View Full Version : ModCast Episode 04: "Now With 87.5 Percent Less Ken"


DanQ
Mar 01, 2008, 11:02 PM
http://polycast.apolyton.net/images/modcast_logo.jpg

The fourth episode of ModCast is here, an official podcast of Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS). "Now With 87.5 Percent Less Ken (http://polycast.apolyton.net/index.php#mcepisode04)" (45m23s) features the four core panelists Wouter "Locutus" Snijders (http://apolyton.net/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=4367), Tony "GarretSidzaka" Kiehl (http://apolyton.net/forums/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=79984), Kenneth "Impaler[WrG]" Ferland (http://apolyton.net/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=19353) and Oscar "Elhoim" Velzi (http://apolyton.net/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=58267).

ModCast is a bi-weekly ~45-minute audio production of Apolyton Civilization Site and is an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on Civilization modding; its sibling show PolyCast focuses on Civ strategy. To date, ACS is the only community on the web to produce its own Civilization podcasts.

Topics in this episode are:

- 01m52s | News
The Civilization: Revolution release date comes up (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=264284) and the start of a how-to modding video series (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=262402) from "Fall from Heaven"'s Derek "Kael" Paxton.
- 12m38s | Artist's Sketchpad
Three items of interest this time around: Clockwork Golem (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=261533) by seZereth, SMAC Spartan Cityset (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=261263) by woodelf and Modern Paratrooper v2.0 (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=262675) by the show's very own GarretSidzaka.
- 21m03s | Code Corner
The KFM Converter (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=263215) by Esemjay and answering what a KFM file is in the first place.
- 30m12s | Cartography Room
The Spiral Galaxy Mapscript (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=263182) by Cephalo is examined.
- 37m48s | Mailbag
We got mail! We respond to a listener wondering about our covering Galactic Civilizations II works in the future.

Gaius Octavius
Mar 01, 2008, 11:04 PM
I knew there must be a new modcast out the minute I saw DanQ in the C&C forum. You never come here otherwise! ;) :D

DanQ
Mar 01, 2008, 11:05 PM
I knew there must be a new modcast out the minute I saw DanQ in the C&C forum. You never come here otherwise! ;) :D
:lol: -- well, never logged in anyway otherwise... ;)

Maniac
Mar 01, 2008, 11:18 PM
Look! Another modcast thread! :mischief:

I guess I'll do some advertisement here, since the mod was mentioned in the modcast:

If you want to help with Planetfall/SMAC "taken to the next level" (to quote IIRC Locutus), we could definitely use:

SDKers
a graphics coordinator who understands how Afterworld unit graphics work
a mapscripter

GarretSidzaka
Mar 01, 2008, 11:49 PM
@Gaius Octavius
:rotfl:

Gaius Octavius
Mar 01, 2008, 11:53 PM
@Gaius Octavius
:rotfl:

Hey, come on, just being honest here... :lol:

Ball Lightning
Mar 02, 2008, 12:40 AM
I'll listen to it soon...

snafusmith
Mar 02, 2008, 04:58 PM
Great modcast guys - Every time I listen to one I get the urge to mod, how strange...

@Garret - Be careful what you wish for:
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6564/enterprisemf3.th.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=enterprisemf3.jpg)

Maybe when I get a break from Blood and Iron I'll do some starships...

woodelf
Mar 02, 2008, 05:26 PM
Very well done guys. Thanks for the kind words. :)

seZereth
Mar 02, 2008, 06:19 PM
Thanks for featuring a unit of mine ;)

Come on Smitty, I work on Blood and Iron:
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/848/ww1pack2br7.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ww1pack2br7.jpg)
and you are doing the Enterprise???

Garret, next time wish for some trench warfare ;)

snafusmith
Mar 02, 2008, 06:22 PM
Thanks for featuring a unit of mine ;)

Come on Smitty, I work on Blood and Iron:
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/848/ww1pack2br7.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ww1pack2br7.jpg)
and you are doing the Enterprise???

Garret, next time wish for some trench warfare ;)

Work never stops on Blood and Iron, trust me. The Enterprise was something I did a long time ago and just never finished...

GarretSidzaka
Mar 03, 2008, 12:41 AM
Look i made snafu mod!!! wow :D

youre welcome woodelf

asioasioasio
Mar 03, 2008, 10:07 AM
I have the same syndrom what snafumith has. I'm listening podcast usually on a walk with i dog - after listenning podcast when i return to home i have urgent need to mod :D

DanQ
Mar 07, 2008, 02:23 PM
I have the same syndrom what snafumith has. I'm listening podcast usually on a walk with i dog - after listenning podcast when i return to home i have urgent need to mod :D
Does the show make it into the resulting mods' end credits as impetus? ;)

snafusmith
Mar 07, 2008, 10:00 PM
Does the show make it into the resulting mods' end credits as impetus? ;)

You know, it probably should - I made 3 new units this weekend, and 2 of them were started because I was listening to the show.

mourndraken
Mar 17, 2008, 08:12 PM
hey where is the new show ? weren't you guys coming out with a new show on the weekend ?

GarretSidzaka
Mar 17, 2008, 08:17 PM
we had some technical difficulties but the Ep. 5 is done and will be published soon :)

mourndraken
Mar 17, 2008, 08:19 PM
wow that was fast. thanks for the update.

GarretSidzaka
Mar 18, 2008, 10:25 PM
hey listen to the new episode everyone its out!!!

asioasioasio
Mar 19, 2008, 01:01 AM
Does the show make it into the resulting mods' end credits as impetus? ;)

Yeah i think i should polycast to the credits list :)

mourndraken
Mar 29, 2008, 03:09 PM
hey where is the new show ? We need modcast.

GarretSidzaka
Mar 29, 2008, 04:19 PM
episode five is out!! http://polycast.apolyton.net/modcast/

and episode six will be out very very soon, so just wait a lil longer :)

mourndraken
Mar 30, 2008, 12:08 AM
#6 is here. Yaaaa