The Cape covers COH in-game ads
Want to know about the in-game advertising that’s going into COH/COV? The internet to the rescue once again….
I didn’t listen to it live – probably because it went out in the middle of our night – but if you missed it too, The Cape Radio have a downloadable version of the interview they did with Brian Clayton (General Manager of NC NorCal), Matt ‘Positron’ Miller (Lead Designer) and Lighthouse (Community Relations Manager), where they talk primarily about in-game advertising.
Haven’t listened to it myself yet either, but if this Massively article is anything to go by, it’s all good stuff.
Tabula Cast Episode 16
Just listening to Shawn and John in Tabula Cast Episode 16, which went live today. John gives a really good rundown on the MiniCon and his experience of it – I’m very glad he managed to attend, but still kicking myself that I didn’t get to chat to him. It’s worth downloading just for that if you missed the event.
I think I’ve listened to three or four episodes of Tabula Cast today, and I’m really starting to like it. Shawn (who I believe used to produce Guildcast, a Guild Wars podcast; he’s obviously as good at naming things as we are) has a good, easy rapport with John, and the fact that one is distinctly English and one is American really helps the flow of the audio.
Ultimately we want to have a co-host on the NCE podcast, we’ve just got to figure out if it’ll extend things unnecessarily; we also want to keep our podcasts until 30 minutes, so… we’ll see.
Anyway, go listen, you’ll enjoy I think.
I am so outta there
Last day in the office for a week. Three weeks until the MiniCon. Holy crud do we still have a lot to do.
- Started the day in the coffee shop, trying to power through the schedule a bit more. We’ve had to divide the busiest days into half-hour blocks because we’re trying to fit so much stuff in.
- Back to the office and straight in to trying to knock down my to-do list before I go.
- Chris/Aero finishes the final, final mix and cut of the first podcast episode; fingers crossed it’ll be live next week, while I’m away and can’t hear people laughing at my voice.
- We make it out to lunch and talk over what we still have to do; it’s a lot. I make calls on the way back to the office and apologise to answerphones that I sound like I’m in a wind tunnel.
- Get a nice sketch from Andrew Wildman for the sketchbook; he must have been picking up my mental projections… Chris reminds me that we still need plenty more, but we’ve got a month.
- Struggle to finish the official announcement story for the MiniCon. Four days of ‘stuff’ can be hard to shovel… Continue reading
And breath…
Fast, fast day. For some reason listening to a 32-year old interview with Gene Roddenberry (I don’t even like Star Trek… but hey, I like my pop culture trivia) has made me slow down.
- Get another sketch in first thing… well, ‘sketch’ isn’t really fair, it’s more of a painting. Al Davison continues to impress!
- I joke with Andrew Wildman via email that he now needs to ‘raise his game’ – he hasn’t done a sketch for the sketchbook he’s really happy with, yet. A conspicuous silence.
- Straight into a meeting with my boss and our Biz-Dev manager at 10, in which I manage to get said Biz-Dev manager squirming when I suggest that we should do something for no money “because it’s good for the community”. I actually feel kind of sorry for him… but I also win the argument. Yaaay!
- Bounce emails back and forth with Andy at Omega Sektor, and chat on the phone with another Stephen, the ‘Omega Sektorian’ about his presence on our official Forums.
- Start working on the inevitably large announcement story about the MiniCon for our official sites…
- … half way through, get an email with Melissa Bianco’s flight details. She’s going to… Continue reading
Wednesday? Thursday?
Being ill on Tuesday gave me a feeling of ‘Must get more done!’ all day… and left me unsure which day it actually was.
- Early on, find out that Andrew Wildman’s posted all of the sketches we’ve had done so far for the DTWT sketchbook on his blog! I suggest he take ‘em down and preserve some mystery…
- Figuring the cat’s out of the bag I post a teaser to the COH EU Forums – the Statesman (1930s era) that Ian Churchill did (seen right). I start to wonder just how many of the original sketches I may have to bid on when we put ‘em up for auction. Possibly all of them… and I’ll get beaten by players, I just know it.
- Call Andrew as scheduled to discuss secret stuff. That leads to an internal conversation about that call, more emails and probably a meeting next week.
- Hear our iMacs should arrive next week. Just in time for my hols. Dammit!
- Get a sketch in from Mike – someone he’s drawn before, but in colour and in a style I’d not seen. It’s lovely stuff. I email him to say thanks and subtly remind him he owes me a… Continue reading
