Podcast – Yaruki Zero Games

http://www.neko-machi.com/podcast/ykz_023.mp3 Yaruki Zero Podcast #23 (26 minutes, 51 seconds) Listening to way, waaaaay too much of The Bugle (a comedy news podcast by John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman), I wound up doing a YKZ podcast that’s a weird mix of my usual blather and some weird attempts at humor. I talk in silly bullshit mode about the Super Bowl (be sure to check out the Breaking Madden Super Bowl) and some weird stuff from the news, and in normal mode about i.hate.everyone and Kickstarter stuff. (And you should totally check out The Whispering Road, Dice Empire, and Japanese: The Game.) This podcast uses selections from the song “Click Click” by Grünemusik, available for free from Jamendo.com. If you like the song, consider buying some CDs from Nankado’s website. Caricature of Ewen courtesy of C. Ellis.

http://www.neko-machi.com/podcast/ykz_022.mp3 Yaruki Zero Podcast #22 (39 minutes, 42 seconds) 2013 was quite a year for me, plus I haven’t done a proper podcast in ages (literally over 2 years…), so I decided to do an overview of my year, covering the Channel A and Golden Sky Stories Kickstarters, Maid RPG, Fate and Adventures of the Space Patrol, Destiny Dice, Beyond Otaku Dreams, and a few other odds and ends. This podcast uses selections from the song “Click Click” by Grünemusik, available for free from Jamendo.com. If you like the song, consider buying some CDs from Nankado’s website. Caricature of Ewen courtesy of C. Ellis.

This special episode is a compilation of the second half of the “Today in Geek History” daily podcast I posted on Tumblr. (Here’s Part 1) This is a part of I’ve been working on a humor book titled “I Want to be an Awesome Robot,” and one of my many goals for 2014 is to finally finish up the book. One of my other goals is to get back into proper podcasting, starting with a review of 2013, which I’m hoping to record and post over this weekend. http://www.neko-machi.com/podcast/ykz_021.mp3 Yaruki Zero Podcast #21 (1 hour, 30 minutes, 5 seconds) Caricature of Ewen courtesy of C. Ellis.

This special episode is a compilation of the first six months of the “Today in Geek History” daily podcast I’ve been posting on Tumblr. I’ve been working on a humor book titled “I Want to be an Awesome Robot,” and one rather large section of it is a calendar with a fake fact about the history of geekdom for every single day of the calendar year, plus one or two days I made up. I does have plenty of RPG stuff in it (including the tale of Gary Gygax’s quest for the Rod of Seven Dice), though there’s also entries relating to anime, video games, sci-fi, literature, science, history, and more besides. Filling up 365 days is hard, especially when you make it so that it’s actually 379. The whole thing is a bit over an hour and a half, though on the plus side you can now listen all the way through without clicking on dozens and dozens of individual Tumblr posts, most of which are less than a minute long. Expect another similar compilation episode in January 2014! http://www.neko-machi.com/podcast/ykz_020.mp3 Yaruki Zero Podcast #20 (1 hour, 36 minutes, 32 seconds) Caricature of Ewen courtesy of C. Ellis.

If you know me at all, you know that I’m really random about when I get inspired to actually do things, such that I jump from project to project all the time. The other day I got inspired to revive my project to do an iRiff of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, which in turn led me to get some better recording gear, which in turn inspired me to get back into podcasting. This first new episode is a recap of what I’ve been up to in terms of my own game design and translation projects. There’s quite a bit to cover. I started using Audacity (which is quite good), and didn’t feel like messing around trying to get the music in this time around, so for better or for worse this episode is an hour of just my voice. http://www.neko-machi.com/podcast/ykz_019.mp3 Yaruki Zero Podcast #19 (62 minutes, 16 seconds) Golden Sky Stories (And since I recorded this the Tenra Bansho Zero Kickstarter began and took off like a rocket!) Magical Burst (3rd Draft) Dragon World (Dragon World Hack v0.1) Raspberry Heaven (Practice Test) Entanglements Some Ideas: Beyond Otaku Dreams and Divine Machine Channel A (and Cards Against Humanity) I Want to be an Awesome Robot (Studio UFO) Future Podcasts Very awesome caricature of Ewen courtesy of the talented C. Ellis.