Just a quick post to say I arrived back yesterday. Had a great time and picked up watchmen on DVD wile I was away. Anyway if you want to see some great pic’s check the link.
http://www.gearsofgames.net/Articles/Entries/2009/7/29_Inspiring_places.html
Going to be heading up north for a few day on Sunday so I may or may not be able to connect to the Internet during that time. Looking forward to it none the less and will be bring the camera as there will be a lot of opportunity for great photos. These last few days its been hard as hell to get some dam free time to work on stuff, hope to get back on track from now on and get close to finishing my current map.
Got some new stuff for my room too in the form of a new desk and some case holders for all my games. Things are a lot easier to find now and my 360 has a lot more space around it to let air out.
That might be it until I get back so have fun and stay safe.
I have really went all out with Star Wars at the moment. Watching the original trilogy for the first time in a long time and am also playing Stat Wars the force unleashed which is a rental and Star Wars Republic Commando on PC. I really want to talk about republic commando because its such and excellent game. Even though it came out in 2005 the UI is really stunning. What I mean by that is the on screen display that’s build in the shape of a troopers helmet. The shaking about as you are running or when an explosion hits near buy really builds up this wonderful and immerse first person experience. The reason I am playing though it now is because the Rebel FM Game Club are about to start playing it and I am going to run through it with those guys.
The force unleashed is a whole different game but still very good after a massive hype machine launched it to a bit of a disappointment critically. None the less so far the story has been good and I am enjoying the different force powers and light saber combat. There are a few annoying things, like your character tends to jump around, do all these cool moves and ends up getting to close to the edge of a cliff or drop. Which results in a reload. But apart from that its a game that’s worth playing for the cool stuff it does right. I am also going to cover this one on xboxelite.co.uk now that we are about to start posting stuff on the main site again.
Now that I have a Mac and so a copy of Garage band I have gotten round to starting the podcast thing back up. Its going to be every two weeks around the weekend. I have yet to set up an RSS or I-Tunes feed which I hope to for the next one so download it from here for now. This week I talk about a few games, some development stuff and film production.
I spent some time copying all my complete albums that I got from I-Tunes onto CD to have a hard copy as well. I just need to get some nice box art sorted out for them now. I quite like having hard copy’s of stuff and really enjoy displaying a lot of it. Even though I am very much a fan of pushing the digital age forward into downloads for full games etc it got me thinking that I would like to have the option on say the next Xbox or what ever console goes all digital to burn a copy onto disk.
Its really important to me that I have copy’s of all my media or files that are very important and I often use disks to take copy’s off stuff and just keep them filed away. Now that I think of it I might do it with a few of my steam games. Not that I am worried about all the hard drives and servers in the world going down tomorrow but I just like being sure that I own it or own it as much as possible with the way some licencing works these days.
Now I am more or less sorted out for the summer I though I would make a little post about the projects I will be working on. So first off I have got involved with project that I will more or less be making video tutorials for. They will be going to people in less well of country’s to give them a bit of an experience with games development. Second I am stepping up mapping a bit and am getting a few hours done each day on my own maps. The first one of this summer will be finished towards the end of this month. I have also got into a schedule of doing a bit in 3D Max everyday this past wile.
I might start to look into what I will do for my film projects next year. I have a few to do including a Doc and a Short Film. The short film is the final project so its going to be the really big one. I have looked at loads of cool stuff online for ideas. Yep that’s it really for the moment.
