If it’s true that fortunes favors the brave, Eric Ruth must be a lion. As an indy developer he’s authored a large number of demakes (a pixelated game that borrows core style or gameplay elements from another game). Most noteworthy are Team Fortress Arcade and Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead. It has been a few […]

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WIP #023: Eric Ruth – Pixel Artist

This is the first in a series where we talk to the creators and hosts of shows featured on thePodKast.com, the gaming podcast network. Adam “Torkz” from ReachCast, Dustin “Dust Storm” from Podtacular, Jon Shute from How to Murder Time and John “Agro” from KritzKast take a look at what made the first pick up […]

WIP #022: tPK – Why we podcast

For Australians there’s really only one TF2 community and that’s ozfortress. If you’re part of ozfortress  there’s a chance you already know the name Tim Bagheri but if you don’t then I’m sure you’ll know him by his nick, wm or WarMaster. He certainly lives up to that nickname. With his assistance ozfortress runs cluster […]

WIP #021: Tim Bagheri – ozfortress and GamersUnited

We finally put PubComp to bed in this episode of WiP. The ambitious attempt to create a web and server system that would allow dramatic customization of competitive play on the fly is a pipe dream many of us have shared. It was not to be. This conversation with the lead SourceMod coder, Vincenator, stands […]

WIP #020: PubComp – The fat lady warbles

When you create a solution for TF2 players to come together and scrim you’d better not assume the project is ever done. No matter how good your solution is the players who use it day in and day out will find faults. If you let those faults fester they’ll grate on the players and eventually […]

WIP #019: TF2center – Community Solution

When I first started chatting to Chris Shetter he was trailing off his career in eSports casting. For years he’d struggled to see the results from all his efforts in shoutcasting and was looking for ‘another way’ to make it fun again. Before this most recent chat we’d seen him pretty much give it all […]

WIP #018: keekerdc – Call it a comeback

i46 was a pretty big deal for everyone who either attended or watched the streams from the UK’s largest LAN party, hosted by Multiplay in Telford. That statement is true for a great many people (500+ listed Team Fortress 2 players under one roof including two visiting teams from NA) but especially so for Comedian […]

WIP #017: VanillaTV – Putting the ex in eXtv

VanillaTV has many stars. The Team Fortress 2 shoutcasting site seems to collect tallent in much the same way Valve Software do. Not only has CUBE been able to find his own place but he’s rapidly reshaping their YouTube to page. CUBE was with the original TFTV crew but initially decided not to come over […]

WIP #016: VanillaTV – SNSD Companion CUBE

Some projects WIP follows measure their progress on a daily basis, others weekly. Gang Garrison 2 feels rushed if they push out more than two major updates a year. That said I know how they feel. This interview was recorded in December of 2011 and one thing or another has kept me from releasing it […]

WIP #015: GangGarrison2 – Psycho

In the gap between Thanksgiving and Christmas every day is crammed full of everything happening all at the same time. VanillaTV have a habit of making every day feel like that. When WIP last talked to them they were finishing up i43 so we start this show from there. Comedian opens himself up on reddit […]

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