Category: Podcasts
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Never Let The Fire Die (podcast episode #2)
Jeff and I host the official podcast for the band The Alarm. They had a bunch of alternative hits in the 80’s (The Stand, 68 Guns, Strength, Spirit Of ’76. Rain The Summertime, Rescue Me, Sold Me Down The River). They new 21st century version of the band…
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Never Let The Fire Die (podcast #1)
In this inaugural episode of “Never Let The Fires Die” The Official Podcast For The Alarm, we start at “the end”. We discuss the last officially released song credited to “The Alarm.” Then we delve back to try to understand the meaning of that song, the song credit “The Alarm”,…
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8bitrocket.com Podcast : Jack Tramiel And Atari
by Jeff Fulton Finally, a new podcast! Today we tackle Jack Tramiel and The Atari ST. Listen Here.
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Hey You Kids, Off My Lawn #2: More Fun With Possible Flash Game I.P. Issues
We’re not saying these games have barrowed other people’s intellectual property, we are just saying it’s possible. No matter what, we have fun looking at them anyway.
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Game Storm Video Podcast #1
Game Storm Video Podcast #1 Bonus Content: Steve’s daughter’s stop motion video for her 6th grade earthquake project:
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Hey You Kids, Off My Lawn! We Whine About Flash Games And Intellectual Property
Here is the first (and maybe last, who knows) episode of “You kids, Off My Lawn!”, a short podcast/music video in which we complain about (possible) intellectual property issues with flash games. We did this a week ago. I prompted us to create the “World’s Worst Jigsaw Puzzle Collection“. Why? …
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8bitrocket Video Gripe-Cast: HTML 5, Flash and The iPhone/iPad
8bitrocket Video Gripe-Cast: HTML 5, Flash and The iPhone/iPad In this Podcast full of sour grapes and gripes, Steve and Jeff wonder out loud why Apple doesn’t play nice with Flash apps on their hand-held platforms while at the same time having developed and contributed the canvas to HTML 5.…
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8bitrocket’s Five Favorite Retro Inspired Flash Games of 2009 Podcast
8bitrocket’s Five Favorite Retro Inspired Flash Games of 2009 Podcast We’ve featured and reviewed many games this year. Over the next couple weeks we are going to take some time to list our favorites in a few different categories. The first category is near and ear to our hearts –…
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Planet M.U.L.E First Impressions
Our first impressions of the Planet M.U.L.E, the online playable 2009 update to Dan Bunten’s classic Atari 800 game, M.U.L.E. http://www.planetmule.com
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idkwid.com “Flying Blind” video tutorial…
A simple tutorial for playing IDKWID.com’s game “Flying Blind”. (http://www.idkwid.com)
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Flash Game Blog Interweb Mash-up Video Podcast Dec 12, 2009
Flash Game Blog Interweb Mash-up Video Podcast Dec 12, 2009 I decided to have a go at doing a Mash-up as a video podcast with mixed results. How many different iMovie transitions can you recognize? See below for links to all of the sites, articles, and whatnot. Gamingyourway.com Twitter…
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8bitrocket Reports On the Mochimedia 2009 Survey Results + IKDWID.com Preview
We report on the Mochimedia.com Flash Games Market Survey.
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8bitrocket.com IDKWID.com Mochi Game Review blowout!
Today we cover our new favroite Flash Game developer, idkwid.com. I believe idkwid stands for “I Don’t Know What I’m doing”. We cover these gems: Public LiBEARy Beam Me Up, Santa Flying Blind Dino Art Museum Just in case you are wondering, no we are *not* kidding. These games…
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Mochi Flash Game Review 12/10/2009
5 More games Mochi games reviewed: Bloons Tower Defense Baby’s Christmas coloring 8bit Little Killer Disney Puzzle 3 in 1 Dark Inference : The First Shadows (Inspired by a Spectrum Game, not originally C64 or Amiga as we stated)
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Mochi Flash Game Reviews 12/9/09
Mochi Flash Game Reviews: This time we have a new style where the games are highlighted only with voice overs. We think this might be the easiest and est way to do this. Games Reviewed:Rift Under City Eric’s Xmas Work Wars
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Retro Game Insipration Podcast #1 : Atari 7800 Food Fight
Retro Game Insipration Podcast #1 : Atari 7800 Food Fight I am planning to make a new “re-skinnable” game engine based on the Atari 7800 (and arcade) game by Atari.GCC called Food Fight. I will be looking for a Pixel Artist to help re-skin it and put it up for…
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8bitrocket Game Review-Cast : Nov 20, 2009. Flash Game License and Mochi Reviews
8bitrocket Game Review-Cast : Nov 20, 2009. Flash Game License and Mochi Reviews Flash Game License Games: You must have the right access to see these: Going the Distance 2 Droids 2 Tin Can Knight Blasting Agent Mochi Spongebob takes a shower Pacos Adventure 2 The Space Race Ninja +2…
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8bitrocket Mochi Game Review Video Pocast: 11/06/09
8bitrocket Mochi Game Review Pocast: 11/06/09 We review about 8 games, and Steve touches his hair far too often, as we both never look into the camera because we are looking at a laptop to see the goods. Still, the new gameplay overlay screens are pretty cool. Game Links:…
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Mochi Game Video Reviewcast #1!!
Reviewcast! We review a bunch of the latest Mochi games and you get to see them in action! (kind of) OK, we tried hard to make this work, but I’m not so sure it is the right way to do it. I’d give us a D+ or C-, mostly for…
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Skript Kitty Episode #1: Skript Kitty vs. Intellectual Property
OK, so here is our first attempt at a “cartoon”. This idea came about when my 13 year-old cat entered the frame of our first video podcast. Jeff and I got the idea that maybe she was listening in to our conversation and trying to steal our ideas. Postmortem: As…
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8bitrocket GameStorm Video Podcast #2: Goofus and Goofus
8bitrocket.com GameStorm Video Podcast #2 This week we tackle “disturbing clauses in terms and conditions” of viral game sites, especially the term “derivative works”. We also have some news, a GameStorming session, a special preview of our all-new “cartoon” “Skript Kitty” http://www.8bitrocket.com
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8bitrocket GameStorm Video Podcast #1: See Us In In-Action
Our First video podcast. We talk about the 4K Game Contest, Microsoft Silverlight, Mochi, Google App engine…and more…
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GameStorm! Podcast #13: Site update and GameStorm Classic Revival!
This week we clear out our backlog of podcasts with GameStorm #13. (We say #14 in the podcast but that is because we recorded the Atari Nerd Podcast #1 before this one) This podcast includes a discussion about our web site and a ton of classic GameStorm! action. Check it…
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GameStorm! Podcast #12: Flex, Holiday Game Wrap-Up, Game Endings, etc.
In this week’s GameStorm! podcast we talk about a Flex, Holiday Game Wrap-Up, Game Endings, and more. Have fun. You can download the podcast here: http://www.8bitrocket.com/podcasts/gamestorm12.mp3
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GameStorm! Podcast #11: Atari Week +Jack’s Beach Blitz
In this week’s GameStorm! Podcast we again shed the original concept (Game Design Brainstorming) to discuss our 6 part feature from last week Project:Save Atari plus we discuss our new game “Jack’s Beach Blitz”and a few other topics. This week’s podcast features music from one of our first looped-tracked songs,…
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #10: Setting Relations Back 50 Years
Here is this week’s podcast. This week we return to our “roots” with some actual “GameStorm action over several bizarre and interesting ideas generated from our GameStorm! Idea Generator. We also cover the news, and generally have a good time. You can download the Podcast here: http://www.8bitrocket.com/podcasts/gamestorm10.mp3
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #9: Drivecast!
This week we have another “themed” podcast. Because we had to do the podcast while commuting, we discussed driving games. We talk about driving games through the years, our favorite driving games, complications with making good driving and then some of the best driving games that are suitable for remaking…
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GameStorm! Podcast #8: Halloween GameStorm!
Sorry this podcast was a few days late. This weekend was filled with so much family(kid’s birthday, soccer games) and personal stuff (high school reunion), it was difficult to get this one edited and out the door . This week we have a session about creating viral games specifically for…
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #7: Special Wide-Load Double Episode : Our Favorite Games
Today we present the first 8bitrocket.com Special Wide-load Double Episode! This does not mean that that it is double the quality or double the goodness, it’s just really double the length. In this episode we “shake it up” by rejecting our regular format and spending over 30 minutes talking about…
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #6 Bushwhacker! , More on I.P. Issues
OK, here is Podcast #6. This week we have a thrilling brainstorm discussion about game that ends up being named “Bushwhacker!” (but not for obvious reasons). We also cover some intellectual property issues and how they might affect viral Flash game developers, plus we cover some of our favorite sites.…
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #5: A Real Project , Some AS2 -> AS3
OK, here is GameStorm! Podcast #5. In this episode we discuss a recent game design project and how we might have tackled it for a retro inspired game. Also, we start our on-going conversation about developing games in AS3 as opposed to AS2. This week we feature the song “8…
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #4: Top-10 Predictions Plus More…
OK, here is Podcast #4. This time we discuss two thrilling game ideas, and then we get into our Top-10 Predictions For The Midcore/Casual/Retro Game Industry. Also, this podcast marks the first time we bumper the podcast with music from our vast library of songs created for games and other…
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #3: Family Edition
OK, here is Podcast #3. We are still tinkering with the format, so this one is a bit different from the previous two. Jeff and I were on a vacation this week, so this one was done with our kids around. In some cases it works (interesting ideas), in others…
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #2: Secret Sauce
OK, we are back much sooner than expected. Since we launched the GameStorm! Retro Casual Game Idea Generator (see below) today, we decided to use it to formulate another podcast. Today we discuss several different game ideas and designs including an idea that uses one of our all-time favorite arcade…
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8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #1: Eminent Domain
8bitrocket GameStorm! Podcast #1: Eminent Domain OK, today we are trying something brand-new. Jeff and I have wanted to try our hand at a podcast for a very long time, but we were reluctant to try because we could not think of anything original to yap about. However, on whim…
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