0.6
Media Blitz
- 00:26:17 · GoldenEye: Source – January Report
- 00:28:00 · The Rising – “Update 5: Alpha Gameplay” and “$40 Steam game competition”
- 00:32:25 · SHIFT – Multiplayer Videos showing minimal lag, early dev map and power slides.
- 00:38:20 · Combine Insurrection – Multi-media Update #1
- 00:39:00 · Galactopticon – General Update
- 00:40:55 · Jailbreak! – “RoboChick Competition Winner” and “Official 0.6 Trailer”
- 00:42:00 · Battle Grounds 2 – Happy New Year, and Some Battle Grounds 2 News
- 00:43:50 · Firearms: Source – Wallpapers and Status Update
- 00:44:30 · No More Room in Hell – Weekly Update (9th Jan)
- 00:44:50 · Ivan’s Secrets – Early January Media Release
- 00:45:30 · Blacksector – Rattling Chains
- 00:46:00 · Alters1 – Not dead, just sleeping. Also, now coop.
- 00:46:55 · Sabotage – Updates and New Additions
- 00:47:00 · Overheid – January News Update
- 00:47:15 · City 17: Episode 1 – 3 Part New Years Update (Part 3)
- 00:51:00 · Framed – Dev Diary #1
- 00:52:00 · Resistance & Liberation – January 15th RttF Update
Articles
- 00:52:35 · Halflife2.net: Interview with the Jailbreak! Team
- 00:55:15 · Innovation and startups: Ten lessons from my days at Valve
- 00:57:50 · The Escapist – Gordon Freeman, Private Eye
- 00:59:00 · Steam Account Sells for $1,000 on eBay
Interview
- 01:01:00 · Interview with Tim (SoUlFaThEr) of Kreedz Climbing.
Discussion
- 01:51:45 · PlanetPhillip Mod of the Year 2009 CANCELLED (un-cancelled after episode recording)
- 01:54:25 · PlanetPhillip Poll Question 154 – How do you feel about pure puzzle mods?
- 00:00:00 · Controlling the Facial Expressions of a Virtual Character using a Webcam
Pick of the Week
- 01:59:45 · Everyone discusses their favourite item from this weeks show.
- 02:00:44 · Wrap-up.
Download Links
- Full Episode (113 MB)
- Kreedz Climbing Interview Only (46.9 MB)
Introduction
From The Mouth of Valve
- Left 4 Dead 2 Update (Tue, 12 Jan)
- Team Fortress 2 Update (Fri, 13 Jan)
- TF2 Contribution site unveiled
- Gabe Newell Wins Industry Honour
- Steam Hardware Survey – December 2009
- x360 L4D2 Was Free Last Weekend
- “Ultra Motion Controller” on L4D2 at CES.
Releases
Updates
Media Blitz
- GoldenEye: Source – January Report
- The Rising – Update 5: Alpha Gameplay
- The Rising – $40 Steam game competition
- SHIFT – MP Racing with Minimal Lag
- SHIFT – Online Racing In Source
- SHIFT – New Multiplayer Videos
- Combine Insurrection – Multi-media Update #1
- Galactopticon – General Update
- Jailbreak – RoboChick Competition Winner
- Jailbreak! – Official 0.6 Trailer
- Battle Grounds 2 – Happy New Year, and Some News
- Firearms: Source – Wallpapers and Status Update
- NMRiH – Weekly Update (9th Jan)
- Ivan’s Secrets – Early January Media Release
- Blacksector – Rattling Chains
- Alters1 – Not dead, now coop.
- Sabotage – Updates and New Additions
- Overheid – January News Update
- City 17: Episode 1 – 3 Part New Years Update (Part 3)
- Framed – Dev Diary #1
- RnL – January 15th RttF Update
Articles
- Halflife2.net: Interview with the Jailbreak! Team
- Innovation and startups: Ten lessons from my days at Valve
- The Escapist – Gordon Freeman, Private Eye
- Steam Account Sells for $1,000 on eBay
Lol, even though it was basically a skim through, thanks. Although I didn’t quite get Dave’s joke. Someone care to explain?
I think Dave’s joke was a reference to something earlier in the show, where Thomas (one of the hosts) showed up in a video mentioned.
Sorry for the mention being so brief, it was supposed to be your previous videos and images too. I’ll have Will talk about them next time we mention you.
I changed the link late in the week, so when Will went through the agenda during recording he didn’t relate the dev diary to the rest of the media he’d seen.
Ah, mkay. And, thanks in advance.
Great job again guys, love the sht u do. always awsome
I love listening to this podcast, and I have a suggestion.
I’m sure some of you are familiar with the Rebel FM podcast, and the special Game Club podcasts they do. One recent Game Club podcast they did covered Half-Life 2 and the Episodes. They discussed the games chronologically, from Point Insertion all the way to T-Minus One, and beyond into Episode Three speculation.
This would naturally require more time from you guys, but wouldn’t that be a great concept for a special recurring show? You could pick a mod like Minerva: Metastasis, encourage the listeners to play it by the time of airing and then you could discuss the entire mod from beginning to end.
@podcast schedule: it’s always hard to sync up with Australia. Sat. 18:00 GMT? Hmm, much more do-able, just two hour before our scheduled tests.
Yes, it is longitude.
@Jailbreak 0.6, Dynos vs. robots: the robots got the female character model :) William got it right.
@Resistance & Liberation: I thought Emmanuel hates train/tram rides. Not the vehicles themselves. Right?
@Nick: I actually liked that video! (http://podcast17.com/blog-old/tom-templar/). I guess there will be no conclusion to it?
point to something said during the interview:
hey, that trigger_push thing, with the push being 4 or so units tall, to help people learn to b-hop
don’t know if you guys realize this, but triggers of this size are used in nearly every surf map
a good example is the blockfort map: http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/13069 all the pushes in this map are as you described
just a side point, you have probably never heard of this map, or played CS:S surf maps, so no fault to you :)
i love Kreedz, if i was motivated enough id so make a surf map that used the bungee thingy, would kick ass
and another thing, iv never surfed in CS1.6 but i guess its different then CS:S, coming from a CS:S surfer, i found it difficult at first to surf in Kreedz, tho i got used to it after a while, just a little annoying.
Puzzle mod = the trap. even thou hl1.Hard as hell.
Awesome the live recording time has changed. I really like this change.
Hey, I’m not sure if you were aware, but the Hidden mod is still played.
Maybe we can play that post-show one day, from my memory…it was a really fun mod.
Awww 1 on Saturday for the live cast… I was thinking 1 on Sunday and didn’t bother listening until it was too late… oh well next week…
Nice interview, too bad the Kreedz Climbing interview suffered a bit due to the bad microphone. Hard to hear at times what Tim was saying. I didn’t know anything about this mod, I have heard it being mentioned several times. But didn’t know what it was about. Now I do and I am very interesting to try it out. I hope ghosting will be a feature fairly soon and I also hope that the game will be n00b-friendly enough to keep me interested. Would be awesome if it played like Portal and had a difficulty transition demanding more and more from the player. Or giving the different maps a difficulty rating from 0-5 stars.