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Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson

18 episodes

1 week ago

A monthly deep dive into Fantastic Pixel Castle and their new MMO, code name "Ghost". With your hosts Scott Johnson and Studio Head Greg Street. Featuring conversations with the team working to make it all happen.

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A monthly deep dive into Fantastic Pixel Castle and their new MMO, code name "Ghost". With your hosts Scott Johnson and Studio Head Greg Street. Featuring conversations with the team working to make it all happen.

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Episodes (15/18)

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 15: The Year Ahead

Let’s talk production! And let’s do that with Juno, production head for all things Ghost! And of course Greg is here with Scott as well this week to look at where 2025 might take us, what it takes to build production pipelines in games, and a deeper look at open world Red Zones in ghost! (More Blue Zone talk too.)

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1 month ago

1 hour 1 minute 50 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

WORD on THE STREET 14: Big Progress Episode!

Scott and Greg are joined again this week by Kristina and Shanti! We have a LOT to bring you in this last episode of 2024, and we hope this gives you a LOT to chew on till our next episode in January.

Video version: http://frogpants.tv

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3 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes 30 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 13: Biomes and Playtests

Greg and Scott are back to talk about the ever-growing playtests of Ghost, and all the latest from said test, and a BIG discussion today on choosing biomes in the game and the processes involved. And a LOT more!

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4 months ago

1 hour 41 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 12: Play-Testing!

Today it’s all about play testing here on the podcast! Joining Scott and Greg we have the return of Kristina Swanenburg, VP of product on Ghost! What does it take to pull of the play-tests this early? Who’s playing? What did they see? We have all the answers!

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5 months ago

51 minutes 51 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 11: Milestones

Time for a one-on-one with Greg and Scott, as they discuss core philosophies and the state of Ghost’s development. Play tests and all! Lots of your questions answered today as well.

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6 months ago

58 minutes 57 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 10: Community!

Let's get down and deep into what community means to the MMO market, and specifically what Fantastic Pixel Castle is doing differently in 2024 with such an open development approach. Join Greg, Faye, and Scott on this one!

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7 months ago

58 minutes

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

WORD on THE STREET 09: Art Direction

Let's talk about art direction in Ghost, and MMO's in general. How does one get started? How does a team like this stay unified on the look and feel of a game in the long term? Stylization vs realism? So much more! Shanti and David join us for today's discussion.

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8 months ago

58 minutes 23 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

WORD on THE STREET 08: The User Experience

Greg and Scott are back for June's episode, and with us is Ed Altorfer, user experience director at FPC! He has some really great perspectives on what's coming in Ghost, and how the user experience is going thus far!

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9 months ago

59 minutes 37 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

WORD on THE STREET 07: You've Questions, We've Answers

A nice big juicy Q & A with Greg and John! Your questions, their answers, and lots of other stuff in-between. Enjoy!

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10 months ago

59 minutes 52 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

WORD on THE STREET 06: Combat with Holinka

Brian Holinka joins the show and goes deep on combat and pvp plans in Ghost. Holinka is a legend in the MMO world, and you're going to want to hear his plans with the team.

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11 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes 44 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 05: Ghost Under The Hood

Let's talk tech! What's under the hood of this MMO, including all the challenges and advantages! The company engineering leads Cam and James join Scott and Greg this month!

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1 year ago

56 minutes 22 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 04: The Earthbergs

We're joined this month by Content Design Director on Ghost, Candace Thomas, and we get a very healthy helping of what blue and red shards are, and what the design philosophy is for the MMO regarding encounters, bosses, and world content. Enjoy!

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1 year ago

1 hour 8 minutes 42 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 03: Story and World Building in Ghost

We get to have a great guest with us today, Shanti Blees, the VP of IP in the studio, talking all about the challenges and fun of creating an MMO story and lore from the ground up, and how that process works.

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1 year ago

54 minutes 24 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

WORD on THE STREET 02: Prototyped

Back with episode two, talking the latest state of things with Greg, Lisa and Kristina! And we dive pretty hard into what the prototyping phase is, why Greg hates it, and why it's absolutely necessary to the process. Plus your questions and feedback!

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1 year ago

56 minutes 52 seconds

Word on The Street, with Greg Street & Scott Johnson

Word on The Street 01: Ghosted

Our first episode, with Scott and Greg. Lots of stuff here including the groundwork for the new studio, the driving principles behind the game, and what you can expect from the team at Fantastic Pixel Castle.

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1 year ago

1 hour 34 seconds