January 23, 2012 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts Episode 9 of the CDC Podcast Yeah so another podcast episode came out this week. I know, there must be something in the water. Well it’s the missing episode 9 that was recorded back in August in an attempt to release it for the third anniversary of Braid’s release on the XBLA. Rather foolish as I spent three weeks trying to get a panel together and ended up doing an open call for people on twitter 10 minutes before recording. I may just do all future Critical Compilation Companions like that. | more
May 16, 2011 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts Podcasts ho! A few weeks back, Kris Ligman came to New Jersey to give a presentation at a conference about her research. Before she was to fly back to California she dropped by my home town to say hi and chat. During her brief stop before I took her to the airport, she mentioned that the Moving Pixel crew would like to have me on for a podcast at some point. I said I’d love to join. A while later I was contacted and was asked if I’d still like to come on. Well of course I would but I would need to know what I’d be speaking about. | more
March 1, 2011 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts Another Podcast, Another TWIVGB It seems to be a theme for this year. I've done more on other people's sites than I've done on my own. This continues to be true. Over a week ago I was invited to do the Chronoludic podcast with Chris Green, Mike Dunbar and Seb Wupper. The topic at hand was the question 'what is a game worth?' The focus of this particular question was the issue of economics and us as game purchasers. WE didn't reach any groundbreaking conclusions or earth-shattering revelations. | more
February 11, 2011 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts My Latest Work at Critical Distance While I haven't been updating my own blog much lately it's partly because I've been busying myself with other things. I've worked at finding a new job. I lost or rather finished my other part time, contract work last month. I've also been hurriedly trying to get my RSS feed back under control. The week I spent away from it (I'll tell you why later on) even though it was the week between Christmas and New Years it didn't slow anybody down when it came to posting. | more
December 29, 2010 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts CDC Podcast Episode 6 is Up A little over a week and a half ago I asked TWIVGB compatriots Ben Abraham and Ian Miles Cheong if they wanted to join me in restarting the CDC podcast series. I've wanted to do another ever since I last appeared on episode 3. I love talking to intelligent people, intelligently about... well anything really, but the subject here is video games. Given the time of year, I figured it was only fitting that we discuss the year in a retrospective of events, stories and games. I knew the three of us wouldn't be enough. | more
January 19, 2010 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts VGHVI Podcast Appearance Last Thursday I played Bioshock during the simultaneous VGHVI playthrough, while talking on Skype with Denis Farr, Roger Travis, Micheal Abbot and several others. Roger took that conversation and made a podcast out of it. He was doing the recording and unfortunately Skype kept kicking him out so he didn't get everything, probably for the best. He does a wonderful job editing out a lot of the blank spaces and stumbles. Note for next time: if VGHVI decides to do another single player playthrough, choose a game less audio intensive. | more
June 9, 2009 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts Three Appearances on the CDC Podcast I wasted far too much time trying to figure it out or putting it off feeling something would come to me. Well here they are. The show notes pages of the three podcast. They have instructions on how to get it. If you can please rate it on iTunes and become a regular listener if you like intelligent people discussing games intelligently. Episode 1 Episode 2 - Descent into Dissonance Episode 3 - Showing, Telling, Performing Narrative Don't forget those are only the episodes I appear on, there is another great episode afterwords. | more