Tuesday, December 22, 2009

SnoutCast #3: Story Time

Apologies for the audio artifacts this time around. I forgot to unplug my laptop before recording and had to remove the 60-cycle hum (and harmonics) using a software notch filter. Which is ironic, because I warned about this very problem on the Wired How-To Wiki.


[ Download mp3 - 39 MB ]

00:00 - random teaser
01:25 - shout-out to our two confirmed listeners!
02:10 - "Which Game had the most coherent story?"
06:25 - DeeAnn votes for The Goonies Game
12:20 - stories in Snout Games
13:45 - clue difficulty distribution; dromedary vs. camel
21:27 - Curtis actually means Mickey Rooney
22:47 - "Go to Hogwarts" (see what she did there?)
37:46 - in other gaming news...
41:04 - The End

Happy Holidays, y'all!

Music: instrumentals from "Code Monkey," "Skullcrusher Mountain," "Tom Cruise Crazy," and "Chiron Beta Prime" by Jonathan Coulton

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9 comments:

  1. Blake TuckerTuesday, December 22, 2009 at 1:16:00 PM PST

    I'm offended that everyone has forgotten "Espionage" on the coherent story vote!

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  2. DeeAnnTuesday, December 22, 2009 at 1:32:00 PM PST

    Hi, Blake--

    It's not so much that we forgot about it, but that CKL didn't call it out in the contents. We did discuss the Game, but we're not qualified to make a story judgment. Neither of us played in "Espionage."

    ~DeeAnn

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  3. CKLTuesday, December 22, 2009 at 2:32:00 PM PST

    I'm offended that you didn't listen to the whole podcast before commenting on it! :)

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  4. SkottWednesday, December 23, 2009 at 2:07:00 PM PST

    Thanks for fielding my question :)
    It sounds challenging to GC an coherent original story that teams would actually care about enough to pay attention to. Especially considering slower teams get skipped over clues and there's a constant meta-gaming thought process going on. Most people I talked to say you did a great job with Hogwarts story-wise. Sorry I missed it!

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  5. Wei-Hwa HuangThursday, December 24, 2009 at 12:43:00 AM PST

    I believe The Brain's "YES!" is an exaggeration of Orson Welles, which does predate Ed McMahon.

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  6. ubraggFriday, December 25, 2009 at 7:47:00 PM PST

    Good stuff, Curtis and DeeAnn! Your SnoutCasts have made my last couple holiday flights go a little faster. :)

    Discussion suggestion a future SnoutCast: What is your all time most memorable moment in a Game? Most memorable moment in each Game you played in or ran might also be fun.

    And a possibly stupid question: Is there a way to subscribe to your audio podcast that I'm missing? So far I've just had to download each one independently.

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  7. CKLSaturday, December 26, 2009 at 2:34:00 PM PST

    @ubragg: Glad you're enjoying the podcast! Thanks for the topic suggestion. We'll put it on our list.

    You can now subscribe to the SnoutCast with this URL:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/snoutcast

    That should work in iTunes and most other podcast feed readers. Let me know if you have any problems.

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  8. CorbyWednesday, April 21, 2010 at 9:07:00 AM PDT

    You guys are up to #12 now, but I've been downloading Snoutcast via iTunes ever since it was possible (which I guess is this episode). I'm listening furiously, and hope to meet you soon in the present. I LOVED heading Sean's Old Person clue (beta and the real one with Coed). I played some fro Crissy last night and she plotzed!

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  9. CKLThursday, April 22, 2010 at 10:23:00 AM PDT

    Actually, we've been on iTunes for a while, but I may have broken the feed temporarily due to the Blogger migration earlier this month. Sorry about that. Glad to hear you're enjoying the show!

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