This week is the first week of the year that I'm caught up listening to gaming podcasts. Among those I subscribe to are "Platform Biased," a hopefully-not-fully-official podcast conducted by testers at Microsoft. They do the normal what-we've-been-playing stuff, talk about the life of game-testers and, in the most recent episode, interview some of the creators of the games they're working on.
Good tidbits leak out in these shows, like the fact that the Xbox 360 "Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts" developers at Rare made the game's vehicle editor before crafting the game world around it. Also intriguing: the editor has more than 100 parts, some of which are in-joke references to other Rare games. And? They compare the game to... "Crackdown."
Plus, in the 21st minute, I'm mentioned on the podcast. In the same breath as Denis Dyack? Odd.
Listen to the one-hour "Banjo" episode here: Podcast #006 - *BLEEPS* & Bolts
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