"Godmode: On" - Video game commentary. (Show officially greenlit read inside.)

[Dracophile]

Warning: This show is rated PG-13 for some suggestive and/or profane language.

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TODO: Picture of Godmode: On cast.

- THE HISTORY -
Godmode: On, formerly Let's Play, is a video game commentary show hosted by the comedy trio of the same name. The show is based on a commentary format created and explored by 1UP.com's Jason Betrand and Cesar Quintero from their infamous show Broken Pixels. The show originally went into production in mid-2007 under the moniker Let's Play as a walkthrough show. One pilot was made and then the show was scrapped and reformatted into a style similar to Cheap Seats complete with short skits. This format was again abandoned in favor of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 format where it has remained. In 2008 another pilot was produced, a preview of Marky Mark: Make My Video. The show's promotional media was met with negative reception and compounded with faulty equipment the show was shelved and put on hiatus. It has since been picked up again in 2009 and a re-release of the 2008 pilot is in order.

For information about the show during its "Let's Play!" stage, please see this thread (http://penguinforum.miniclip.com/showthread.php?t=64353).

- PRODUCTION STATUS -
As of August 2009
Set completed and fully functional again.
Cast confirmed, proper show format designated.
Show currently backed & funded by a local game retail company.

- CAST & CREW -
Starring
Godmode
(J. Andre Bardin
Jason Gleckner
Jake Richardson)

Based On A Format By
Jason Betrand
Cesar Quintero

Executive Producer
J. Andre Bardin

Producers
Bardin Construction
Jason Gleckner
Trackmill Games

Set Design & Construction
Bardin Construction

Audio/Video Grip
Gulf Coast Audio

Soundtrack
"Spasm" performed by Radio X

Post-Production
J. Andre Bardin

Special Thanks
Arizona Drink Company
Shawn Bardin
Castaways Thrift Store
Dairy Queen
Gayle & Eric DeWolfe
PepsiCo
ProBuild
Radio X
Trackmill Games
Ziff Davis Media

- EPISODES -
Season Zero
001 - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch: Make My Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdYT4wCXrLk)
002 - Bomberman: Act Zero (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFRfJkmJBv0)
003 - Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero

Season One
TBA

[Guardian Ou]

lol I loved the introduction. :D

What was that guy looking for anyway? :O
"OH SHOOT HE FOUND US!"

Can't wait for episode 2. :)

[CenT.]

I agree, the introduction was the best part. :cool: good work draco!

[Dracophile]

lol I loved the introduction. :D

What was that guy looking for anyway? :O
"OH SHOOT HE FOUND US!"

Can't wait for episode 2. :)

I'm pretty sure that entire scene was just their way of filling the clock to play the opening credits. It was boring and tedious and they could have just played the actual Good Vibrations music video with the credits on top of it instead of having that kid walking around that room.

[Dannyboy]

Haha that was pretty funny. And as it seems, Make My Video Better beat Ballsakkkkk.

[Dracophile]

Episode 002 - Bomberman: Act Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFRfJkmJBv0

[Guardian Ou]

Episode 002 - Bomberman: Act Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFRfJkmJBv0


ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!
You have played with both male and female frames.


Omg I can't stop laughing. :D

That actually looks like a decent game. How old is it?

[Dracophile]

Omg I can't stop laughing. :D

That actually looks like a decent game. How old is it?

Bomberman: Act Zero was released in 2006 for the Xbox 360 console. The little red card that shows up at the beginning of the episode says the game, the developer, and it's year of release (and for what console). Careful though, the game might look a little flashy but it's riddled with sloppy controls and a difficult to manage camera.

Next episode is 1997's "Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero" for the Nintendo 64 by Midway Games.

[Dracophile]

Great news, today was an awesome day for the show. If you're in the Corpus Christi, TX area there's a small anime/gaming convention called Realms Con that happens in October each year. The convention is frequently funded/managed by a local independent classic game retail store called Play Again. I'm an infrequent customer but the owner kind of knows me.

Today Jason and I met with him to "talk business". At first we asked if the owner, Marco, would be willing to help the show out with titles to play. We offered to place a $50 deposit so that we could borrow a game, play it for the show, and return it. Nothing in the store (that we want to play at least) is over $50, so if we bolted with the game we'd be out $50. In exchange Marco would get publicity through the show. Marco liked the idea of the show and said he wanted to see our pilots, so we handed him some information where he could watch episodes 1 and 2.

He was really interested in it, so much that he offered to just forget about the deposit business and he said he'd loan out the games for the show just because he likes the idea. Furthermore since he is intertwined with Realms Con he said that if the show goes over well, not this convention but NEXT convention there's a really good chance that Godmode: On will be billed as a live performance. To support the cause, my ex-girlfriend Hillary with whom I am on very good terms with these days (an incredibly talented pianist and music remixer who specializes in video games) is a big fan of the show as well, which means that if all goes well we are pretty much guaranteed a place to perform the show in front of a REAL live audience and not just a couple of people who help manage the cameras and AV at the set.

There's also early discussion of Godmode: On being distributed and sold on DVD as well, online and through the Play Again store. Between Play Again lending us games and my personal collection of terrible titles we can pretty much start taping two episodes a week if the cast is able to designate one day a week as "Godmode Day". Assuming we tape every week, that's 104 episodes a year. That's insane.

Godmode: On is beyond greenlighted now, it's whatever is passed that stage. It's on and it's loud, and we now have a very good feeling about this show. I've produced and written for countless shows and Godmode: On, a series I touted as being "my last", is primed to make it farther than everything else before it. I am very happy that I adopted the Twilight Foundry name again to place on this show, because TFF hasn't been tainted with failures like RFS Media Productions was. I have a good feeling about this. This is it.

Jason and I celebrated over pizza and Mike's Hard Lemonade earlier this evening. :)

(I don't condone drinking!! :P)

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In other news we have been considering making some professional changes to the way the show is produced. Unfortunately our set is still brandished with the phrase "Let's Play!" but we are going to write that into very short sketches that play before the episode starts. We feel that a short 30sec-1min sketch before an episode will get people hooked into viewing the entire show without detracting from the main idea too much. Jason and I began working on sketches for the show today as well. We are taking an approach to the sketches similar to the television series Michael & Michael Have Issues.

If you haven't seen the show, the entire show is basically the correspondence and dialogue between Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter ABOUT the show they supposedly host, that you barely see. For example, one sketch we have planned for the very first "real" episode of the show involves us walking onto the new set only to find "Let's Play" painted on the wall. There's a brief altercation where we argue with each other and the painter that it's not what we ordered. The sketches themselves are meant to very loosely allude to the game shown in the episode, either by name or theme, so we'll find a way to tie this all together. I've also storyboarded two kinds of openings for the show.

[TheHuskerDu]

Wow, looks like this could be a big break for you!

Great job on the shows, too.

[Payton]

Well that was the worst piece of crap I've ever watched...
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JOKING, you know I'm only joking. It was a good video dPhile.