In a recent episode of Game postHost Chris Plante explained how video games can help players understand death. He is interviewing the Cataline Trampble, who is working Ambrosia skyA game about death.
“What is it about those games that are very useful for the discovery of the subject?” Plante asks.
“I think something is really cute about the way sports players invite players,” says Trampbles. “A person is very cute to cooperate and be part of the story and move through space.”
This is a tone, and a substance of conversation, on the contrary I have earlier heard on a gaming podcast. And it outlines if it’s so unique Game post – And how it can stand out of other gaming media, acting too much like a slow and more cerebral NPR show.
Within weeks of leaving PolygonWhere he was the editor-in-chief, Plante started Game postWho is that Is described as “A weekly podcast about how and why we like video games.” He is an old demographic and targeting model Game post Tightly edited segments and weekly episodes with an NPR-like format that last for about an hour. And he is asking fans through Patron for support so that it can help continue.
“Practically everything in sports media targets young people”
Many other video games podcast “almost completely for people under the age of 30 who can spend to listen to several shows four hours long this week,” the plant said Ruckus“Sports practically everything in media targets young people – both because it is being produced by young people and because it is the best shot in selling the demographic sales teams.” But more than 35 players, they say, “There are very different interests and expectations.” There are lots of people with entertainment software association who fall into that category Reporting More than half of the more than half of the Americans are more than 35 older than 205.1 million Americans.
“This is actually the basic supply and the demand is rubbish,” they say. “And yet very few places want to meet this demand. Older audiences of publications change for information – newspapers, magazines, and audio – have given the best to gaming culture, and the worst, ignored it completely.”
I should make some revelations before I go ahead. By May, Plante was the editor -in -chief PolygonIn the past RuckusSister site dedicated to gaming and entertainment. He was co-founder Polygon When it was launched in 2012, and later he worked Ruckus From September 2014 to July 2017. I never worked directly with him, but I met the plant at dinner at the first sports developers conference for the first time earlier this year.
All this is to say that when Vox media announced On 1 May That it sold Polygon To game The owner Valenet, and the plant said that it Will not done A part of the moving site, I was amazed for him. But by the end of the month, he published the first episode Game postAnd he posts a new episode every week. This is a great podcast.
Each episode is about one hour long and is divided into three acts. Most of the show revolves around an interview on a certain subject, and in a third act, Plante is said to discuss the news of the week. But the broad themes of the episode are not always align with the current large thing in gaming.
The first episode was about the history of Seemus Macanley Grand Prize of the Independent Games Festival. The second was about sexy games. When the episodes deal with the topics of the moment, the plant tries to put its own spin on things; When? Death Stranding 2: On the beach Come out, Plante conducted a rare interview with YouTuber VideogamamedunkeyWho Initially hated First Death But Looked at it again after two years,
The show is available for free with advertisements, but those who pay $ 5 per month On pattern Reach advertising with a bonus section and get access to a special video every month. When planning Game post Will be “I argue, if I was not ready to spend $ 5 on it, why would anyone else be?” Plante says. The show hit only 1,000 paid customers, and even if things are flattened, “this will be enough to cover my family’s health insurance.” If the show turns 2,000 by the end of the year, “I will feel confident that this is my future.”
Sports journalists who come out of traditional gaming publications or are laying their work fast, such as One who does work Result Pre – Kotaku Author And Patrick Clepeck Guardian Crossplay Substac publication. And while publication is facing pressure from AI search engines and things like everywhere Google zeroThe plant argues that there are many audiences that have been reduced by more traditional trade models due to their dependence on scale.
“As someone in the media said, you hear a lot about how great independent media for media -making people, but I think there is a big conversation that needs to be about the benefits that are for the audience, for the readers,” the plant says. “I think if you focus on readers and audience, you will get more business opportunities for more independent creators or more small funded creators.” He also says that if the mainstream publication does not want to serve the “humble and growing audience” of the old gamers, then “I am happy.”
Plantes sees Game post As his talk for the next long time. “My only dream for the future of the show is that I am doing this in 10 years,” he says.
