Meeples & Miniatures stage a review!

[Craig]

Those splendid chaps at Meeples and Miniatures have recorded a review of our little game as part of their 130th podcast. Neil Shuck and Mike Whitaker, you are gentlemen and scholars - thank you!
The IHMN Review starts around the 54th minute.

http://meeples.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/meeples-miniatures-episode-130-in-her-majestys-name/

[Sterling Moose]

Has the sound quality improved?  I gave up on this podcast a couple of years ago, good topics and discussions but they sounded like they had been recorded through a sock in a mine.

[Craig]

I don't know what it sounded like then, but this was as clear as a bell 

[Bren]

Quite well done and worth checking out. I did find their repeated labelling of IHMN as Steampunk slightly misleading (and irksome); in his interview with Play it Painted!, Craig made the point that Victorian Sci-Fi is the more accurate title to use. Perhaps I'm being a bit too pedantic but I like to stress the "Victorian" in VSF.

[Conquistador]

Sorry but I cannot fast forward to the spot I want to hear without wading through the parts I don't want to hear, I don't have that much time to just sit, and I can't stop and come back (don't have that long to sit and listen to "voices" - a bit like eavesdropping - and repeat a part for clarity.)

Obviously podcasts (at least in this case) are a few generations behind current technology... or my MacBook Air is... 

Gracias,

Glenn

[Craig]

Oddly my podcasts work off i-tunes and fast forwards no problem 

I find them good to have on in the background when I'm working.

[Conquistador]

Oddly my podcasts work off i-tunes and fast forwards no problem  

I find them good to have on in the background when I'm working.

Very early MacBook Air, (youngest son works for Apple - this was a hand me down gift from him,) so probably tech on my end.  Same result...

Gracias,

Glenn

[copeab]

Sorry but I cannot fast forward to the spot I want to hear without wading through the parts I don't want to hear

For the Kindle Fire 1, I downloaded the 82MB(!) file and opened it in the built-in Amazon mp3 player. I could skip around to anywhere in the pidcast.

I think it just depends on the media player you are using.

[Conquistador]

For the Kindle Fire 1, I downloaded the 82MB(!) file and opened it in the built-in Amazon mp3 player. I could skip around to anywhere in the pidcast.

I think it just depends on the media player you are using.

My thought precisely.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Craig]

Download 82MB?  You must have one of them new-fangled heliographic systems. Over here in Brick Lane we still rely on the telegraph. Honestly a boy on a bicycle could deliver my weekly internets more quickly 

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

I'm with you there Bren.
I strongly dislike the term steampunk unfortunately we are stuck with it

The "punk" aspect suggests a dystopian view of this alternate future however the Victorian science fiction authors looked at the new scientific inventions/discoveries with a more noble and optimistic view of their potential.

So VSF is positive while Steam punk is negative however if you talk to people and say Victorian science fiction they look at you blankly. You have to say steampunk to get them to understand .

However have you noticed a lot of steampunk is less steam and more diesel punk these days.

Cheers
Fuzzy.

[Craig]

I strongly dislike the term steampunk unfortunately we are stuck with it

Charles and I have always referred to IHMN as being VSF or Victorian Science Romance. The label 'Steampunk' was favoured by Osprey because of its marketing power.

Now don't get me wrong, I love the whole steampunk genre and its exponents, however Charles and I are VSF chaps. Both of us were brought up in an age where works by Wells, Doyle, Verne, Kipling, Public School Boys stories and other wondrous volumes filled our school library shelves. We were taught by men and women who were born around the time of the first world war and had served in the second. My grandparents were Victorian as I am sure Charles' were too.

They taught us of the glories of Rorke's Drift, Omdurman and the North West Frontier. The death of Gordon in Khartoum, and Nelson's last words moved us to manly tears. The skirl of the bagpipes had us imagining Highlanders storming a Pathan village.

It is from this that we have acquired the sensibilities to understand both the positive and negative qualities of the age. I'm sorry but people did not wander about wearing goggles on their hats or inappropriate cogs sewn to their clothes, and young ladies of ample proportions did not openly wear bustieres in public unless it was a down a side-street in Cheapside frequented by sailors.

VSF is glorious, but it is also gritty with poverty staring at you from every alleyway. It was deeply political - Bismarck's plans for German domination of Europe were afoot, anarchists and socialists were rousing the poor downtrodden masses to overthrow the old order, independence movements were rife across the Empire and commerce was the real master of affairs.

This is VSF and what we have tried to replicate in IHMN.

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Well said that fellow!

[archdukek]

Hear, hear. Personally I like to think of it as "Boys Own Adventure Gaming" since it allows me to recreate or reimagine those daring deeds I read about as a boy.
John

[Craig]

Hear, hear. Personally I like to think of it as "Boys Own Adventure Gaming" since it allows me to recreate or reimagine those daring deeds I read about as a boy.
John

Except, as Mr Wells said, we also write for intelligent girls who like boys' games. Hear, hear for the ladies!