Jun 22
MNB: Episode 10 (”Paul Barnett Holds Forth”)
The first real landmark in the MMOG Nation Broadcast’s history accompanies a unique recording from my visit at EA Mythic. During my visit to Virginia I had a chance to chat with Paul Barnett about this and that, an experience I found most engaging and amusing. Carrie Gouskos, the designer on Warhammer’s Tome of Knowledge, joined us near the end of the discussion to add her unique insights to the conversation. Paul was nice enough to let me record it all to share with you. We talk about Warhammer, the process of making games, and the value of strong ideas. Check it out in Episode 10.
Unfortunately this podcast also requires a bit of explanation because of how it needed to be edited.
- At one point early in the podcast there’s an abrupt cut; Paul received a phone call.
- Near the middle I say something like “I want to know about the cards”, which seems very random. Earlier I’d been shown that the folks making Warhammer are playing some sort of meta-game involving a deck of cards. Employees can apparently accomplish goals / do things that can earn them cards. I wasn’t told what the rules or purpose of the game was – indeed, I’m only theorizing that there *is* a game, because no details at all were shared with me as an outsider.
- Paul randomly pulled Carrie into the room for that quick Q&A session, which is why she sort of appears spontaneously in the room.
- The loud noise at the end was Paul and I putting the piece of the Blokus game away; sorry about that.
To be honest I’m a bit nervous about this one because I’m not sure this is interesting to anyone that’s not me. Shawn did all the editing here, so my hope is the end product is interesting to a broader audience. I really need feedback on this one though: did you enjoy it? Let me know.
Related links:
Massively Goes to WAR
Paul Barnett Face the Nation Recap
Carrie’s View of my article about her Tome
Music:
God Save the Queen
6 Comments so far
Just thought I’d pop in and mention that If you’re looking for feedback on the interview, It was linked on WHA so I’d belive that you’ll get a few more feedback posts in the thread there than in the virginworlds thread.
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41288 <- The thread in question.
Anyway, as for my opinion of it. I really enjoyed it, aside from the can-like sound quality It was a really interesting and casual Interview. I belive It’s definitely interesting to people like me (WAR “fanbois”).
Hey, thanks Haggen. Much appreciated.
Michael I’m a long time Virgin Worlds Listener and I made the thread over at WHA about this podcast..
I think out of all of the Massively Goes to War stuff This podcast was my favorite. A few people on WHA quibbles about the BLocks noise but IMO they are the kind of people that would complain about things like “Your cupcake has more icing on it than mine ..NO FAIR!”
Anyway Keep up with the great WAR coverage and remember to invoke Tycho when people say WAR looks Like WOW :D
The reason people base their opinions on the old footage is cause there is no new footage. I go to gametrailers and the latest footage is from november of 07. Shouldn’t a game 3-4 months from release have some new trailers to go by?
They can make as many video podcasts of them talking all they want but until they step up and start showing off their unique content no one that is only casually interested will take their product seriously.
I’ve really enjoyed your interviews with Paul, who I’m finding that I have a deep and abiding man love for. Anyways, the subjects that he trounced around on were interesting to me and the interview as a whole was awesome (you can’t really expect Paul to not digress into other seemingly random things, it seems, but that’s why he’s interesting to listen to).
Speaking as just a reader and not as a guy who does this kind of work for a living, I’ve noticed that on both your Massively, SUWT, and this interview you don’t really start out sounding confident. Maybe that’s just the natural way to go as you’re feeling out a conversation. It makes me as a listener feel a little uncomfortable in some respects to listen to a person in a position of responsibility/power not sound like they have confidence in what they’re saying. That’s just my humble opinion. Great work otherwise. :)
The idea that anyone looks to me as a ‘person in a position of responsibility/power’ fills me with dread and fear.