{"id":4192,"date":"2012-12-09T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T16:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2012-12-09T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T16:22:57","slug":"roguelike-radio-appearance-and-podcast-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/09\/roguelike-radio-appearance-and-podcast-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Roguelike Radio Appearance and Podcast Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I recorded a session with Andrew Doull and Darren Grey of the the Roguelike Radio podcast<\/a>. Go over there and listen as we talk about the connections between strategy and roguelike games.<\/p>\n

A lot of people have suggested I make appearances on other people’s podcasts, but Roguelike Radio was by far the most frequently mentioned show. I love roguelikes even though I don’t keep up with them as much as I should – so RLR is a great way to stay in touch with what is going on even if I am weeks behind in listening.<\/p>\n

The introductory bit to my appearance was cut because of technical issues, but Andrew, Darren and I talked a bit about podcasting. Three Moves Ahead was apparently a direct inspiration for the RLR team – a show dedicated to a particular genre of games that, even if popular and widespread, does not get the attention of other types of video and computer games. Podcasting allows them, as it allowed us at our outset, to target a particular audience and talk about the things that we want to talk about.<\/p>\n

Now 3MA would not have become as successful as it has without us greatly underestimating how big the show could get. We’re regularly in the top 100 audio gaming podcasts on iTunes, and that measures new subscriptions. I am familiar with the pattern by now – we plateau in listeners for a while, do a show that goes viral and then a new plateau is reached. If anything, I think that 3MA has demonstrated that there is an audience for strategy gaming since there is no way that we get even 1% of the strategy\/wargaming audience that lives on the internet. Not that anyone makes money on it. (Last week, Rob Zacny and I were idly musing about what it would take to launch a strong strategy focused review\/blog\/video website. Considering we make nothing from the podcast, we would still need to take a pay cut.)<\/p>\n

But within a small community, a good podcast is a good way to connect with people that have similar interests, and also a way to promote things that you believe in. We’ve had Vic Davis<\/a> on to talk about every game he has made, and that is probably a tradition we will stick with. In a recently recorded (but not yet published) show, I plugged Dirk Knemeyer and Bill Abner’s new board game<\/a>. I don’t think any other independent site on the internet, let alone podcast, will give over more than two hours talking about War in the East<\/em>. We talk about stuff we like, basically follow a game release schedule, but really talk about whatever we want.<\/p>\n

Similarly, RLR introduced me to Brogue<\/a> – a simple roguelike with lots of colours and some very hostile mechanics (why are my scrolls floating in the water? I just wanted to swim!). So far, I am loving it.<\/p>\n

We haven’t done the 3MA fundraising thing this year, not because we didn’t want to, but because we want to leverage our new site, set targets and community rewards (similar to other crowdfunding ideas) and this fall has been a right mess for both me and Rob, schedule wise. I will admit that I sometimes wonder if it would be possible to monetize our show (if we got 20 bucks from every regular listener every year, we could think about making it a real job) but then I remember that that goes against the big reason we do 3MA and why Andrew and Darren and the rest of his team do RLR; it’s about the discussions we have with each other and with our audience. Free won’t help me retire, but it makes it much easier for people to share what we do and spread the word that there is a community of listeners. (Seriously, join the forum<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I want to thank Andrew and Darren for having me on their show. I wish it the greatest success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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