Saturday, November 26, 2011

Episode 2 - The EarthTech Trials

Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent

The focus of this episode is a dystopian future setting called the EarthTech Trials. Want a world with corporations controlling everything, cybernetics running rampant and popularity of web presence deciding government policy? This is it. Find it in the wiki here!

00:00 Tomfoolery
01:13 Introduction
02:00 World Concept
02:16 The Running Man
03:23 The Hunger Games
04:12 Orwellian
04:40 Deciding the Era
06:55 Dystopia / Media Influence
07:12 Max Headroom
07:37 Rupert Murdoch
07:57 McDonnell Douglas / McDonald's
08:13 Taco Bell
08:30 World War Corporation / War on the Web
08:56 Google / Facebook
09:30 Baidu
10:31 William Shatner's TekWar
11:16 Nike / Squad Combat / Paintball
11:39 How Things Changed
11:55 One World Government
13:40 Factions
14:06 Marshal Josip Broz Tito
16:27 Alien Threat Conspiracy
19:00 Setting the Level of Devastation
19:28 Earthborne Devastation
19:37 The Day After Tomorrow
20:29 48th Parallel
21:00 World Dome
22:52 Brain-Computer Interface
22:57 Transhumanism
23:50 Beyond the Fringe / "Civil War"
24:50 Faction Locations
26:51 Allegiance by Online Votes / Foursquare / +1
27:09 Technology
27:42 Naming Factions
28:32 Intel
30:19 Prime Numbers
31:22 Star Trek Aesthetic
32:18 The Games
32:23 The Olympics
34:59 The World Cup
35:37 Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?
36:18 Mechs
36:45 Apple
38:18 Nikola Tesla
38:30 Light Teleportation / Fiber Optics / Quantum Entanglement
39:32 Solar Mirrors
41:41 Corporate Structure
42:26 Virtual Baronies
45:22 Cult of Personality
45:29 Steve Jobs
46:15 Virgin Galactic
49:22 Naming Media Outlets
49:50 The Prime Directive
50:13 Madison Avenue
50:26 Important Locations
51:45 Ouroboros
52:22 The Phoenix
52:44 Fenghuang
55:30 Uluru
55:52 Casablanca
56:13 Tombstone, AZ
56:36 Deadlands
58:29 Conclusion & Outro


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Friday, November 11, 2011

Episode 1 - Aegis

Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent

In this first episode we create Aegis, a fantasy world dominated by the element of Air. Find it in the wiki here!

00:00 Introduction
00:41 World Concept
02:13 Google Documents
02:33 Google Christ
03:00 Air Theme
03:28 Bespin
03:44 George Lucas
03:55 Holo-Cube
04:30 World Rules & Geography
08:00 Elementals
09:00 Balance of the Elements
10:13 Winged People
11:33 Hawk People / Flash Gordon
11:44 Brian Blessed / Prince Vultan
12:05 Harpy
12:30 Lizard People
12:54 Airborne Jellyfish
12:55 Arthur C. Clarke / A Meeting with Medusa
13:09 The Beatles
13:25 Beholder
13:55 Bodies of Water
14:50 Poles, Temperature, Day & Night
16:17 Huge Water Spout
16:58 Up is Bad, Down is Good
21:00 The Thing at the Center
21:43 Government / Parliaments of Birdfolk / Sultanates of Lizardfolk
23:53 History, Magic & Technology
27:45 The Opener
28:29 D&D / Elemental Plane of Air / Demiplane
30:50 Present Day Conflict
32:17 Clothing, Population and Biology
37:00 Naming Things
37:44 Ouroboros
38:13 Thesaurus.com
38:38 Red Dwarf / "Ouroboros"
40:02 Komodo Dragon
41:54 Wikipedia / Medusozoa / Scyphozoa
45:49 Aegis Shield
46:24 Conclusion & Outro


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