Monthly Archives: October 2009

New Sig

Thanks to Silent_Protagonist over at Screwattack.com for making me this nice new siggy! Now my signature need not rend the fabric of space-time!

And now, the ‘Apathetic Gamer’ on: The Divine Inspiration of Okami

(In this 3-part series, I’ll be talking about one game that has made me less apathetic toward the game industry of today.)
With its original release date now three years behind us, playing Okami is both very pleasing and a little sad.
As I usually do when I see the hype machine trundling towards me, spewing critical [...]

Episode 6: Gunstar Heroin(e), Part II!

A pact is formed by two hardened players.
Together, they will run, and they will gun, with everything they’ve got.
But a tragicomic turn of events leads to a bittersweet end.
The toil is over, and “Gunstar Heroin(e), Part II” is finally here!! Compared to Part 1–where I *finally* got a hold on comic timing and concision, I [...]

Computer Learnings for a Better Problem Gamer

Set your clocks! The new episode is coming (I hope) within the next 48 hours.
It’s been a good learning experience making “Gunstar Heroine”, Pt. II. I learned that Windows Moviemaker isn’t such a piece of crap if you use clips encoded in its native WMV3 and WVC1 codecs (although it will still crash, it will [...]

“About” and “Future Feature Games” pages updated

I was kind of leaving the child pages of the site to become orphans, so I gave them a much-needed update. There were quite a few things I could think to add to the About page, including some much-appreciated FAQs from my visitors, and the Future Feature Games page now reflects the completion of the [...]

To Fool a PS3 Controller (and that wily PC, too)

So, it came time to capture some 2-player footage from one of my trusty emulators–which I’d done before in Tetris Attacked, but not in real-time, and certainly not on the same machine.
Playing games with a keyboard is never my cup of tea, but some are worse than others. My keyboard is one of those whiny [...]

The Solutions Get a Bit Cleverer

So, having got my head shat on by a bird in the local mall’s parking lot (for the second time in my life), I got to thinking: I might be unlucky.
No, I’m actually pretty lucky–people have been receiving my videos pretty well, especially considering some of their limitations.. for instance, the frame rate of video [...]

Problem Gamer, ep.6: “Gunstar Heroin(e)”, Part 1!

It’s another Problem for the ‘Gamer when Gunstar Heroes comes a-knockin’! The challenge: to complete the game on the Hard difficulty, alone, with Gunstar Red–something that the Super Players can do with ease, but not so much the simple fangirl-addict.
How will my aspirations hold up under a hail of gunfire and a seam-bursting barrage of [...]

And finally.. working links~!

By using a ridiculous workaround that could only occur to me at 2:45 A.M., the links in the sidebar should work as normal links do.
Hooray for z-index and absolute positioning! Now everything is in order for a video launch tomorrow!
EDIT: It seems this ‘fix’ may not have agreed with IE: hopefully only versions older than 8, but [...]

Come Hell or High Water, “Gunstar Heroin(e): Part 1″ To Go Live within 24 hours.

GRrrrAAHHH.
Ahem. That’s just my attempt to bring this production roaring back to life.
It’s been hard to get back into the groove after my little sabbatical, as always. I’d finally gotten back into the habit of having an Internet presence, and–as always–I’m left wondering if I should have ever stopped the ball rolling…
Well, these things happen. [...]