We’ve been making Bytejacker for two years now, which is surprising for a couple of dudes that can’t even keep a goldfish alive. In honor of this auspicious occasion, we’re answering viewer questions, taking a look behind the scenes, and checking out your birthday wishes.
We’ve also got a review of the first game of this year’s Summer of Arcade, LIMBO.
RADAR: LIMBO REVIEW
XBLA, Platformer, Playdead, $15.00
We’re two years into this show, guys. And if you’ve been watching for a while, you know how my tastes skew. I like my games dark, strange, cartoony, and atmospheric. Well, take a look at LIMBO, the first of this year’s Summer of Arcade titles on XBLA. Looks like I’ve got a winner here. But what are the rest of you going to think?
Viewer Questions, Part 1
Wherein we answer some of your burning questions. In this segment:
What equipment and software do we use on the show?
Why are there so many planes passing by?
FREE INDIE COUNTDOWN
#3: Looming – Flash, Adventure, Gregory Weir – LINK
#2: Fishbane – Flash, Platformer, Droqen – LINK
#1: Action Turnip – Flash, Platformer, Raitendo – LINK
SON OF VIEWER QUESTIONS
Is The A-Train ever coming back?
Where is the roof?
FEEDBACK: Bytejacker Birthday Wishes
Download links:
Bytejacker Dungeon: http://bit.ly/bQE7rn
Bytejacker Adventures, Episode 1: http://bit.ly/9LTkEU
Next week’s Feedback question: What’s the worst accessory or peripheral in gaming history? Weigh in with a video or audio comment on www.Bytejacker.com, a video response on YouTube, or a message on our hotline: (530) 675-GAME
Viewer Questions, Part III: THE QUESTIONING
Who shoots when Jon’s on camera?
Favorite Bytejacker Moments
Anthony:
Favorite Episode: Blip Festival, Part 1 and
Favorite Moment: The Monologue from “Challenger Approaches”
Jon:
Favorite Episode: GDC 2010
Favorite Moment: Talking about Bill Rizer from “Everyone, Even Aliens”
Watch the “Swingtime” Video here.
Outtake Reel
Here’s us messing up. We do it constantly.
FREE INDIE RAPID FIRE
Frogatto – Win/Mac/Linux/iPhone, Platformer, Frogatto Team – LINK
Sanctuary 17 – Flash, Exploration, Twofold Secret – LINK
Shoot First – Windows, Roguelike Shooter, Beau Blythe – LINK
This week’s music:
This Week’s Music:
“Android Blissout” and “GOTO WARPspeed” from Spiny Norman’s album Across the Milky Tracks – Download it!
Stalking People is Fun!
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2 years and still going strong I would say. What’s the traditional gift at 2 years?
Thousands of dollars.
love it love it all, You guys are like the long lost brothers i never had…..
And a nintendo power glove i seen when the next feedback question was announced. Hmmm, that’s what i said…..
You should of did a hate segment for the 10. Ft midget not saying happy birthday to you guys….sad….sad….the worst part is i have to live with the guy…..
It’s still your answer bro! Leave it in a video asap before someone else does. Also tell the midget happy birthday from us.
Wow, 2 years. That’s pretty awesome.
Really great show guys!
It’s still hard to believe!
Oh, and the cat climbing up the fridge was hilarious.
My cat is crazy. Give her a roll of toilet paper and kiss your clean house goodbye.
Thanks for the out-takes man! That was so epic. Anthony saying, “Yeah…. I’d like you to drip a little more.” Hahah That just totally just made my week (Until next Thursday of course).
Yeah I had to keep dumping water on my head after every take and when I screwed up he kept saying “more water!” You can never have enough sweat.
Um … HY!
I watched your show for a wile now, I have to say it’s pretty awesome, you are now my best source of new indie games!
I wish you success and do continue your awesome work!
Thanks so much for watching! Glad we could provide you with your weekly fix.
I discovered the show a little more than a year and a half ago, and it’s been a little bit more than a year and a half that i come here every thursday, first thing in the morning. Thank you guys, you rock.
Again, Happy Birthday ! And keep it up, “right up”.
Thanks man, we look forward to reading your comments every morning. Glad you’ve stuck with us for so long. Thanks for watching!
Hey great episode, thanks for putting in my game even though it was late.
Have you beat babypuncher mode yet? find all the secrets?
Hey man, Anthony, pink hoodie . . . Grappling hook! How could we not include that!
I think I found 13 secrets and I gave up on baby puncher mode on the first level. Too many spikes.
Here’s my responses as I watched the episode:
You’ve made some seriously gay references, too.
Re: gay references: Oh my goodness, I didn’t notice that school going up in the background. Wow.
Re: the roof: Doesn’t everyone go up on the roof in New York? The roof seems to be just to be the place to be when you don’t have a yard. There’s even an old song by the drifters about it.
Re: Me. Brought a tear to my eyes guys.
Then Andrew comes in for the last segment and I got this:
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TWO YEARS! Two years in a row you’ve given us ample notice and I’ve started writing a song for you guys only to record a drum track, half a bass track and write two lines of a chorus before being distracted by some new iPhone game and forgetting about it. Ah well, I’ll buy you each a beer at The Tank this weekend!
And yeah, everyone uses the roof even though nobody is supposed to. I’ve been to a few rooftop concerts on Bowery and in Bushwick. My old office in Soho, we’d go to the roof whenever the weather was nice and hope our Wifi reached that far. The day after I left they locked the fire exit door to prevent people from using the roof anymore. End of an era…
But yeah, HAPPY FLIPPIN’ BIRTHDAY DUDES. The Bill Rizer bit was the funniest thing ever. I was in a hotel on the west coast when that episode went up and I think housekeeping thought I’d injured myself with all the laughing and wheezing from watching it.
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Oh wow, the instructional video to the Sega Activator (that came on a VHS tape), is online!
Worst peripheral ever:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7783366196223400692#
This is so funny Joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=780bIG6TXFk
I’m on a total kick for all these peripherals now :)
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What did I say! It’s so bad it’s almost been wiped from our consciousness. Nobody talks about this thing any more. They’ll talk about ROB. They’ll talk about the powerglove. But this thing, it’s like selective amnesia.
I went back to the second hand store I thought had one. i was gonna get it. But it was gone. (Or I had the wrong store). But I’m gonna get one and hook it up to the computer, put on DDR, and do the cotton eye Joe. Oh yeah.
Link for Sanctuary 17 needs fixing.
PS. Anthony, I’m on ur YouTube watching ur videoz.
Yeah Joe, I am doing the same. I have been ever since he mentioned it in the video! It is kind of amazing because he has the exact same humor type, and it is really a reassurance to me for some reason that he was like he is now many years ago. I feel it just means that he is staying ‘true’ to his nature and or being ‘real’ and honest with us. I can digggg
Happy Birthday Bytejacker! I love this show!
I played Sanctuary 17 a few days ago. It is SO HARD! I have yet to try the others, but I will!
I will send you a pointless amount of cash tomorrow!
You guys are amazing I keep saying that over and over coz it is true, and the show is like a ray of happiness every given time. THANK YOU!
In my life I had Atari VCS 2600 then Megadrive, Super Nintendo, Panasonic 3DO, game boy, and then switched to PC but I didn’t have much of the peripheral accessories so I am not able to answer the question of the week :)
However it is 100th episode coming hooray!!!
My feedback answer, the power glove, sorry only on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvoDqZ2uXko
wow, to think I discoevered this show on episode 4 and no it’s almost episode 100 it so hard to believe. Greethings fellow bytejackers from Serbia!
What really boggles the mind is the fact that there are so many dudes and dudettes out there making games from scratch all the time! Someone can offer up 3 of them every week and just be scratching the surface.
It’s mostly dudes though.
Which is something that needs to be fixed in my opinion. Should be a totally gender neutral thing.
Hey there, I’ve been watching you guys since day one (ish) and I just wanted to say a late happy second birthday! You guys have changed a lot, but never stopped being awesome – I’ve never really gotten into any other video games show, other than that one on Sky which I gave up on because it had nothing to do with indie games, so this has been my highlight on Thursdays, for sure. And hey, who knows, maybe those two years will become twenty, and Joe’s kids will be presenting the show:
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7033/larsonpresenting.png
(Yes, I had to zoom in on a picture of mister Larson and cut around it. That was very depressing.)
Again, happy birthday from your 16 year old British fan. keep things rad, dudes! Looking forward to episode 100!
And no, I don’t have any way of recording video/voice -comments, because I just don’t have any equipment. I might try recording a video comment on my phone one day but I seem to have lost the USB cable. /cry
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I shall be the one who posts the most videos this week. Whatever did happen to mokeymoc??? Did his mom take away his webcam? The world will never know.
Ok well
Video 1: Dragon’s lair and Super smash Flash 2, my input….
Video 2: Joe Larson is a cool guy, i respect him a lot and he is a intelligent guy.
Video 3: Hehe, Jon and Anthony, if i recall, you guys mentioned about wanting us to send you photos of us naked. IF WE WERE HOT GIRLS…..
(I’m not that cruel to do that to my sister but i just thought it was hilarious when you guys said that.)
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Thanks man.
I can be a bit of a condescending dork at times, but I really don’t mean to.
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Additional responce to Laurence’s comment.
I’m up way too early on a Saturday, by the way.
Happy birthday guys! I’ve been happily looking forward to a new episode every Thursday for quite a long time now. Thanks for the 2 years of endearing entertainment, and here’s to many more!
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FIRF: Shoot First. I enjoyed it. Sure I died a lot but I always felt like I was getting better.
Sanctuary 17 strategy tips – Activate every save point (you need to to beat the game anyways) and when you die reload the page and you’ll start from the save point instead of sending out the next follower. Sanctuary 17 would have got my vote for the awesome lighting effect, but the fact that I had to break the game to enjoy it caused it to lose out to Shoot First.
Re: The fellowship of the Bytejacker. Me as Gimli… okay. I’d rather Gandolf (being the old guy) but Gimli, okay. Then Anthony, you’re Legolas and Jon… eh you can be Strider. And Nick is Pippin.
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Yeah. Jon and Anthony, you guys totally have my axe. Totally.
Lemme know if I weird you out with this one because I think I kinda weirded myself out a little bit.
Hey… uh… where’s the voting form?
Okay, found it. It’s on the front page. Only. Should probably be on the video page too. Just thinking.
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Shoot first wins.
see you guys at the tank
What tank? Is there a tank? There’s a tank in shoot first? Please tell me there’s a tank in the game. on second thought, no. Tell me there’s no tank or I’m going to have to play the game till the tank.
Aw man.
Ooooooooh. The Tank. Where that thing tonight is taking place. Got it. Sorry.
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not sure If I’ll use this camera again, had to do a fair bit of post decoding, I’l post with the links I’m referring to below, in case I’ll get marked as spam again.
Hope you guys are are enjoying yourselves at the tank :P
Random’s unveiling at blip 2008:
http://randomizer.se/2008/10/best-halloween-ever/
The ultrachip festival, for UK blip heads :D
http://ultrachip.co.uk/
Press play on tape playing cannon fodder, as awesome as it is, note the scratch controller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLWw1OpDrpI
oh, and megaman’s 8 bit deathmatch:
http://cutstuff.net/blog/
Oh, as suspected, My link heavy post is “awaiting moderation”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
:P
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so much light in the background! > <"
Also forgot to mention – I saw you Anthony on bestjobsever and have got to say, watched every single episode just cause it was hosted by you. Great stuff, and I too am happy, like someone else posted above, that you keep true to who you are when you are on camera.
Now, in my opinion rhythm rockets wasn’t all that, but one step behind was AMAZING. Just wanna say that here. I’ve said it on Armor, I’ve said it on twitter to Danny. And that might just be me, I know I’m a sucker for games where you are your own worst enemy, but you should check it out and (maybe) get a preemptive jump on next weeks winner for Free Indie Rapid Fire:
http://armorgames.com/play/6525/one-step-back
Worst console peripheral ever: The R.O.B.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klatwsBmZDk
This was a video comment that I recorded on youtube, did not realize viddler was able to embed.
A winner is you sir! Not many people can say they still have one of those.
What, someones knocking on the dreamcast?
Not me.
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Congratulations on the two years! I’ve been watching all this time and I’m glad to see you guys still going strong. Keep it coming!
Also I profusely apologize for leaving only text comments. My actions shame my family for a thousand years.
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Fro YO!!
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My continuesly late birthday reaction again!
The cake is really old so dont eat it [ insert the cake is a lie joke here ]
August eleventh, my birthday! I will be turning 14, and still be the youngest here (not including Joe’s kids).
My vote goes to frogatto
and the worst video game peripheral ever? The powerglove (yes, thats right, im 14 and have used a power glove). Or possibly those dance pads for the… well all stations. You know, those ones that are like a garbage bag over a button.
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