We have another packed news update ep this week, check out the show notes for links to our discussion points -
1:14 iClone 8 update discussion, and Phil picks the discussion up again at 34:38 on broken grass
6:30 Baldur’s Gate 3 modding tools release discussion
8:20 Starfield expansion pack discussion
10:00 Documentary machinima: focus on TF2
10:45 Hollywood is broken: enter machinima? (Andreasson Horowitz seem to have had their eyes and ears closed for a few years!)
12:27 Game Sprout’s article about gameplay becoming performance
12:50 Denuvo’s release of Unbotify and discussion
25:00 YouTube app update discussion
27:30 Nice projects to take a look at, genAI and Metropius, an example of a deiselpunk world-based story with numerous creative treatments – worth taking a look at for its interesting monetisation strategy
32:00 Kane Pixel’s Backrooms, more ‘found footage’ fun!
37:36 Sketchfab and Epic’s Unreal Marketplace merge into FAB
45:15 YouTube AI disclosure rules – how are we complicit in a new citizen science project? We extend the discussion reflecting on the algorithm detection processes and what impact this may have on AI generated music and AI cloned voices.
1:06:50 Biggs Trek’s Forbidden Planet: Children of Krell (which we review in our ep next week) magazine article
1:07:47 Shameless plug: Phil and Damien’s channel livestreams, respectively on Sunday and Monday
Credits
Speakers: Damien Valentine, Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood
Producer: Damien Valentine
Editor: Phil Rice