@James @NexTerren when are we doing the next episode?

@Green I'm game whenever. This Friday, Saturday, or Sunday would work out perfectly if we want to do it that soon.

@Green @NexTerren Do we want to set up a call to discuss? We haven't really gotten things planned out yet

@James I'm down for a planning call.

There's a ton of stuff that can be improved (my audio especially) and it would be good to talk about it.

Ive been swamped so I haven't had much time to think about it. But if I set up time to actually sit down and have the conversation I will do it :)

Seriously I have been trying to get the blog post done for two weeks...

I noted that we are over 100 views on the pilot episode.

@James, I've got some time today. I'll fill in what I can on the Episode Planning thread for Episode #2.

@James, @NexTerren, perhaps a small ongoing section about: lamemage.com/microscope

It's WB: The Boardgame!

@James @Green What evenings are you two free? I can make any evening work over the next 10 days as long as I have a heads up.

@NexTerren Most any evening is free after Tuesday.

I think James will be the hardest one to work around.

@James Well you know what works for us. Just give me a 24 hour heads up and I can do an evening to best fit what you can make.

Evenings after about 8:15 are pretty free for me so shall we plan say Thursday?

Whoosh is sitting this one out right?

Who did we want to invite as a guest?

@James What volunteers do we have so far?

@James Works for me. I'll put in my calendar.

@Green I don't know that we asked anyone...

I would like to pick someone who either A) Has problems they need solved or B) Has a world they are actually using for something, like writing or gaming or whatever.

@James Good thing you said something. I was about to put out an APB on The Factory Floor for volunteers/victims.

Or we could collect a couple 2 or 3 questions from the community and address them during the podcast

and the guest could be anyone

I would like to get to a point where we could have a live podcast and actually chat with the audience and take questions that way...but that is probably a technical nightmare and well down the road.

@James It could be done but agreed, that's a ways down the road.

@James If we get volunteers, they will naturally be people who are comfortable in front of the camera and have something to say.

As a backup plan we can talk about my world.

I consider myself still on the hook to talk about magic programming in that world I mentioned in episode 1.

but I don't really have questions at the moment...I guess I could start talking about it and you guys could point out where I am wrong or just help me flesh things out by questioning why I did what I did.

...which means I'll really need to flesh out that system. ;) ha!

lol

we could probably go into that whole programming NPC personalities topic at some point but that would require a whole lot of research and planning ahead of time

Did you see the link to the game Microscope? If we could find some way to inject that, even just a little, into the 'cast, I think that'd be awesome.

no I missed it, what is it?

@James We could introduce that and briefly discuss it then discuss it again in greater depth in episodes >1

It's a worldbuilding game where the point of the game is to build a world and ignore the characters in that world. (You probably don't have to ignore them if you don't want to...but this is the WB podcast, not the writers podcast.)

Would a "group projects" section be a good idea? Like we have these little side gigs and we give updates on them as necessary during the podcast

8:15 CST Thursday. I shall be there.

Ill probably be closer to 8:30 just for reference

gamesandstuffonline.com/?p=1285 <---THis is a review. Scroll all the way down.

Ill have to check from home.

lamemage.com/microscope

@James No worries. Nex and I will get setup before hand.

@James 15 minutes late?! I want a new host!

YOU CAN'T HANDLE A NEW HOST

...wait...what

Also if you're still fighting over the blog post I think you're putting too much thought into it. What all do you need? Just a "Here's a thing we're doing" paragraph, "the first episode went well, you can see it here!" paragraph, and a "looking forward to future episodes which we'll post here!" paragraph. I wouldn't worry about doing anything beyond that.

I am trying to make it well integrated with links and embedded videos to increase cross site traffic.

Embedded videos, plural?

...well the video and the LotR meme

Everyone got that my shouting was an "A Few Good Men" reference right?

@James Yes.

@James I believe there's a funny googly-eye version of that memorable exchange

imgur.com/gallery/0jVIGeU