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Here is part of the Boston8Bit Chiptune Showcase in Jamspace from PAX East 2012. Special thanks to Chip Music Chronicle for recording this back in the day.
What an episode! Our first live recording at PAX Australia, in front of a full live audience! We perform three skits, talk about adventure games, and listen to a track from Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate from our amazing musical guests, Tripod! An absolutely huge show! See you next year, PAX!image
Producers of such fine internet entertainment as The Escapist’s Unskippable, PATV’s CheckPoint, the Desert Bus for Hope fundraiser, and Penny Arcade’s own reality show Strip Search, select members of LoadingReadyRun will be on hand to show you new stuff and answer your questions! Come and hang out, it’s a grand time!
PANELISTS: James Turner [Actor/Producer/Editor, Loadingreadyrun], Graham Stark [Co-Creator/Director/Actor, Loadingreadyrun], Kathleen De Vere [Writor/Actor/Editor, Loadingreadyrun]
In the promotion of the 20th anniversary for Kirby; an attempt was made to have the largest number of people blowing bubble gum bubbles at the same time. The record was broken from 304 to 536 people in the queue room at PAX Prime 2012. Special thanks to Pete Dorr for recording this back in the day.
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South 2016 - Cosplay
This week we look at a small selection of the diverse mix of cosplay on display at PAX South 2016.
Film/Edit by Octavio Abea
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Music in this episode:
Title Song: MC Frontalot - Zero Day
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MC Frontalot - I'll Form the Head
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Aaron Price
From Grinding to Grooving: An Investigation of Motoi Sakuraba’s RPG Combat Music
In role-playing games (RPGs) many players repetitively battle enemies in order to advance their characters, a process often referred to as grinding. While grinding, players will hear the same combat music hundreds or even thousands of times. Despite often being highly percussive and energetic, Stephen Armstrong found that the music heard while grinding instills a sense of stasis through repetitive melodic figures and stationary tonal centers. This sense of status in the music, which Armstrong calls musicospatial statis, reflects the gameplay state of being temporarily removed from the exploratory or narrative space until the battle is complete.
Although musicospatial status is extremely common in RPG combat music, the music of Motoi Sakuraba is a notable exception: his combat compositions contain limited repeated material, fast-paced harmonic changes, and varied tonal centers. I investigate how these elements of Sakuraba’s music correlate with scientific studies of groove phenomenology (the subconscious desire for the body to move with music) and how they could create further kinesthetic interaction with the gameplay.
Additionally, I examine how Sakuraba’s use of syncopations, appoggiaturas, and suspensions both create and then subvert listener exception, whereas many other combat themes tend to be more predictable in rhythm and harmony. I then demonstrate how these elements of groove and subverted expectation in Sakuraba’s compositions fit within established theoretical metrics and models for measuring gameplay immersion. This analysis reveals that despite not creating musicospatial statis, Sakuraba’s combat music is functional in utilizing groove and subversion to create further immersion in the grinding experience.
Let's Players Chuggaaconroy, NintendoCapriSun and Proton Jon (The Runaway Guys) invite you to try your luck at "Thrown Controllers", a panel similar to the show Nick Arcade where lucky members of the audience go head to head and answer various video game trivia questions, play various video game challenges and even go head to head against the three of us. Do you have what it takes to be the best?
Special thanks to The Runaway Guys for recording this back in the day.
The team behind PATV's Strip Search & CheckPoint, CAH's Tabletop Dathmatch, The Escapist's Unskippable & Feed Dump, WotC's Friday Nights, the Desert Bus for Hope charity fundraiser, and a ton of other funny stuff, will show you funny things and answer all your questions! All of them! (time/interest permitting)