In this episode we discuss how video game advertising and trailers have changed, why 'footage captured in game' means nothing, and whether any of this matters at all.

• Read Patch The Process, an article about 'day one patches' by indie game dev Rami Ismail.

There's lots of videos you should watch to accompany this episode:

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince "Teen Comedy Trailer"
• Watch Dogs - E3 2012 vs PC Release
• Clash of Clans adverts
• Dead Island
• Elite: Dangerous Launch Trailer vs PS4 launch trailer
• Introducing the Overwatch League
• No Man's Sky Gameplay Trailer 2014
• "The EVE Online Experience" and "This is EVE" - Uncensored
• Overwatch animated shorts including "Infiltration"

 

Jalada and Sefran explain why community management is so important in the development and maintaining of video games, from the perspective of video gamers.

• 7 Days to Die developer blog
• Examples of less-than-ideal pre-launch management: Spore, Fable, No Man's Sky.
• "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided silly preorder scheme scrapped"
• Diablo 3's significant Loot overhaul patch, dubbed 'Loot 2.0'.
• "Final Fantasy 14 killed by Square Enix’s stubbornness, reborn by a new approach"
• Elite Dangerous Galnet News
• id Software's open-sourced game code on GitHub

Intro & outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion

Welcome to Octal FM! After introducing your hosts, we dissect the PS4/PC game No Man’s Sky. Related reading from the show:

• Freelancer
• Star Citizen
• Elite: Dangerous
• Journey
• Spore
• Procedural generation
• No Man’s Sky stats on SteamSpy
• Diablo 3
  • Diablo 3's loot 2.0 patch (sample of media coverage for context)

Please let us know what you thought by Tweeting @octalfm, or using the email address in the show. Intro & outro music: JACKS  - Runaway Fashion