We're Working on Two New Podcast Shows...
Hey Patrons,
We'll have a patron show out next week with a bunch of updates but I wanted to write a quick blog to tell you about our podcast plans for 2024!
As you may already know we're in the process of rebranding the current podcast feed to the Noclip Crewcast as our weekly "what we're playing" scrums are far more about the crew than anything else. This also means that we have room to expand the podcast work we do and after at least a year of soul searching and conversations myself and Jesse are ready to tell you our plans.
#1 - Dear Dwyery - An Interview Podcast
First off we're going to launch a brand new interview podcast hosted by yours truly. It will be me solo-hosting and each week will have a different guest from the world of games. Sometimes developers, sometimes journalists, YouTubers, streamers, and even players. It will be audio only to allow us to focus on that element in post production and make it a fun listening experience. It will be add-free and released on all the same platforms the Crewcast is (including YouTube on that same channel). We're hoping to use this podcast to expand the reach of Noclip's core mission. Be it for classic games, new games or upcoming games. Basically a way for me to have a bunch of awesome people on a show and cover the development even more games, and elements of the industry we don't get to talk about. So if you have ideas for folks you'd like to see on there - please let us know in the comments.
#2 - Highly Produced Mini-Series on Cancelled games
Myself and Jesse have always wanted to make a highly-edited, well produced podast series. Something like A Life Well Wasted, or the true-crime / political series you get from some of the best podcasters. I've always struggled with a creative box to put it in, but during recent conversations about possible documentaries I realized the big reason we don't cover a lot of cancelled games is because we can't get b-roll of so many of these games and a lot of folks involved are worried about being on camera. It finally clicked that is the perfect theme for an edited podcast series. Basically true-crime but video games. We hunt down the stories behind the most infamous cancelled games and make each episode about one of these stories. Games like Starcraft Ghost, Prey 2, Project Titan and Star Wars 1313. This series will be premium in some way - likely as a Patron exclusive, perhaps a timed one. So again, if you have any suggestions on what games you'd like to see on this show - put them in the comments.
Alright that's it for me for now. Monkey Island drops next week and we're also adding a new patron video feature where we do postmortems on recently released documentaries so look our for that.
Thank you for your amazing support. We're working our asses off over here!
Danny
Comments (29)
Looking forward for the interview podcast. With love, Author Jasmin Chase (https://www.patreon.com/Jasminchase)
Great stuff. Excited for Noclip 2024! For the second podcast, I think a dive into the 'Silent Hills' game that was canceled back in 2015 would be interesting.
Also, I need to hear what happened to Fez 2.
Podcast #2 sounds incredible
No Clip coming in hot in 2024. Love it. Give me all the content fellas. Loved the canceled games idea.
These both sound great. I will be listening!
Very excited about the cancelled games podcast, but as a Patron I would very much love for you guys to put it out to the general public! I think that could get a lot of followers, and help expand your resources and the NoClip name in general, which is the whole reason we're here supporting it. I'd vote to make that public!
For Dear Dwyery, I'll throw out Jez San (dude who helped make the Super FX chip), the people over at Bitmap Books, Cynthia Harrell (the lady who sang "Snake Eater" in Metal Gear Solid 3), Crush 40 (Jun Senoue and Johnny Gioeli), Reuben Langdon (mocap and voice actor for Dante for Devil May Cry 3, 4, and 5) [bonus points if you could get Daniel Southworth along with him]) For the Cancelled Games podcast, I'll throw out Dead Phoenix (Gamecube game that was part of the Capcom Five) and Sadness (the Wii survival horror game)
I just want to say that the name for the first podcast keeps making me giggle with how bad it is (best type of bad!).
Also - as an interview guest I’d love a long chat with Andrew Prahlow about his favourite game soundtrack experiences, his creative process, the history of the OW soundtrack and its multiple versions of certain songs, his thoughts on the reception and life of the soundtrack (millions of streams per year) and maybe even his signal chain for live playing music.
Awesome news, really thrilled for this. You already had Cory Barlog in a video but he has such a refined take on the history and industry of making games. And he's also just a joy to listen to. On cancelled games: the freshly scrapped Blizzard project might be one to tackle in the future. But yeah, once again you pulled it off, Danny. Can't wait!
Also, now that you mentioned it on the crewcast: Neill Druckmann would be unbelievably interesting as an interviewee!
Could do Fortnite on the cancelled games doc. The game Fortnite was going to be before the battle royale craze kicked off and the game pivoted to what it is now. Not sure how much interesting stuff there is there, but might be worth a look. And Silent Hills / P.T must be top of the list
would love a Dwarf Fortress doc.........................................
Still working on it! We just had Blind finish a bunch of gameplay, we're filming some interviews for it at GDC and then we're gonna cover the launch of adventure mode and then get it out. I promise it'll be worth the wait, we want to make the quintessential DF doc.
Cancelled games podcast is a killer idea. Another potentially interesting angle is games that shipped, but *should* have been canceled / delayed (Anthem, Redfall, etc). For the interview show, get Skillup (Ralph) on. Best reviewer / games analysis around right now.
+1 for Ralph
With how well known and well liked you guys are in the industry, I'm hyped for some possibly new and deeper tidbits of info on some cancelled games you guys might be able to glean from devs and publishers.
So many great gamedevs to interview for Dear Dwyery. Off the top of my head, I recommend: Anne Toole (writer, "Horizon Zero Dawn"), Idris Grey MacChruiteir (quest designer, "Horizon Forbidden West"), Dennis Micka (level designer, "Horizon Forbidden West"), Austin Wintory (composer, "Stray Gods"), Evan Skolnick (narrative designer), Ashley Ruhl (creative director, "Star Wars: The Old Republic"), Alyssia Castillo (writer, "Chapters"), Eric Stirpe (lead writer, Remedy Entertainment), Webb Pickersgill (motion capture director, Deck Nine), Pawel Mielniczuk (art director, CD Project Red), Greg Kasavin (writer/designer, Supergiant Games), Rhianna Prachett (lead writer, Crystal Dynamics), etc.
Just throwing out a few names that I think would be great guests: Tim Cain, Jon Blow and Carmack/Romero
Tim was top of my list too!
Oh, pick me! Pick me! Lol
These both sound absolutely brilliant! Especially the Cancelled Games one. I feel as though it will bring up a little of wistful What Ifs.....
I don't know if Day9 "does" interview- or podcast-style content, but he could be a great guest to talk about both experiences in the industry and upcoming work.
Holy cow, Danny. That canceled game podcast is an incredible idea. I can’t think of anyone better suited to handle that than you. You’ve already hit a couple of the big ones for me in StarCraft: Ghost and 1313. A couple more I’d be interested in are Agent and Scalebound.
I'm all for a time delayed podcast, like the Nextlander Watch Cast. Let us poors enjoy it later, if we must!
Yea I agree, if we make it exclusive it's gonna be timed.
I'll understand if the canceled games podcast is an exclusive, but it's too good of an idea to not share with the world! Perhaps doing it like Blowback, releasing one episode as a teaser and then the rest of the season a while later?
Yea I think that's probably the idea. Like maybe get the first one out for everyone, and then release the season a bit afterwards. you know how we hate to gate this stuff