Master Blasters! is out! This is the mobile title I got to be Art Director, Lead Artist, and Level Designer on. It’s exciting to have it published finally. If you want to know more about what I did for this, head on over to the “Professional Work > Master Blasters” page! I also updated with [...]
WARNING: THIS BLOG POST WILL CONTAIN GIANT GIANT SPOILERS ABOUT PLOT POINTS IN THE FIRST BIOSHOCK GAME. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK. I realize that at this point I am probably one of the few people in the world who still cares/cared about avoiding spoilers for Bioshock, but I feel the need to put that [...]
It’s Christmas. I can’t even remember how old I am,* or what I got for Christmas this year, but my brothers have unwrapped something that they’re extremely excited about. I can’t remember–I didn’t recognize what they’d unwrapped, but they were so excited I knew it had to be something amazing, so I was excited too. [...]
Holy crap! Okamiden! I am so freaking excited it is hard to type this! Since it’s practically impossible to chronicle my excitement in words, here is a comic I made to illustrate it! SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!
Last Friday, May 7th, Chris and I got to participate in the Beta Test of something awesome. That something was W00tstock. W00tstock v2.0, if you want to be specific. As the show opened, Wil Wheaton informed us that the show was still in Beta, and that if we found any bugs we should log them [...]
As both a knitter and a gamer, I spend quite a bit of time doing both things and thinking about both things. They’re much more similar than they seem at first glance. Let me break it down: 1. Normal people think you’re crazy for doing either. With video games, people think you’re crazy for wasting [...]
Ice Plasmid! Electrobolt! Machine gun! Anything! ANYTHING! KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! … Ahem. I’m playing Bioshock right now. The first one. Yes, I know the second one came out already. Yes, I know I mentioned that I got it for Christmas and now it’s May. Yes, I know I’m chronically behind [...]
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits! May your every sexual arousal be followed by the runs! May every piece of food you eat for the rest of your life be slightly overcooked! Ahem. So I’ve been playing quite a bit of Mass Effect lately. (Yes, another shooter! In addition to Bioshock! [...]
The heat has been on in my apartment for the last two hours and it’s still only 51 degrees in the living room. This is ridiculous. I am typing from the futon, which is heated with an electric mattress pad, and I am wearing a camisole, a tank top, a long-sleeved shirt, a pair of [...]
Every once in a while, the gaming review community gets the idea that video games need to be innovative. If they’re not innovative, then they’re bad games that shouldn’t be made. Only innovative games should be creative! Games will get praised for their innovation! Games that are not innovative are horrible wastes of megabytes! Etc. [...]