by WelshPixie
April 25, 2013 in Gaming
Click the picture to open a new window where the ‘game’ will load. First-person point-and-click adventure game presented in the style of a motion comic. Hand-painted art by Joshua Nel and other stuff done by Jaco. This is just an art test – there’s no gameplay, but moving the mouse around will swivel the camera. It doesn’t loop, so refresh if you want to see it again. Would you play it?
by WelshPixie
April 22, 2013 in Stuff
He can’t post to Warpgate9.com right now (server maintenance), so I’m posting it here instead. This is his post from the Gearbox forum, in response to Gearbox having procured the rights to the Homeworld franchise.
I basically just logged in to insult Gearbox and tell them how much they suck, but I see that divine duty is already being taken care of, so instead I will attempt a measured and polite post.
What I would like from a new Homeworld:
1. It must be an RTS just as before. Not a MOBA, or a shooter or an ARPG. A real-time strategy game with resource gathering and everything else.
2. The game must capture the mood of its predecessors. The creative director must understand the value of subtlety too. Even with battles at their most grand, the undertones were always slightly melancholy. Delivered in part by the pacing, but also the illusion of scale that the backdrop provided. It made you feel small. And underneath all of that was the Paul Ruskay soundtrack – that wailing middle-eastern sound and earthiness.
3. Paul Ruskay on music.
4. Homeworld 2 had the most amazing skyboxes. Be just as amazing. Even half as amazing and it’ll be fine.
5. A meaningful single player campagin.
6. Good old-fashioned pay and play. None of this f2p nonsense.
7. Mac and Linux versions. If supporting multiple platforms is difficult for you, you are doing it wrong.
8. DO NOT: Use the phrase “badass” in your design meetings, it’s a sure sign of suckage. Basically, leave your “bro” outside the door. You’re writing poetry, not making a Michael Bay movie.
by WelshPixie
April 11, 2013 in Rant
In This Post I wrote about how I’d reported a user for violating the YT community guidelines by sending me wishes of rape and violence via private message, and also for throwing hate speech directed at ‘fags and niggers’ on some public videos around YT. YT deleted the specific comments I reported, but didn’t remove others that still existed, and didn’t address the matter of my PM. I sent them another report, reminding them about the nasty PM and pointing out that since they didn’t remove his account the guy was still there spreading hate targeted at minority groups in clear violation of their Community Guidelines. I linked to one of the comments but there were a few more. In the interim, the comment I reported vanished, presumably deleted by the video owner. YouTube picked up my report, didn’t see this comment, completely ignored what I’d written in the ‘Additional Information’ box, AND completely ignored the other hateful comments that STILL existed from him.
They sent me this response.
by WelshPixie
April 10, 2013 in Rant
I’m supposed to be writing other stuff right now, but damn. This post isn’t about silly little trolls in their silly little worlds trying to bait angry reactions out of people. It’s about the way they’re dealt with on public sites when they cross the boundaries of ‘aww, isn’t the little troll cute’ into ‘wow – it’s NOT OKAY to say that’.
Some time last week Machinima posted a rather tacky, tasteless and pretty all-around cringeworthy for BOTH genders video. I was delighted to see the general tone of the comments were, from as many men as women, ‘this is just horrible’. The video’s gone now (yay!), but I did leave a comment on there expressing my happiness at seeing the overall negative response the video was getting, and signed it ‘from a female videogame player’. One user responded to my comment thusly;
nobody gives a fuck. stay mad youll never be that hot. kill yourself
I don’t usually bother giving those people the time of day but I guess I had nothing better to do than sling poop at trolls when I saw the comment, and went back and replied ‘Ah, another lonely little boy’. Read the rest of this entry →
by WelshPixie
April 5, 2013 in Stuff
Nelson Mandela is in the hospital with pneumonia. This is all I know about Nelson Mandela’s current state. I don’t know how long he’s been there, if he’s even still there, how his health is in general – I don’t even know how old he is. But I’m Welsh, and I live near Cape Town, and this is apparently reason enough to be contacted by BBC Wales and asked if I’d be willing to provide my phone number and if I’d be available on short notice for an interview with a journalist coming over with a film crew.
Uh… No.
The conversation went a bit like this: Read the rest of this entry →
I post photos and game screenies over at welshpixie.jux.com, I'm WelshPixie on Steam, and I own and run IndieSquish, an indie gaming community and Lesser Weevils, a writing community.
