By Kieron Gillen on March 10th, 2008 at 9:47 pm.
Readers from the distant past known as last week will remember many things that’ll now be bewildering to modern readers. Remember when Jim was away, not Kieron? And talking at length about Audiosurf – what was that all about? And those trousers we wore! What were we thinking! Anyway, those bearded veterans will also remember us linking to a series of interviews Warren Spector performed with various luminaries, which immediately disappeared.
Those following the comments thread will have seen a sharing group emerged to distribute all thirteen files to anyone who wanted them. News reaches us, via spokesperson LocalHost, that they’ve assembled a 3 gigs (aka Many, many Peggles) torrent file of the whole bunch. You can download it from here and I suspect many of you really, really should. Like, really, really, really, really.
10/03/2008 at 21:55 Turin Turambar says:
Yeah!
I already watched the Tim Willits section, and it was great, 2 hours 40 minutes of games, design, history, funny stuff, etc.
10/03/2008 at 22:47 DragonSix says:
Is the Paul Weaver is complete (not 45MB) in this torrent ?
10/03/2008 at 23:10 Seniath says:
Shame my halls connection blocks torrents.
3 months, 3 more months and I shall be freeee.
10/03/2008 at 23:11 restricted3 says:
But… a torrent?. OMG, isn’t that… PIRACY?!?!? O_o
10/03/2008 at 23:20 Andrew Armstrong says:
I’ll see if I can get these up at the Internet Archive this week, I can get in contact with someone at UT who might be able to help. I was going to download them, I was surprised how fast they went offline!
11/03/2008 at 00:45 ZeroByte says:
For the torrentless, an incomplete mirror from the post of ancient old: http://www.ninjadodo.net/temp/spector/
I enjoyed watching the old veterans a lot more than watching the younger guys like Tim Willit. Hal Barwood and Gordon Walton gave a lot more insightful talks I think.
11/03/2008 at 01:03 MarvintheParanoidAndroid says:
Awesome! I managed to grab a bunch before they went offline, I shall get the rest from here.
11/03/2008 at 02:49 O.G.N says:
The torrentless could try here:
http://www.veoh.com/channels/Master-class
All the videos aren’t up yet, but I’m working on it.
11/03/2008 at 05:49 Lh'owon says:
Yay for 20gig bandwidth limit! NZ internet rocks! …oh wait.
By the way, RPS isn’t viewing correctly for me… maybe it’s because I’m on a mac (though a shiny new one, so it isn’t me being outdated) though that really shouldn’t make a difference.
Pic (sry for large size): http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b85/Mogget_2005/RPSBwoken.jpg
11/03/2008 at 07:09 James says:
I was really disappointed to miss the on-ramp for these ones, even though I knew they would turn up on taverns of ill repute eventually. Thanks for the heads up!
11/03/2008 at 08:45 McCool says:
I was actually suprised at how good Richard Garriot was on this. You’d expect, y’know, something like Richard Garriot and Warren Spector talking about games and their history for 3 hours to have to disapoint. It didn’t, it was awesome, even just to hear Garriot’s story.
11/03/2008 at 08:46 nabeel says:
Seeding.
nabeel
11/03/2008 at 09:23 Ninja Dodo says:
>For the torrentless, a
n incompletesoon to be complete mirror from the post of ancient old: http://www.ninjadodo.net/temp/spector/…with the exception of Paul Weaver which I don’t think anyone has more than 45 megs of.
Going through them in order. So far my favourites are the intro, Harvey Smith and Marc LeBlanc. All are very much worth watching though.
11/03/2008 at 10:35 David says:
Thank you RPS!
11/03/2008 at 11:14 kadayi says:
Acquired this in double quick speed last night, will try and seed it during the wee hours (UK time) until the end of the month or thereabouts as I have unmetered internets (the joy of having a very old contract :))
11/03/2008 at 11:17 Larington says:
YES! I’d managed to get the majority of them but lacked the connection to find a suitable way of uploading… Now my plans for world domination will be… er… Delayed by watching more of these.
Maybe thats a good thing, though I’d probably make an awesome benevolent dictator. (Heh)
11/03/2008 at 11:37 Mika says:
Paul Weaver’s video is still incomplete.
11/03/2008 at 12:36 Larington says:
The video was incomplete on the games course website originally, so unless a full version is put back up onto the course website, we’ll never have access to the full version. :-(
11/03/2008 at 14:50 Buceph says:
Anyone know where I can pick up similar lectures or discussions or talks from people in the games industry (boardgames, computer games, rpgs, whatever.)
11/03/2008 at 16:57 Zuffox says:
Buceph: Go purchase some of the excellent GDC lectures available at … GDC’s website. The place to look for such things, really.
11/03/2008 at 17:13 Ninja Dodo says:
http://www.gdcradio.net/free_gdc_recordings/
Also: all done uploading.
http://www.ninjadodo.net/temp/spector/
11/03/2008 at 17:25 MedO says:
*deleted*
11/03/2008 at 22:58 lled2020 says:
Ninja Dodo, YOU ARE MY HERO! : )
12/03/2008 at 05:41 Wozza says:
Thanks everyone who has put the time and bandwidth in place for me to download and watch these, I have to say I found this amazingly insightful, however it just makes me mad on some levels, I should of stopped playing Stryker’s Run and continued my “Input” courses.
Still what great stuff, The Seamus Blackley interview is great and the most entertaining IMO, now there is a guy whos only interest is to play games, when you can go from splitting atoms to loving games, it shows how powerful the medium is and can be.
Thanks again for these, really appreciated, maybe nextyear they can get some maybe older game gurus like, Bushnell, Crammond, Braben, Minter, im happy to donate towards the cost, I cannot not offer alot but a few pounds, but im sure alot on here would do the same, no pressure lol.