Who You Gonna Call?
April 5th, 2010

Posted by Matt

It’s up! Go watch it!

This script, like that for Le Cafe last week, is one we’ve had kicking around for quite some time. Both scripts were written by Paul, and both presented unique location issues. However, these issues resolved themselves around the same time, through the relationship we’ve developed with the Victoria Event Centre (home of the Phillips Comedy Night). We owe a great deal of thanks to them for the use of their facility.

Who You Gonna Call was filmed in a few hours after dark on the roof of the VEC, the week before we left for PAX East and New York. It was a relatively fast and straightforward shoot, but preparations took most of the day. We wanted to make absolutely certain that this video looked great, so that meant spending as much time as possible putting together the costumes for our heroes. Some serious rummaging though Value Village later, and I don’t think we could have done much better.

Enjoy!

Operation: Mark Moonbase Mk. III Results
April 4th, 2010

Posted by Tim

Almost 80 people sent in submissions for Operation: Mark Moonbase Mk. III, which I’m pretty sure is a new record for us. Thank you, everyone who entered!

Many people guessed locations very close to the actual place where we built Moonbase Mk. III, but ultimately only one person was able to pinpoint the correct building site. Before revealing the winner, I’d like to share a couple of the closer attempts. These people are the Runners Up of the operation.

For the results, with images and details, click the link: Read the rest of this entry »

LiveStream: Inside the Moon on April 2
April 1st, 2010

Posted by Tim

The show is over! You can watch the recording of the show here:


http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5907637

Next time, I’ll try not to blow the levels so much, waste so much time, and fail at sharing a simple image. : )

In the future, if you want to connect to the chat with an IRC client, here are the details:

chat01.ustream.tv
6667
#inside-the-moon

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Several things will be covered during the show. I’ll be revealing the winner of Operation: Mark Moonbase Mk. III before it gets announced on the website, as well as the Runners-up; we’ll play a couple of rounds of a very special game show; and I’ll answer your questions, which you can post in the comments area on this blog post.

I am also going to kick off another LRR contest, one which I’ve designed specifically to provide benefit to me without requiring me to exert any real effort. I think you guys will have fun with it!

I hope everyone tunes in tomorrow and participates in the chat. I plan to record the show on UStream, so if you can’t make it, you’ll still be able to watch it after the fact.

Don’t forget to post your questions for me to answer in the comments on this blog post!

Tim

Loading Time: Moving the Moonbase
March 31st, 2010

Posted by Tim

LRR Behind the Scenes

As promised, here’s the Loading Time for our move into the Moonbase Mk. III. It took longer to get online that I had hoped, due to some strange upload issues with YouTube and our trip to Boston, but exporting with a different codec (and, unfortunately, at only 720p rather than 1080p) seems to have fixed the problem.

We’re really excited to be in this new place, and we’re also very thankful that everyone helped us find it back after we lost it.

Speaking of that Runners Operation, I should have a winner all picked out by the end of the week, and I’ll share some of the entries with you all when I do. Once that piece of business has been dealt with, next week should bring a new challenge for you all to complete. I’m looking forward to it!

-Tim

PAX East Wrap-Up
March 29th, 2010

Posted by Tim

Well, it’s over.

PAX East has drawn to a close, and the gamers have all gone home. All, that is, except a good portion of the Enforcers, who are sticking around to do take-down and clean-up and all of the other essential work that makes the show work. We at LoadingReadyRun would like to thank all of the Enforcers and other PAX staff for everything they did to help us out and make our time at the con go so smoothly and be so enjoyable and successful.

Boston is a beautiful city. We had some time to wander around on Thursday, and on Sunday morning we were given a short driving tour of a few landmarks, as well. For my own part, I appreciated all the history that I could see in the city. We have some great historical buildings and landmarks in Victoria, BC, but Boston really puts its heritage out there!

The fan meet-up on Saturday afternoon was a lot of fun, and a great opportunity to connect some names to faces, and our panel on Saturday night went really well. Thank you to everyone who showed up, despite the fact that we overlapped with Paul and Storm a bit, and prevented you from seeing the Video Game Orchestra.

It was really cool for us to have a table in Bandland, where we could hang out and meet people and sign autographs. It was even cooler that we had Wil Wheaton, Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, and Bill Amend to our right, and Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and the Video Game Orchestra to our left!

I’m sure we’ll be sharing many more details about our trip over the next couple of podcasts, and we have taken some behind-the-scenes footage, so hopefully that will find its way online at some point. For now, though, Jer and myself are heading back to Victoria on a red-eye flight, and Graham, Paul, Matt, Kathleen, and James are continuing on to New York for some vacation time.

Once again, thank you to everyone who made PAX East so awesome, and hopefully we’ll see some more of you at PAX Prime this summer.