On Friday night, the user marcod hosted a long-awaited Atmosphir LIVE Episode 14 podcast starring ZettaKuma and I in a Skype conversation. Marcod was contemplating a cancellation of the show, but after Friday night’s turnout, this thought has been wiped from his mind. We had nearly 20 people watching marcod play requested levels and ZettaKuma, marcod, and I battling it out in multiplayer Free Combat. I believe I won all of the matches we played, except the last one, which lagged out and didn’t work out very well. Everyone had great fun chatting with fellow players and watching the show. In conclusion, it was a great show, and we all can’t wait for the next!

Also on Friday, Minor Studios released already the second update to the new version of Atmosphir–version 0.7.3. There were a few things added to the game, namely improvements on searching and searching filters as well as the moving spike block and a FPS mode. There are also LOTD images on the main menu, which will be updated hopefully every few days. Other than that, there wasn’t much else to the update, just a couple cool new features.

Adz just released a screenshot of some new character items. A knight suit and a cat mask.

Keep updated at Atmosphiric for all your Atmosphir news!

Lately, new screenshots and videos have been pouring in like there’s no tomorrow–which is fine with the community, because everyone loves it. Below are two new screenshots and six new videos. Enjoy!

A comet powerup animation in Stratosphir.

Spikes rotated into a circle…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yevE4CG4vrA

A small, quick video starring bigdrip681 showing how to create a moving cube with moving platforms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9fn04lI99M&feature=youtube_gdata

Wowfunhappy playing a few requested levels in Stratosphir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mapXS2dK8bU

A video showing the main menu in Stratosphir. The aim is for it to have a slideshow of the latest LOTDs instead of just the three pictures it has now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3SSvKPL6dY

A multiplayer video featuring bigdrip681, Colinnn, and Wowfunhappy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hrjcZH1r3Q

A multiplayer video featuring bigdrip681, Colinnn, Wowfunhappy, PL|Predator (Martin), and okaysamurai (Dave).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodJe-OuXU4

A new edition of “Bigdrip’s Atmosphir Tutorials” showcasing some of the awesome new features of Stratosphir.

Atmosphir LIVE has been a consistently great live Atmosphir show that I’ve always tried to watch. I’ve become a Moderator in the chat of the show too. Basically it works like this: The host of the show, marcod sets a certain number of levels that can be requested, and users request levels to be played live by marcod. He talks to everyone as they chat in the chatroom next to the stream and plays the requested levels.

Tonight was the night when Episode 12 of well-know user, marcod’s live video show, Atmosphir LIVE, was set to go live, at 7 PM EST. But there were a few surprises…

First, the show began with a trailer for a brand new Mod that user drfuzzyness is currently developing–a Half-Life 2 Mod. He originally made a Portal Mod, which I must say was extremely awesome, and now he is making a Mod for Atmosphir of the great game, Half-Life 2. Just like the Portal Mod, this Half-Life 2 Mod looks like it’s going to have high-quality textures and awesome visuals. I’m sure everyone can’t wait until Content Pack 1 is released, because this next Modification looks truly amazing!

Second, marcod played a few of the requested levels with Cameron, who was the first character that we played as before the implementation of character customization, which definitely brought back some great memories of the early days of Atmosphir in some of us older users.

Third, and probably the biggest surprise of the show was that I called marcod in on Skype, and guest starred throughout the whole approximate 2 hours 45 minutes we were on air. Another frequent viewer of Atmosphir LIVE, and a well-known forum user, ZettaKuma showed up on Skype to talk to us too, but not for the whole show, becuase he had a conflicting schedule. It was an amazing experience, chatting live with marcod, and I hope I can do it again, because I really enjoyed it.

Hopefully anyone who missed this episode will be able to make future episodes, and maybe even some other users could talk with us on Skype. Altogether, I had a great time on Atmosphir LIVE, thanks marcod!

A frequent user of the Atmosphir forums, dragonbo, requested that I post his video show here on Atmosphiric. His show is called The Monthly Play, enjoy!

The Monthly Play Episode 1