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Steve Cross: The Podern Prometheus
Episode 2 - Worldbuilder with Gregory Akerman
Season 1, Ep. 2
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Worldbuilder is all about short-cutting fantasy world creation. No need to read a whole story, watch a whole film, play a whole game or go through a whole gaming sourcebook to explore a new world. No, just listen to us improvise it for twenty minutes
Steve is a comedian and nerd, and the founder of Bright Club, Science Showoff and many more series where clever people get to show off how funny they are. He also has a fine microphone collection. You can hear Steve on other podcasts like Chaotic Adequate, Live Laugh Lovecraft and the first episode of anything his friends make, because they know he'll do a decent job.
Greg can be found at https://www.chaoticadequate.com
If you're liking what you hear, do drop me a few quid for new sound effects https://ko-fi.com/stevecross
The samples used in today's show are:
Lake waves by Benboncan at freesound.org
Boat Rowing by Juskiddink of the Freesound Project
Waves on shore by Luftrum- from www.freesound.org
Pre thunderstorm by RHumphries from http://freesound.org
Ocean Wide Stereo by www.soundsnap.com
page flip by www.soundsnap.com
wind blow in the trees by www.soundsnap.com
Desert wind1 by ERH from freesound.org
Soft Wind by George Vlad of Alchemy Audio Design
raven sound by http://soundbible.com/935-Raven.html
wind chimes by Patrick6410 from http://freesound.org
Desert monolith by Proxima4 from freesound.org
Eagle screech by Western Rivers.com
Ambient eerie_dunk by Evilface38
Spinning Metal by http://www.freesound.org/people/baryy/sounds/163420/
Static Delay by Jack Braglia [www.BlastAudioSolutions.com]
Creaking Metal by nebulousflynn from http://freesound.org
Hammer by WIM - www.freesound.org
Cutting something by adamlhumphreys on freesound.org
Writing on paper with a pen by AldebaranCW from http://freesound.org
Cake Pan Dropping by j1987 on http://freesound.org
macbook typing by jaredpass24 from http://freesound.org
Wall clock by michaelkoehler from http://freesound.org
And I found them all on ambient-mixer.com
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