Episodes

  • WORD on THE STREET 19: Get Classy

    WORD on THE STREET 19: Get Classy
    Sep 17 2025
    Time for a look at the latest classes they are working on at FPC, and we have Holinka with us to help break down the Tempest, Songbird, and Sphinx Guard. Plus a lot of great stuff around the edges this month on Word on The Street!

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    1 hr
  • Word on The Street 18: Audio Direction

    Word on The Street 18: Audio Direction
    Aug 5 2025
    Scott Johnson and Greg Street with guest James Ackley, Audio Director for Ghost at Fantastic Pixel Castle. They discuss audio design in MMOs, especially challenges with adaptive sound in open-world games versus corridor shooters and other genres. James shares his background (Monolith, ArenaNet, Amazon, Meta) and talks about leveraging in-world lore to craft immersive soundscapes. Avoiding traditional fantasy music, favoring diverse and real-world-inspired audio. Collaborative development is key! It’s all here in this episode!

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    49 mins
  • Word on The Street 17: Let’s See Some Art!

    Word on The Street 17: Let’s See Some Art!
    May 27 2025
    Greg and Scott are joined today by Kube and BirD, and we go wild with the art drop! Everything from concept sketches to animated models in engine, and lots in-between. An episode you won’t want to miss!

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Word on The Street 16: Graham on Game

    Word on The Street 16: Graham on Game
    Apr 22 2025
    Graham joins us, a veteren of MMO design, and the man with the plan when it comes to building the blue zone systems in Ghost. Scott and Greg and Graham are here to talk about recent play test results, new game “modes”, and how the systems are coming along!

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    54 mins
  • Word on The Street 15: The Year Ahead

    Word on The Street 15: The Year Ahead
    Feb 11 2025
    Let’s talk production! And let’s do that with Juno, production head for all things Ghost! And of course Greg is here with Scott as well this week to look at where 2025 might take us, what it takes to build production pipelines in games, and a deeper look at open world Red Zones in ghost! (More Blue Zone talk too.)

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • WORD on THE STREET 14: Big Progress Episode!

    WORD on THE STREET 14: Big Progress Episode!
    Dec 17 2024

    Scott and Greg are joined again this week by Kristina and Shanti! We have a LOT to bring you in this last episode of 2024, and we hope this gives you a LOT to chew on till our next episode in January.


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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Word on The Street 13: Biomes and Playtests

    Word on The Street 13: Biomes and Playtests
    Nov 19 2024
    Greg and Scott are back to talk about the ever-growing playtests of Ghost, and all the latest from said test, and a BIG discussion today on choosing biomes in the game and the processes involved. And a LOT more!

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Word on The Street 12: Play-Testing!

    Word on The Street 12: Play-Testing!
    Oct 15 2024
    Today it’s all about play testing here on the podcast! Joining Scott and Greg we have the return of Kristina Swanenburg, VP of product on Ghost! What does it take to pull of the play-tests this early? Who’s playing? What did they see? We have all the answers!

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    52 mins