TabulaCast #32 / Limited Edition #8

This episode of Limited Edition is a very special combined episode with TabulaCast.

Following the recent news announcing the closure Tabula Rasa we had to get the old TabulaCast team together

In this Show John and Matt are joined by Shawn the founder of TabulaCast and Tia (Avatea) NCSoft Europe's Community Co-ordinator for Tabula Rasa

We have a rather honest and frank conversation about the news and chat about the past, present and the future of the TR community.

We have a small chat about comics before the main topic and hope the comic fans can bear with us whilst we discuss something dear to our hearts.

TabulaCast Episode 31 - Finale

In this Final episode of TabulaCast, John and Matt are Joined by Shawn who started TabulaCast in a rather fitting look back at the past 30 episodes. We discuss all the great times and content covered, and let you know where we are heading.

Massive thanks to you the community for supporting us, and also to Tia, Critters, RockJaw, Tom Potter, Dane Caruthers, Ten Ton Hammer, Planet TR and everyone else for all the support over the past months!

Watch out for more John and Matt over at Virgin Worlds when 'Limited Edition' the new comicbook culture show appears covering games, movies and comics! Watch John's Twitter account at www.twitter.com/shuttler to hear when this is released.

This week's theme is "My Friend" by Groove Armada.

TabulaCast Episode 30

Matt and John this week catch up on the TR news:

• We talk about what we've been up to including heroclix, mountain biking and Dr horrible
• www.wizkidsgames.com
• www.drhorrible.com
• This week's Friday Night Fights with Richard Garriott and Jesus Chavez and its amazing trailer video. Thanks to Shawn at Massively for giving me the heads up on this one with this post.
• http://www.gaxonline.com/...
• We remind ourselves of the excellent interview with Tom Potter and Dane Caruthers.
• Discussing Deployment 10 we talk about the new shotguns, chainguns and rocket launchers
• New instances
• Deployment 11 goodies
• The new crafting system
• and more!

Be sure to stalk John on www.twitter.com/shuttler and visit him at www.gaxonline.com/profile/tabulablogger

Email the show at John@tabulacast.com

The theme tune this week is the Go-Team and Bottle Rocket.

TabulaCast Episode 29

This week John and Matt had an opportunity to talk with new assistant producer Dane Caruthers, also known as Entropic.

The theme tune this week is The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

TabulaCast Episode 28

This episode of TabulaCast is an interview with Tom Potter, lead designer of Tabula Rasa.

Amongst the many things we discuss include:

• Tom tells us about his role as lead designer on Tabula Rasa and how important the community is to his role
• PAU's: when we can start seeing concept art and how they will be introduced into the game
• Delivery of new systems and Tom's vision for this
• The Neph Warrior and how they will introduce new types of spawns to maps that make use of logos
• New creatures pretty soon and mobs whose visual appearance is level based
• Armour design and the differences between them
• Solo-ability and overall vision for class balance
• Community focused areas to act as a hub for players to get together such as the CELLAR Arena
• Is there room for a group XP bonus?
• Thoughts  on balance between PVP and PVE gameplay
• Crafting and how it WILL be something valid to do when not combating and it will be in a level ilk so modules can level and perform better.
• Control points and how it's important to make the new features for everyone -- not only PVP but PVE players too
• Tom tells us how he loves player customization and more options such as progressive armour and weapons like the new shotgun
• He also tells us how repeatable content such as instances, PvP maps and the like outside of the main game are things he'd like to see in the next few months.
• Tom tells us about his favorite class and his favorite TR moment when playing on the live servers
• All members of the team have a big interest in the game because they play it and are therefore invested.
• And more!

This weeks theme tune is "Pulp" by Common People