In this episode of Octal FM we kick back and reminisce about all the MMOs we’ve played in the past.
025: Building Twitterfall
In 2009 Jalada spent 2 hours building a website that would ultimately end up shaping his entire career. In this episode of Octal FM we tell you the story of that website.
what's the site that shows a live stream of tweets flowing down the page?
— Kevin Rose ⛩ (@kevinrose) January 25, 2009
that's it, http://twitterfall.com/ , thx @jalada (dev), how can I add search.twitter syntax, like near:"san francisco" within:15mi ?
— Kevin Rose ⛩ (@kevinrose) January 25, 2009
- Twitterfall on Wikipedia
- Twitterfall co-founder Tom Brearley on Twitter
- Twitterfall makes it onto Telegraph newsroom screens
- Twitterfall: a Google for the Twitterverse
- Coverage from the Guardian about The Telegraph’s embedded Twitterfall
- Coverage in our university newspaper
- Fox’s Fringe Twitter-Feed Overlay: Clever or a Mistake?
- ITV taps into social media for FA Cup Final
- Penny Arcade comic about Vinepeek
- Where Jalada works now
- Anecdote.fm, podcast from Jack Dearlove
024: Gamers shaping games
In this episode Jalada and Sefran sit back and chat about how gamers shape games through coming up with challenges, speedruns, or rewriting the games themselves through modding.
- Playtonic games announcing tweaks to Yooka Laylee for speedrunners.
- Super Mario 64 parallel universes.
- Nuzlocke Challenge.
- “Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene’s whirlwind year” in which Brendan mentions he wants to give back to the modding community, where he came from.
023: The Best Ever – Super Mario
In this ‘The Best Ever’ episode, Jalada and Sefran try to agree on which game in the Super Mario series is the best; Super Mario Sunshine, or Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island?
022: Back this podcast today!
In this episode we talk about early access games. Everything from their origins, where we think they’re going, and some of our favourite and least favourite games we’ve backed or bought before release.
- “Early Access popularity growing, but only 25% have released as a full game” (2014)
- Jalada’s favourites include:
- Sefran’s favourites include:
- Some less-than-awesome examples of early access include:
021: A wild Pokémon master appears!
In this episode we are joined by the brilliant Marti Bennett. Marti kindly agreed to tell us all about playing Pokémon competitively and recount some of her own stories and experiences of the professional Pokémon scene.
Follow Marti:
- YouTube – Virtual Accomplishment
- Twitter – @MartiBennett (@VirtualAccomp for content updates)
- Twitch – Virtual Accomplishment
Related reading/watching:
- JWittz speedrun of Pokémon Trading Card Game
- Serebii
- Serebii ‘Effort Values’ guide
- Serebii ‘Individual Values’ guide
- Cybertron on Twitter, YouTube, and Twitch
- Pokémon on Twitch
Intro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
Outro music: GlitchxCity – Champion Cynthia Battle Remix
020: Enter the Matrix
We recently got the opportunity to go hands-on with an Oculus Rift, complete with Oculus Touch controllers and two sensors. In this episode we discuss our thoughts and impressions, and what we think is in store for the future.
019: The ‘in-game’ illusion
In this episode we discuss how video game advertising and trailers have changed, why ‘footage captured in game’ means nothing, and whether any of this matters at all.
- Read Patch The Process, an article about ‘day one patches’ by indie game dev Rami Ismail.
There’s lots of videos you should watch to accompany this episode:
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince “Teen Comedy Trailer”
- Watch Dogs – E3 2012 vs PC Release
- Clash of Clans adverts
- Dead Island
- Elite: Dangerous Launch Trailer vs PS4 launch trailer
- Introducing the Overwatch League
- No Man’s Sky Gameplay Trailer 2014
- “The EVE Online Experience” and “This is EVE” – Uncensored
- Overwatch animated shorts including “Infiltration”
018: Is the 3D platformer dead?
In this episode of Octal FM we try to decide: Is the 3D platforming video game genre dead?
Games we discuss:
- Arcade games such as Donkey Kong, Mario Bros
- Croc
- Metroid and Castlevania
- Crash Bandicoot
- Rogue-likes such as Spelunky and Rogue Legacy
- Puzzle-platformers like Super Meat Boy and N+
- Is Yooka-Laylee the return of 3D platformers?
- Snake Pass
Intro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
Outro music: Juan Medrano – Mega Man 2 “Dokuta Wairi, Rival to the Light”
017: Press play to continue
In this episode we talk all about the state of difficulty in video games. Are they too easy? Too hard? Does it matter?
Intro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
Outro music: The OneUps – Funky Mario Circut (Radio Edit)