Podcast appearances and mentions of neal hallford

Hello fellow nerds, geeks and supporters of indie pop culture creators! Aaron Nabus here and thank you so much for tuning into the Hall H Show! Joining me on this episode is the multi-talented Neal Hallford! I know him as a filmmaker, fellow sponsor of the International Mobile Film Festival (which takes place in San Diego, CA on April 29 and 30, 2023), comic convention panel moderator, and Co-Executive Producers (with his wife, Jana) at Swords & Circuitry where they produce the audio drama, Uncharted Regions as well as indie movies such as The Case of Evil. He also is well known for being a lead designer and lead writer for various video games. One such game is Betrayal at Krondor. This year, Betrayal at Krondor will be celebrating its 30th anniversary and Neal has created a Betrayal at Krondor – Fan Film Challenge to coincide with it. Submissions are now open and will run through May 12, 2023. Welcome to the show, Neal!  

Hey there, friend! If you're into classic games and fascinating stories, you'll love our latest podcast episode featuring the multi-talented Neal Hallford. Join us as he shares insider details on the renowned Betrayal at Krondor CRPG, and get excited about the game's 30th-anniversary celebrations! This innovative game was truly ahead of its time, and Neal takes us on a journey to explore the bold choices that made it such a hit. Discover the game element that needed a makeover but ultimately turned out even better! Did you know that Neal's incredible work on the game led Raymond E. Feist to include it in his iconic Riftwar Saga novel series? Hear about their collaboration and get an insider's perspective on Feist's impressive business acumen. But wait, there's more! Brace yourself for some juicy behind-the-scenes stories of the BAK sequel drama, complete with corporate antics and a dash of Machiavellian mischief. You won't want to miss it! Neal also shares his thoughts on his Krondor Remastered project and reveals what he'd do differently if he had the chance to remake the game today. Plus, find out which lessons from his Swords & Circuitry game development textbook still hold true and what he'd update for the modern age. And if you're a budding filmmaker, get inspired by the Betrayal at Krondor Fan Film Challenge, where even your trusty smartphone can be your ticket to success! Lastly, uncover a surprising connection between Betrayal at Krondor and the legendary BioWare. Tune in now for an enthralling and engaging conversation that's sure to spark your curiosity! Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #266 - 3/14/2023 Like what you hear? Support Shane Plays Geek Talk on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/shaneplays Listen to the Shane Plays Geek Talk podcast on YouTube, SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play Music, Amazon Music, Podbean and Stitcher (and other fine, fine podcast directories). Hey, you! Yeah, you! Buy cool stuff, support Shane Plays Geek Talk with these affiliate links! Humble Bundle https://www.humblebundle.com?partner=shaneplays DriveThruRPG.com https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?affiliate_id=488512 SHOW NOTES Krondor Fan Film Challenge - Opening Day Announcement Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI2YONb2wB8  Betrayal at Krondor Fan Film Challenge http://KrondorFFC.com  Promo Video for Betrayal at Krondor Meetup in Eugene, OR on June 23, 2023 https://www.dropbox.com/s/rb6knnw46a2cc1a/BAK30_Promo.mp4?dl=0  Facebook Event page for Betrayal at Krondor Meetup in Eugene, OR on June 23, 2023 https://fb.me/e/2x1AXguTD  Bak Bits Every Tuesday and Thursday until the meetup in Eugene on June 23rd, Neal is releasing new Bak Bits about the history of Krondor. Follows can find them by the hashtags #BAK30, #KRONDOR30, and #KRONDORFFC Neal's Blog https://www.nealhallford.com/   Betrayal at Krondor Pack on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/betrayal_at_krondor  Swords & Circuitry: A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games https://www.amazon.com/Swords-Circuitry-Designers-Role-Playing-Development/dp/0761532994/  Betrayal at Krondor Remastered & Lumberyard! – Shane Plays  Ep. 45 https://shaneplays.com/betrayal-at-krondor-remastered-lumberyard-radio-show-podcast-ep-45/ (April 2016) --- Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2nd Edition Shane's book! Co-authored with Matt Barton of Matt Chat https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Desktops-History-Computer-Role-Playing/dp/1138574643/

Friend of the podcast Neal Hallford joins us once again! This time to let us in on the details of the upcoming 30th Anniversary celebrations of the legendary video game Betrayal at Krondor! http://krondorffc.com https://www.facebook.com/events/3610517762505380 https://RIF.org --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theintellexual/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theintellexual/support

  This week I let a friend tell the story of his parent's whirlwind wedding that involved a ring locked away in a bank vault, a Billy Graham Crusade and a potential court-martial. It might sound crazy but it's kind of the norm for the family of Neal Hallford. withinpodcast.com More on Neal: nealhallford.com Our sponsors:  jandjpoolsafety@gmail.com The Right Direction by Shane Ivers Martin Mountain Coffee: Small Batch Roaster for an Artisan Cup of Coffee!   Contact Us! Facebook: @withintherealm1 Twitter: @realm_within Instagram within_the_realm contact@withinpodcast.com Want to advertise, sponsor or otherwise support Within The Realm? Visit with us at contact@withinpodcast.com or withinpodcast.com/support/

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What is going on Y'ALL!! It has been quite some time (again) since our last show, and for that I truly apologize, but as you'll see during the show, it's been pretty crazy here in RetroRentsAL land! However, there is some AWESOME news as well! (Like ya boys Al and Nick being on a panel at LockdownCon 2 this year baby!). Lots more to cover as well, so we invite y'all to sit back, kick back with a good drink of your choice, and chill with us on another episode of The Retro Rents!   Release Highlights Let the late Spring/Early Summer release start.RE 8 Hood - Looks great. Road Map will show staying power Subnautica 2   Biomutant. Reviews seem super meh? SMT3: Nocturne Unreal Engine 5 Demo crazy sharp and interesting to see behind the mechanics. DEMEO!    NewsUbisoft to switch to more High End Free to Play model (Taking a page from Activision with CoD?)Kicking off with Heartland in the same universe as the Division series. Vive revealed their Pro2(Pro-sumer level) and Focus 3 (Business Application Oriented)  better stats but nothing software wise to propel it forward in the gaming space. Paradox announces CK3 Expansion: Royal Court (looks super cool), and finally, Victoria 3, long awaited sequel to the infamous industrial age politics/mercantile sim (super fun game in Vicy 2) Star Citizen vs Elite: Odyssey vs No Man’s Sky: Sell me: What is SC going to offer new at this point? Or is it just planning on doing things “better”? Neal Hallford invited us to be on a panel at Lockdowncon!!!

Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick Howdy Folks! We're back after a week off! On this episode we talk about our incredible interview with Neal Hallford, reflect on one year since we were at PAX East together, getting creeped out in Medium, the wild ascent of Valheim, Richard Garriott's latest exploration: The Mariana Trench, and MORE! News: Valheim hits 5 million players! Richard Garriott is currently at the bottom of the ocean (as of this recording)! Subnautica: Below Zero release date announced (May 14th, 2021) Hardsuit Labs sacked from Bloodlines 2 (and what this probably means for the game's release) Alien's Fireteam trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1GRp19A89A  The SavePoint game of the month:  The Medium Contact us! VOICEMAIL LINE! 610-810-1654 Facebook (tiny.cc/savepoint) @TheRetroRents, theretrorents@gmail.com Al - @RetroRentsAl on twitter, twitch.tv/retrorentsal Nick - @BlackEagleOps on twitter, twitch.tv/BlackEagleOps Kyle - find Kyle on The Savepoint! tiny.cc/Savepoint

Thank you all for coming back to check out the conclusion of our interview with the incredible Neal Hallford! This episode dives into Neal's time at Dynamix, and the creation of Betrayal at Krondor! We then discuss his current projects in movies, and he's writing a book too! So much great stuff in this episode. If you want to check out some of Neal's work, get to it below! Highly recommend The Case of Evil on Prime (Neal talks about the making of that in this episode. Such a great send-up to Universal Monster movies of old). We hope you enjoy the show!   Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick, Neal   Check out Neal's past and present projects:   - Planet's Edge: The Point of No Return (PC, available via GOG.com) - Betrayal at Krondor (PC, available via GOG.com) - Krondor Confidential (Neal's multi-part blog on Betrayal At Krondor's conception to release. We'll call it the companion to this interview :) )  - Swords and Circuitry - A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Neal's book on game design!) - Swords and Circuitry - The website for Neal's Production company (yea, he makes movie stuffs too!) - The Case of Evil (An incredible short film inspired by the classic Universal Monster Horrors. On Prime too!) - The Many Worlds of Neal Hallford (Neal's website! Go here to always catch the latest of what Neal might be up to, and follow his wonderful blog, too!)

WOW! Where to even start with this one :) Nick and I had the incredible luck and pleasure to interview Neal Hallford, one of Game Design's greatest of all time (well, damn well so in my eyes).  Neal has been in the designer's seat for some of the most classic, beloved games of all time. His most well known work is Dynamix's Betrayal at Krondor, a game set during the time of Raymond E. Feist's incredible Riftwar Saga. This is a must play piece of gaming history if you've never done so, and it's available on GOG.  Our first part of this incredible interview with Neal covers his time in Radio, the people who influenced him as a young writer, and how doing radio dramas with his buddies brings him to work as a writer and designer at New World Computing (Might and Magic, or Planet's Edge ring a bell?) Alright, don't want to give too much away. Just sit back y'all, and we hope you have as much fun listening to Neal as we did. He really is one of a kind.    Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick, Neal   Check out Neal's past and present projects:   - Planet's Edge: The Point of No Return (PC, available via GOG.com) - Betrayal at Krondor (PC, available via GOG.com) - Krondor Confidential (Neal's multi-part blog on Betrayal At Krondor's conception to release. We'll call it the companion to this interview :) )  - Swords and Circuitry - A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Neal's book on game design!) - Swords and Circuitry - The website for Neal's Production company (yea, he makes movie stuffs too!) - The Case of Evil (An incredible short film inspired by the classic Universal Monster Horrors. On Prime too!) - The Many Worlds of Neal Hallford (Neal's website! Go here to always catch the latest of what Neal might be up to, and follow his wonderful blog, too!)

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It’s a journey into the weird unknown as we talk the Uncharted Regions audio drama & Weird Geek News with the one and only master geek Neal Hallford! What Star Trek actor did was just lined up for an Uncharted Regions episode??? What sci-fi actress has already recorded one??? Plus! Is Shane a Greaser or a Soc??? All this and more to delight your ears! Podcast version of the live Shane Plays geek talk radio show from 8/25/2018 Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at 1 PM Central on 101.1 FM The Answer in Little Rock. It can also be heard online at http://1011fmtheanswer.com. Call in at 501-823-0965 or tweet @ShanePlays during the show! Like what you hear? Support Shane Plays Radio on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/shaneplays Shane Plays is carried on Krypton Radio! Krypton Radio is SciFi for your Wifi. http://kryptonradio.com/ Listen to the Shane Plays podcast on YouTube, SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play Music, Podbean, Stitcher (and other fine, fine podcast directories) after the live show. SHOW NOTES Podcast zinger is from the Outsiders movie (1983) Note: The poem Ponyboy recites to Johnny is 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost NEWS ITEMS Bear wanders inside Stanley Hotel (“The Overlook Hotel” from The Shining) in Estes Park, Colorado | FOX31 KDVR https://www.facebook.com/fox31denver/videos/514021109011888/ Mark Hamill Secretly Cosplayed At This Year’s Comic-Con, Posing With Unwitting Fans In Numerous Photos | UPROXX https://uproxx.com/hitfix/mark-hamill-comic-con-cosplay/ Return of the Jedi Falcon and tie fighter attack deleted scene on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wPjTrgvGG0 NES Isn't Pronounced 'N.E.S.' | lifehacker https://lifehacker.com/nes-isnt-pronounced-n-e-s-1828130155 GUEST: NEAL HALLFORD / UNCHARTED REGIONS Beyond all we know, beyond all we believe lie the Uncharted Regions: Thirteen classic audio dramas that take you into the realms of Science Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Horror, and Mystery produced by Neal and Jana Hallford of Swords & Circuitry Studios. Uncharted Regions: https://www.unchartedregions.com/ Uncharted Regions on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/UnchartedRegions NPR (KBPS) interview with Neal and Jana Hallford and full Uncharted Regions pilot episode: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/sep/21/podcast-episode-126-horrible-imaginings-and-unchar/    

Why would anyone want to sponsor a film festival where only films shot with smartphones qualify? We asked our sponsors from #MFF2018SanDiego to explain why they sponsored us and have chosen to sponsor it again next year. The International Mobile Film Festival is San Diego’s smartphone film festival and has brought many mobile filmmakers from abroad to our beautiful city.Neal and Jana Hallford are experienced in audio production, filmmaking and art. Neal also works in the gaming industry. Their passion for supporting the art industry and the community in San Diego has earned them a lot of respect within the community in San Diego. Neal was making movies with a Super 8 film camera as a kid, just like the protagonist in the film…without the Aliens and train wreck, of course. Jana and Neal are married. They work together and formed Swords and Circuitry Studios which has given them opportunities to create great content such as a film which took part in some film festivals and also as audio producers of Uncharted Regions with some well-known industry professionals such as Gigi Edgley, Tamara Alsaied and Randy Davison also featuring Joe Paulson, Mary Grace Gregg and Larry Nemecek.We are a part of the film and video community in San Diego because we have been working in the industry for many years before we created the International Mobile Film Festival and it’s a small world of a few million people in San Diego with a tight film community. We were pleased when Neal and Jana offered to sponsor this year’s film festival and so we also asked them to be a part of our Judging Panel, independently. But the best way to find out why they are sponsoring our film festival is to ask them to share their story on our public podcasting platform. Our guests share their experience and a bit of their biography and their experience in their first mobile film festival experience. They were delighted to make new friends with the attending filmmakers from San Diego and abroad. They were intrigued with the films and were pleased with the event itself. But of course, there is more to that and what they have going on with their latest audio production Uncharted Regions “These Haunted Hills” which will be a part of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International.Neal and Jana share lots of in-depth information about their audio production which is a story, produced as a quality film production with only the audio. They have written the script, and mastered the story with special effects and all that is involved to complete a wonderful story with no visuals other than your imagination, guided through their techniques for audio storytelling.They are also hosting a panel, which they invited me as host of the SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ and I am honored to be a part of their panel, “Heroes At the Mic.” If you are attending Comic-Con in San Diego, check out both their panels which take place at the San Diego Central Library inside the Neil Morgan Auditorium. SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones.Uncharted Regions “These Haunted Hills” panel takes place on Friday, July 20th at 3pm.Heroes At the Mic panel takes place Thursday, July 19th at 1pm.Follow the Neal and Jana Hallford on social media and their websites below:Uncharted Regions on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnchartedRegions/Uncharted Regions Website: https://www.unchartedregions.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/unchartedregionSwords and Circuitry Studios on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SwordsandCircuitry/Swords and Circuitry Studios Website: https://www.swordsandcircuitry.comTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/swordscircuitryJana Hallford on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JanaHallfordNeal Hallford on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nealiiosOur Links:Subscribe and listen to bonus episodes and more on Patreon: http://patreon.com/sbppodcastSBP Podcast Blog: http://sbppodcast.wordpress.comSBP Podcast Website: http://sbppodcast.studioiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sbp-podcast/id1296673665International Mobile Film Festival Website: http://internationalmobilefilmfestival.comFacebook: http://facebook.com/sbppodcastTwitter: http://twitter.com/sbppodcastMobilizeStories Mobile Film Community website: http://mobilizestories.comSusy Botello on Twitter: http://twitter.com/susybotelloOur Mobile Filmmaking Workshop at San Diego’s Comic-Con International takes place on Friday, July 20th at 1pm. If you are attending Comic-Con then you can add it to your schedule through this link on the program: https://comiccon2018.sched.com/event/FVXNFacebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/231594534108260/© Copyright 2018 S. Botello Productions™. All rights reserved.

Weird Geek News with the one and only Neal Hallford (author, game designer, indy filmmaker)... NASA weird news! Video game weird news! Star Trek weird news! UFO weird news! More weird news than you can shake Spock's original devil tail at! P.S. Getting drunk doesn't make you hallucinate, people! Podcast version of the live Shane Plays geek talk radio show from 1/13/2017 Shane Plays airs on Saturdays at 1 PM Central on 96.5 FM The Answer in Little Rock. It can also be heard online at http://965fmtheanswer.com. Call in at 501-823-0965 or tweet @ShanePlays during the show! Like what you hear? Support Shane Plays Radio on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/shaneplays Shane Plays is carried on Krypton Radio! Krypton Radio is SciFi for your Wifi. http://kryptonradio.com/ Listen to the Shane Plays podcast on YouTube, SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher (and other fine, fine podcast directories) after the live show. SHOW NOTES Check out Neal's Uncharted Regions radio drama: https://www.facebook.com/UnchartedRegions/ NEWS ITEMS R.I.P. astronaut John Young, the first man to get yelled at for smuggling a sandwich into space | AV Club https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-astronaut-john-young-the-first-man-to-get-yelle-1821845571 Japanese Astronaut Concerned After Growing 3.5 Inches Taller in Three Weeks [Update: He Was Wrong] | Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/japanese-astronaut-concerned-after-growing-3-5-inches-t-1821910135 Space station crew watched Star Wars: The Last Jedi from orbit | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/25/16817540/star-wars-the-last-jedi-iss-nasa-astronauts After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/after-37-years-voyager-has-fired-up-its-trajectory-thrusters/ Chinese woman blinded in one eye after playing game likened to electronic heroin | The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/06/chinese-woman-blinded-one-eye-playing-game-likened-electronic/ 'ASIMIL8': Licence plate fight may be headed to court | CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/asimil8-licence-plate-fight-may-be-headed-to-court-1.3499283 Here's what Spock was originally going to look like on 'Star Trek' | MeTV https://www.metv.com/stories/heres-what-spock-was-originally-going-to-look-like-on-star-trek Guillermo del Toro says he saw a real UFO and it was ‘horribly designed’ | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/23/16814948/guillermo-del-toro-ufo-design Fmr. Manager of DOD Aerospace Threat Program: “UFOs are Real” | Huffington Post https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fmr-manager-of-dod-aerospace-threat-program-ufos_us_59de2f4be4b0b992a8214874?section=us_weird-news CNN: Ex-UFO program chief: We may not be alone | YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2b4qSoMnKE  

Welcome back to the fifth One More Story Games podcast. We're using a new Facebook live streaming system called BeLive.tv, so for the first few minutes we're enjoying the new chat features where people have their comments shown right in the stream. Jean Leggett is away giving a keynote address at the Jalloo Festival of Animation and Gaming in Miramichi, New Brunswick. This week I'm talking with game-designer/writer/director Neal Hallford who is working with us to create the Shakespeare's Landlord story game. Neal has been in the games industry for 27 years and has worked on many sword & sorcery RPGs most notably "Betrayal at Krondor". We talk about appreciating storytelling, yet working within the video games industry. Neal shares his background of growing up in Tulsa and being close to the Texarkana setting and world of Lily Bard's Shakespeare. Most importantly we discuss becoming Shakespeare's Champions, protecting Charlaine's voice and characters in building the interactive version of her world. To that end, Neal has gone through and counted the 226 characters that make up Harris' dramatis personae of Shakespeare. This will form the foundation of our future game development. We get closer to discussing the problematic Chapter 5 and talk about how the extreme violence has shaped the character of Lily Bard (stay tuned for next week where we deal with this head-on). And will we have so much fun that Charlaine Harris will want to write another Lily Bard book?

Alright dragons, here is a great convo with Neal Hallford from Swords and Circuitry. He has been a game designer for the last 30 years, contributing to many of your favorite games. Now, he is finishing up a documentary on a a 1982 Star Trek convention. The title of the … Continue reading

In the fourth and final installment of my interview with Betrayal at Krondor designer Neal Hallford, we chat about a variety of topics starting with Dungeon Siege. Was Dungeon Siege too big for its britches? Then we chat about the hit game Champions of Norrath and why Neal prefers PC gaming to consoles. We wrap up with a discussion about Chris Taylor and his excellent leadership. Download the mp4. read more

I'm back this week with part three of my interview with Neal Hallford, designer of Betrayal at Krondor. In this installment, we chat about why Ron Gilbert's Cavedog company failed followed by a discussion of Neal's book Swords & Circuitry, the best-ever guide to creating your own computer role-playing games. Download the mp4 here. Sadly, Neal's Thief of Dreams kickstarter failed, but a third party has emerged to back him anyway. read more

In my second installment of my interview with Neal Hallford, we chat about his masterpiece, Betrayal at Krondor. Famous among CRPG aficionados for its epic story and superb writing, BaK is set in the fantasy world of Raymond E. Feist. Unfortunately, Neal did such a great job mimicking Feist's style that many people wrongly assume that it was Feist who penned the game script! The interview also covers why a proper sequel to the game was never made. Download the mp4. read more