Late in 2013, after having the typical difficulties of remembering all the games I played that year and what I had thought of them at the time for my games of the year list, I decided that it would be an interesting experiment to log what games I've played and when for 2014. After a year of gathering data I came about some mildly interesting results: I played about 104 video games in 2014, anyw...
Some of my friends have put together a charity event called Tales of Tales. The just started now and will be going all weekend long. They'll be playing Tales of Symphonia and will be doing donation challenges and other fun things during the stream. The charity they're raising money for is First Book that gets books to poor kids. Come check it out.
The Candy Jam is official over, but is still accepting submissions til the end of the week. For those that don't know, the Candy Jam was a sort of protest that spawned out of King.com's trademark over the words "Candy" and "Saga" then use such trademarks to send legal warnings to developers whose games contain such words regardless of whether those games had any similarities to their game Candy...
UPDATE: I fixed a few things with the download. Had the wrong kind of file up there. Whoops Here's what I made for the Candy Jam - http://d_w.itch.io/candy---a-space-horror-saga Don't know what the Candy Jam is? This is the first actual entirely complete game I've ever made by myself. I did all the programing, art, and audio. It's a rather simple game. You click to move your guy around. Once yo...
I'm a sound designer who wants to work in video games. So I was looking for things to do to expand my portfolio and figured replacing the sound effects from video game cutscenes is a pretty spiffy way to do that. Here's one that I did recently. It's the Sheeva transformation scene from Parasite Eve. All the sound effects except for the dog barking were created, recorded, and preformed by me. I...
I had never attended a game jam before. I never really thought I was in a position or skilled enough to complete something in such little time. But I love ridiculous ideas and the mock twitter account, PeterMolydeux, was one of the reasons why I signed for twitter so I could not have not gone to Molyjam. (Now there's an awkwardly worded sentence!) For those that don't know. Molyjam was (is?) a...
Like many people I went to visit family for Thanksgivings. Well the computer at my Grandmother's house is pretty old, but I found that I had put on some old NES games on it and decided that looking at how some of them still hold up would be an enlightening endeavor. So I decided that a semi-regular weblog series where I attempt to discuss older games without the every so dangerous rose colored...
I am playing this game on the PC. Unlike many people that bought Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim I did not have any preconceived notions about it. I didn't really follow any of the preview stuff and may have caught the odd trailer here and there but didn't set out discover anything particular about the game. It wasn't even on my "looking to play" list , and I really did not think much of it before it c...
For those of you that don't know what Desert Bus for Hope is, it is a fundraiser that the sketch comedy group Loading Ready Run has done for Child's Play for the last 5 years. Basically they play Desert Bus from the unreleased Sega CD game Penn And Teller's Smoke and Mirrors until they run out of time. The more money people donate the longer they play. They stream all of it nonstop. But they do...
I'm compiling a portfolio (in my case that's music and audio post stuff - ie sound effects) of my work and would like some feedback on the most recent thing I have done. Basically I took the Rat Transformation scene from Parasite Eve and replaced all the sound effects with ones that I recorded myself. Here is the result! And here's the original for comparison. Please, any and all feedback is ap...
When I graduated from college last spring, I had only a vague idea and plans that never really materialized. I studied music and sound, so I've been poking around freelance work. While I have found no drought of potential jobs, the projects all seemed to fizzle out rather quickly soon after I sign on. This is not something that surprised me though as I've been doing amateur composition and soun...
Like many of you I have been excited about Bastion ever since I first heard of it in the way back time of early 2010. After hearing how well the game was received on the 360, I could not pre-order it soon enough once it appeared on Steam. Well today was the day that Bastion was released on Steam. 1 pm rolled around and I downloaded/installed it as quickly as possible. Booted it up, played for a...
This will be a sort of review, but since I want to discuss my feelings on the way the story unfolds and how the game presents itself I don't want to make it an official review. Also note that I have not read Jeff's review as I did not want it to color my opinions at all. I played the PS3 version so I'll be using that terminology. In a nutshell, I really like Catherine. It is fun and challenging...
I'm not a fan of the word "Blog." It sounds like English slang for really dirty drunken sex.