Aubrey Hodges interview, part one (link to)

[Alistair]

Hey folks,

I hate posting like this, but it's an SMC privilege. It's also something many people will want to see, hence the post- I spoke to Aubrey at length today, and found out a lot of very interesting stuff. If you want to check out what we talked about, it's in the SMC private member section, 1 post required for entry. (http://smc.sq7.org/forum)

Main topics were his scores, QFG4, Longbow, FPFP, although QFG1VGA and KQ5 came up- why? Well, you'll have to find out!

Regards,
- Alistair

[Marten]

If you hate doing it that way, don't do it that way.  Unless Hodges told you to restrict access to the interview, or unless you communicated that access would be restricted when you conducted the interview, I don't agree with your decision.

By all means, post the interview at your site, and direct people to it there, but don't nanny people over needing to post there to access content.  That will only drive people away.

I don't even contribute here that much anymore; I try to only contribute when I think I have something useful to say, and that hasn't been often recently.

[Alistair]

Well, I need to finalise the content in it, and get input from others such as Josh, maybe Al, etc.

It's not going to be publically released until the CD, so for the moment, instead of just posting it in the QS private section, I thought I'd post it here so people here could at least get in first, while doing a bit of 'nannying' as you say. Since it's of interest, I thought I'd keep QS fans in the loop instead of ignoring a section of the community.

The interviews are mainly private chats I give access to a select few, where bits are relevant to scores, I'll post it publically. I can just never post such things, if that's your aim- if people are really interested, it's not hard to sign up at a forum. Or they can wait until the score is released, fairly soon- I've always done things that way.

Sadly you're right about contributions, interest is waning. But given how little music SMC/QS has released (combined with a lack of off-topic discussion), it's not hard to determine why.

- Alistair

[Tom]

how little music SMC/QS has released

You're kidding, aren't you?  There are thousands of music files on this site; the majority of Sierra titles are pretty well represented here at present.  You must be talking about recent uploads, then that would make sense.  The classic Sierra adventurer is becoming more rare with each passing year, and naturally, lack of interest follows suit.  Lots of new and exciting things begin to take interest away from the old days of animated 3-D adventure gaming...  Like, cars, girls, politics, girls, employment, girls, education, and of course, girls.

[Alistair]

Whoops, that sentence was supposed to say "given how little music SMC/QS has released in the past year"- I think I started thinking about the off-topic discussion comment and forgot to add that bit, my bad.

There are still quite a few Sierra adventurers, I still consistently get emails about music, probably as often as I always have (a couple a month, roughly). I certainly think your girls comment is incorrect (a large proportion of the Sierra community is female, for example)- much more likely, responsibilities have, such as serious college, and work.

But it's also true (IMO) we need to do much more to attract and retain people to our section of the community- which is why I've been a lot more hands on with regards to contacting Sierra people and obtaining old music, over the past 12 months with my activities.

- Alistair