Podcast Interview – Dungeons of Dredmor (Gaslamp Games)

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 22, 2011

Okay, I confess – I’m not a big fan of podcasts. Yes, I’ve been in ’em… but it’s not my thing. The reason is that I can’t work and listen to a podcast at the same time. I can do it if I’m playing a familiar game that doesn’t have any necessary dialog to read or listen to… say, a familiar RTS game or something. But otherwise, it’s REALLY hard to fit something like a podcast that lasts more than about fifteen minutes into my schedule. I can’t write dialog or program while I’m listening to someone talk.

So for this one, recommended to me by getter77, I ended up getting some much-needed gaming in while I listened to it:

Podcast Interview with Gaslamp Games, Makers of Dungeons of Dredmor at Immortal Machines

Dungeons of Dredmor is an upcoming indie roguelike with a sense of humor and high production values. It looks like a lot of fun, and hearing them talk about the development of the game it sounds like something I’d enjoy. I felt a particularly familiar pain where they mention how they thought it would only take a month or so to complete the existing code & get it ready for release. This was back in 2008…

Enjoy!

Filed Under: Game Development, Interviews, Production - Comments: 6 Comments to Read

Brian 'Psychochild' Green said,

Huh, interesting. I’m the same way about podcasts. I love participating in them, but just can’t listen to them while working like others can. I suspect it’s my ability to hyper-focus on a single activity. My better half learned that if she talks to me while I’m working, she needs to make sure I actually listened to her instead of just hearing her.
LateWhiteRabbit said,

I can listen to podcasts while I work, but I create art, so there is no overlap of focus as I think language and creativity are housed in different sides of the brain.

Trying to write or program would be impossible for me to do while listening to someone talk.
Rampant Coyote said,

Yeah, I do sometimes do Blender work while listening to Podcasts. But it’s still challenging. I enjoyed much of the podcast above, but I think there are parts that I missed entirely.
getter77 said,

In my case, the winning maneuver was to hit the pause button a couple times to eat, shower, and other distracting/room-leaving tasks while sorting some pc files and scouring for nifty links. Easily the longest podcast I’ve ever listened to though, and from a prior unknown outfit as well—likely to look through their backlog and see what else sticks out.
DavidB said,

Hey, this is David from Gaslamp Games; glad you enjoyed the interview. That’s what happens when Nicholas drinks a pot of coffee on an empty stomach 🙂

Just had to throw in my take on listening to podcasts as I find it similar to what you guys are saying (and I listen to them /all the time/). I find that I can do art really easily while listening to podcasts and it’s a great way to not get bored with some stuff that might otherwise be a slog. I can’t code/script or write while listening to podcasts though. It’s like whatever part of my brain that deals with words doesn’t like getting distracted by talking.
Fumarole said,

I listen to podcasts when driving to and fro work. As long as it isn’t greatly over thirty minutes or so I’ll get something out of it.