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I'm interested in doing a gaming centric podcast for the Freeola forums, mainly to improve my knowledge of gaming in general and in the hope that I might get a job out it (although with my health problems, I'm lucky to get out of bed each day :) )

So, basically, I'm interested in knowing what you would want to listen to as it is for you. What sort of things should I cover? What segments would you interested in? How long would be too long?

Give it some thought and get back to me. If you feel it is a bad idea and no one will listen to it, you are probably right, so tell me.

I'm interested in doing a gaming centric podcast for the Freeola forums, mainly to improve my knowledge of gaming in general and in the hope that I might get a job out it (although with my health problems, I'm lucky to get out of bed each day :) )

So, basically, I'm interested in knowing what you would want to listen to as it is for you. What sort of things should I cover? What segments would you interested in? How long would be too long?

Give it some thought and get back to me. If you feel it is a bad idea and no one will listen to it, you are probably right, so tell me.

Could be a good idea, I think that topics should include;

- Releases that week (obviously this depends on when you are to record and distribute it
- Other general game news that you find interesting that week, announcements on games/consoles for example
- Any planned Freeola game nights
- Notable bargains as listed in our very own bargain thread
- If, somehow, we get a long worthwhile thread in the gaming forums maybe mention that

That's it off the top of my head, I'm sure there is plenty of other topics to talk about. Also, I would probably guess a 15 minute runtime would be more than enough. Although does depend on how much you have to talk about!

Yeah, that is roughly what I was thinking. Perhaps some kind of email/comment segment where I can answer or comment on a point raised.

EDIT: I was thinking of making it available on Fridays as that is usually release day.

That's a great idea GP, I'd love to hear it. I'm not into gaming as much at the moment as you probably noticed (cant afford it), but you have my support.

Let me think of some ideas, Butch has suggested some good ones.

I would be willing to fully support this. And I'm sure if you go ahead with it we can arrange something special :D

Let me know on here or by email more details of your ideas if you can. I'll let Butch know as well seen as he has jumped in already :D

Wow, even I didn't get that kind of support when I offered to do a webcomic for Freeola. Though it was probably for the best, you'd get lots of traffic, but it would mostly be international. So no profit for Freeola in that.

Looking forward to this GP, have you been looking for royalty free music you can use? Maybe you can use Skype and have people call in. I wanna hear Jason come on and make up more stories about his high scores. ;)

I don't remember that Machie 0_o

Warhunt wrote:
> I don't remember that Machie 0_o

This was a few years ago.

It would have to be pre-recorded for editing purposes so a live phone in is probably not possible, especially the time I'm going to be recording it (after midnight).

I'm planning to record it Wednesday night or Thursday night ready for Friday. I usually have 1 of those nights free.

If anyone has a good idea for a name for this, put them forward.

At the moment, it will probably feature some thoughts on the games I played this week, news of the week, if there are any gaming topics on Freeola - perhaps I'll go through some of the points, bargains if they are still going at that time, maybe a part where I read out some emails and game releases that Friday. I've also got a game of the year feature almost ready.

I'm also hoping to do 2 or 3 before the end of the year to see if it goes okay and then maybe have another look at it to see if anything needs changing for the new year.

In the new year, I'll hopefully kick off the Megadrive project and that should also bring a few more things to talk about.

Anything else?

I think it would be a good idea to do one-minute (or thereabouts) clips - quite often I skim-read gaming articles on the net as my spare time isn't as vast as it used to be. So I would be more likely to view/listen to short clips on a regular basis