Here you’ll find the feed for all specialized posts in the Hiddennode podcast.
Dog Days of Podcasting
The yearly challenge to post an episode a day, Tyr was one of the original participants back in 2012. Since then we’ve posted in 8 different seasons of the show. All previous seasons have been archived here on the main site.
NaNoWriMo
Tyr’s been a participant of NaNoWriMo for over a decade and a half. Back in 2011, we started posting audio entries about our progress before the Hiddennode became a podcast. Since then we’ve been intermittent with using the podcast format for posting new entries.
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The early days of personal computing were an interesting time for our family. Doom, Duke Nukem, Zork, and various other text adventure games setup my gaming roots on the PC. It’s a pity I didn’t get the programming love as early as my brother Lyle did, but we did spend a lot of time using the computer as a backup when the gaming specific boxes were taken up.
Whoa! DurisMUD is still around! (this is even true in 2024, when we’re reuploading this, wow!)
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The original Nintendo in all it’s glory was the connecting glue between my brothers and me as a gamer and a gaming community. The experiences with Zelda, Samus Aran, Mario, and co helped me get a grasp on stories, group play, and fun with family. We probably went through 3-4 NES’s through the system’s life cycle, and I can’t tell you how many hours were wasted blowing dust off the connectors just to get a game working.
Yeah! Metroid!
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My foundation in games comes from the broken remains of my father’s computer business during the 1980’s. We had scores of Atari games and a number of consoles just sitting around waiting to be played. These early games and the experience around them set the stage for me becoming a gamer and my life connecting to be in the virtual worlds.
I was wrong! The game wasn’t called Tank, it was called Combat:
Also, yay trade wars!
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Welcome to the first episode of the 2014 Dog Days of Podcasting Challenge. This series is a 30 day event running from July 31, 2014 to August 29, 2014. For this year’s events I’m attempting a run at a theme I’ve been considering for some time, Virtual Realms and their effect on my life. I’ve been a gamer from as long as my hands could grab a joystick and slam a button, and while I haven’t played every system I’ve touched the keystones of what most “80’s Kids” would consider important. For the next 30 days I’ll be walking through the properties, machines, and communities that make up my life.