Jonny
January 24th, 2012

Posted by Matt

Yo- Yo. bro. Hey, bro! Man, have I got some stories for you. You won’t even believe ‘em!

LoadingReadyRun: Jonny
Unskippable: Cursed Crusade
Checkpoint: Masters of Code, Not Money

Allow me the (dubious) honour of introducing Jonny. Jonny’s a new addition to our character roster, but we expect that you’ll grow to love him. As if you don’t already. He’s the life of the party, after all!

Indeed, this isn’t the last time you’ll get to see Jonny wax poetic on his various celebratory adventures. We shot this video on Saturday at Ben’s house, and immediately thereafter, we moved to a different (and super secret) location to shoot another! Much like the Story Guy videos of days past, the plan is to have Jonny return from time to time, to recount a tale of drunken debauchery, sexual conquest, and felony substance abuse. You’ll have to wait a while for the next video though. As Much as Jonny talks tough, he doesn’t have a new story to tell every week. So keep checking back, and one day, like Cyclops, he will emerge from the shadows, and shred you with his razor wit… claws.

Cheers!

LRR + MtG + Internet
January 20th, 2012

Posted by james


So as many of you know we here at LRR like our Magic. We also know that many of you don’t, so we’ve started to make an effort to seperate our MtG talk as much as possible.

Step number one was to create a brand new Twitter account, which you can find here - http://twitter.com/LRRMtG

If you enjoy Magic, or more specifically like hearing us talk about Magic then this is the account for you. Along with live tweeting both our own office events and any event we attend at our LGS (local game shop, for the uninitiated), we will also be letting people know when you can find us streaming a draft over on Twitch TV.

Streaming Magic drafts is gaining in popularity and we thought we should get in ground floor and do our best to put a LRR spin on the medium. In the immediate future James and Graham (and possibly someone else) will be back drafting this Saturday evening at 7:00PM PST. Please jump on over to http://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun, create an account, and start following us for updates for when we go live.

 

Voluntourism
January 17th, 2012

Posted by Matt

Immediately below this line are some links you can click on. You should click on them.

LRR: Voluntourism
Unskippable: Rage
Checkpoint: Survey Says!

This shoot was extremely quick and easy, and we got to play around with some new equipment and a new location to boot! The office location was that of a local business who kindly allowed us in to shoot for about an hour on Saturday, an we’re thrilled they did, because the setting is perfect. I feel like the papers strewn about and office equipment present lends a sense of authenticity to the video that we aren’t often able to provide, so it was great to be acting on a really convincing set.

The new piece of equipment is a neat little Kessler Pocket Dolly we picked up. You’ll notice the camera move right at the beginning of the video. Keep an eye out for those small camera motions in future videos, because I expect that little device is going to see a lot of use.

The size of it is perfect for our needs too. We can easily transport it in the back of my car, and it takes seconds to set up and dismantle.  These are massive bonuses, given our relative distatte for planning, and effort. It’s super handy, and lets us add these cool little dynamic touches in places we weren’t prviously able. I think it’s found a good home with our group.

Cheers!

In Death as in Life
January 9th, 2012

Posted by Matt

Give your week a ‘spirited’ start; watch the new LoadingReadyRun video! (Then watch Unskippable and Checkpoint, for which I don’t have a terrible pun).

LRR: In Death as in Life
Unskippable: Shadows of the Damned
Checkpoint: Exhausted Fantasy

This week’s video was written by LoadingReadyAlumnus Tim Sevenhuysen. It’s been a while since Tim’s presence has been felt in a video, so I asked him to give us a few words about how this script came to be. His comments are included below:

“In Death as In Life” originally started out as a flash fiction story about two pages long that I included in my Flare Fiction: Volume 1 chapbook, which I sell through my blog. I was thinking about trying my hand at writing a video again and was going through some of the stories I had written when I rediscovered the story and realized it would work pretty well as a script, since it was so dialogue-heavy already. The main problem was that it was too short, so I sat down and fleshed it out, tweaked things to make it work better in video format, and added the stinger. The story actually works better in the longer script version than it does in the shorter flash fiction format, in my opinion, which is always nice when you adapt something like this.

I love the way Kathleen executed her role. I didn’t include any kind of a description for “the hair,” so I was really interested to see how LRR would interpret it, and I wasn’t disappointed!

Also, I’m kind of curious to know how many “Barvolutions” there are in the world. I came up with the name on my own, as an example of how lame I think a lot of bar names are, but a cursory internet search suggests that there’s at least one company that doesn’t attach the same sense of irony to the name that I do.

Graham and Paul returned last night from MAGFest, and I know they had a blast – so, on their behalf, let me extend a big thanks to everyone who came along to say hi, attended the panel and screening, and generally contributed to the great weekend. If you couldn’t make it out, hopefully we’ll have a chance to see you at PAXEast 2012!

Cheers!

Graham and Paul attending MAGFest Jan. 5-8, 2012!
January 4th, 2012

Posted by Matt

Do you love video games? Do you love music? Do you love some combination of the two? Do you Love LoadingReadyRun? Do you live (Ha! Got you!) in the National Harbour, MD area, or can you get there? If the answer to any (or all) of these questions is yes, then next weekend MAGFest is probably where you want to be. An annual festival by fans, for fans, MAGFest is a celebration of games and game music that will be rocking out all weekend long at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

Being the life of the party that we are, LoadingReadyRun couldn’t let this go unattended! Graham and Paul will be on site all weekend, and they’re looking forward to seeing you. You can try to track them down on the floor for a high five if you like, but you may find it easier to spot them at the scheduled screening block or Q&A panel.

The screening block takes place at 9:30AM on Saturday in Panel Room 1.
Q&A will take place on Sunday at 11:00AM in Panel Room 3.

If you can make it to the show, rest assured that I am insanely jealous. It looks like it’s going to be a killer time.

Full details can be found on the MAGFest website: http://magfest.org/

Cheers!