Our first podcast of 2010! We start out with a bit of talk about what we plan on doing for the entire year, and then move right into our 24 themed trivia in which the punishment is for us to put our fingers into a bug zapper. It was pretty brutal, thankfully yours truly only had to do it once while everyone else… well, you’ll see. We then move onto some thoughts about the current season of 24, speculate over Lost (mainly last Tuesday’s premier, so that convo is a little out of date now) and hope into a large helping of Nerd News and wrap it up with the normal Whore Daddy/Clutch section. Enjoy!

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Last night my wife and I returned home from our first time at MAGFest, a rather large gaming festival in Alexandria, PA. It was quite an interesting time, got to meet some nice new people, played some games, listened to some live bands, and most importantly, plugged the Shamoozal. I would get into more detail about the whole show now, but I’ll be diving into it a bit in two different podcasts. Oh me oh my!

For those that were interested in our promotional materials that we were handing out at the show but couldn’t make it, feel free to drop me a line and I’ll try to hook you up with some of the stuff. I have a decent amount of Jacquo and Shamoozal logo pins, Grey stickers and postcards left over, so get ‘em while they’re hot.

With the con now over with, and my little vacation away from GFGames, it is now officially time to get back into the swing of things here at the site. Ideas for the new GFGames are well underway. I’m still also preparing an idea for a new series with a website we’re pretty friendly with, and I have loads of other ideas swirling around in my head. Now all I need to do is just, well, make them happen. I’m feeling rather motivated, so I suspect you’ll see some hopefully cool stuff in the near future.

I seriously can’t believe that we’re not only about to close up ‘09, but this entire decade. Time sure is flying by isn’t it? Well, at least it feels that way for me anyway. Getting more to the point, I’d like to once again thank everyone that has stuck by Shamoozal and the work we do around here. I know that as far as GFGames goes, 2009 wasn’t exactly a stellar year. Our last episode, launched in August, was a bit of a massive undertaking, plus, my brother and I are busy folks. It kind of blows that the only thing we were able to put out this year was “How to Hook Up the NES.” That said, I’m really happy with how that short turned out, and it is arguably our most popular short ever.

Last year I said my New Years resolution was “more” of everything for the site. Looking back, I think around halfway through the year I decided I didn’t so much want more shorts, but more mileage from the ones we already created. The fact is, there is a mass amount of people out there that has never heard of us before. Using “How to” as more of a bridge into previous shorts seems to have worked in our favor. Thanks to the success of the short, people have gone back and rewatched all of our work from ‘08 and GFGames has been getting more of a following. So in that regard, I’m happy that these shorts are still being watched by people, even if they are all pretty old by this point.

I’m not making any promises as to what you’ll see next year out of GFGames. As you might know, I took a bit of a break from the series after putting out “How to” and I’m finally going to jump back into it sometime this month. I have the basics of the next episode worked out, and it’s going to be another tough one on our part, but again, hopefully worth it. Let’s just say I’d be happy if I could do at least two GFGames episodes during ‘10.

For anyone that listens to Shamoozal Radio Podcast, you’ll know that I plan on attending MAGFest this year next year. For those that don’t know, here’s a little bit of what’s going on.

MAGFest is the Music and Games Festival that has been held since 2002 in Virginia. I have never personally attended one of these before, but apparently it’s a great place to catch some cool geek groups live (like Metroid Metal), meet composers like Jake “Virt” Kaufam, play plenty of free arcade games, buy all sorts of cool gaming merch from vendors, and bump into the people that run websites like ScrewAttack, among other stuff. According to legend, apparently the party never stops either, as the event is held in the hotel where everyone stays, so people just keep on going all through the night.

I’ll have a table in the vendor area pimping Shamoozal.com, though GFGames in particular. It’ll be just me and my lovely wife Demi and we’ll be handing out some cool promo stuff and we welcome anyone to stop by and say “hi”. It all goes down starting January 1st of 2010 through the 4th, but I won’t be arriving until January 2nd and I’ll be departing early on the 4th. In other words I’ll be there all Saturday and Sunday. Fore more information check out MAGFest.org. Hope to see some of you there!

I know this is about a week late, but I just wanted to take a moment to everyone that came out and supported our NES Holiday Marathon from last Saturday. I’ve been so busy ever since Saturday ended that I never even had a chance to properly send the Marathon off!

So anyway, I thought we did a pretty kick ass job if I do say so myself. While we may have only finished about 5 games, we sampled a ton of classic and not so classic karts. All of the games went well, and to anyone that won a prize that day let it be known that I shipped off your prize earlier today so you should have it shortly. Outside of that, we reached our $500 goal just moments before the marathon ended which will do well in providing plenty of goodies for children that are in need of them.

Just wanted to give a huge heart warmed thank you to everyone that was able to attend this event and support us. Everyone from the viewers in the chat room, the kind people that made generous donations, my friends that were able to stop by my house, to even my brother baking everyone at the house… pancakes. Yeah, that was kind of weird, but people enjoyed them regardless. Thanks again folks.

Last week I uploaded nearly the entire GFGames series on ScrewAttack (having problems rendered a new video of Tactical Espionage) and we’ve had a really good response so far. On the above video, la Tragedie is the first highlight on the g1 Spotlight. It’s good to see la Tragedie get a little respect as it’s our least watched episode of the series. A few days before that, Rated M for Molester was featured on their front page. It has been great getting introducing GFGames to a new crowd, and it’s encouraging to see that some people over there already know of it from Newgrounds. One commenter even went as far to say that the episode featured on ScrewAttack were stolen. I let him know that they came straight from the source.

In order to get things rolling, our hub page (or mini-site, whatever you prefer) is operational and is located right here. Or you can click the graphic to the right. On the day of the marathon the hub page will be the default for Shamoozal.com for the so it’ll be easy to keep track of everything going on. You’ll be able to find a tentative schedule on the hub page, this gives you an idea of when we’d like to do things. It doesn’t mean that those things will happen exactly at those times, just that we’re aiming for those goals. Also, there is lots of information on the different types of events. Oh and remember, a 5 dollar donation before 11PM EST on 12/12/09 will get you into our raffle, even if you donated earlier, like today.

The video is officially up on the YouTubes and it is time to share all the details about the event. Here’s a PR straight from the Shamoozal Press Room, i.e. my home computer room.

NATIONAL PARK, New Jersey – Shamoozal.com is proud to present the Second Annual ‘NES Holiday Marathon’, a live 12 hour event to raise money for charity.

Starting December 12th at 12PM EST, the gang from Shamoozal will host a live 12 hour Nintendo Entertainment System themed event. During those 12 hours, the crew hopes to raise money for charity by playing classic game titles along with a host of other events. The charity, Child’s Play, specializes in distributing video games, toys, books and cash to children’s hospitals across the country.

It’s that time of the year again! I’ve spent the better part of this weekend (mainly today) putting together a new promotional video for Saturday’s upcoming NES Marathon. The video we put together last year was a huge success for us, and to be honest, if I didn’t make that thing and Gametrailers didn’t push it for us, we probably would have had the worst turn out ever. That said, I realized the importance of doing the whole promo video thing. I’ll be spending some time this week uploading this video to different places (probably later in the week when it’s closer to Saturday) in order to help us drum up a bit of support.

Not sure how happy I am with the finished product here, but it was an interesting project. It’s essentially a sprite movie, and I’ve actually never made one of those before. The process of gathering all the sprite rips from games and shoving them into Flash was somewhat painless but a lot of work. Still, I guess I can see the appeal of working on sprite movies because once you have the character moving around, it’s pretty easy to get your point across and come up with scenarios. The scene I animated here would have been a nightmare to animate had I did traditional frame by frame animation, but I was able to crank out the bulk of the work in a few short hours. Again, I can see where the appeal in making these types of movies lies now… though I still don’t particularly dig sprite movies, which is why I guess I’m on the fence about the one I just created.

Anyway, check it out, share some thoughts on the smorg. I might be doing a few changes to it, so if there is anything glaring that you think needs adjusting, let me know.

It has been a long time coming, but here is the download version of Shamoozal Radio #29 from earlier this month. To be honest it’s been a while since the podcast so I don’t remember the full details of everything we went over, but I do know there is more about our plans for the rest of the year, like our upcoming NES Marathon and my trip to MAG Fest, along with a brand new game from Jim in which we need to figure out which of his Trenton stories is the false one. There is a large Nerd News segment along with our Whore Daddies and Clutches. Buckle up and cherish this one because this is our final podcast for the 2009!

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