UPDATE:
Our video host for this episode was Blip.tv. As part of their 4th quarter 2013 channel purge, the BWL blip channel was shut down. Although we could re-upload the episode to YouTube, this episode will likely remain down unless viewers express sufficient interest.
The first episode of BWL’s Video update is finished. It did, however, end up longer then I had anticipated originally and was thus divided into two parts.
In this episode we take a look at some project news including Cat-Life and our comics. We also visit the steam chat room briefly with our “From the Chat Room” segments. And our main topic of the day is machinima… what we see in other people’s works and what we hope to do with our three planned shows.
I suggest using the “Full Screen” option for watching this video. You’ll get more out of it I think.
Part 1
Part 2
In the end, this episode was delayed for a few extra weeks due to schedule issues mainly. And, given the subject matter’s resolutions, there is a fluctuation in the size of the letter boxing on most of the machinima topic. Also, there are a few errors that I left in simply because it would have been more trouble then necessary to repair.
This episode ran longer then my intended 15 minute time limit with the “From the Chat Room” features cut down to a few short minutes each. We had already realized that From the Chat Room could be a full audio program of its own and planned to release the full discussion separately. So be sure to check out our full “From the Chat Room” mp3 as hosted by ModDB.
The mp3 has been edited to cut out our long dead air pauses and many “uhms” and “ughs” plus a few other less important or classified bits of the discussion. The full session is around 35 minutes in length.
From The Chat Room: Episode 1 audio – BWL Development – Mod DB
In future episodes, I plan to focus more on the “From the Chat Room” segment and use that more for our main topic and news sections as it really turned into more interesting discussion.
Thanks again to Syrus Rayne, Radu Iceman, and BiGToM for helping with that. As for why we chose to use steam instead of our Ventrilo server… well… the idea behind “From The Chat Room” is that members of our steam group can join in on the discussion at any time. It’s not meant to be a “podcast” as much as it is a chat room segment for the show.
Of course, that does mean there are some buggy moments with the audio in the full mp3 and a somewhat lower quality to the sound as compared to something like skype or a shout-cast service of some sort.
