Good things take time, they say, which is true. Some great things can take a literal age, greeting you at their inaugural launch party with a giant wispy beard, savagely unkempt hair and a mountain of half-eaten Pot Noodles strewn over the floor.
Anyway, at the end of last year, my BFF (no, I wasn’t aware I still wrote things like that either) Ms. Aoife Wilson and I got a podcast commissioned called This Game Changed My Life. For BBC Sounds no less *dusts imaginary dust of imaginary shoulder pads*.
It was a great day. I mean, c’mon – how often in life do you firstly get a BBC commission (a tough and always long process), secondly get to meet people whose lives have been changed forever because of something you love ,and thirdly get to do it with someone who’s eaten more hungover Dominos with you than any respective partner you’ve ever had?
The commission itself as I alluded to was a lengthy process. We piloted – a lot – and had been doing so for about a year to get to that point. Gaming is always treated a bit weirdly by the mainstream media (as you all well know). During my career I’ve had a lot of things casually commissioned and when things aren’t immediately a success they tend to think, ‘Oh well, we’ve done a gaming’ and give up. Eefs and I wanted that very much not to be the case this time round. We knew that gaming podcasts have a place for dedicated gamers and the mainstream alike. And with this idea we felt very strongly that we were onto a winning format.