I know that it has been done in the past and there was something buzzing on recently. But as I understand, the podcast hasn't been updated in about 3 years and I haven't seen a lot of activity on the more recent Escapist Radio show, which was on an external site.
Basically a friend and I have been toying with the idea of a radio show for the escapist. We've been doing radio for 2 years and I've recently finished a presenting and production diploma. I could list my whole CV but I don't want to bore you. Most of the radio (and jobs that go with it) are bland playlist affairs aimed at bored 30 year old housewives. It works but it's not for everyone, it's not for us. So we're looking at other places where there could be a gap for radio and as we're both big fans of games and The Escapist we felt that we could offer something to the site.
What we thought would work is having an hour or two of recorded material that gets updated every week. It could play in a pop up window (see the Listen Live option on our student radio station for an example http://www.gu2.co.uk) while you browse The Escapist forums or anywhere else you choose on the internet.
A few feature ideas (both recurring and one-off):
- MMO aspects we want in real life
- How 'levelling up' and turn based combat would affect Bar Brawls
- Comments on hot forum discussions. As well as this we could read out some of yours and give badges if we mention you or use your point.
- Post all future conversation topics up on here so that you can have your say before we do and provide some good material for the show.
- Interviews with various Escapist contributors. I have already done an interview with Shanks N' Lund of Doomsday Arcade, in fact I believe I'm the only DJ to have ever played Shanks' Techno Mario Mix (from episode 13.)*
- How old is Misty?
- Music would depend on Licensing laws. But in an ideal world would you want music on there and if so what would you like? To bypass the laws we could always play a couple of your bands/compositions.
- Times that you've tried to replicate games in real life.
- Non game related chat, eg: How to get into a fight. How to make a wooden boy. Ways to look through the curtains at your neighbours without being seen...
- How we used to get off school to play Wrestlemania 2000
That's just a couple of things off the top of my head. We want to have a mix of games, humour and Escapist community based content that's fun for those new to the site, but also engaging to those that live here. What's more this is all stuff I can do myself, other things like News, interviews with developers and characters could be sourced but would be a lot better if I had The Escapist backing it.
We've got about 30 minutes of demo stuff recorded to pitch to The Escapist staff but before I edit and produce it (which takes a long time) I wanted to get thoughts opinions and feedback from the users of The Escapist. What would you want? What was missing from previous manifestations of The Escapist dabbling in radio? What worked?
I want to get as clear a view as possible before I present my ideas to the team.
Thanks
*I still have that interview somewhere if people want it. It was part of a 36 hour show I did for charity earlier this year (raised over £2000.) At the time of the interview I had been without sleep for well over 40 hours and had already started hallucinating!
Basically a friend and I have been toying with the idea of a radio show for the escapist. We've been doing radio for 2 years and I've recently finished a presenting and production diploma. I could list my whole CV but I don't want to bore you. Most of the radio (and jobs that go with it) are bland playlist affairs aimed at bored 30 year old housewives. It works but it's not for everyone, it's not for us. So we're looking at other places where there could be a gap for radio and as we're both big fans of games and The Escapist we felt that we could offer something to the site.
What we thought would work is having an hour or two of recorded material that gets updated every week. It could play in a pop up window (see the Listen Live option on our student radio station for an example http://www.gu2.co.uk) while you browse The Escapist forums or anywhere else you choose on the internet.
A few feature ideas (both recurring and one-off):
- MMO aspects we want in real life
- How 'levelling up' and turn based combat would affect Bar Brawls
- Comments on hot forum discussions. As well as this we could read out some of yours and give badges if we mention you or use your point.
- Post all future conversation topics up on here so that you can have your say before we do and provide some good material for the show.
- Interviews with various Escapist contributors. I have already done an interview with Shanks N' Lund of Doomsday Arcade, in fact I believe I'm the only DJ to have ever played Shanks' Techno Mario Mix (from episode 13.)*
- How old is Misty?
- Music would depend on Licensing laws. But in an ideal world would you want music on there and if so what would you like? To bypass the laws we could always play a couple of your bands/compositions.
- Times that you've tried to replicate games in real life.
- Non game related chat, eg: How to get into a fight. How to make a wooden boy. Ways to look through the curtains at your neighbours without being seen...
- How we used to get off school to play Wrestlemania 2000
That's just a couple of things off the top of my head. We want to have a mix of games, humour and Escapist community based content that's fun for those new to the site, but also engaging to those that live here. What's more this is all stuff I can do myself, other things like News, interviews with developers and characters could be sourced but would be a lot better if I had The Escapist backing it.
We've got about 30 minutes of demo stuff recorded to pitch to The Escapist staff but before I edit and produce it (which takes a long time) I wanted to get thoughts opinions and feedback from the users of The Escapist. What would you want? What was missing from previous manifestations of The Escapist dabbling in radio? What worked?
I want to get as clear a view as possible before I present my ideas to the team.
Thanks
*I still have that interview somewhere if people want it. It was part of a 36 hour show I did for charity earlier this year (raised over £2000.) At the time of the interview I had been without sleep for well over 40 hours and had already started hallucinating!
