CO-OP 0401 - COOP AGAIN?

I know the question on all of your minds is “Is CO-OP ever coming back?” and to tell you the truth, I don’t know. All I can tell you is that we miss doing it, so much that we couldn’t hold back any longer and made an episode. And we’re conducting an experiment. How much would you pay for CO-OP? Nothing? That’s okay, but if you could bring the show back by throwing a few bones our way, would you? We’re offering up this episode for free via YouTube, but we’re wondering what will happen if we put up a few buttons that let you quickly and easily pay for this episode. Pay whatever you think the show is worth.

Watching ads sucks. Going out and trying to get people to advertise sucks. We’d rather be supported by the people who want to be entertained by what we do. This doesn’t necessarily even mean CO-OP (though in the unlikely event we get a flood of purchases we’ll, of course, look at bringing back the show). We’re thinking this model could possibly work for other ideas we have kicking around and we figure that, hell, nobody’s really tried this yet—at least not in this fashion—and we’re gonna give it a go. You can still watch it free and in great quality on YouTube, but if you could pay for it, would you? Pay us and you’ll get a link letting you download a full, 1080p, the-highest-quality-we-can-possibly-post version of this episode. So, tell your friends! After all, did you really need that latte today?

EXPERIMENT IS OVER. THANK TO THOSE THAT CONTRIBUTED!

Cesar, Ryan, and I cracked open a few cold ones, sat down at my apartment and reminisced about the great time we had at this years PAX in Seattle. We talk about some of the games we saw and played: Fluidity, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Gears of War 3 “Beast Mode,” Lost In Shadow, Bastion, and Spy Party.

We also got together with some old friends at the Ex-1UP Panel and it was great to see the 1UP crew back together again, joking around and talking about the good ol’days.

Speaking about the good ol’days, we spent some time in an arcade, which brought back childhood memories. Sega threw a party at Gameworks where we spent about 4 hours playing SoulCalibur 3 Arcade Edition.

We got some new business cards that come with a free mini game. Collect all five cards, on back of each card is a piece of the puzzel. Put them together and you win! Now go out there and collect them all.

We did a small batch of CO-OP t-shirts that we sold out of our backpacks at the event. Thanks to everyone that picked one up and supporting, it was great meeting all of you. We are currently working on a shop on the site where you will be able to purchase one very soon.

PAX was an awesome time, playing games, hanging out old friends and meeting new ones. Hope to see you all again next year!

CO-OP 0111 DROP AND GIVE ME E3: BEHIND THE SCENES

In the intro scene Ryan and I are playing with a cootie catcher, also known as a fortune teller. Did you know the cootie catcher dates back to the 1600's in Japan?  That's older than the first origami that is said to be made in 1680.

We needed a montage! So we threw Cesar in the trunk and drove over to McKinley Square Park. 

Once there we ran, did push ups, jumping jacks. We had a little funny bit where me and Jay are on a swing set and Rob and Ryan are pushing us, but that ended up on the editing room floor. This episode had a lot of funny moments that just didn't make it in the final version of the show, which happens. You have to use what makes the piece work and flow. 

There was another moment during the "name the developer" flash card game where I say "the Bioware Doctors" and Jay goes off on me. Jay's delivery was hilarious. If you look closely to that edit you can see that Jay starts to go off for a second, before it cuts to the close up of the cards. Maybe someday we'll take all the funniest out-takes and put them together in a episode.

If you were wondering why Miyamoto has pointy ears, it's not to look like Link or Zelda. It's more because we saw Star Trek that weekend.

Before I glued the faces on, Cesar was drawing the outlines of the bodies. On the one that happened to be Miyamoto's, he drew the body all buff to look like Bruce Lee, but the face looked more like Spock and that's when he drew on pointy ears. 

Thanks again to Carl and the guys at kidsamurai.com for sending us the awesome t-shirts. 

THE HOE DOWN 0001 -- INTRODUCING THE HOE

Michael Donahoe: some people love him and some people want to kick him in the nuts.

I've known Michael for a few years--since back in the 1UP days--and I hafta say Michael is full of surprises. Every project we work on together, whether we're going out to film interviews or skits, you never really know what you're going to get or what crazy characters you're going to run into. Sometimes I don't think Michael does either, but I think that's what is going to make The Hoe Down a very interesting show. 

This week The Hoe brings the viewers along to the Resident Evil Launch Party. The Hoe Down Episode 1