Mappercast Podcast

Mappercast Podcast or Mappercast is a podcast created by VoidViper Mapping. The topics of the podcast are primarily focused on Mapping, story writing, politics, and geography.

The podcast was broadcast with Google Hangouts On Air until Hangouts was shut down in 2019. The show now broadcasts using OBS Studio.

There are eight main members of the podcast, but sometimes there is a guest or more. The first episode was broadcast on April 17th 2016.

The show is currently in its fifth season.

There have been 87 Total episodes released as of November 22nd 2020.

Alternate Future Of The World By MapperCast
Ideas for a potential Mappercast collaboration series had been in the works for several months following the premiere of the Podcast in early 2016. In August 2016, The 13th episode of the Podcast "Collab Ideas" was broadcasted and centered around discussing potential concepts for a collaboration between the members of The Mappercast Crew.

Ideas brainstormed in this episode lead to the eventual conceptualization of "Alternate Future Of The World By MapperCast"

The show was a standard form Alternate Future Of The World style series, With each continent's events being written and controlled by a different Mappercast member. With VoidViper having Asia, CosmicMapping having North & South America, 99Batran having Europe, Italian Mapper Chris having Africa, And MindriaMapping having The Middle East region. Excluding Li Allan, Each member of The Mappercast Crew contributed to the collaboration. (The Rat Of Mapping & Mysterious Mapping had not yet joined the crew at this point in time)

The show's first episode "Unexpected Times" premiered August 21st, 2016 and currently sits at 14,582 Views.

The show ran for 3 episodes and the current status of it's continuation is unknown.

Mappercast: The Movie (Project MM)
On October 18th, 2016, CosmicMapping announced on his Twitter that there was currently a "New Big Mappercast Project" Going on.

The project was later re-anounced in mid 2018 as "Project MM"

On April 2020 The Project is finally announced as "Mappercast: The Movie" A movie dedicated to the mappercast crew and their guests.

Further details on the project are currently unknown but hinted.

Merchandise
Potential Mappercast merchandise has been discussed as long as Mappercast has been airing.

An official Mappercast T-Shirt design was officially announced to be in production on the Mappercast Twitter on January 5th, 2017. The T-Shirt was announced to be designed by Chris Fischer, The man behind the art in episode five of CosmicMapping's Alternate Future Of The World, As well as being Cosmic's father.

T-Shirt production was again re-announced in May 2018 through the Mappercast Twitter.

As of 2020, the production status of the Mappercast t-shirt is unknown and may very well never be made.

Discord Server
On August 13th 2017, The 41st episode of Mappercast entitled "MapperCast Discord?" Was broadcast and centered around the discussion of a potential Mappercast Discord Server. The consensus of the crew members and community was positive towards the idea, and the Mappercast Discord Server was launched on the same day of the 41st episode's airing.

After the launch, The server was initially quite unsuccessful, and remained dormant and inactive for several months.

The primary activity on the server during this era consisted of occasional announcements from members of the Mappercast crew, as well as various members of the server asking VoidViper and CosmicMapping when/if the show would air on any given day. Although, around late July 2018 to early September 2018, an event occurred which would shift the tides of the server's future.

From the founding of Mappercast in early 2016, up until this point The Mappercast Crew's primary method of communication and planning the show was through a private chat room they had ran through Skype. although around this time in Mid-2018, Skype had released an update to their layout which had made the platform a shell of it's former self. In response to this sudden and unexpected negative change, The crew made the decision to migrate to the private chat area of their nearly forgotten Discord.

The Discord server had now become a major installation in the process of producing the show, along with various other projects and communicative needs.

This increase in the Crew's activity in and around the server grew their interest in maintaining the viability of the server as a community hub, rather then a forgotten, muted icon at the bottom of people's Discord Server list.

In an effort to drive community engagement, on August 31st 2018, Mappercast Crew Members Mindria Mapping & CosmicMapping launched the "Poll Of The Day" channel as an addition to the server. This channel would update every day with a new question members of the server could vote on, often sparking lively discussion and debate centered around the topic of the poll in the server's "General" channel.

This effort succeeded, as activity in the server increased dramatically after the introduction of The Poll Of The Day, revitalizing the server.

This marked an era of expansion for the server, as many new additions and features were added shortly after the poll's introduction. These new features included several new channels, Rythm and Yggdrasil bots, as well as a leveled ranking system allowing members to increase their experience rank as they continued to engage in the server's activities.

The server currently sits at 410 members with it's General Chat having over 200,000+ sent messages.

~Notable Server Events~

"The Toy Chica Debacle"

After the introduction of the Rythm Bot in October 2018, it's usage quickly turned from genuine musical entertainment, to that of spam and exploitation.

During a particularly fervorous session of spamming, MapperCast Member Alp Mapper attempted to request the the bot play a popular video of CosmicMapping twerking from the 25th episode of Mappercast.

What resulted instead, was a completely absurd, arbitrary, and unexplainable occurrence as the bot proceeded to process this request as a request a play a video depicting characters from the game "Five Nights At Freddy's" performing obscene sexual acts on one another.

The chat immediately burst into confusion and hilarity, as various members began spamming the bot to play this video repeatably, particularly CosmicMapping & CheezWafflz Mapping.

The event ended with the Rythm bot being removed from the server, although it was quickly returned.