Creator Spotlight
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin the Rocket Punch crew in this biweekly podcast, as they chat with an awesome creator in the geek and gaming space to talk about their successes and challenges making the content they love. From Youtubers, to streamers, artists, game developers, cosplayers, and more, listen to the inspiring stories of people who started with an idea, and followed their passion.
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Episodes
Rocket Punch Extra Life 2017
November 14, 2017 11:00 - 5 minutes - 5.13 MBIt is TIME to get ready for our annual Extra Life livestream! Listen in to get all the details on what to do and where to go to support Team Rocket Punch and help raise money for charity! Stream: twitch.tv/rocketpunchlive Info: www.rocketpunchgo.com/extralife
Pinball Undesirables w/ Stephen Young
October 13, 2017 22:44 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBLike pinball? How about beer? Then, we have the perfect Creator Spotlight for you yet! This time, Rocket Punch gets their flippers loose as we chat with Stephen Young, the creator of Pinball Undesirables! Stephen stops by and talks to us about his awesome endeavor with Pinball Undesirables, a streaming channel dedicated to streaming pinball for anyone interested in watching and listening to him play.
Weird Giraffe Games w/ Carla & Nick Kopp
September 22, 2017 21:40 - 42 minutes - 39 MBWait no more listeners, because a new episode for Creator Spotlight is here! This time, board games are making a full swing, as the Rocket Punch crew get to sit and chat with Carla and Nick Kopp, the creators for the popular up-and-coming board game company, Weird Giraffe Games! Carla and Nick swing by to discuss how they found a passion for creating board games and starting Weird Giraffe Games while on a road trip, the intricacies of their board game design process (which could be useful for...
Winter Robin Cosplay w/ Danielle Craft
September 08, 2017 10:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBIt has been a long time coming, but a new episode of Creator Spotlight returns! This time, we get to sit and chat with someone that the Rocket Punch crew has been wanting to talk with for a while now: a cosplayer! In particular, we sit down with Danielle Craft of The Winter Robin Cosplay to talk about the exciting and increasingly popular activity of cosplay! In this episode, Danielle talks with us about how she was brought into the cosplay world, the work that she must put into to execute on...
Teaser
August 28, 2017 10:00 - 3 minutes - 3.16 MBA short message from Rocket Punch on what's to come.
Credible Threat Gaming w/ Chris Scott
May 04, 2017 22:17 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBDue to some illness, it has been a while since our last episode, but now Creator Spotlight is back in action, and this week, we get to talk about a popular activity on the internet: video game streaming! Chris Scott from Credible Threat Gaming joins us in this episode to talk about how him and his friends started their venture in streaming and content creation, from their humble beginnings to the hard work they put in every week to provide awesome content for Twitch and Youtube viewers around...
Red Crow Comics w/ Julian Jay Burton
March 09, 2017 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBFor all of the geeky content and great projects we have talked about on Creator Spotlight, we have yet to talk to a comic creator and publisher. Until now! Aspiring comic creators out there should take notice of this week's episode, as we sit down with Julian Jay Burton, the CEO of local comic publisher, Red Crow Comics! Many writers and artists out there may be trying to figure out how to break into the comic world and work with powerhouses like Marvel and DC Comics, but for Jay, he decided ...
Rocket City Quidditch Club w/ Jared Leggett
March 02, 2017 11:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBOur next Creator Spotlight is a fun one, as this week we pull a very special sport from the pages of Harry Potter, and bring it into the real world! Harry Potter fans should be pretty excited, as we chat with Jared Leggett about the local Quidditch team (you read that right) starting up in Huntsville, AL, The Rocket City Quidditch Club! You may be wondering how the game of Quidditch could somehow work outside of the pages of your favorite J.K. Rowling book series (believe me, I was wondering ...
Bellwether Games w/ Dennis Hoyle
February 09, 2017 14:06 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this latest episode of Creator Spotlight, we get to talk board games! We were able to sit down and chat with Dennis Hoyle, the man behind Bellwether Games, an up-and-coming board game company. Since the surprising events that led him to pursue a career in board game creation, Dennis has hit his foot to the gas pedal, and has found great success creating brand new board games for people all over the world to enjoy! With a few successful Kickstarter campaigns giving him experience and opport...
After Hours Game Developer Group
January 14, 2017 01:52 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBWe know it has been a while, but we are back with a brand new entry in our Creator Spotlight series! This week, we spent some time chatting with Nicholas Compton and Austin Smith, the duo running the awesome event for aspiring game developers in the Huntsville, AL area, the After Hours Game Dev Group. These two driven individuals have worked hard to build and grow a place for interested and like-minded people to come together and learn more about game development, and also give an easy avenue...
The Black Rabbit
August 31, 2016 04:19 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBWELCOME BACK, everyone! We know it has been a while, but we are back with a brand new entry in our Creator Spotlight series! This week, we spent some time chatting with Cameron Jeffrey, also known to everyone in the artist realm as The Black Rabbit. At a young age, Cameron discovered that he had a knack for artistry, drawing, and storytelling, and decided to build on that knack and see what would happen from it. We're pretty sure he never expected to go from those humble beginnings, to becomi...
Star Wars: Battle of Rocket City
April 19, 2016 15:15 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBWELCOME BACK to the next installment in our Rocket Punch Creator Spotlight series! This week, we could not hold in our excitement to have the opportunity to chat with Jeffrey Parker and Zac King, two members of the cast and crew filming the Star Wars fan film, Star Wars: Battle of Rocket City, right here in Huntsville, Alabama! Once hearing about the Star Wars Fan Film Awards coming up within the next few months, Jeffrey worked hard to bring together a brilliant cast and crew to make this fa...
Pints & Pixels
April 05, 2016 04:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBGreetings, and welcome back to our next story in our Rocket Punch Creator Spotlight series! This week, we were super excited to sit down and have a chat with Richard Moss, the owner of a new local restaurant/bar/arcade hybrid, located within downtown Huntsville, Alabama, called Pints and Pixels! After looking at cool, nerdy places that other cities around the country had, Richard took matters into his own hands, and with the help of some talented and knowledgeable people, including an awesome...
Pixel Perfect
March 29, 2016 05:30 - 15 minutes - 14 MBWelcome back to the next installment in our Rocket Punch Creator Spotlight series! This week, we got the pleasure of sitting down with Matt and Amie Gibson, two Huntsville locals and owners of Pixel Perfect, a company they started to create Perler Bead pixel art for nerds everywhere! What was once a small hobby they both enjoyed under their own roof, Matt and Amie "perfected" their craft into a unique and creative endeavor that they never expected would become such a booming success with the ...
Nerd Rummage Sale 3.0
March 08, 2016 05:59 - 10 minutes - 9.6 MBIn the first ever Rocket Punch Creator Spotlight, we sit down and talk to Halley Martin, a young woman from Huntsville, AL, who had an inventive idea with her friends to help get some money for a trip to DragonCon, but did not expect what that event would turn into and how big it would become! If you would like to read the text version of the interview, or listen to Halley as a special guest on this week's episode of The Rocket Punch Cast, click one of the corresponding buttons below. You ca...