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Austin Walker jumps into the Vinny chair this week to ramble with us about all things role-playing, from running down the four types of dungeon master to advising Alex on playing multiple characters at once, plus some thoughts on his time in game development and his recent experiences diving into the hottest Final Fantasy MMO on the market.

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(00:00:00) Start of show(00:00:30) Austin's Ramblecast debut!(00:03:26) OK, let's talk game dev(00:08:21) Take care of your brains, everyone(00:11:22) Game mechanics and story, a chicken-and-egg problem(00:21:21) A taxonomy of dungeon masters(00:30:35) Alex solicits D&D advice from an expert(00:46:54) That's right, it's Final Fantasy XI time(00:53:19) What separates XI and XIV(01:02:24) That's video games, baby(01:11:18) Bring back 2001 demo disc and installer music(01:15:22) NorthernLion has a job to do

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Weekly Ramblecast 164: Shout Outs to the Butt Squad

Austin Walker jumps into the Vinny chair this week to ramble with us about all things role-playing, from running down the four types of dungeon master to advising Alex on playing multiple characters at once, plus some thoughts on his time in game development and his recent experiences diving into the hottest Final Fantasy MMO on the market. (00:00:00) Start of show (00:00:30) Austin's Ramblecast debut! (00:03:26) OK, let's talk game dev (00:08:21) Take care of your brains, everyone (00:11:22) Game mechanics and story, a chicken-and-egg problem (00:21:21) A taxonomy of dungeon masters (00:30:35) Alex solicits D&D advice from an expert (00:46:54) That's right, it's Final Fantasy XI time (00:53:19) What separates XI and XIV (01:02:24) That's video games, baby (01:11:18) Bring back 2001 demo disc and installer music (01:15:22) NorthernLion has a job to do Nextlander is supported by its community: http://www.patreon.com/nextlander Thanks for watching.

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Zooclaw

So, does anyone know what Austin's project was? He said a studio head posted a now deleted Linkedin post that basically tipped their hand.

neuroflare

I'm still subscribed to FFXI, I started playing again last spring and fell off over the fall, need to get back on it. Got some gear swaps to find.

The Spine

Incredible episode. I love when you guys have guests!

Cata Mari

Rumor was it was Shadowrun.

Chris

I totally Destroyed my razor flip phone in a fit of rage when de-leveled trying to unlock ninja.....ahh the memories. That's Video Games!

Tylerrools

Austin Walker + Nextlander + a Northernlion mention? My parasocial Avengers are forming…. Great episode!

Yandren

As someone who sunk years, including the last years of some loved ones, into games that will never exist, my sympathies Austin. Between that and fan reactions being what they are now, it is no wonder churn is so high in games.

Billy Gilchrist

As someone who spent unhealthy amounts of time in ffxi 20 years ago the Bg in that ffxiwiki is most likely for Blue Gartr was the biggest messageboard/linkshell for it back then

Nicholas Jesz

FF11 good memories. I wonder if I can get it to run on the Steam Deck