040 - The Zeds Take Boston

This week Crandy talks about recovering Windows Phone games, including delisted ones; Crandy, Spazpol and Planting42 report on the Festival of Boston Indie Games; Kerbal Space Program is given a test flight; and we learn the fate of a certain Ski Bunny.

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• Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements / Xbox / Twitter
• Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements / Xbox / Twitter
• Daniel Proulx aka “Proulx”- TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Damien aka "Spazpol" - TrueAchievements / Xbox / Twitter
• Warren aka "Planting42" - TrueAchievements / Xbox / Twitter

0:00:00 - Intro

0:15:26 - Forum Buzz and Listener Feedback

0:25:16 - Recap

0:50:25 - Feature: Recovering Windows Phone Delisted Games

0:56:18 - News

1:34:48 - Knobs & Discos

1:37:01 - Shovelware Cemetery: Kerbal Space Program

1:45:03 - Feature: Festival of Boston Indie Games

2:48:28 - Backwards Compatibility, Game Delays and Outro

Referenced during the show:

• Crandy’s Mug
• Contest: September Gamertag Challenge: Big Ell and CSGeekSquad
• Contest: The Wolfenstein Community Challenge
• Contest: The 4th Annual Random To Do List Challenge
• Future of the Gamertag Challenge
• Major Nelson’s blog on Xbox reputation
• Storeparser is gone…
• ...Storeparser is coming back
• Xbox Live more reliable than Playstation according to third party report?
• Crandy takes on the Shovelware alone
• Shovelware Cemetery: Kerbal Space Program
• Feature: Boston Festival of Indie Games

All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.

Songs and sounds that have been used in the show:

• "Jive Bot", “Tally Screen” (x2), “Dalmation Station (It Gets Better Mix)” by Jake Kaufman from the games Mighty Switch Force! 1 and 2, developed and published by WayForward Technologies
• "Game Cool Dubstep Mode Logo" by Sparximer
• Epic Voice Announcements by RJBANKSWA
• crickets by rucisko
• Solo Zombie 1 by Slave2theLight
• Murder by Shovel by JenniferSJF
• Shovel digging into dry dirt (SFX) by MorneDelport
• FP_Burial_In_Wooden_Coffin by cmusounddesign

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