Category Archives: BTL Radio
BTL Radio Podcast: VR Discussion and News
Hello Enthusiacs! This week we have Marco back to discuss a few smaller news stories, and to discuss the possibilities for VR in the future. From managing communities and marketing, to the evolution of the nature of the industry over
Behind the Line Radio Podcast: Nintendo Switch
Hello Enthusiacs! The Nintendo Switch is finally revealed. Does this excite you? Are you not entertained? What is Nintendo trying to do with this handheld, console hybrid? Should we call it a hand-con? They already call the controllers Joy-con, so
BTL Radio Podcast: Working on Doomed Projects
Hello Enthusiacs. We’ve all heard about projects getting stuck in development hell, and sometimes we spare a thought for the people working on those projects, like the poor souls who were stuck working on Duke Nukem Forever for 10 years…
BTL Radio Podcast: Narrative Tools in Games, Movies, and Books
This week we welcome back star of stage and screen, Bill, to discuss what special tools video games have to convey a narrative or an emotional experience with a player. Video games are still often looked at as the younger
BTL Radio Podcast: Whales and Dealing with Them
As you may know, free to play games live or die based on whales. Whales are, of course, the big spending customers that free to play games often rely on to keep the enterprise solvent. Not long ago, Brandon Sheffield
BTL Radio Podcast: QA War Stories
It’s no secret that your humble moderator is from the world of Video Game QA, and I wanted to talk about it more. So this week we welcome Marco back, and new guest Roo, both of which have experienced quite
BTL Radio Podcast: Publishers and Developers
Publishers and developers are perceived very differently by the public. Developers are often seen as the artists, the go-getters, the scrappy team trying to bring you their vision and being held down by the money grubbing tycoons at the publisher.
BTL Radio Podcast: Pokemon Go, origin and trajectory.
Pokemon Go has been taking the world by storm! Seemingly coming from nowhere, it’s now bringing people together in new and unexpected ways. But it didn’t actually come from nowhere. Today, we welcome Alex to the show. A long time
BTL Radio Podcast: Narrative in Games
Today it’s a super sized edition of Behind the Line Radio. Bill joins us to discuss narrative styles in video games. In the time since his last appearance, he had become more and more upset about “The Beginner’s Guide”, so
BTL Radio Podcast: E3 2016
Hello Enthusiacs! In this overdue edition of Behind the Line Radio, Marco joins us to talk about his experience at E3 this year, both as an attendee, and from manning a booth this year. We discuss some impressive demonstrations, interesting
