Introducing Noclip

Yeah, same here. The weird thing is that Easy Allies is using the same type of RSS link, but that works with Pocket Casts for me. Not sure if we just need to give it some time?

VIV_ID

I received three podcast links but none seem to be working for me via Apple Podcasts. When I try the URLs in a browser I get a 404 back 🙁

James Bowman

I received my podcast RSS link today, but there's a pretty big issue in that it refuses to work with many popular podcast apps (such as Pocket Casts, which I use). This isn't Noclip's fault, it's Patreon's for using such a restrictive system, but hopefully eventually the episodes can be hosted elsewhere and people can use whichever app they like to listen.

Paul

Thanks so much for all the feedback. I watched some tutorials over the weekend and remastered all the audio based on what I learned. It sounded terribly low in parts in my car too so I just listened to the entire podcast in the garage so check and I think it sounds a lot better. Thanks for the idea of "seeding the feed". I'm going to look into that!

Noclip

Hey Danny, like you I listen to a great many podcasts covering a wide range of topics. When I heard about your new podcast venture and especially who was the first guest I was really excited about the episode. I think the content was great and I am certainly looking forward to future episodes. I would like to make a suggestion about format. I know you understand documentary style content vs. interview style much better than I do, but I have found that interview style podcasts work best when the host is focused on one(possibly two) guest(s). Some examples are Soren Johnson's Designer Notes and the 1099, which you are very familiar with. Documentary style podcasts (Serial, ESPN's 30 for 30, etc) I feel work best when a specific topic is focused upon, requiring many people to give short sound blurbs in between a narration. Interviews give the opportunity for tangents(often insightful) and more in depth conversations, and on top of that less editing to perform. Just my thought. I look forward to episode 2.

Sam Ruffner

What I like a lot about content produced at Noclip is that the World does not end at the borders of natively English speaking nations. Many gaming related stories deserving to be heard may come from non-english speaking cultures and thus are often ignored. Thanks for taking extra steps needed to bring those to wider audiences! The interviews with polish developers of the Witcher series were very well done, for example. The audio podcast format is another good method to widen the audience. I personally find it much easier to find the time necessary to listen to a podcast than to watch a video episode. Thanks a lot for doing the podcast format as well!

Mārtiņš Medens

Danny - you consistently make some of the most thoughtful content in the gaming industry, and I'm so happy to be on this ride with you as a Patron. If you continue to make mini-docs in audio form, this podcast is going to be tremendous. This first episode is already brilliant. LIKE BRILLIANT. I have a few questions/comments. But these are the smallest things. This podcast is so so great. 1. Frequency: A Life Well Wasted never promoted a set schedule. Even Gimlet’s Reply All doesn’t hit every two weeks (they have a website where you can go and see if there’s a new episode coming in that particular week: <a href="http://www.replyall.fyi/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.replyall.fyi/</a>). Given the incredibly high quality bar here, I wouldn’t be mad if you didn’t hold yourself to a set schedule. 2. Mixing: I listened in my car and on Apple EarPods. In my car, some sections were louder than others. Example, it was a bit tough to make everything out at a few points (like 28:00; the combination of Sergey speaking a bit quietly, the music and the room at a few points made it hard to hear). 3. Your beginning and ending VO sounded more compressed than the rest of your VO. When I record with different mics for different sections, I've had more success separating the audio on different tracks and compressing them separately. 4. Your podcast theme is so perfect for this show. Like PERFECT. 5. Will you be making a trailer to “seed the feed”? I forget if you’re making a new feed or using the existing feed. Just a thought.

Jacob McCourt

It was great, Danny! The only feedback I can think of is that the bit where you're talking about him going to the GDC talk that inspired him followed by him basically saying the same thing felt a bit repetitive. Other than that, it's ace and feels like it's exactly what a Noclip podcast should be. Also, I'm super excited to hear about Theme Hospital. I've been cheerleading for a doc on that one forever. Hopefully we also get some juicy details on other classic Bullfrog games. ;)

Nicholas Decker

Hey Danny - I really liked it. I'm a big podcast listener so I'm 100% behind this. I'll put my one piece of feedback first - I think your tone at the start of the episode and just at the end didn't sound as natural as during the interviews - I feel like maintaining a more laid-back/less-scripted tone throughout the whole episode will sit better. I'm thinking along the lines of how you normally speak during the patron-only videos - for me that kind of tone "feels" better in a podcast. On the flip-side, I think the sound design was *insane* - definitely keep this up. I'm thinking the overall audio quality, the music and the incidental sounds that were added around the dialogue.

Patrick Hanlan

This podcast is *fascinating*. I keenly look forward to more. I like your video content (Patron from the beginning), but I'm very glad that you are trying audio content too. Can't watch your videos while driving or working, after all ;-) And I can imagine (and hope) it'll allow you to explore stories that otherwise might not be 'accessible' because they don't fit into the video-documentary form (or because the people involved aren't as available, etc).

Mike Lee

Danny. My goodness. This is an incredible podcast. It manages to create all the atmosphere of a doc, it is immediately compelling, and fantastic use of music. Blown away. Easily one of the best podcasts out there. Great work, Noclip continues to be a cut above.

Tory Thompson

This is rad Danny.

Danny, I accuse you of trying to remake A Life Well Wasted. You have succeeded.

Geesus you are good! Great quality and content. Loved the small breaks between sections. Felt kind of like the small pauses a good speaker takes during a speech. I would love if every one in a while it was just your take on something. That would be good too. Keep up the amazing work! #ForeverAPatron

This was great Danny! I loved the produced feel that the podcast had. It definitely feels like s higher quality production. It's a refreshing change of pace from the other gaming podcasts out there! Also, thought the talk about neural networks was very interesting. Good work! Looking forward to more of these.

Thanks so much! Yeah there are no shortage of gaming podcasts out there so I thought if I do it it should be something fresh. Glad to hear that comes across! Thanks!

Noclip

Good call. I’ve had a listen myself and the pauses seem stranger than I thought they would.

Noclip

There are a few sound FX in there at the start and the end. I didn’t use any in the middle third - probably because I was rushing that segment of the edit a bit. Let me take a look. It’s certainly something I’m new to so I’m probably being overly cautious.

Noclip

Oh wow that was a mistake, these won’t be weekly for sure. Thanks for the heads up! I’m aiming for every two weeks and having them in “seasons”.

Noclip

Yeah, that’s a decent suggestion alright. Let me think about it.

Noclip

This definitely has the sound and production quality of a NoClip production! Felt like I was listening to a video. I really enjoyed the musical choice. Maybe they went a little long, especially the last interlude, but it was good music to listen to so... I think you nailed the style. Really enjoyed this!

Kevin O'Neil

So it’s more No Clip. Slightly more relaxed but basically an audio only episode of the main show. Danny it’s fantastic and I really feel you are using every penny of this Patreon perfectly! You have a life long sub from me.

B&L

I like it a lot. When i read the major outlets or critics on the internet it seems they are talking just about games, a silly thing we all love. But the stories you told are personal and relatable. That's something that in my opinion only easy allies and noclip are able to pull off. Keep up the good work :)

Great work Danny. Looking forward to adding this to muy regular rotation of podcasts.

Eric Pihlblad

Not to say that you are wrong, but for me, the pauses were really helpful as a mental break, especially during interviews that wander and have a lot of information packed in.

Jacob Godserv

I just got to the end. This was fantastic! I have no other points of criticism :) You could publish this as-is and I would feel proud of it.

Jacob Godserv

Hey Danny! Loved this a bunch, especially when it had the same storytelling style as the docs. My only two critique are, for me alone, it feels like it needs video, only because of what I'm calling, "outside the interview" stuff: The panel intro, the background noises, etc. I feel as if I needed to see what was being talked about in order to understand it. Also, a couple of the music interludes, one or two at most, seemed like they went about two or three seconds too long. I'm confident I'm in the minority and you also have no plans having this in video form with how much more work that entails, but just something I wanted to say. Keep up the great work and I'm looking forward to the podcast's future!

Brandon K Gann

Just finished. Brilliant! One minor thing at the end when Sergei has finished talking you have music, that then fades to other music. I don't think that is a problem, but again, it's a while before you talk again. When watching your videos there is normally some B-roll or your logo, and so the pause doesn't seem as great, but on a podcast, you don't have anything visual to look at so it seems like the gap is a lot longer than it is. That's all I have. Hope it helps!

Simon D

This is NoClip, the podcast, and it feels every bit as professional as your videos! Great job, dude!

Love this so much! Quality is as good as anything you have done. I haven't listened to it all but about 2/3 through. There are a couple of pregnant pauses, once at the beginning just after you introduce the story, and then when you are talking about GDPR. Seems unnatural. But I love this format. I am really excited to listen to these, as I can hear them in the car or when I'm working on something else. The length is perfect too IMHO.

Simon D

What I hate about most podcasts is how off-the-cuff they can be. The people talking have no set direction or discipline to keep anything they're saying on track and it can often run for hours (I know GiantBomb is guilty of this, so their stuff isn't my cup of tea). This podcast on the other hand, is well produced and meticulously thought out. The music cues are on point and it sounds very professional and easy to listen to. It sounds like you're reading a script and not giving us your two cents, which in this format, is much more attractive. I agree with the comment above about not making it weekly and locked into promises. I would say, make these when you can and produce them to this quality level. Respectfully I'm only three minutes in but it would be cool to hear sound effects to go alongside concepts you talk about. If that makes any sense, I'm a huge fan of radio theatre and the added production level of produced sound would really make your podcast stand out above the rest.

Joel Powley

I hope you don't mind if I drop comments as I think of them, to put each idea/feedback item in its own thread? I heard you say "weekly," but I'm not sure if you want to promise that. I'm OK with irregular releases based on the availability of yourself and your interviewees. In other words, I'd love to see this podcast as a "release valve" for the potentially-unpredictable opportunities you get to chat with industry professionals.

Jacob Godserv

Diggin' it so far ! That intro music is rad.

kyle disanjh

I'm really enjoying this, past the introduction. Perhaps that's just because I know your work. Perhaps the first 10 minutes should be Episode zero?

Graham Robinson

Right out of the gate, I have to congratulate you for your absolutely fantastic intro. There's a lot of podcasts that have great content but a bad first impression; this is not one of those.

Jacob Godserv