Locutus
King of the Collective
Unlucky thirteen. Plagued by missing hosts and lots and lots of technical difficulties, Episode 13 of ModCast, "Civs Getting Brutalized" (42m17s), is released with significant delay and a good chunk of Wouter's dialogue missing. Our apologies for this, but better late than never. Featuring core panelists Wouter "Locutus" Snijders, Tony "GarretSidzaka" Kiehl, Kenneth "Impaler[WrG]" Ferland and first-time guest host Blake "Blake" Walsh as emergency replacement for Ploeperpengel who had to drop out at the last minute (but we hope to have on in a future show).
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.
Summary of Topics
- 02m22s | News
We talk about Soren Johnson discussing ModCast and mod mods in his blog, which quickly evolves into a discussion about Spore and its recently-released Creature Creator (Sporepedia, 1.7 million creatures and counting).
- 08m16s | Vault
A segment with Dale that was cut from episode 12 for legal concerns about the upcoming Civilization IV: Colonization which both Dale and Kenneth have/are working on.
- 17m52s | Upcoming Modders
We discuss davidlallen's post-apocalyptic Mad Max Fury Road mod (which includes the Unit Fuel Mod by Grey Fox discussed in Episode 7).
- 20m25s | Artist Sketchpad
Artwork for the Mad Max mod: Mad Max by GarretSidzaka, Motorcycles by Refar and Fire-Fighter by seZereth (including Chuggi's Punks and asioasioasio's Truck).
- 27m29s | Code Corner
Looking at classicthunder's Civilization Specific Tech Trees and the Gross Happiness Mod by cephalo (in between the discussion spirals widely off-topic towards difficulty levels and the Civ4 Vanilla Democracy Game).
- 38m10s | Outro
At the end of the episode we briefly discuss Blake's involvement in Civ4: Colonization and his future plans (which don't involve Civ).