Comments on: EP059: Anyone Can Whistle

By: Ebay hot items

Ebay hot items — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:05:27 +0000

Very interesting site, i have added it to my fovourites. Greetings

By: scatterbrain

scatterbrain — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:51:06 +0000

Cyber-revolution!

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hoer mal…! » Blog Archive » “Waffen oder Drogen” — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:47:53 +0000

[...] politisch Unterdrückte: Anyone Can Whistle [...]

By: KAB

KAB — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:49:10 +0000

Great podcast. I just found it this summer (thanks to Scott Sigler) and am almost caught up.
I also want to thank you for the comments about co-op games. My fiance is a big gamer but I have trouble playing Super Mario. But because of Lego Star Wars II our relationship has grown…just kidding. But I do highly recommend the game and if one of you can shoot straight the other one can just stand there!

By: Icepick

Icepick — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:45:48 +0000

Really and excellent story. Thanks.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:09:12 +0000

Very nice story. Clever twist at the end. It’s really impressive how week after week the quality remains high.

By: Pavlina

Pavlina — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:17:06 +0000

The sounds levels were a bit off. The voice had a trailing feature, I also had to turn the sound way up. This is a problem for those of s who listen in the car. You really don’t want to strain to listen as you are screaming down the highway at 45 MPH in rush hour traffic.

Other than that, good story.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:11:25 +0000

I really enjoyed the story but almost had to stop listening because of the terrible audio production in the read.

It was very sibilant and ‘top-endy’ with a prounced metallic timbre.

The quality of the audio production is almost always very good, which makes a poor example stand out all the more. I strongly encourage a re-reading for the archives.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:36:05 +0000

While I liked the premise, and thought this was pretty good, I just wanted to say to the author: take more care with your exposition.

In this story your exposition came out almost at random, and really didn’t gel very well with the story. Maybe this is a factor about it being read, but I really didn’t like how you did it. Take more care interweaving background and plot.

By: Neale

Neale — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:06:14 +0000

My favourite co-operative game was always Bubble Bobble. A decent conversion of the arcade machine was released for the PlayStation but I don’t think the PS2′s alleged backwards compatibility worked for it. (Or any other of my favourite games.) http://taito.overclocked.org/bbobble.html suggests that there’s a MAME version available.

They guys at http://www.puzzlepirates.com put as much emphasis on the co-operation and the community as they do on the game development. The game was designed from the start to encourage people to be friendly and the atmosphere is great as a result. Although it has no monster-bashing.

By: Johan Nilsson

Johan Nilsson — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:51:02 +0000

Hi!

What a great story! I really like it. And the reading was awesome!

I am a Diablo II and Final Fantasy geek. But I have never tried Guild Wars, I am playing World of Warcraft. It is great fun.

By: yak sox

yak sox — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:32:48 +0000

Hi,
I listen to ep each saturday night on the bus coming back from seoul. I enjoy the variety of stories that you cover.
My fav. this year has been Little Helper – that one really stuck in my head; a nice simple writing style and really well read.

The reason why I’m bothering to comment this week is unfortunately not all cheery.

I had to quit Anyone Can Whistle a third of the way through because I found the voice of the narrator too sharp, it varied in volume too much and the production values of it didn’t do anything to alleviate it.

Those ear buds are right in there snug up against my ear drums.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:55:53 +0000

I also suggest City of Heroes for couplelicious, evil-fighting goodness. As above, I play it religiously and have teamed up with more than one wife and her husband who, when the mission was over, had to bow out to go get dinner ready for the kids.

I’m New Mutant on Guardian server, and I too would be more than glad to host you guys around.

By the way, thanks for the hours of mindfood. Get Alex Wilson to do another story–he durn near made me cry.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:49:49 +0000

Just a quick comment Steve: By looking at these comments lately, people are just as interested in discussing your comments as they are the story. Maybe the time has come to bite your endearingly small ego and index your ramblings…

I know i’ve been hunting for your “stories of celebration” intro since finding Don Ysidro last week. People genuinely are interested in what you have to say, how about making it easier for us to find it?

By: Bas Wijnen

Bas Wijnen — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:24:52 +0000

First of all, cool story.

As usual, your intro was interesting as well. For cooperative games, I can recommend “cuyo”, which looks a bit like tetris but is much cooler due to all the surprises in it. (http://www.karimmi.de/cuyo/. If you’re not using GNU/Linux, you will have trouble getting it running though).

Another game which has entertained me with its cooperative mode is “Salamander”, the third in Konami’s Nemesis series for the MSX computer (not to be confused with “Nemesis 3″, which is the fourth in the series and doesn’t have cooperative mode). A good emulator (I don’t suppose you own an MSX ) is OpenMSX (http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/). Salamander itself seems to be downloadable from http://download.52samsung.com:82/52_official_download/s60/s60/GAMES/MSX%E6%B8%B8%E6%88%8F%E5%B9%B3%E5%8F%B0%E5%92%8C%E6%B8%B8%E6%88%8F/MSX%20ROM/Salamander.rom.gz (that’s not legal, but it’s about 20 years old. IMO copyright should have expired, but if you care then don’t download it.)

I’m writing some computer games myself every now and then, and you just triggered me to think some things up which have cooperative multi-player mode. I thank you for that!

By: Jeff S

Jeff S — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:52:25 +0000

Been playing Guild Wars for a while now. If you’re ever looking for a buddy to party up with then look me up. My handles are Neil Transet, Cows Transet and Kiki Butterfly.

I’d be more than happy to help you guys out or party up.

By: Mark in St. Louis

Mark in St. Louis — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:08:48 +0000

Steve,

Just an FYI, but the iTunes feed is just giving me a 45 second commercial.

By: Jim in Buffalo

Jim in Buffalo — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:11:12 +0000

Now that’s some perfect sci-fi right there. What a great way to integrate the two genres of alien invasion and cyberpunk!