So after a prolonged hiatus I’ve decided to end Carpe GM.
This is not a bad thing at all. I started the podcast earlier this year because
I wasn’t gaming very much and wanted to do something to keep gaming foremost in
my mind. There were a lot of great podcasts out there already dealing with
gaming and I thought I’d try my hand at it. It was a fun experience and I’m
glad I did it but boy is it a lot of work! I have a new level of respect for
those producing content so regularly. I took the break because I was burnt out
after only the better part of a year producing a thirty-minute show every two
weeks; imagine what some of the “big boys� go through! I also am at the point that I didn’t want to be a “one-man
band� anymore and did not want to make the financial and logistical outlays to
take on co-hosts.
I’m pleased with what I produced and definitely have learned
a lot from producing my own show (even if it was just with a karaoke microphone
and a free copy of Audacity). I don’t want to offer up the cop-out of saying
that I don’t have the time to produce Carpe GM, because I do. I’d just rather
spend it playing games than talking about games and now circumstances are such
that I can.
I don’t plan to disappear from the podcast scene entirely,
either. I’m just not going to produce my own show.
For everyone who gave feedback and gave me encouragement I
thank you sincerely. Some of you are now friends and will continue to be for a
long time, I hope. Keep in touch, keep on gaming, and keep supporting gaming
podcasts!
(On an administrative note, I’ll keep the libsyn page up for
a while and move the shows to something like archive.org for posterity.)
