Final Boss Eden

Final Boss Eden

This was originally posted on the now-defunct Random Fury! videogame blog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WwMWIAOWqE This track is usually hidden underneath a lot of sound effects and is not given enough time to shine. It builds and it builds, and the payoff is the simple fact that we never hear the track in this way in the game. Sure, it does end quite…

When you think about things in ways you never expected…

…because you did something stupid.

I feel like I may need to elaborate a little more on what I wrote yesterday – it was a little obtuse. It’s all very well me saying that I don’t want to do this or do want to do that, but if I don’t act on it then things will never change. The only person who can change me is me. The only person who truly gets value from a motivational quote is someone who understands it and acts on it. My viewpoints on a lot of things have changed – some recently, some a long time ago. I drew a couple of Adventure Time sketches the other day. I used to have a hang-up about fan-art, in that if it didn’t look exactly as the original creator or an authorised, in-house artist had drawn it, then it was “bad”. Like a lot of other childish viewpoints I used to hold, this has slowly evaporated over time, and I have come to realise the importance of an artist translating characters into their own unique visual style.

Friday update 11/4/14

Jane is well, Flipper is well, he/she is the size of a mango now, incredible. Apparently they are going to grow a lot over the next couple of weeks, so that's cool. Might give Jane a milk protein shake, think of all those lovely new person building materials! I managed to squeeze in an entire play-through of Rez HD on…
Child of Eden

Child of Eden

I'd been looking forward to the spiritual successor to Rez for a long time, from when it didn't exist and was a mere pipe-dream, to when creator Tetsuya Miziguchi said that a sequel was not an impossibility, to E3 last year and our first glimpse of it, and of course, the weeks leading up to it's release. Boy, was I…
E3 2010

E3 2010

I guess most of the announcements and big reveals have been made by now, so it's safe for me to write up my thoughts on the event. I usually don't bother with E3, but I had a bit of time on my hands this year, mostly because Jane was in Newcastle, so I sat at the PC looking at new…
Darwinia+

Darwinia+

My God I used to love this game. Years ago it was one of the only games I ever bothered to play on the PC, mainly because our PC was rubbish and this had low required specifications. But my God, I never thought I'd see an Xbox 360 version. Shame I can't afford it right now, I spent my last…

Ah, Rez was good

This was originally posted in the Bloggers section on the now-defunct Poopgang forum. Finally unlocked the last custom colour scheme for Direct Assault on the PS2 version, it was literally years ago that I 100%ed the Dreamcast version, seems a lifetime ago. I always forget how hard area 2 is to 100%... Listening to the soundtrack is one thing, but…

I just don’t know what to do with myself

This was originally posted in the Bloggers section on the now-defunct Poopgang forum. Since the courses have been cancelled I've been wandering around for a week just not knowing what to do or how to get things back on track. Applied for a couple more jobs, got turned down, what the fuck? Ah, bollocks to it, I'm going to play…