BYONDcast - BYOND's first Podcast!

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Dec 12 2010, 2:45 am (Edited on Dec 12 2010, 9:46 am)
I've always wanted to host my own podcast, and what follows is my first attempt at a small scale BYOND podcast that will eventually lead to the "real thing" in a format completely unrelated to BYOND. There certainly isn't much news to talk about around here, so instead we've created a commentary show meant to stir things up a bit.

When Jared and I hang out, the topic of our conversation occasionally drifts over to the latest happenings with Silk Games and BYOND. There's a lot of weird, funny and random stuff that goes on around here, and it always leads to some interesting talks. This podcast is essentially just a recording of one of the types of discussion we've been having privately about BYOND for years.

This podcast may or may not be a recurring thing, and it certainly isn't meant to be some sort of official podcast endorsed by BYOND, as the material is essentially just unfiltered (slight language warning) and unscripted commentary. That said, I think that you may get a kick out of it.

In this first episode we cover the following topics, with lots of digression and random tangents in between:

  • NEStalgia, the "lack of updates", the status of the game, and why we ought to thank all of the haters for the compliments.
  • Stephen001's calm demeanor and Geldonyetich's procrastination blog.
  • Decadence, BYOND's latest (and perhaps last?) quality game.
  • The forthcoming BYOND site redesign and how we are trying hard not to say "I told you so!" over and over.
  • The fact that BYOND trolls suck at their only job.
  • Why single player sidescroller games are completely pointless on BYOND.
  • Aaiko of Iccusion Entertainment and why we have a major bone to pick with him.

Download BYONDcast Episode 1 Runtime: 26:18 | Size:25.3 MB

Like I said before, we might do more of these in the future. I'd love to hear what you think, and what you'd like us to talk about in future podcasts. We may even be open to the idea of having a guest or two on the show.

For now we've just got an mp3 for you to download, but we may actually stream future episodes using more official channels. Enjoy!
Dec 12 2010, 2:49 am
Is that noise... What I think it is?
Dec 12 2010, 2:51 am
It's a bong. Isn't it.
TELL ME IT'S A BONG.
Dec 12 2010, 2:53 am
rofl - We originally explained right at the beginning that we were hanging out on my deck smoking hookah (tobacco), but I think I cut that out for time. Probably an important piece of information that I should have left in :p
Dec 12 2010, 2:54 am
Ohhhhhhh.
I'm not distracted anymore. I can actually listen to the words.
Dec 12 2010, 3:00 am (Edited on Dec 12 2010, 3:08 am)
Crap, looks like I uploaded a bad copy of it. New file coming in the next 10 minutes...

Edit: It's fixed now, but if you downloaded the other copy you'll definitely want to grab this one instead.
Dec 12 2010, 3:57 am
Enjoyed listening.
Dec 12 2010, 4:34 am
You should do some more shows.
Dec 12 2010, 7:00 am
Not that I'm horribly picky, but posting a length would be nice for those of us who are curious beforehand =P
Dec 12 2010, 7:33 am
Certainly interesting enough to keep me entertained throughout its entirety, kudos.

It's cool to hear the latest things and gossip around the community, I just wished the show put less focus on bashing the very thing it's about.
Dec 12 2010, 7:42 am
Why single player sidescroller games are completely pointless on BYOND.

I enjoyed your discussion of this point particularly. I commonly see people noting things like "DM is easy to use" as BYOND's big strength, but I would have to disagree.

For a project I'm on at work, we have about ... ~5,000 lines of code specifically to handle networking of components, written in Java. In NEStalgia, you have ... none! The ramifications for game design in BYOND are pretty obvious, multiplayer games are of the same technical difficulty as single player.

This has served BYOND really well over these past 10 years. At the risk of sounding old, the market and competition on multiplayers games was very different back in 2000, with people only just starting to hop onto high bandwidth products, and lots of new users getting internet access. The number of big names that took good advantage of this really quite small, and it was technically an area a lot of people just hadn't touched.

BYOND gave you that emerging market, for free basically. Same goes, the tile-based system cut out a lot of crap with bounding boxes and particle algorithms to let you focus on the key area: how your game plays.

These are obviously strengths BYOND developers should be keen to make good use of, not throw away, surely.
Dec 12 2010, 8:02 am
I loved it. Keep it up.
Dec 12 2010, 9:32 am
I don't know if it's just me, but the podcast lasted about 2 seconds, and it was just a guitar playing.
Dec 12 2010, 9:41 am (Edited on Dec 12 2010, 9:49 am)
DivineTraveller wrote:
Not that I'm horribly picky, but posting a length would be nice for those of us who are curious beforehand =P

Good call, totally neglected to do that.


Tayoko wrote:
Certainly interesting enough to keep me entertained throughout its entirety, kudos.

Awesome, thanks. That's really good to hear.

As far as bashing BYOND goes, that's just our style. I could talk for half an hour about pretty much anything and I'd probably end up bashing it just as much as I praised it ;)


Stephen001 wrote:
These are obviously strengths BYOND developers should be keen to make good use of, not throw away, surely.

I absolutely agree, and that's what really irks me about the single player pixel movement craze around here. It's all about abandoning BYOND's greatest strengths in order to focus on performing magic tricks using BYOND's major weaknesses.


Mista Mage X wrote:
I don't know if it's just me, but the podcast lasted about 2 seconds, and it was just a guitar playing.

We're tearing through our BYOND bandwidth like nobody's business, so I'm going to switch over to hosting the file on my own webspace. That's probably not your problem though - you may have more luck doing a right-click "Save As" and downloading the whole thing to your desktop instead of loading it in your browser.


Thanks for the comments everyone - keep them coming! Don't forget that we'd also like suggestions for topics on the next podcast, should we decide to make one.
Dec 12 2010, 10:17 am
Wait a minute, I just noticed there was a BYOND people statement regarding posting pictures. Now sir, I love me that BYOND people, how else can I show my disgusting self, and stalk others at my whim and put there pictures all over my room? Well, how can I?
Dec 12 2010, 11:03 am
Just a potential note for if you take guests on podcasts, be it this one or your other, bigger project. You'll want to spend a little time chatting with them privately first, build up a rapport etc.

A lot of the strength of that first podcast is the hand-over between yourself and Jared. It's pretty apparent you guys have got on for a little while now, so you hand off to each other in a very natural way, no abrupt changes as one part realises they are stopping the other contributing etc. The end result is a very flowing listening experience that listeners can track without too much effort.

Although you won't have the benefit of time with a guest to build that up completely, there's a lot to be said to dedicating a little chat time beforehand to pick up your guest's habits and nuances.
Dec 12 2010, 11:17 am
For what it's worth, Acebloke did a few episodes of a BYONDcast, so this isn't the first ;]
Dec 12 2010, 12:04 pm
First time being on BYOND in a while and I heard this and I think every thing was pretty accurate from what I remember. I loved the antagonizing of certain BYOND Members, it seems like the longer a person has been on BYOND the more of a reason they think they have for acting like they're above every one.

I might actually have a reason to check the members page again.
Dec 12 2010, 12:33 pm
I was listening to what you were saying about trolls, and how BYOND has no good trolls.

What are your opinions on people like Jeff8500 and IcewarriorX?
Dec 12 2010, 1:13 pm
DarkeWarrior wrote:
I was listening to what you were saying about trolls, and how BYOND has no good trolls.

What are your opinions on people like Jeff8500 and IcewarriorX?

Such an unexciting topic, pretty much as they'd noted in the podcast.
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