Podcast Reflection

For our second podcast we chose to analyze “Life is Strange”. This time my partner, Christine was the one to choose the game. This was very exciting for me, because it was in a way learning more about my peer and the things that she would find interesting. Thus I started researching and playing it. However as we began the process of creating our podcast we came upon a problem. Although this game’s story is very interesting, it is also very long. Completing it all would take at least ten hours! Therefore we decided to focus on the first two episodes.

This podcast was in many ways easier to complete. We already knew the process and decided to follow the plan we did before. However we also wanted to incorporate something new. When we were doing our first podcast we were very nervous and heavily relied on the script. Yet this time we decided to be more engaging and let the conversation flow. Thus, we only outlined our parts and tried to make it look very naturally. As well as that we were more familiar with the way that the Audacity works so we could to fix any parts we wanted. Therefore making mistakes was not as scary as it was when we were doing our first podcast.

We also wanted to include a new interactive element of playing the game within this episode. We thought that it would be interesting to include the reactions of the player that was experiencing the game for the first time. Since this game uses a lot of empathy, the emotions that the player would experience are very important. Thus within this episode you can find a moment where I play this game and comment on it, as Christine seats beside me commenting on my process of the game.

We hope that this time, we made our podcast more engaging and interesting to the listeners. You can find it here!