Nexuiz In-Depth video podcast

[GreEn`mArine]

Episode 6

Teaser

episode

After that only 3 more episodes.

[GreEn`mArine]

Impressive feedback!

Episode 7

Teaser

episode

Two more episodes to come.

[GreEn`mArine]

Btw, do you think I should publish the 2 remaining episodes right away? I produced them over a month ago, and since the series will die anyway, there is not so much point in publishing them weekly?

Or is this schedule still appreciated?

[C.Brutail]

I always watch your videos, and I've already learned a lot from them, thank you.
I'd happily do videos about mapping, but I don't know where to start, WHEN to do it, and are there any tools for linux to make these? I have a virtual XP, if that's ok.
I'd stick to the weekly release shedule.

[GreEn`mArine]

Episode 8

[Reinis]

Why dont you add these videos on the nexuiz mainpage?

Indeed, the production values are high enough for this to have official support. It surprised me when I first saw the videos, because it's a far cry from the usual gaming-enthusiast fare. On the other hand, the episodes are too slow-paced and don't deliver content-wise. I'm very sorry to say, but I'm not even watching the latest ones. The promise from the introductory video about keeping them shorter than five minutes has not been kept, and things like customizing my scoreboard or the intricacies of configuration file paths are not relevant to me. If the format was different, I could at least skim through the information, but in a video, it's stacked in time. In fact, I feel that choosing the video format has been an end in itself. Textual tutorials would have been less impressive but much more useful.

[Reinis]

I forgot to add: this is a little off-topic, but alpha's posts are a textbook example of trolling. Any sane and active administration would have brought the banhammer down already.

[GreEn`mArine]

I agree that putting the same kind of content into a text-made tutorial makes actually more sense. I chose to do a video podcast for reasons such as "want to try it out" (and do my own podcast) and videos usually attract people more in the nowadays multimedia-focused world of internet.

The problem of the podcast is that quite a bit of basic knowledge is needed to be able to fully utilize the hidden nexuiz features. Explaining these took the first 4 episodes or so, and admitted, they are sort of boring to watch (I even admit that in one of the episodes).

I cannot judge whether the content gets to the mind of the viewer, I actually think it kind of does (as opposed to your opinion), and for the ones who need to quickly get information they can read the wiki which summarizes the info. However, since there is too little feedback about the wiki (0 persons saying thanks for that) dIM, who is responsible for its content, stopped working for it.

About the speed of the episodes being slow ... well, dunno what I am supposed to improve there. It's certainly a lot better than a lot of the real-life professors presentation slides I've seen during my studies. And that the episodes are too long .. well yeah they are, but that comes from little knowledge from my side how to cut down content to the most important aspects, and I still think that the things I say do matter and I actively reviewed my transscripts for things to leave out before recording the audio ... so, no idea what to say here

However, in the end it's just another failed project from my side, and I learn that I shall not ever initiate projects again (for which I don't get paid), at least not for Nexuiz, that involve all the hard work being on my side, and then expecting that any1 else would like to contribute. Because no1 here does. And that was the same with the planetnexuiz.com project (some of you readers may know) as well - lots of work, little appreciation. It died, just as this podcast will die.

Next thursday I'll release the last episode, no. 9, archive the project on backup drives, and what I have left is a youtube show which I can show to my friends and some funny memories from producing it.

[GreEn`mArine]

Episode 9
part 1
part 2

HF
No more episodes.

[k0jak]

I forgot to add: this is a little off-topic, but alpha's posts are a textbook example of trolling. Any sane and active administration would have brought the banhammer down already.

All previous posts deleted from him on this thread, till he stops doing it all further posts from him will be removed (I will not delete any further one's once he isn't/has stopped trolling however).