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Whatever happened to those live playbits?


On 01/09/2012 at 06:14 PM by Jason Ross

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You may or may not be aware, but before the middle of december, I did live playbits, which is kind of like live "Let's Play," just about once a week here on PixlBIt, often on Monday nights. From the middle of the month of December, I've been busy and away from home, so I haven't been able to complete my Super Mario Bros. 3 playbit quite yet.

But that brings me to my next point: Running a live event weekly is time-consuming, difficult, and requires me to block out a big chunk of my schedule. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy playing games and everyone having fun talking about the game in question, among other things. However, I don't think there have been enough people who attend the "Live" sessions to make it worth continuing in the same form, at least not every single week. I think, given that, it's time to retool how I do the show, and focus on something that better serves PixlBit's community, whatever that may be. I'm a little stumped on the idea myself, but there's been random ideas I've seen places that could work.

Perhaps something like a gaming club with live-plays would be an idea to follow. There could be one game a month, or one game every other month, something like that, and people join together to talk about it while I also live-play it. We could switch live playbits to only occur, at least by me, when there's something particularly relevant, like the Metroid 25th Anniversary or a prerelease copy of an upcoming title hits PixlBit's door, a la Duke Nukem Forever. I'm not saying these are the only options, but I am saying I don't think I can keep this up every week, since it feels like a little bit bigger of an undertaking than PB & Jason has been.

 

Does anyone have any ideas, either new or used elsewhere, that they think would work well? I am open to suggestions. Hit me with them!


 

Comments

Jason Ross Senior Editor

01/09/2012 at 06:15 PM

For the record, that SMB 3 playbit won't be tonight, either. It'll be next week. I have to get through World 8!

Jason Ross Senior Editor

01/16/2012 at 04:52 PM

Uhh, bad news. It isn't going to be tonight, either. I'll let everyone know when I can do it. Sorry!

Matt R Staff Alumnus

01/09/2012 at 07:08 PM

All you do is play video games with the web cam on, how hard could it be

Jason Ross Senior Editor

01/09/2012 at 07:30 PM

You're a big help! Remind me to hurt you next time I see you, Matt.

Matt R Staff Alumnus

01/10/2012 at 12:28 PM

I'll add it to the list

Esteban Cuevas Staff Alumnus

01/10/2012 at 01:01 AM

You should do it when others can join you either in gameplay or conversation. When you feel like doing one, send a email to the staff and get some players / panel members. Then you can record our conversation while we play or as we talk about it on Skype. That's much more entertaining too. Like when you were playing Super Mario 64. If we had record that with actual voices live instead of it being a instant message conversation, that would've been awesome. It's something maybe suited for new releases and themes.

Nick DiMola Director

01/10/2012 at 04:22 PM

I agree. I think Esteban has it right. We should also lift the audio recording and post it separately if it's a good discussion.

Joaquim Mira Media Manager

01/10/2012 at 11:40 PM

If it's on Mondays I can troll Jason for sure. I've done it before.

Jason Ross Senior Editor

01/11/2012 at 06:47 PM

I think in most cases, going this way would make the "When" situational.

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