Octal FM is a podcast about anything that interests Jalada and Sefran.
Mostly games, technology, and general geekiness.
In another ‘Octal FM are Nintendo fanboys’ episode, we take a look back at the often overlooked history of Nintendo and the Internet. It involves satellites beaming games down to a virtual village on your SNES.
Intro/outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion & an old modem
In this episode we tell the story of the Elite game series and our story of playing the original together back at school, and some bits about the space-sim genre as a whole.
Intro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
Outro music: Strauss – Blue Danube
In this episode we discuss the emerging trend of adding massively multiplayer features to games that otherwise might be single player. Is this something we want to see more? Or is it just a way of extracting more ‘value’ from gamers?
Intro & outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
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.
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.
In this episode we take a deeper look at eSports and how it compares to more traditional sporting events.
Intro/outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
In their most click-bait episode ever, Jalada and Sefran discuss the state of mobile phone games, where they think the industry is going, and some games that perhaps aren’t so bad after all.
Intro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
Outro music: OC/DC – Rise of the Piggies
Tom (‘modest’ on Summoner’s Rift) joins Jalada and Sefran to talk about MOBAs; what they are, where they came from, and why they’re so much fun.
Intro & outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion.
Jalada and Sefran explain why community management is so important in the development and maintaining of video games, from the perspective of video gamers.
Intro & outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
Jalada and Sefran talk further about what you need to think about when running your own LAN, as well as discussing some of the history of LAN parties and events and the state of the community today.
We cover a lot in the show, but there’s a lot more to it. Here’s some related reading from what we covered, and some bits we didn’t:
Running your own LAN:
If you have any more questions feel free to get in touch and ask, and let us know about your successful LAN party!
Intro & outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion
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