This weekend is the head start for Guild Wars 2, the official launch is Aug 28th. I have been involved with beta and thought I’d throw out some advice to those looking to join the game. Let me just say that Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG, a type of online game that has been dominated by World of Warcraft
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I know there hasn’t been a lot of posts this summer, in truth there has not been a lot of news to share in the topics I usually blog about. In between various distractions, I have been working on Something’s In the Air, and have now finished story 5 of 5, with story 4 only half way done and story
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I have been doing “Principal Photography” on Something’s in the Air now for a full year. By my guesstimate, I’m about 2/3rds done (unless I come up with a brilliant plan to add to the project), so maybe another 6 months? Maybe? Anyways, here’s some random spoiler free screenshots of what I have been doing for the past year. Come
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Telling the world that the internet is not destroying society is probably not going to get me a ton of hits, because who wants to read an article that is stating the obvious? So I thought I’d draw attention by misspelling internet. If I really wanted to get hits, I’d lead with some bald face lie like “‘The Demise of
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As I have mentioned numerous times before, the “sequel” to Date Ariane, known as Something’s In The Air features an updated model of Ariane, that took quite a bit of work to get right. Redoing over 1000 pictures from Date Ariane is out of the question for the foreseeable future (but I’m not saying never). But if I ever got
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I have spent 9 years exploring 3D Virtual Worlds, and 8 years playing MMORPGs. For the longest time they felt like two different experiences. 3D Virtual Worlds are a creative outlet, while MMORPGs are a mostly cooperative gaming experience. It seems that recently they have been merging. I have not been adding many new virtual worlds to my master list
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There are a lot of MMORPGs out there. Three new major ones are coming out this summer Guild Wars 2, The Secret World, and TERA. They all claim to be very different from the MMORPGs that came before. I cannot tell you if that is true of the latter two, but with Guild Wars 2, it is very true. I’m
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I thought I’d post about a common problem in 3D art, and what I have done to solve it. It is called the “crowd problem” and has been a difficulty with all 3D animation. The first 3D animated movie Toy Story solved it by never having any crowd scenes. AntZ, the second 3D animated movie had hundreds of ants doing
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I knew after doing the 7.1 update that I would do one more update to Ariane’s Dating Simulator, or as I am now dubbing it Date Ariane. This update consists of three or four minor changes, mostly updates of the home store and the dress shop. Also the “Date Experience” code shows up at the end of the date. The
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So far I have only done one book review on this blog. I read more than that of course, I just stick to talking about books that echo the themes of this blog. The novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline does just that. Ready Player One is one of the latest young adult dystopian books, though not as sick
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