Interview With Austin Grossman about the making of Shock 1

Al_B on 30/3/2011 at 22:58

Many thanks, indeed. Fett, Pardoner and Matthew Wise have been kind enough to allow the (http://www.binarydrift.com/LookingGlass/AustinGrossman.html) transcription to be stored alongside the Dan Schmidt interview.

doctorfrog on 9/4/2011 at 04:09

The podcast URL doesn't seem to be working. I can deal with it, of course, but it's way easier to just subscribe and let iTunes deal with download and disposal.

e: whups, got it working. Disregard, and thanks for the interviews!

Alushe on 10/4/2011 at 01:52

Thanks! I'm in the transcription boat, because I'm at work and can't listen to anything.

Trance on 11/4/2012 at 23:25

Sorry for the necropost, but I just stumbled onto this thread and was interested in the transcript. However, the domain where the transcript was hosted appears to have expired. Is there any way that those who have it can reupload it somewhere?

Pardoner on 12/4/2012 at 03:09

There's a cached version (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DPnU8yIOAWcJ:www.binarydrift.com/LookingGlass/AustinGrossman.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) here. Al's original formatting was friendlier, but I hope this works for now.

Trance on 12/4/2012 at 03:47

Many thanks; saved a local copy of it.

By the way, sajon77 never got back to us with all the other LGS podcasts he's gotten done since the last time he was here. He's up to 9 now, with people like Ken Levine, Randy Smith, Eric and Terri Brosius, etc. Got all the podcasts saved to disk and I'm listening to them as we speak.

EDIT: Listening to the Greg LoPiccolo interview, and I didn't know he was responsible for more than the music. Apparently he produced all the dialogue-based audio (including all the post-production effects and ambience) included in the logs and emails. He describes how SHODAN's iconic distorted speech patterns were meticulously crafted by hand due to the fact that he didn't have access to more than the absolute basics of audio editing capabilities back then. He also seems to remember and provide a lot more details regarding his work on System Shock than Austin Grossman provided. I would love to get a chance to talk to this guy myself.

jtr7 on 12/4/2012 at 06:41

sajon77 started a new thread for each LGS podcast. :)

Trance on 12/4/2012 at 12:17

Oh, oops. Guess I should've looked.

It would be nice if all those threads were consolidated, though. Maybe have a main thread for the podcast series that gets updated with new entries.

Al_B on 12/4/2012 at 14:13

Quote Posted by Trance

However, the domain where the transcript was hosted appears to have expired.

My mistake. I haven't been using that domain much recently so it lapsed. It's in the process of being resurrected but may be a little while before it gets sorted. I've still got the original files and will put them up elsewhere.

Quote Posted by Trance

It would be nice if all those threads were consolidated, though. Maybe have a main thread for the podcast series that gets updated with new entries.

ZylonBane on 14/4/2012 at 01:02

Quote Posted by Eldron

due to the content:

That "Playable On Demand" nonsense sounds like a retronym if ever I've heard one. In my universe, it's always and forever been derived directly from the iPod's name.