Entries from February 2008

A Couple of WIPs.

February 29th, 2008 · Visual Art

Just some stuff I’ve been working on recently. Been trying some other media recently like charcoal, crayons, watercolors and such. Still digital though, there’s just too much savings to be had here. A word of warning, the first one right now looks particularly nasty as there’s no depth yet. I’m still a newbie when it [...]

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Game of the Month #1: Cave Story

February 26th, 2008 · Games

Disclaimer: Some plot spoilers may be found in the article. It has a fansite. It’s spawned a remix project. It’s even got its own LiveJournal community. Everyone and his indie-game-playing-mother has heard about this game. Every indie game blog has written about Cave Story. There are dozens of articles out there praising its gorgeous pixel [...]

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Points – Video Commentaries on Gamer Culture

February 23rd, 2008 · Games

I recently stumbled across Points, a series of short videos on the people and places behind video games as well as gamer culture as a whole, with a particular focus on Tokyo. Apparently, there exist such things as game bars. Nice. That’s automatically two of my favorite things right there: gaming and drinking. What’s more, [...]

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Fez = Godly.

February 21st, 2008 · Games, Programming

This game rocks some serious rock and kicks some serious ass. Fez, the brainchild of the Kokoromi Collective, recently won the Excellence for Visual Art in the 2008 Independent Games Festival awards. Looks deserving if you ask me. With beguiling pixel graphics and extremely intriguing gameplay, I’m waiting quite impatiently for this one to come [...]

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Game of the Month Specials

February 21st, 2008 · Games

Starting something new today, calling it Game of the Month, which will serve to put the spotlight on a few games which I find to be gems, independent or not. Every month When I write these up it’s going to be a new game, and though I’ll probably run out of games to write about [...]

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Rock You Like a Hurricane

February 14th, 2008 · Games, Music, Visual Art

Yeah it’s the Scorpions song, it’s been playing in my head for the past couple of days. This’ll probably be my last single image post. I’ll be posting them in twos or threes in the future. I’ve been playing too much Guitar Hero. Sometimes my wrist hurts for quite a long time even after I [...]

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