Digital Illustrators Supergroup
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- Published on Friday, 15 January 2010 03:27
- Written by Boris Kourtoukov
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Just a bit of a newsflash, Lightwyrm funded and set up a new super-group on DA. There we will take the time to promote and find awesome digital art. It should become an awesome hub of inspiration for members.
What is in it for you? Well join in and suggest your art, or the art that you really like. The idea is that this will grow into something you can use for inspiration on numerous subjects.
We will also run our contests and provide advice there as well as here. So have fun and use this to your advantage!
Swiss Cheese- Death by Wholes pt3
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- Published on Friday, 19 June 2009 23:58
- Written by Paul Vardaris
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Previously, I had wandered into the thick of gaming development while criticizing the process in their midst. Thinking that I, as a critic and observer, had a "big picture" to bring to the table, I was ready to turn cheese into gourmet dining to improve the standard, once I had gotten the tour and welcome mat.
This goes beyond arrogance and lightly traipses into the fields of insanity.
But, as I sat with Sandy the HR girl and the Butler in the break room, I couldn't help wonder why the business wasn't centralized more. Sure, the people who do these things are brave enough to crack into the mosaic of codes, design, development and testing, working with the tried and true while striving for the bold and new.
Swiss Cheese- Death by Wholes
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- Published on Saturday, 28 March 2009 22:23
- Written by Paul Vardaris
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Swiss Cheese- Death by Wholes
Or
Accelerating Verisimilitude
Computer gaming in the modern world is, of course, a product of history which hopes for the future. Having said that, a lot has been left behind in the “might makes right” arena of entertainment publishing. Advertising is, quite simply, required to make a game “successful” where the computer market is flooded (although it may not seem so, at times) with the cheese of the table-
- the next-generation graphics shooters,
- the revamped instance-model massively-multiplayer online games,
- the re-imagined classic games which feed to old fans and nine times out of ten disappoint, and
- the unending franchises which evolve right out of their niches.
Swiss Cheese- Death by Wholes Part 2
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 April 2009 09:19
- Written by Paul Vardaris
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To recap briefly:
I'd made an arse of myself by invading the dev zone of gaming culture, spouted off malarkey, and committed myself to the cause while mentioning how life is good but could be so much better if developers were more in touch with gaming issues.
Pretty arrogant, I admit.
The HR girl and the Butler guide fellow gave me the Hairy Eyeball™©. Their estimation of me might be measured in millimeters. Butler places a hand on my shoulder, possibly to "steer me back to reason", or maybe keep the lunatic from hurting himself greatly, in his eyes.