Roguelike Radio podcast

[Darren Grey]

I'm not sure some of the others really got the game.  Some of the ideas suggested were just outright bad.

Episode should be edited and up tomorrow.

[st33d]

It is a messy game though. I don't call it the Chaos Dungeon for nothing.

[ido]

I don't think anyone meant to "chew you out", we were just trying to understand you and the game - it was a discussion not a critique.

[Darren Grey]

New episode is now out!  Red Rogue, with Aaron Steed on board:

http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/episode-34-red-rogue-with-creator-aaron.html

An yes, the bottom of the post does read right - next week we're covering Diablo.  Be ready to boo and hiss 

[Kyzrati]

It was pretty exhausting really. Felt like I was being chewed out for daring to make a hobby-game at times

I just listened to this ep and didn't take that away from it at all. Sounded like a discussion to me, but I can understand how you might see things differently from a creator's POV.

[st33d]

I could only hear 50% of what was said over Skype so I was on my back foot all the time. That and the unfinished state tends to make design discussions seem like requests to me.

The amount of work I instantly saw required for charging attacks (animation, UI, AI graph restructuring, physics overhaul, complementary level design) left me stunned.

Overall it was a useful discussion and I've just implemented shuffling the order that content is introduced in each zone as a result. There's a lot of content that do weird and wonderful things I've put in and the impression I was getting was that people weren't seeing these things and finding new ways to play. I originally thought I had to introduce elements one at a time, which is right, but I was wrong that the order had to be static. And I think it's much more fun to replay now.

Also put in gas traps in the shape of mushrooms in the Sewers, you know, for fun.

[guest509]

  It seemed a bit more critical than usual. Especially with a developer on the line. Seemed like you were on the defense quite a bit. It didn't seem super bad, but if you compare it to the 'discussions' with the creators and developers of Adom, Rogue, Crawl, Infra Arcana, Cataclysm, ToME, Binding, Dredmore, Powder, Brogue and so on, it just seemed more harsh.

[ido]

Diablo episode is published!

[Skeletor]

You're doing a very good job guys.. congratulations!

Here's my request: an interview with Wouter van den Wollenberg, developer of Triangle Wizard.

Keep going!

[kraflab]

I really like graphs...I'll just drop this here:

[Darren Grey]

Andrew betted before the episode that we'd end up breaking past 50 comments...

[Darren Grey]

Hmm, and if you like stats:

[Darren Grey]

As another interesting stat, only 5% of users view our page through IE.  We get more Opera users than that!  And that's in a 74% Windows audience.

Also, new episode up on coffeebreak roguelikes!  And a cool new banner by Dan Earnshaw!

http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/episode-36-coffeebreak-roguelikes.html

[ido]

Hmm, and if you like stats:

This just in: according to an independent survey by "Roguelike Radio", Cardinal Quest is more popular than Diablo!

[guest509]

Andrew betted before the episode that we'd end up breaking past 50 comments...

  Yeah I mentioned it somewhere in the comments, maybe in the episode before.

EDIT: Congrats Ido!!!