Bitmob’s own Aaron Thomas and Demian Linn are joined by Matt Chandronait and Anthony Gallegos to usher in the new year, but carry along a little bundle of memories from the last. With such being the case, the guys discuss their biggest surprises and disappointments of 2009, starting off with Aaron who was disappointed by Uncharted 2. The game didn’t necessarily appall him, but the seemingly unanimous hype among the media built up his expectations to a point where the smallest blemishes appeared that much bigger.
Matt brings a particularly interesting topic to the table this week, asking what new genre of games each person would like to see created. He kicks it off with his idea of a genre based purely on exploration, somewhat similar to the idea behind the recently released Afrika. Fully explorable, real life environments without any overt objectives could flex the bounds of our beloved interactive genre.
Anthony’s topic wraps things up, asking the guys how they sort out personal social interaction and professional social interaction without them having too much crossover. Clearly there are a lot of ways to explore this question, ranging from Aaron’s recent choice to delete his Twitter account to Jeff Gerstmann gaining a personal following of thousands.
Area 5’s Matt Chandronait and Rebel FM’s Anthony Gallegos join Bitmob’s Demian Linn and Aaron Thomas on the first Mobcast of 2010.
On this week’s episode the foursome debate whether demos are good or bad, create a new genre of games, share their biggest surprises and disappointments from 2009, figure out why journalists are less “professional” on podcasts, and discuss how much game industry people should share on their personal Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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Their conversation at the end of the show about the line between friends/fans and what they can say on their personal time is absolutely fascinating when you think that all three of the sites representing are built on community and fan support. Rebel-FM and CO-OP were funded by fan donations, and Bitmob gets most its content from the community; all of these guys should understand that they themselves blurred the line between personal and professional when they opened up to the community like that.
That's not to say I'm not sympathetic to their concerns, especially when they don't know how to share information they want to give their friends, but not anyone else. Most adults have that problem now on Facebook and Twitter unless they were very careful on who they accepted as friends/followers.
Wow An insightful comment about this podcast, that being said I really enjoy anthony on podcasts but the host of this podcast makes me want to turn it off so damn fast, I endured but probably never going to listen to this podcast again. That's what I like about this site I read about who's hosting and stay very far away.
Damn I wish Garnet or Shane would do any podcast and show these guys how to do it.