Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2010

Classic reading: The Ultimate Book of Ultima




This is an excellent book about the legendary ULTIMA saga, created by Richard "Lord British" Garriot.
It tells it all, the times of "Akabaleth", the starting of ULTIMA, the constant rewriting of engines for every new ULTIMA, the obstacles, the successes, and the philosophical background surrounding each part of the classic RPG series.
Its inspiring and amusing and insightful.Awesome.Must have for every serious game designer.

Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010

Happy new year everybody :)

Happy and foremost healthy new year to everybody :)
During the xmas holidays I found some time to do some scribbles again, have been missing this.Need a break once a while from pixelart, modeling and animation and do some analog stuff again :)
Made a new year resolution to draw MUCH more to become good at it.Its defintly relaxing and fun.
Maybe You guys can guess who these two are ;) ?

 
If anybody says James Belushi and Megan Fox, I am SERIOUSLY depressed !

Sonntag, 27. Dezember 2009

Clash of the Titans: Dante's Inferno vs Bayonetta vs God of War 3

Hi folks, I had the occasion to play the demo of Dante's Inferno on PS3, and let me tell Ya: it ain't no DEAD SPACE by a long shot.Indeed it is a mass brawler a la God of War and Bayonetta, and actually it doesnt either look as good or is as interesting as any of the two others.
The graphics are somewhat clean, the backdrops somewhat flat and the character models not very convincing for such a big title.The gameplay is what You would consider a pretty hefty copy of God of War, including quik time events, giant enemies and hordes of demons attacking.
While I was eagerly waiting for that game to try (beeing a huge DEAD SPACE addict), it was rather disappointing, specially compared with the originality of Bayonetta and the raw good looks of God of War.
Its gonna be a hard time for Dante's Inferno, competing with these, unless Visceral does some major polishing to the visual appeal.
Bayonetta has even larger enemies and even weirder weapons and special attacks (besides beeing more attractive).Kratos has much better graphics, and Darksiders has the more different gameplay.
Let's wait and see how Dante will perform, I doubt it will be as successfull as DEAD SPACE....

Samstag, 26. Dezember 2009

Christmas presents :D

Hi everybody !
Christmas was awesome this year again! Got some great games: Brütal Legend and (finally) Oblivion GOTYE.
Plus: the Millenium Falcon, the X-Wing and Obi-Wan's starfighter to assemble.
Plus Spectrum 16.Plus Watchmen, StarTrek, Forrest Gump, Braveheart and Gladiator on Blu-Ray !
My favourite stuff.For that Falcon, I waited 25+ years to get it, I was never getting this one:

So at least I have the one from revell.
Later I got pretty many of these:


Which I loved to death and created adventures for, also dealing with the gem of my collection:


Damn, that was GREAT, much cooler looking than Castle Grayskull !
That Millenium Falcon kit brought a lot of memories back :D
Now I feel the urge to wish for the Tie-Fighter, the Snowspeeder and the Tidirium Shuttle :D
Especially the black Tie-Fighters look awesome....

Mittwoch, 23. Dezember 2009

Awesome modeling learning material

Ten24 has some awesome (commercial) tutorial on their site for modeling cars and photorealistic (as in: this is top level movie quality) humans.One of the best I have seen in years.Here is a preview:

Epic brings Unreal Engine 3 to iPhone

Wow, this is pretty awesome.Smooth and pretty high poly looking.
Anandtech has a nice article about the Unreal Engine on the iPod/iPhone :)