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
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- 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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