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  • Working on some Armor

    This is a continuation of my D&D Project Post.  Here’s the sketches for armor designs that I made: I ended up going with the one in the bottom-right there. The ‘front view’ sketch for that floated to the top of the file. I’m not really one for making complex model sheets; I usually just do…

  • New Project – Character Modeling

    Normally I use this space to wax poetically about design, but for the next few months I’m going to something a little different, which is utilize this blog as a supplement to my character modeling class.  I relish being able to teach a character modeling class because it always gives me a chance to model a character…

  • Casual Gamers Want Story Too

    A friend of mine – and I hope you don’t mind my using you as an example in a general-purpose essay – came over to my house last year to check out some of the newer video games that are on the market.  New at the time, that is – the most recent one I’d purchased was…

  • Origins

    I’m off to Origins Game Fair in Ohio, because RPGs, card games, board games, etc etc, are just as important to me as video games are!  Ought to see lots of fellow gamers there of all stripes. In the mean time I updated this blog just because the shiny template button beckoned me. Really need…

  • On Depth and Length

    I was interested to know if I really got a “bad” Alpha Protocol ending, so I went looking for some spoilers on YouTube to see what other possibilities there were.  There are so many choice branches in the game, so there are a lot more variations on the last ending than I originally imagined there…

  • Finished Alpha Protocol

    I edited the title on this blog a little to make it easier for readers and such. I was being long-winded before. I consider myself to be someone who doesn’t always play the latest hottest game and goes back to old games a lot, but then I went ahead and bought Alpha Protocol at launch…

  • Some Stuff for the Record

    Mostly some info for new readers! Currently playing:Alpha ProtocolDeadly PremonitionSuper Street Fighter IV (relatively regularly) Have not yet played:Red Dead RedemptionAssassins Creed 2Super Mario Galaxy 2Heavy RainProbably some other things people are telling me I should play… Last major release I played to completion was Mass Effect 2. I don’t finish every game that I…

  • On “Making Another”

    I have a feeling a person or two might stumble in from Kotaku since my most recent post seems to be one of my most successful.  If so, hi! If you stumble in some other way, also hi! I’m using this space (’cause it’s my space, and why not ) to clarify two points about…

  • Why Can’t We Make Another Shadow of the Colossus?

    I have a couple topics to write about boiling around in my head, but this one seems to be the most timely considering the rumor going around of a Shadow of the Colossus/Ico HD re-release next year.  Shadow of the Colossus (and not Beatles Rock Band, inserting snarky jab at the New York Times here) is frequently…

  • A Correction (still about Street Fighter) and a Link

    Ok, there ARE A-ranked and B-ranked people in SSF4.  This just isn’t particularly transparent because you are ranked both on your general play, and your character play, and the two values are not called something entirely intuitive. “Player Points” does make sense.  “Battle Points” are per character, so why not call them “Character Points”?  Is this…