GAFcast: Revival

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kai3345

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So there was a thread a few days ago in the OT about if GAF should have a podcast, and then people promptly pointed out that there did in fact used to be one, called the GAFcast.

So I made this thread to ask, would there be any interest in a GAFcast revival, or (more likely) a new podcast with the GAFcast name?

I've always been interested in learning how to produce a podcast, and I think the GAFcast 2.0 could be a really cool idea. I'm a communications major too, so it'd be pertinent to my education :P Throwing up a quality podcast every other week on a site with as much traffic as this one could look pretty dandy on a resume.

Anyways, if three or four other Austin-based GAFers were interested, all we'd need to do is scrounge together a few mics, and find a place where we could all meet every other week or so. Who's in?

And if we were to try and revive it, what would you want out of a GAFcast 2.0?

Would you want it to be solely gaming focused? Gaming focused with an "Off-Topic" segment? A podcast literally about the forum itself? (Which I personally think is a dumb idea)

Let me know GAF!
 
As long as it contains discussion about PC games / our meh console ports, I'd listen in. Maybe try and integrate forum threads and discussions into the cast, what happened in the past week etc. so it becomes a bit more GAF relevant and interesting.
 
TBH I probably wouldn't listen either way since I don't like podcats but I'd be way less inclined to contemplate listening if it was people from OT talking about the actual forum and sickest NFL reaction gif of the week or w/e.
 
Count me in Kai! Via interwebs.
 
All power to you if you want to record a podcast, although the idea of a NeoGAF podcast confuses me since the whole point of coming to GAF for me is reading a lot of opinions, not three or four. Can four folks in Texas speak for a whole forum?

Also: Call it The Terrorist's Law
 
- Don't make it personality based
- Keep inside jokes and memes to a minimum
- Host and 3 guests, preferably one with development experience (anonymity?)

Introductions
Games you've recently played, opinions
Wider gaming news
Gaming news that is more relevant to the forum's interests, preferably stuff that has been largely ignored by the gaming media
Q+A, preferably questions asked of the development insider
 
BigJiantRobut said:
All power to you if you want to record a podcast, although the idea of a NeoGAF podcast confuses me since the whole point of coming to GAF for me is reading a lot of opinions, not three or four. Can four folks in Texas speak for a whole forum?

Also: Call it The Terrorist's Law
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Sure they can, if they find people with some mixed opinions to make it interesting. Can't stand listening to these circle jerk casts where everyone agrees, loves everything and nothing is bad. Fuck that; arguments, discussions and hard opinion clashes.
 
Just a minor suggestion: you might want to consider a semi regular segment that highlights unique threads or projects on GAF, possibly even inviting people involved with them on the show for discussions.

The Games Journalism/Doritos mega thread that started last month, for example, was pretty fascinating. It pushed a lot of publications to provide more coverage of the situation and that type of thread is relatively unique to GAF. Other things that come to mind: the thoroughly researched Metroid Prime threads that Mama Robotnik put up, some of the indie game developers that post here, etc.

If nothing else, segments in this vein would make the podcast stand out from the overused "What have you been playing/News" template.
 
Nert said:
Just a minor suggestion: you might want to consider a semi regular segment that highlights unique threads or projects on GAF, possibly even inviting people involved with them on the show for discussions.

The Games Journalism/Doritos mega thread that started last month, for example, was pretty fascinating. It pushed a lot of publications to provide more coverage of the situation and that type of thread is relatively unique to GAF. Other things that come to mind: the thoroughly researched Metroid Prime threads that Mama Robotnik put up, some of the indie game developers that post here, etc.

If nothing else, segments in this vein would make the podcast stand out from the overused "What have you been playing/News" template.
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This is an awesome idea, thanks!
 
kai3345 said:
So there was a thread a few days ago in the OT about if GAF should have a podcast, and then people promptly pointed out that there did in fact used to be one, called the GAFcast.

So I made this thread to ask, would there be any interest in a GAFcast revival, or (more likely) a new podcast with the GAFcast name?

I've always been interested in learning how to produce a podcast, and I think the GAFcast 2.0 could be a really cool idea. I'm a communications major too, so it'd be pertinent to my education :P Throwing up a quality podcast every other week on a site with as much traffic as this one could look pretty dandy on a resume.

Anyways, if three or four other Austin-based GAFers were interested, all we'd need to do is scrounge together a few mics, and find a place where we could all meet every other week or so. Who's in?

And if we were to try and revive it, what would you want out of a GAFcast 2.0?

Would you want it to be solely gaming focused? Gaming focused with an "Off-Topic" segment? A podcast literally about the forum itself? (Which I personally think is a dumb idea)

Let me know GAF!
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Don't mean to shit on your parade, but...

If it was a GAFcast I'd expect to see some level of professionalism (Mic quality, flow, segments, personalities, editing, super regular). Don't limit it to only Austin, gotta be over the web.
Start a few episodes, see if you can work everything out, then you may call it the GAFcast.

Although I kinda helped do a scrub SC II tourney under the GAF name

THAT out of the way. I'd love to see thread highlights and discussion based off of some of the more insightful posts, links to said posts/threads in the descriptions, general game news, what ya'll have been playing, and of course some kind of viewer interaction and possibly guest appearances.
 
i think there's a couple guys from gaf that have a podcast already (?) but I forget who and what it is called - or if it is even still in existence.

i think it would be cool to make an "unofficial gafcast" and label it as such, unless it was really headed by some longtime/wellknown posters (or otherwise produced fairly regularly/quality enough that it felt more deserving of official-ness)

there's precious few gaming podcasts that I can bare to listen or regularly, but always looking for a new one if the quality/chemistry is right. one skewed toward the #1 game forum is tempting, especially if it could provide a decent digest-view of what happened of note on gaf week-to-week (since I find myself having less time to actually peruse those mega-threads, many of which never fail to be at least extremely interesting!)

OT mini-segment would be interesting too, just because there is a lot of worth on that side too, and I would think some stuff would deserve highlight/discussion - but that should absolutely be in the minority compared to the game stuff (and hopefully not dwelling on the "filler" topics as much as possible)

getting "guest speakers" from the forum occasionally would be interesting, to mix up the chemistry and etc (also giving a good excuse to provide some of the many indie-dev posters such as myself the opportunity to discuss things from our POV)

subscribing to thread, hope to see where this goes
 
AkimbO_Arcana said:
Why is it important to be physically in the same place when recording a podcast?
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Because Skype sucks for podcasts, generally. Warning a Huge Podcast pulls it off because each part is recorded individually, so it has much better voice quality. Also, they've known/worked with each other for years. The majority of Podcasts I've heard where one or more people are on Skype is generally terrible. It's hard to be able to work off of someone you barely know, let alone can't even see. That's just my opinion as a radio/podcast enthusiast.
 
Prophane33 said:
Because Skype sucks for podcasts, generally. Warning a Huge Podcast pulls it off because each part is recorded individually, so it has much better voice quality. Also, they've known/worked with each other for years. The majority of Podcasts I've heard where one or more people are on Skype is generally terrible. It's hard to be able to work off of someone you barely know, let alone can't even see. That's just my opinion as a radio/podcast enthusiast.
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All the Doctor Who podcasts I've listened sound wonderful; nearly none of them are in the same room.
 
Start a podcast, but don't leverage GAF's name for a larger audience.

If your podcast is good, it will find an audience.
 
Also, what I would like to see out of A new GAFcast is if it could make it past the pre-planning stages.
 
Prophane33 said:
Because Skype sucks for podcasts, generally. Warning a Huge Podcast pulls it off because each part is recorded individually, so it has much better voice quality. Also, they've known/worked with each other for years. The majority of Podcasts I've heard where one or more people are on Skype is generally terrible. It's hard to be able to work off of someone you barely know, let alone can't even see. That's just my opinion as a radio/podcast enthusiast.
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If you know your thing you have each people record themselves with a recording software while you have the conversation going on Skype. People send you their audio file, you synch it up and trim it. Done. Takes little effort.
 
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