Vloggin with the Fear! Games I play!

Fear tells the story of the fall of his UO Guild Spanish Inquisition and the rise of SI's evil player run city of Grimoire.

Fear, Adrick, and Evocare. The Legends Of BV!

Fear talks about how he met Pete "Adrick" Warner and Tom "Evocare" Chilton in Ultima Online back in 1999. We all started as enemies, but became good friends and made some wonderful magic happen on Battle Vortex back in the day. They are both alive and well working in the gaming industry on other games, but still two of the best gamers I have ever had the pleasure of killing.

Welcome to the OG - Fear's window into the past...

Fear's Online Gaming experience goes way back. He explains how far back and how all this stuff got started in this short video!

Old School Ultima Online with Rich "Dupre" Vogel and Gordon "Tyrant" Walton!

All of you old school gamers will remember this and love it!

Way Back Machine: Ultima Online and Raph Koster...

http://www.shatteredcrystal.com/index.php/~126289 - One Interview To Rule Them All. BV Audio Episode #19 with Raph Koster who was the Lead Designer for Ultima Online when this interview was released on Jan. 25, 1999. This interview was the one that gave us the inspiration to create another 45 more shows before closing down in March 2002.

Thanks to Pete "Sir Adrick" Warner for this opportunity to make a difference in our game.

For additional "old school" audio shows please visit: http://ishare.sphorium.com/fb/link.aspx?id=de584b50-02cf-43e8-9665-3bfd8d19f3ec

Catch the latest from Raph Koster on his website: http://www.raphkoster.com/

"Back in the day" is very subjective, but I am talking about the one interview that made Battle Vortex a part of something larger then my own ramblings. The quality of the interview is not exactly up to par with today's standards. You will have to forgive me since I had to do this stuff before things like YouTube came along with easy to follow steps and built in streaming at your fingertips.

Raph Koster who is now a crazed super-conductor for online games, is really a very nice and gentle person who really wanted to create a "life-simulator" that doesn't get imploded by the people playing it. Maybe that is why he started his Facebook app business.

Raph said something to me once that always stayed in my head and that was the fact that I was playing his game right. That made me feel pretty darn good to know I could experience someone elses vision the way the intended for all of us.

Even though I haven't ever worked in the industry, I have been stalking these super-genious game designers around like glue since 1996. I have one-sided conversations with them on my blog, and up until recently, didn't mind falling off the face of the Internet. Well, maybe some day, Fear's name will return to the light, but for now, please enjoy my remix of Raph Koster as he was over a decade ago...

Battle Vortex Audio Show Lives...

Like a blast of hot wind in your face, the BV Audio Show has been returned to the Internet by Viceroy of UO Radio!

Currently there are no descriptions of anything, but I will work on that over time here. Really though, do you need a description to hear the cutting edge commentary of Fear, Cyberwolf, Adrick, and Evocare? I don't think so...

Honestly, most of the archives are about 10 years old. Created back before we ever had cool systems in place like YouTube and Ishare. Back in the day I would make recordings on cassette tape, and then put them on the computer, edit them and add my own special Fear flavor to the mix. The quality was much lower then it is today, so you will have to forgive the sound. Everything had to be uploaded for the super fast 56k modem speeds that we don't see that much of anymore.

The link is now on the right hand bar under Audio Show Archives, or you can click below.

Battle Vortex Audio Show Archives

And guess what? There still aren't any transcripts for ANYTHING.. Muahahahaha! Sorry, that's a really old joke...

Oh happy day!

Edit: Speaking of old school, here is an Interview I did with Markee Dragon back in 2002! Visit his site to see how much has changed.

MarkeeDragon.com

Video Blog, Take 1...

The picture is too dark, the sound is okay, and it's all me... Back from the dead doing a little commentary about Farmville...

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjm1UDud27E

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzcoRn6J2cg

Just for giggles, I have a new blog up with much better lighting...

Video Blog for August 13, 2010...