Welcome to Episode 8! A brand new season of klikcast awaits you!

In KlikCast we talk about the recent events in the click community but also we call up guests by phone! Its all made in good fun, so we hope you enjoy it.

Download: http://www.create-games.com/klikcast.asp?id=22

Episode 8 features:

* Phone interviews with Ben (The Orphanage) & Jeff (Clickteam)
A video reviews for Iffermoon & Trent 3 and also a new video feature with Jason about his new Arcade Cabinet. Like last season we are also bringing back the "were are they now section?" This month we take a look at what happened to David Willis.

For this episode we have 2 video versions:

- The small regular streaming version and a high quality 640*480 version, now this version will be around 318 MB but if you have the connection for it, hey why not Click on the download link to make your selection for either.

Everything in this episode was made in good fun so i hope you enjoy it.

Comments and suggestions for Episode 9 are more then welcome. If you have some news about your latest project and you want me to give you a call, just send me a dc-mail and we will set it up.

- For every episode we are also looking for people who want to do there very own segment in the show. If you have a microphone and you want to do a review or share some news feel free to email the mp3/wav to: rikus@shaw.ca and i'll be sure to put in there. With the help of more people this show could get better and better as we go along.

That was great! I loved seeing previews of the new games. I only got upset that my question wasn't asked.

Besides that, I can't wait for the next episode!

Please include subtitles in your next video. It's extremely hard to understand what people say in that low sound quality, I couldn't understand a word of what Jeff said.

Transcript (Part 1)
Jeff: Hello, Clickteam. This is Jeff.
Rikus: Hey Jeff, it’s Rikus.
Jeff: Hey, how you doing?
Rikus: Pretty good. How are you?
Jeff: I’m having another wonderful day.
Rikus: Yeah. How’s the weather there?
Jeff: Uh. Right now looking out the window, and it’s 83 degrees, not a cloud in the sky and a slight breeze.
Rikus: Nice, sounds good. All right Jeff, so as you know we’ve been asking people around the Click community some questions to ask ya. Um, before we do that I have a question of my own so we’ll start with that.
Jeff: All right
Rikus: All right, so is it true that Clickteam decided to work on a Multimedia Fusion 3 first before embarking on a 3D version of MMF?
Jeff: That is correct. There will be another big 2D version before there is a 3D version. But you’ll never know if some new extension or something will pop up and kind of help decent 3D.
Rikus: Cool, and when did you guys decide to go for another big 2D version first?
Jeff: Well, I’m trying to think. I thought that Yves and Francois might have all along planned another 2D version of Multimedia Version, but I know that 3D has been on their radar for quite a while. Francois some time thought probably about six months ago that there would be another big version in the 2D route.
Rikus: Okay, so that sounds good. So it’d be a sort of stepping-stone to step into 3D afterwards.
Jeff: Correct, and we would just refine the interface and extensions and the whole aspect of what the Click software does. As you’ve seen – you know you’ve been around forever- you know Klik & Play to Multimedia Fusion, things have changed quite a bit. And there is still a way to go, and some of the core needs to be ripped out to do things like renaming the qualifiers.
Rikus: Oh right, well sounds good Jeff. All right, Jeff. Okay, so what we’re going to do is we’re going to move on to the questions submitted by the users. I hope you’re ready for them
Jeff: Oh, all right
Rikus: I selected the five, so not all of them. So we’ll see what you have to say. The first question is coming from a GerbleGod7, and he’s asking if the USA click convention is even remotely possible in future years.
Jeff: Well it is *remotely* possible. The problem with the United States is the country is so huge and Clickteam, well, the number of users of the software is increasing every day. But still there’s quite a distance between people, and with a lot of the user’s being under eighteen its a little bit tough for us to find a spot where people are gonna be in one place.
Rikus: Yeah.
Jeff: Now we did do something with the E for All Expo.
Rikus: Oh.
Jeff: It’s a big videogames conference we have down in Los Angeles at the end of the summer. We were thinking about having a consumer booth there and perhaps doing something in conjunction with some of the users who would like to go to Los Angeles and maybe go to the convention and maybe do a little Clickteam side thing. It’s not something we’re doing this year, but it is something we are keeping our eye on so it is possible.
Rikus: Well, that would be very exciting. And to keep people together, that would be… It’s a good idea actually, I think.
Jeff: Yeah, I think we would have to do it in conjunction with something else.
Rikus: Uhuh.
Jeff: And we’re still gonna get a lot of comments from people that, you know, they don’t wanna go to Los Angeles because they live in Chicago. I mean that’s, you know, a five hundred dollar plane ride.
Rikus: Yeah.
Jeff: It’s a little bit different from Europe, where, you know, Europe has such good public transportation and people can get around more affordably.
Rikus: Yeah.
Jeff: But you know, in the United States it’s a long wait between cities.
Rikus: Well, we’ll see what happens. It’s a good idea to get the ball rolling for next year. See what people have to say about it.
Jeff: Yeah.
Rikus: Alright, so well we’ll move on to question number two. Um, this question is from Oliver. And he’s asking “will Clickteam staff of programmers grow in the near future?”
[On screen: Loosing (sic) connection]
Jeff: Yes.
[On screen: Service unavailable]
Rikus: Service unavailable? I swear it wasn’t me! Um, while we’re trying to fix this, let’s just go to an interview and hopefully we’ll get this back up and running

Woah! :|
Thanks Joshtek!

Some more for you, LIJI.

Transcript (Part 2)
Rikus: “Will Clickteam’s staff of programmers grow in the near future?”
Jeff: Yes, um. Chris Branch joined us after the last Click Convention last September.
Rikus: Uhum.
Jeff: And unfortunately, he got a little bit sick so he hasn’t been able to work as much as he wanted to.
Rikus: Mmm.
Jeff: He’s basically on staff and then we’re working with a guy named Ross [Pickett] down in Australia, and he’s been kind of a mad man going through doing the conversions over to Java with Francois.
Rikus: Okay.
Jeff: So yeah, both of these guys – Clickteam definitely wants them to be full-time, salaried, wage-earning programmers for Clickteam.
Rikus: Okay. Well this ties nicely into the third question by Dr. James. Um, he’s asking “Where do you think your flagship products are going? Pushing into Multimedia Fusion 3D or moving more into Java and the portable side of things?”.
Jeff: Well, that’s an interesting question.
Rikus: Eh heh.
Jeff: Um, I kind of see it going both.
Rikus: Both ways.
Jeff: Er, Clickteam knows that we need to have a runtimes on more platforms. And I think Java has kinda proven itself to be something we’ve really need to consider. ‘Cos you know Java applications it run under Windows, can run under Mac, under Linux and who knows what else it can run on. Any new Operating System happens top pop up probably will already support Java.
Rikus: Oh, okay.
Jeff: Then we have Java Mobile, which I know a lot of people are looking forward to.
Rikus: Mmmhmm.
Jeff: And I think that’s about half your question there. I know that Francois on the authoring side has considered making a Java version of the authoring side. Um, no real timeline or progress report on that but it was something that he was thinking about
Rikus: Okay, well that’s exciting.
Jeff: Francois got into using Java with his BluRay work and uh he was impressed by how good the libraries and the foundation of it was.
Rikus: Mmm, well that’s good and it’s good that he’s getting some more experience with that. Alright Jeff, we’re moving onto question number four - a bit of a lighter question from AndyUK. He’s asking, “do you have any personal favourite Click games?”
Jeff: Personal favourite Click games? Uh, there’s so many good ones it’s hard to put your finger to. I really liked the Physics Draw – I know that’s not really a game.
Rikus: Uhum.
Jeff: One of the classic games I like. Actually I enjoyed most of them. Unless I can put my finger on just one that’s. I’m really a casual gamer, so any kind of platform or puzzle game I just dig.
Rikus: Well, that’s good to now. For all you listeners out there. And we’re moving onto the last question, from Shab. He’s asking the following: “Jeff. When the BluRay support is added, will it be possible to use the MMF2 family of products to create custom menus for BluRay video. This one is more of a stupid question, but I assume that there will be no way to store values once the system has been turned off (referring to BluRay)”.
Jeff: Yeah. Uh, I guess there’s no way to store any values. Um, BluRay. When it first gets done it’s gonna be part of a Sonic product. And this product is aimed kind of at very high level commercial studios.
[Note from Francois after: You are able to save fils to the internal Flash ram of the player. So you'll be able to save progress...]
Rikus: Uhum.
Jeff: I think that the product itself is around forty/fifty thousand dollars
Rikus: Yikes.
Jeff: So there won’t be anybody in Clickteam that has one unless Sonic gives us one for free.
Rikus: Uhumm.
Jeff: Uh, Sonic was thinking and considering a consumer-level BluRay creation tool.
Rikus: Oh, that’s new news.
Jeff: And if they do that then the average person should be able to afford it.
Rikus: Yeah.
Jeff: The regular MMF that everybody has right now itself won’t export BluRay.
Rikus: Uhum.
Jeff: It’s kind of a, it’s a separate programme that’s almost identical to Multimedia Fusion if that makes any sense.
Rikus: Okay, it makes sense.
Jeff: But at least perhaps some of the guys out there, they would be experienced enough with Multimedia Fusion to feel comfortable going to a company and saying “I can make you a BluRay creation. I just need this tool”.
Rikus: Uhuhm. Okay, so in the end it’s up to the user when the tools become available.
Jeff: Yeah.
Rikus: Alright Jeff, well that’s all the questions we have here. Anything else you would like to share or anything else that’s on your mind?
Jeff: No, not really. Um, working hard doing the shows. Getting an increasing of schools, universities, colleges teaching. Well, we’re doing better than ever.
Rikus: Oh, that’s good.
Jeff: And we’ve probably, oh, maybe doubled what we were last year.
Rikus: Oh wow.
Jeff: So things are going up and exposure has gone way up. When we do the shows now we run into a lot of people either use the product or have heard of the product. And we get a lot of others coming to us down at the shows talking to us wondering why everybody’s mentioning the ClickTeam and all these cool products we have.
Rikus: Oh that’s good. That’s good. Let’s hope this trend will keep on going there for the next couple of years. Alright, Jeff. I think we’re all through here. Thank you again for the great interview, and I’m sure there will be many more to follow.
Jeff: Well that’s fine. Any time you want to call, just ring up my number.
Rikus: Alright, sounds good. Alright thanks Jeff, see you later.
Jeff: Bye.
Rikus: Bye.

...wow, took me a while to transcribe (might be one or two mistakes) .

Thanks again!
And you replaced one "Rikus:" with a "Jeff:" but it was quite obvious to notice, so it's fine.

Wow josh, way to go thanks! Audio quality wise, it is weird since i could hear him pretty good from the streaming version. I did just upload a new version with some added footage while i was re-rendering i put the out-put for sound a bit higher, let me know if that makes a difference liji. Otherwise for any future eps i have no probs adding some subbs in.

In any event i hope people will enjoy the episode:)

Thanks Rikus!
I'll check the update tomorrow.

I can understand him perfectly. I don't think the audio is that bad at all.