PolyCast Episode 271: “Not Just a Lame Clip Show XX”

By | December 17, 2016

Taking to task. The two-hundred-and-seventy-first episode of [i]Civilization[/i] strategy podcast PolyCast, “[url=http://thepolycast.net/polycast/season10.php#episode271]Not Just a Lame Clip Show XX[/url]”, features regular co-hosts [url=http://apolyton.net/member.php/2-DanQ]Daniel “DanQ” Quick[/url], [url=http://apolyton.net/member.php/22677-Makahlua]”Makahlua”[/url], [url=http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=136315]Philip “TheMeInTeam” Bellew[/url] and [url=http://blog.maddjinn.ca]”MadDjinn”[/url] with five guest co-hosts in the twentieth compilation of segments archived from previous episode recordings and not released previously. With a 59m59s runtime, the summary of topics is as follows:

– [i]00m38s[/i] | [b]Miscellaneous[/b]
Original [i]Civilization[/i] Co-Designer Bruce Shelley on [url=http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/25/how-bruce-shelley-brought-a-board-gamers-view-to-designing-civilization]board game influences[/url] for the title, followed by fellow Co-Designer Sid Meier on being the [url=http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/3/4/11158134/the-man-who-made-a-million-empires]”man who made a million empires”[/url] (05m15s) and [url=http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/20/our-interview-with-sid-meier-on-the-next-25-years-of-civilization-games]offering “insights”[/url] on the series to date (14m16s; recorded for [url=http://thepolycast.net/polycast/season10.php#episode250]Episode 250[/url]); then, [url=https://killscreen.com/articles/civilization-coming-classrooms-thats-bad-idea]critiquing the critic[/url] who claims [i]CivilizationEdu[/i] is a “bad idea” (21m21s; recorded for [url=http://thepolycast.net/polycast/season10.php#episode264]Episode 264[/url]) and lessons learned from [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBXksKoiAo]the story of[/url] one game developer [url=http://steamcommunity.com/app/461620/discussions/0/215439774862269688]using the[/url] [i]Civilization[/i] trademark (34m16s; recorded for [url=http://thepolycast.net/polycast/season10.php#episode270]Episode 270[/url]).

[url=http://thepolycast.net/polycast]PolyCast[/url] is a bi-weekly audio production recording [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/thepolycast/live]live every other Saturday[/url] throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the [i]Civ[/i] community an interactive voice; sibling show [url=http://thepolycast.net/modcast][u]ModCast[/u][/url] focuses on [i]Civ[/i] modding, [url=http://thepolycast.net/turncast][u]TurnCast[/u][/url] on [i]Civ[/i] multiplay. The 2016 PolyCast Christmas Special is to be released on [u]December 24th[/u].