What has happened this week then? Quite a bit!
I read the first issue of The Red Wing on Comixology (a great app by the way, which lets you read comics on your tablet or phone whilst sitting on the lavoratory), and decided that it was “for me”, so I ordered the trade paperback off Amazon the next day. I had read a lot of free comics that night, but only that one really got my attention. I had heard great things about the author, Jonathan Hickman, but was blown away when I read the whole thing in one sitting. Such a great story.
This week I have also helped Lewis get on to DeviantArt – a move which has boosted his confidence no end. He has potential, but he does tend to give in too easily and isn’t willing to spend a long time doing the fiddly details – which sometimes bring a piece to life. He has trouble grasping perspective and foreshortening as well, he’s still in the mind-set that drawings are flat representations of three-dimensional things. I’m on there too, in case you were wondering.
I learned that the Batman canvas which I gave to a work-mate who was leaving to have a baby has become a real favourite. So, she comes in to do shopping from time to time, and brings the little one with her. The baby is usually crying – until I start talking. The pitch of my voice soothes her or something, I guess. Anyway, one evening, they were feeding the baby, and it was enthralled by the canvas on the wall behind Mummy’s head. Her Mum even got it down off the wall so the kid could have a closer look – and she spent the half an hour feed chatting to the picture. How cute!
Following on from a chat I had with Stu about a year and a half ago, and spurred on by the fact it was £3.74 on the Xbox Marketplace, I have decided to give Dark Souls a try. I have heard the game is hard – well – unforgiving to be more accurate. It wants to teach you, and if you fail to heed the lessons, you will be punished. I don’t want to research too much about it, just the very basics, if anything, but I have asked the guys who have played it on the RF forum for three tips – I’ll try to bear them in mind when I’m playing! Oh, and I’ll most probably be recording the entire experience, I think it’d make an interesting video one day. I’m looking forward to it, and that’s all I know really, is that it’s unforgiving. And that you can’t go into it with your Devil May Cry head on. That really wouldn’t work out well at all.
This week on RGF I feature an orisinal game: Wings Over Water. It’s great, and you should check out the other games on there too.
