Hey everyone,
As you may know, we lost a close member of our test family and the Banjo-Kazooie team last week. We wanted our next podcast to feature this great upcoming title, but we need to give everyone some time to take care and regroup.
Thanks for understanding, folks. We’ll have a show next week.
Our fourth podcast (37 minutes). Jeff holds it down in solo mode. Justin phones home from E3 to discuss the Microsoft Media Briefing, John is on vacation, and Jeff interviews Bob Bergen, a voice actor with a resume that includes Porky Pig & Luke Skywalker.
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Looks like Wednesday’s show won’t be out till Thursday. With E3 it’s been a bit crazy. Thanks for your patience!
Hurrah! I can finally talk about what I’ve been working on all this year: Scene It? Box Office Smash has been announced during the Microsoft Keynote @ E3.
This new Scene It is the first retail game to support the new Xbox LIVE Avatars (also announced today) so that you can play as your own custom character. The other big new feature is online play for 16 people via LIVE.
We’ll speak more about Scene It? and the other announcements from E3 in an upcoming podcast.
Hey dudes and dudettes,
Just a reminder, if you have any questions for us for our next show, leave them in the comments. We’ll pick the best of the best to read and answer. Try to focus on process, testing, game development, or life at Microsoft. We can’t answer anything about unannounced release dates or features of upcoming games.
Ask away!
Hey guys,
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More to come when we get a chance.
Our third podcast (51 minutes). Our mic levels are fixed, and we have an interview! Leave us comments or send us email, we’re going to read some on our next show. Also, find us on My Space, Facebook and Twitter. This week we talk about:
Here are the books mentioned in the interview:
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Our second podcast (51 minutes). We loosened up and lost our structure this week, to see how things would work if we didn’t have anything specific to talk about. Hopefully it will give everyone a better feeling for our personalities, but I expect we’ll get back to more test-related stuff for the next show. Let us know what you would prefer to hear by leaving a comment. Also I promise to move further away from the mic next time.
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As promised in the podcast, here is a link to a Gamasutra article about the talk at Gamefest 2007 that Jami Johns gave on testing Crackdown.
GameFest: Testing Crackdown’s 495 City Blocks — Christian Nutt, Gamasutra
