Guild Promotion Episode!

This episode was brought to you with the help of 5 guilds: (in no particular order)

• ASG - The Arcane Shadow Group
• Westhoff Battalion
• Allied Tactical Forces (ATF)
• ASU - Australian Stargate Unit
• The System Lords

Special thanks to Uplink and AJZ for submitting audio!

 

 Gate Buzz Episode 7 - Guild Promotion [11:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (532)

MMORPG.com linked to an article over on Gateworld.net (so, it must be true!) saying

Gateworld.net has announced that when Stargate Atlantis returns to Sci-Fi on January 4th, they will be showing a trailer for Stargate Worlds.

Further to that, the Jan. 11th episode of the show will kick off a new SGW promotion.

See the MMORPG.com news posting.

And over on the Gateworld.net news article that they linked to, it says

…make sure to tune in to Atlantis when it returns from the holiday break on January 4. That night will feature the first look at the Stargate Worlds game trailer.

So, now we know why the main splash page for SGW has been updated!

I have to say, as web hosting companies go, mine ROCKS. Things during November were looking good - I was all set to stay within my bandwidth allocation. I knew the podcast was growing and my projection was that I would be OK during December, and might need to think about upgrading the hosting account sometime in January.

Wow.

First of all, it looks from the stats like Episode 3 of the podcast is head-and-shoulders more popular than the rest, perhaps that was due to a certain prediction I made?

Then, the popularity of the podcast has taken off faster than I could have predicted. (I <3 all of my subscribers, you know who you guys are!) I upload episodes and literally within minutes am seeing downloads from the feed. That is the sort of thing that will keep me on the air! Seriously, its a question of supply and demand ... I am seeing a demand, and happy to maintain the supply for you all.

So add together popularity in general, with a single episode that's running at over 130 downloads as we speak and about 20 to 25 meg per episode and you have a recipe for busting through 7 gig of bandwidth in less than a month. Yes, that’s right. Over 7 gig of bandwidth in about 3 and a half weeks. My web hosting company kindly turned a blind eye to their quotas as I sailed right past them, and in return I pulled out the credit-card to upgrade the hosting. Let’s see if you can bust the new limits people!

(and yes, that is a challenge!)

So, thankyou to CQHost and thank you to all the listeners who’re making this such a fun rollercoaster ride. Keep on listening!

Merry Christmas / Have a cool Yule / Stay warm this winter … whatever the phrase, the meaning is the same. I wish all my existing and upcoming listeners all the best this season. This episode includes not only discussion of death in Stargate Worlds but also some other cool audio clips, and music! Get it while it’s fresh, download early, download often!

 

 Gate Buzz Episode 6 [25:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (290)

An interesting, if short, interview with Chris Bernert appeared on the mmolecule website. Once again the main SGW website plugged it as being about the “death effect” (or rather, the “defeat” effect) in-game but it covers a lot more interesting ground than that.

For my thoughts, stay tuned as I’ll be talking about this interview and the Dev Q+A in tonight’s “Episode 6″ of Gate Buzz.

I recently upgraded the back-end plugin used for the podcast on this site - podPress - and in the process it forgot some of its settings. The result was an interesting loop where you attempt to download audio and get redirected to the site as a whole, so you go click on the audio again and … An email from sgtbenc (from the Stargate Worlds Wiki team) helpfully pointed out the fact and it should now be fixed. Sorry for the glitch.

Stargate Worlds Diary #1

Cheyenne Mountain’s Chris Klug discusses storytelling in massively multiplayer games and the writer’s primary job

Stargate Worlds Diary #2

The Creative Director on Cheyenne Mountain’s online project discusses scenes and their role in conveying a story

Stargate Worlds Diary #3

A new segment from Cheyenne Mountain on more of the creative thinking underlying the title’s storytelling element

The much anticipated and eagerly awaited “Dev Q+A V” is now available from CME. Looks like there was a false start on getting the link onto the site which some of the more eager fans were quick to notice and post about. *cough*Captain_Quint*cough*

Discussion of the CME podcast is occurring in the Stargate Worlds Forums

OK, so I had this phonecall in the middle of the afternoon.

“Hello, guess what’s in the middle of the living room floor?” my wife asked, and you could hear her grinning down the phoneline.

“Ummm, I don’t know, why don’t you tell me?” I answered.

“Oh, it’s this large box, shipped from Canada. Your mic has arrived.” she said.

“Did you open it? Is everything present and correct?” I asked.

“It’s your mic - your Christmas present - I thought you could open it when you get home.”

Now, that is going to make anyone’s day - it arrived early and I get to open it before Christmas! So I arrived home in record time, with a spring in my step. After I’d opened the box, poured the million or so packing chips into the trash (*note to self* must write a Stargate story where replicators hide out as packing chips) and checked that everything is present and accounted for what happens? She took it away saying, “Nope, got to wait for Christmas!”

Arrrgh! I was so close. Had it in my hand. Now it’s gone! Can she do that? Isn’t there a law against it or something?