This weekend, I’ll join a friend on his initial podcast. I’ll have more on the details once they are worked out. I’ve never been on a podcast before, and I haven’t been on TV or the radio since high school. I hope my stutter doesn’t reappear.<\/p>\n
But it has, once again, led me to consider the possibility of a Flash of Steel affiliated podcast. There are lots of general gaming podcasts out there, but I’ve been looking for one that is devoted to the types of games that I am interested in. I couldn’t do it alone, of course. I’ve neither the technical expertise for editing, nor the captivating personality to hold an audience for forty minutes, nor the server space for such a thing. I have a long list of people I’d probably invite, but you know how these things work. StratiCasters would probably violate a couple of trademarks anyway.<\/p>\n
Podcasting looks hard, which is probably why there are so few good ones. Yes, any idiot can sit in front of Skype and chat to the ether. But just like anyone can blog, doing it right and making it interesting requires effort. It takes more than inside jokes, nerdly outrage and vapid speculation. The best gaming podcasts are well-structured and have a good interplay between the hosts<\/a>; they are not just Talk Radio for the Internet.<\/p>\n But video and audio are the future of online games commentary, I think. As people are decreasingly likely to read, they turn to the easy listening of ‘casts while they commute or work in the office. Let a thousand quasi-public radio stations bloom.<\/p>\n So what would a good strategy\/wargame podcast look like? Developer interviews? Debates? Themed discussions (maps, economy, etc.)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This weekend, I’ll join a friend on his initial podcast. I’ll have more on the details once they are worked out. I’ve never been on a podcast before, and I haven’t been on TV or the radio since high school. I hope my stutter doesn’t reappear. But it has, once again, led me to consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,21,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-iN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}