Development Diary

This week marks the 5th anniversary of RSBandB! To celebrate this occasion Mike joined us on this edition of Update which was recorded live. We discuss the Zodiac Elemental and his ramblings and a great variety of listener questions.

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Hosts: Shane, Mike, Brad
Duration: 1:31:21

• Postbag 41
• A Players Gallery
• New Zanaris and Curse of Arrav Wallpaper
• Mark’s Q&A Answers
• Listener Questions
• FCC queries AT&T, Apple on Google Voice iPhone app rejection
• RTS Misery: StarCraft 2 officially pushed into 2010
• Apple Keyboards prone to a firmware hack. Also, make sure no one is within a 20m radius if you must have absolute security.
• RSBandB Turns 5
• Birthday Events
• SKOTM Update
• Shane’s Pick: WorldWide Telescope
• What have we been doing?

For the first time since April 2006 we have the (almost) the entire mod panel on the show. With this full house we debate whether to set up a colony on the Moon or Mars first, also just how it would be set up.

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Hosts: Shane, Mike, King Kulla, Paul, Trekkie, Jeff, Chief Snake
Duration: 1:29:25

• Poison Arrow Pub and Aquanite
• Animation Pack 1
• Another Round of Q&A
• Development Blog: Nearly Finished
• Tweaks and Fixes with Release Notes
• Listener Questions
• AT&T Blocked 4chan
• Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal
• Pirate Bay Sale Dead in the Water
• Clutter Control on Informer
• SKOTM Update
• Trekkie’s Pick: Ikariam
• Our Birthday Events
• What have we been doing?

The Curse of Arrav heading in the right direction, Membros, a Launch manager, and our movie habits. Also 5 audio questions, tech news, and an abbreviated “What have we been doing?” section.

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Hosts: Shane, Brad
Duration: 1:22:47

• The Curse of Arrav
• Tweaks and Fixes with Release Notes
• Runescape Portugese
• Bounty Worlds +1
• An ISP Outage
• Development Blog: Upload Manager
• Poll: A Night at the Movies
• Listener Questions
• DRM is [almost] dead RIAA Says
• Windows Live Messenger 10
• Microsoft: Windows 7 is done, on its way to manufacturers
• SKOTM Update
• Brad’s Pick: Digg or give Shane signup points
• Informer Articles: What do we starve for? X-Men Origins. Guitar Hero: Hits and the truth about marking
• What have we been doing?

Kirby and Paul join me this week in developing a hypothetical F2P boss: The KGD. We also talked about Agility, fastest way to level F2P skills, our execution, and transformers! Don’t forget to send us audio questions next week.

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Hosts: Shane, Paul, Kirby
Duration: 1:32:53

Note: In the intro I know I say, KGB: King Green Dragon. It was a slip of the tongue and I didn’t realize it until I was looking at it on paper after the show was exported.

• Extended Agility Courses
• Tweaks and Fixes with Release Notes
• Developer Blog: Dwarf Quest 3: Feedback and Blue Blocks
• 26king and 76king aren’t illegal
• Listener Questions
• The Transforming Mac
• Pentagon approves creation of cyber command and the UK is doing something similar
• Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011
  
• Windows 7 Pricing Announced: Cheaper than Vista
• Paul’s a Twitterin’
• SKOTM Update and new SKOTM: Fletching
• Kirby’s Pick: FreeRice
• What have we been doing?