Digital Cowboys: Episode 125
Posted on : 10-10-2009 | By : Alex Shaw | In : Podcasts
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In this weeks packed episode, first we talk for an hour with Sean Elyssium Sands and Julian “Rabbit” Murdoch of the seminal podcast Gamers with Jobs. Both of them have young children and we discuss the process of introducing games to your kids and where to go from there.
The review section features a run round FIFA 10, Need for Speed: Shift and a complete gutting of Dead Space: Extraction for the Wii.
For next week go to RoosterTeeth.com and watch the whole series of Red VS. Blue Reconstruction, because we’re going to be talking to Burnie Burns and Goeff Ramsey about machinima. This is series 6 of Red VS. Blue but it’s also a reboot of the story and a relatively serious movie in the process. It’s filmed using the Halo 3 engine so fans of the series will be well at home.
The music for the end of the show is Happy by Mark Tschanz from his album Blue Dog.
We’d like to thank Sean and Julian again for coming on, they’ve been very patient and gracious and proved to be perfect podcast guests.
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Another excellent episode, Cowboys.
The subject of gaming with your kids is one that’s near and dear to my heart. I recently had the opportunity to introduce my daughters to the music of The Beatles via a 3-hour marathon Rock Band session, playing through the entire story mode in one sitting. It was an experience I’ll never forget, and became infinitely more satisfying when, the next morning at breakfast, my 10-year old was singing “Here Comes the Sun.” I smiled for ages.
The great thing about playing games with kids is what they can teach you about how you play vs. how they play. For example, early on I had abandoned the level creation in LittleBigPlanet, because the tools didn’t work as I anticipated or expected they would–therefore, they were “broken.” When my kids showed me the level they had created a day later, I was at once astonished and shamed. Kids are flexible, amenable to learning new ideas and trying different approaches, and, importantly, willing to fail and try again. There’s a lesson on patience and tolerance in there somewhere that I’m still endeavoring to learn.