Between all the coverage of Comic Con, and You Tube declaring this week “Geek Week”, there seems to be a lot of interest in all things geek lately. It seems today that geek culture has somehow become mainstream culture. Not sure when or how it started, probably in the early 2000s with the success of the Lord of the Rings
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The opposite of a golden age is a dark age. When it comes to design and visual imagery, I believe we are living in a dark age. The last dark age was the 1970’s. I sometimes like to go to the Plaid Stallions and laugh at what people thought was cool back in the 70’s. From today’s perspective it is
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After just shy of a month of my open beta test, with 30,000 downloads, I have learned a few things. Thought I’d post some thoughts, as well as give people an opportunity to point out other stuff I might have missed. First the good news, it seems Something’s In The Air is a critical success. Everyone seems to like it
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1.) If you drop an MP3 file called “amecameca.mp3” in the “game” folder, the band will play that song instead of the lame royalty free one that’s in there now. The song I would have loved to use there is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLVWZ6Y9aew I was listening to Deluka while creating the images for the band. In the final version, I
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Now that the game is out, I thought I’d write some commentaries on the game, throw some insights into my thinking. I’m doing this as a “Director’s Commentary” like you might have in a DVD if this was a movie. This post will contain spoilers! If you have not played story 1 yet, download the game now and play it
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After more than two years in development, Something’s In The Air is now available for download at ArianeB.com/sita. There is a lot of downloading going on , so it may take a while to load the 180MB file, but I have not heard any complaints that the download is not working. I’m calling this an “open beta” version, but it
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I did a close beta test with a couple of people I know. They both indicated (and the truth is I agree) that the Bonnie the Bartender story was the weakest. Since none of you have seen the game, you don’t know what I am talking about. Basically, she is a bartender you pick up at the end of her
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I thought I’d take time out from working on Something’s In The Air, to show some changes to Ariane. If I get around to updating Date Ariane, I will be using these models. So this is more of a preview of the prequel remake, I think. Ariane’s looks have changed once again. This time I changed the shape of her
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As I have said many times before, most of my artwork is done in Poser. In fact it is the very latest version: Poser Pro 2012. Now as anyone who does 3D rendering knows, the renders rarely come out perfect. In order to make them look better, you have to use a photo processing program, most famously being Adobe Photoshop.
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