Ok, so I tried this with my group last night. I had mixed results. Nobody seemed to notice the commercials...which is fine. They're commercials. And I didn't actually make any commercials...I just ripped stuff off GTA and the Fruity Oaty bars, although I've got storyboards for some good political and NERPS commercials.
But, when the pirate radio signal came in...everything stopped, and the players listened, fascinated.
It was a cool way to disseminate information. I think I'll keep it up, and, especially now that I've got the software all set up, it should be much faster to produce. Gentleman Jim's radio report took four hours to get done on the first go.
Anyway, I've got the links to my Box.net account...here's one for
commercials, and here's one for the
pirate radio feeds. Be aware that the pirate feed starts off as a song. I think you may need to sign up at Box.net to see the files. If someone has a different free site to use, I'm open to change.
Two action items exist for interested parties:
1) Make commercials/radio feeds and stick it in the folder. PM me if you want to know how I did mine.
2) Write headlines/stories for the next report from Gentleman Jim. I'll be doing another feed for next week, and it will have four to six headlines in it, not all of which will be plot related in my game, so I figure somebody could slip in something for their game. And I'm lazy. This way I don't have to write all the stories.
EDIT: Repaired broken link to pirate radio feeds.