Two Bards, One Mic – Episode 86: Point and Quip Adventures

Direct Link: http://twobards.com/podcasts/TwoBards_86_20150222.mp3

Intro music by Randall Marsh
Description: Weeks in Review, Starr Mazer, Questions and Answers, Lots of Questions and Answers, A Few Rants For Good Measure.

Weeks in Review
+ Starr Mazer: Web | Kickstarter | Twitch


+ VHS Glitch Theme-ix Remix (soundcloud)

Two Bards Food Truck!

+ Scott celebrated Tom Brophy's birthday and saw Nitewave (FB).
+ Steve Snoey's America's Fighting Dinosaur (kickstarter)
+ Scott is shooting a training video with Frank Lawler (web)
+ Watched SNL 40th Anniversary (NBC)
+ Hoodwinked (IMDB) 

Questions

27:45. Laura Adams. I just watched a video about Immersive Binaural Audio. Have you heard of it and what do you think of it?
 + Good Mythical Morning: Locked in a Sensory Deprivation Tank (YouTube)

36:40. Dennis Nichol. With all the hub-bub about Starr Mazer recently.... Andy: What's your history with other space genre games? Any favs? (I dug Freelancer and Trade Wars 2002).
+ SpaceQuest (wiki), Tie Fighter (wiki), X-Wing (wiki), Descent (wiki), R-Type (wiki), Life Force (aka Salamander) (wiki), Twinkle Star Sprites (wiki), TwinBee (wiki), Sportsball (web)

39:10. Dennis Nichol. Scott: From the conversations you've had with Galileo in your youth, how do you think he'd feel about how far we've come in space knowledge/exploration? You think he'd be excited about Starr Mazer?
+ Hedy Lamarr 's Frequency-hopping spread-spectrum invention (wikipedia)

42:46. Dennis Nichol. What does your guys' remaining Con schedule look like for this year?
+ Berserkon2015. May 29-31, 2015, Duluth, MN. [Kickstarter, ends Mar 17] [Web] [FB]
+ GenCon2015. Jul 30 - Aug 2, 2015, Indianapolis, IN.

47:25. Rob MacLennan. Are you lining up any guests, for the near future, who don't just drop by in the middle of a podcast? ;)


49:57. Seth Davis. Congrats on Starr Mazer getting funded! I know that Andy has be interested in a project like this for a long time, but it involved KBC. Andy, are you using this project as a replacement to that bucketlist entry, or is Starr Mazer a trial run for KBC?
+ SCUMM (wikipedia)
+ Grim Fandango Remastered (gog)

56:15. Paula Moran. What are your favorite styles of armor in game and for filming?

1:00:00. John Lovett. What's going on with ZOE Productions?
+ Zombie Orpheus Entertainment (web)
+ Renew JourneyQuest (web)
+ Dead.FM (web)




1:07:11. Thomas Brophy. If up to u, would you make the Seattle area more of a film town or a TV show production town based on trends?

1:18:48. Listener Call to Action (WA residents).
+ Keep Film in WA (web)

+ Lucky Them (IMDB)
+ Fifty Fifty (IMDB)
+ [We talk about a movie we can't remember in the cast. It was A Guy Thing (IMDB) -- A. Dopieralski]

+ Horns (IMDB)

1:27:30. Rant on The Brass Teapot
+ The Brass Teapot (IMDB)

+ Luther (IMDB)

Neil deGrasse Tyson, if you're listening....
+ Neil deGrasse Tyson: Web | Facebook | StarTalk Radio
+ Cosmos (IMDB) -- on Netflix!