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The Fourth Curtain

Alexander Seropian & Aaron Marroquin

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A GUIDED TOUR OF VIDEOGAME MAKERY! Hosts Alex Seropian (founder Bungie, Wideload, Industrial Toys) and Aaron Marroquin (Art Director, Game Designer, part time magician) take you on a tour of the minds that create our favorite video games. We may also wander around in our own heads too. We aim to inspire, educate and entertain you about the games you love, the people that make them and hey, if you're not a gamer we know you know one. This will help you connect with them too.
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We’re Jason and Caroline Zook, a husband and wife team running two businesses together and trying to live out our version of a good life in the process. In this business podcast, we share with you our lessons learned about how to run a calm, sustainable business—one that is predictable, profitable AND peaceful. Join us every Thursday if you’re an online creator who wants to reach your goals without sacrificing your well-being in the process.
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Do you enjoy World of Warcraft? Do you enjoy escaping to the lands of the alliance and the horde? Is retail your thing, or classic? Whatever it is, I want to expand on that enjoyment and add another element to bring your world. When you step away from your keyboard, why not tune in and listen to some relaxed chat. Imagine that you and your main character have had a tough day grinding, or raiding or battling through dungeons. You find yourself back at Stormwind, restock on potions, grab a hair ...
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Each episode of 'The Wandering Nerve' will aim to serve as a reminder that humanity is only limited by the acceptance of the notion that we have limitations. After all, imagine where we would be in the world today if everyone in history allowed The Peanut Gallery to dictate humanity’s progress. thewanderingnerve.substack.com
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Radhanath Swami is a Vaishnava sanyassi (a monk in a Krishna-bhakti lineage) and teacher of the devotional path of Bhakti-yoga. He is author of The Journey Home, a memoir of his search for spiritual truth. His teachings draw from the sacred texts of India such as The Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Ramayana, and aim to reveal the practical application of the sacred traditions, while focusing on the shared essence which unites apparently disparate religious or spiritual paths. Born Rich ...
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The decision to pack your life into a van and hit the open road raises a lot of questions. How much will it cost? What sort of van do I need? How safe will I be? Can I bring my cat? We are Frey, Ben and D'Argo the Cat, and along with our van Moya, we are Catavan! In our new podcast, CatavanCast, we aim to answer all of the questions that we ourselves asked before deciding to give it all up for a life wandering the globe! From budgets, to van essentials, to tips for each country, if you've ev ...
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Til Dice Do Us Part

Ailsa Longmuir & George Quail

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A tabletop RPG podcast by a nerdy couple from Glasgow, Scotland. We aim to introduce you to new games (both mainstream and indie), support storytellers with our Ask A GM feature, and amuse you with quizzes and Python-esque silliness. Ailsa is a mainly lawful, occasionally chaotic player, and lover of all things strange and unusual. George is the long-suffering forever GM with close to 20 years experience of running a vast array of games. Plus we have a menagerie of strange creatures living w ...
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SKRAPS is your podcast where we, on your behalf explore the stories of sparks of scientific brilliance in science and innovation. SKRAPS is the word sparks spelt backwards and also a play on the idea that ideas are written on back of a napkin or scraps of paper. We explore stories of people in science, while elaborating on the scientific details so that experts and non-experts can relate to science better in today's whimsical world that acts to spread mis-information.
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Our guest Mark DeLoura has had a stunningly wide-ranging career: game developer and executive for Nintendo, Sony and THQ, Editor in Chief of Game Developer magazine, Senior Advisor for Digital Media in the White House, author of Programming Gems book series, built hardware and software for NASA and served on the Board at Games for Change. This week…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! Could the secret to unlocking World of Warcraft's full potential lie in understanding the intricacies of its game mechanics and community feedback? Join us in this episode of Pig and Whistle Tales from Azeroth, where we dissect the l…
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Let's dig in to some essential nomadic FAQs: How do you choose a place for new residency? How do you handle taxes while on the road? How does it all play with your origin country? In this quick "emergency pod," Eli outlines some advantages, considerations, & interesting countries worth exploring when thinking about residency & related logistics. (W…
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Is a CALM content creation plan possible? And can we do it for TWO businesses?? In this episode, we explore our content batching schedule and some of the processes we’re experimenting with this month. We’ve been on a break from consistently creating social media and video content for nearly 3 years 😬. But, that’s all about to change and we’re getti…
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For a second time we are graced with the presence of videogame legend Shannon Loftis! Veteran of running Flight Simulator and Age of Empires at Microsoft, she was instrumental in the acquisition of Rare for Xbox game Studios. Now an advisor to Duke University's videogame program she joins us to talk franchises, Animal Well and the great Profanisaur…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! What’s the most laughable complaint you've ever seen on a gaming forum? Join us at the Pig and Whistle Inn in Stormwind, where we dive headfirst into the hilarity of World of Warcraft's most absurd grievances. We'll start by chucklin…
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When they came inside, Mother Ganga was gone. All the Bengali people were gone. The only thing that remained was Saci sitting right at the feet of Lord Jagannatha! Ah! They were thinking ‘How is this? How did you get in the temple, the gates were locked?’ Their idea was, she broke into the temple to steal the property of Jagannatha. They arrested h…
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Seeing the genuine sincerity of Saci-devi, Haridasa Pandita sent her to live at Radha-kunda with another one of his disciples, who happened to be Saci-devi’s aunt. Her name was Lakshmi Priya and there together, they perfectly lived in pure devotion and renunciation. They chanted minimum two hundred thousand names of Krishna every single day. They w…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! Prepare to conquer Azeroth with confidence! This week on Pig and Whistle Tales from Azeroth, we bring you the latest updates and strategies to keep you ahead of the game. Ever wondered how to seamlessly transition from PvE to PvP? We…
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After spending many years with an unfocused audience and nebulous problem we solve, we *THINK* we’ve finally landed on the right answer for our core business…. maybe? One thing we know for sure, we’ve always operated Wandering Aimfully as generalists. We can help with email marketing, copywriting, branding, etc. Sure, we were always trying to help …
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Our guests this week are creators of the visually-striking games Cocoon, Limbo and Inside. Jakob Scmid is co-founder of Geometric Interactive and Erwin Kho is the artist guiding a couple of those projects. We talk about readable environments, demo scenes and more this week! Thank you for listening to our podcast all about videogames and the amazing…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! Can mastering heroic dungeons in Cataclysm really be as daunting as it seems? Join us at the Pig and Whistle Inn as we debunk the myths and share practical tips to ease your journey through Azeroth’s most talked-about expansion. We'l…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! Ever wondered why some expansions seem to bring out the worst in players? Or why Classic WoW feels more intense than Retail? This week at the Pig and Whistle Inn in Stormwind, we dive into some thought-provoking discussions about the…
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Last week, we shared a plan of action from an SEO Expert we paid. It included writing articles, competitor pages, and a user-generated content strategy. How did we do with that plan? Tune in to find out! Writing informative articles is not our favorite thing, BUT, after working on the task for a week we feel like we found a good groove. In this epi…
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This past March, 30,000 people went to San Francisco for the annual Game Developers Conference. Going since 1988, GDC, brings together people from all corners of the game development community. The Fourth Curtain followed four different journeys intersecting this conference. The First Timer: Aaron has never gone to GDC and it terrified him. The Sea…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! Is Cataclysm really to blame for changing the World of Warcraft community for the worse? Join us at the Pig and Whistle Inn in Stormwind as we tackle this provocative question head-on. We'll dissect a heated forum post that accuses C…
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Are SEO articles even relevant in 2024?? Well, we paid an SEO strategist to give us the answer and we’re going to share their plan of action in this episode. The report we got back from an SEO Strategist does confirm that keyword-based articles are still working in 2024, especially for SaaS companies like Teachery. From the report, we have a 3-pron…
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In this inaugural Lunch Club episode of The Fourth Curtain we discuss starting a Game Studio, something Alex has done a few times. We fail to actually eat lunch, but we do talk about the following topics: 1) Why? Why do you want to start one? What are good reason to do so and what’s a game studio really? 2) Strategies. If you are starting a studio,…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! Prepare to be whisked away to the bustling Pig and Whistle Inn where the pulse of Azeroth's latest unfolds! We're peeling back the layers of Cataclysm, sharing not just the crisp details of leveling's rapid fire progression from 80 t…
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The second week of our 5-week content extravaganza has concluded! We worked on long-form videos for Teachery and learned a ton of lessons (and had to UN-LEARN some well-worn ideas and habits too). There has been ONE clear friction point for us over the years when working together and that’s... Long-form videos. It’s some combination of our two stro…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! Are you ready to conquer the grind and revel in the leveled-up thrills of World of Warcraft's Cataclysm expansion? Strap in as we embark on an epic quest through Azeroth, where the leveling grind isn't just a hurdle—it's a rite of pa…
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Our 5-week content EXTRAVAGANZA is underway! We recap how our first week of creating short-form 60-second vertical videos went and give you a preview of what’s to come this week as we pivot to long-form YouTube content for Teachery. If you didn’t listen to last week’s episode, we’re embarking on a 5-week content journey to get back into the groove …
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Our guest this week was a founder of Glu and Playfish and an early investor in Supercell. Now he’s CEO of Super Evil Megacorp working on TMNT for Switch. We talk the early days of mobile, the great Vainglory and roguelites in a very educational episode this week! Thank you for listening to our podcast all about videogames and the amazing people who…
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Praises or critics can be send here! Also if there's anything you wish to hear about please send your requests here! Discover why the battlegrounds of Azeroth are ablaze with controversy as we dissect the surprising dominance of PvE gear in PvP arenas. Imagine gearing up for a match, only to be outmatched by an opponent's equipment rather than thei…
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