The original crew have popped back for a special 500th celebration, with a look back at the development and community changes over the last 500 episode.!
Chris Jarvis
Dr Allen Stroud
Fractal Series – Flame Tree Press
Spotify – Allen’s Music
Heartwood book – PS Publishing
Grant Woolcott
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Hi guys – great to hear from you all again …
Listened to this yesterday morning, the day it came out, I think. I’m still subscribed to the podcast, but haven’t listened to an episode in ages, but as soon as I saw that it was the orginal crew of the orange sidewinder, I had to give it a listen.
Queue immediate deep feelings of nostalgia (just like during the ED kickstarter, when I had nostalgia for the original Elite and Frontier, this time nostalgia for the ED kickstarter and ED alpha itself)!)
As I’m sure with much of your listeners (including myself), it seems that you’ve all succumbed in part to real life, maturity, and growing up (but all still have that inner kid buried inside you somewhere!).
Was a joy to listen to the episode, and grateful that you stayed on the positive side of things, rather than dwell on any frustrations (indeed many of which, over the years were addressed, and others unrealistic technically or economically).
From my own perspective, there things that are worth highlighting about ED, on reflection:
(1) some of the best in-game sound – frameshift drive, thargoids, space station sounds, etc (even though in space nobody can hear you scream, right?)
(2) the community – yes, podcasts, but also Facebook groups, authors, in-game communities (fuel rats), etc. (does anyone remember the limericks?!)
(3) the fan-fiction – honoring the tradition of Robert Holdstock, many great stories
I might even go so far as to add also David Braben’s stubbornness, to stick rigidly to his vision, and while inviting input into the design, ultimately built what he imagined, thereby avoiding being pulled into commercialization, disneyfication, generalization, etc.
RIP Michael Brookes
Thanks again,
Matt