Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Hot Dogs Around the World
Putting this here because it is a cool recipe reference. I don't think this is accurate. The Brazilian one is so wrong. Here we eat it like: Hot Dog in a split roll with shredded chicken, mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, cheese, mayonnaise ketchup, mustard, corn and potato sticks. And also there is the pressed dogs, pretty popular too. With parmesan cheese outside the bread. You can put pepperoni and bacon with it. Some places also uses Catupiry. It is a Brazilian thing... it is a type of cottage cheese/cream cheese... but with its own soul. haha x'D
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Monday, December 28, 2015
The Force Awakens at The Beach
Just a title joke. Actually you gonna find here the classic photo session of Carrie Fisher for Rolling Stone magazine to promote Star Wars: Return of Jedi back in 1983. Darth Vader is the DJ.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
Now You Do What They Told Ya: Chicken Nuggets, Daddy
“Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name lyrics "and now you do what they told ya" sounds like 'break the chicken nuggets, daddy' in Japanese” = Nagetto watte tōchan "ナゲット割って父ちゃん". And someone made a video about it. xD
Monday, November 30, 2015
Friday, November 27, 2015
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Selected iOS Games - 1st Semester 2015
Prison Tower by URARA-WORKS Co., Ltd.
iOS Universal
Free
A fun game where you must create a tower of heroes in order to save the princess from the prison. It is pretty hard, but very fun to create this human tower.
Glyph Quest by Alexander Trowers
iOS Universal
Free
A basic match-3 game that permits the player to cast magic and attack enemies. Complete quest and gain abilities to match more than 3 Glyphs and cast even more powerful magics.
LvLn by Tanuki Entertainment
iOS Universal
Free
A modern era pixel game, you must kill enemies grind style. Level up, buy some power ups to survive more and kill even more enemies. The music is pretty cool, and the gameplay is catchy. Pretty unfair in the beginning. You must have patience to evolve your character.
Hopeless: Space Shooting by URARA-WORKS Co., Ltd.
iOS Universal
$0.99
A short and beautiful game of survival. You must shoot creatures that came from the dark and try to survive the most you can. Beware the masked ones.
Game of Watchcraft: Spawn of Squishy by Clicker
iOS iPad
$0.99
Watchcraft presents simple gameplay with the classic visuals of Game & Watch devices. Simple quests and fun, retro time.
Dark Slash by Jason Saxon
iOS iPad
$0.99
Is a pretty and interesting game. Tap to kill enemies with a slash in this gorgeous pixel art arena. Try to survive the most you can.
EpiX by Blinzy StudiosiOS
Unavailable
Face hordes of orcs with your finger. Tapping and destroying masses of enemies. With some power ups to aid the task.
Selected iOS Games - 2nd Semester 2014
Dragon Coins by SEGAiOS Universal
Free
Yeah! An AAA enterprise making this vicious damn games.
Dragon Coins you have that traditional Coin Dozer game (a table with a lot of coins. at your side some slots, and the other side a ramp coming front, going back. You have to put a coin somewhere, and this ramp will push the coin and all the others coins gonna be pushed too. Some of them will fall into slots).
In Dragon Coins this are Monsters Slot.
Each coin, means an attack. I mean. If you got a monster that need 3 coins to attack, you need to fill that 3 coins.
And you get enemies. It is like 3-5 rounds until you get the Boss.
You can get another monsters, make evolutions and fusions.
If you drop a special item on the slot, a special effect (based on which monster will occur).
So it is a coin dozer with monster collection. Addict game as hell.
Dumb Ways to Die by Metro Trains Melbourne Pty LtdiOS Universal
Free
This game is not secret, and it is kind popular. It is based on the animation:
Right now they added 3 new minigames. It is pretty cool, simple and fast. You have to pass trough a lot of minigames in order to keep yourself alive. You have 3 chances to fail.
Deep Loot by Monster and MonsteriOS Universal
Free
Pretty fun game. You are a diver and need to collect some treasure. You can drill the floor, shot fishes. And keep and eye on the air. When it is over you come back automatically to the ship. The map is always the same. So you kinda remember where you have to go back. Nice art. Nice music.
Super Damage Hero (tyoudamageyusya) by NaranoHitoiOS iPhone
Free
Ah, Japan. I love. I love all this Lazy RPG stuff. You know... You keep touching the screen, each time you touch you gain coins. You can hire some heroes too. And they will attack and get coins for you. And that is it. You keep fighting Bosses forever. Each Boss have an absurd amount of life. So you cannot just beat it on a run. You have to let your phone do the job. Get the "lazy" part.
Demons vs Fairyland by Armor GamesiOS iphone and HD for iPad
$0.99 / $2.99
I'm not a fan of tower defense. But hey...this is the second game I put here about it, uh?
It is pretty decent. And fun. I like to use the monsters to defend my kidnaps. heh. The pixel art is very well done. I had a lot of fun playing it. The demons kidnap some kids. Fairyland will come at you, bro. You have to defend with Skeletons, mages and archers. You can upgrade them. And also use fake child as last resort if someone escapes your siege. Pretty cool.
Selected iOS Games - 1st Semester 2014
If a game appears here it is already notable. The stars just show how much.
I do not judge things like, replay, sound, music.
The game are judge by the whole. If is something worth playing, it will appears here.
★☆☆☆☆ - If you like the genre, play it. Nice game.
★★☆☆☆ - This game is addictive and fun! Cool game.
★★★☆☆ - You must know this one. Interesting game.
★★★★☆ - You must play this one. Awesome game.
★★★★★ - You must have on your device. Fun as hell game.
☑ - GameCenter
☒ - No GameCenter
☯ - generous achievements points
☠ - trifle achievements points
I am not a huge fan of Tower Defense style of game. Defense Witches is the classic TD game. But with an Anime twist on it. If you are fan of "cute" characters and "annoying" voice sound (if you are used to Japanese stuff this will not be a problem at all). It is pretty straight forward, you have a price to add a new witch. Each with has a power and a range. You can upgrade this range:
★☆☆☆☆☑☠
GameCenter On: Leaderboards and Achievements
Trifle Achievements points
For Tower Defense and Japanese Characters fans.
NewGate, Inc
Free* at [AppStore]
*price until this post was published.
Slamjet Stadium is an awesome game with a killer soundtrack. It is pretty fun an remind a lot the feeling of Rock n' Roll racing - a lot of mutant and stuff going on. You touch a car and push it, something like a slingshot or else. Aim the car to the little ball, your objective is to score the most goals before your opponent do.
There is also a multiplayer feature where chaos is created. You can even cheat and use your friend car. xD
SLAMJET STADIUM ipad
★★☆☆☆☑
GameCenter On: Leaderboards and Achievements
Fun game!
Alistair Aitcheson
$2.99* at [AppStore]
*price until this post was published.
Pretty addictive mechanic. The game is like a baby mobile diablo. But more "cute" or "simple look". And the maps are pretty fast to beaten if you are a geek like me. And then things start to get repetitive. The nice feature is to find secret Maps. There are some pretty spell casting on some of them and you have to beat the cartographer down to stop it and grab a new secret map.
The on screen buttons sometimes makes your finger tired. But the attack button works well. I played as a warrior, not as mage. But there is some differences as you may notice on this images.
DUNGEON QUEST Universal
★★☆☆☆☑
GameCenter On: Leaderboards
Fun game!
Shiny Box
FREE* at [AppStore]
*price until this post was published.
I do not judge things like, replay, sound, music.
The game are judge by the whole. If is something worth playing, it will appears here.
★☆☆☆☆ - If you like the genre, play it. Nice game.
★★☆☆☆ - This game is addictive and fun! Cool game.
★★★☆☆ - You must know this one. Interesting game.
★★★★☆ - You must play this one. Awesome game.
★★★★★ - You must have on your device. Fun as hell game.
☑ - GameCenter
☒ - No GameCenter
☯ - generous achievements points
☠ - trifle achievements points
I am not a huge fan of Tower Defense style of game. Defense Witches is the classic TD game. But with an Anime twist on it. If you are fan of "cute" characters and "annoying" voice sound (if you are used to Japanese stuff this will not be a problem at all). It is pretty straight forward, you have a price to add a new witch. Each with has a power and a range. You can upgrade this range:
You have to think carefully about where to position and when to upgrade the range... some 'special' monsters are really hard to beat. The music is pretty cool, the sound a lil annoying. But if you like TD games and Japanese cute characters, you must try this one.
DEFENSE WITCHES universal
★☆☆☆☆☑☠
GameCenter On: Leaderboards and Achievements
Trifle Achievements points
For Tower Defense and Japanese Characters fans.
NewGate, Inc
Free* at [AppStore]
Slamjet Stadium is an awesome game with a killer soundtrack. It is pretty fun an remind a lot the feeling of Rock n' Roll racing - a lot of mutant and stuff going on. You touch a car and push it, something like a slingshot or else. Aim the car to the little ball, your objective is to score the most goals before your opponent do.
There is also a multiplayer feature where chaos is created. You can even cheat and use your friend car. xD
SLAMJET STADIUM ipad
★★☆☆☆☑
GameCenter On: Leaderboards and Achievements
Fun game!
Alistair Aitcheson
$2.99* at [AppStore]
*price until this post was published.
Pretty addictive mechanic. The game is like a baby mobile diablo. But more "cute" or "simple look". And the maps are pretty fast to beaten if you are a geek like me. And then things start to get repetitive. The nice feature is to find secret Maps. There are some pretty spell casting on some of them and you have to beat the cartographer down to stop it and grab a new secret map.
The on screen buttons sometimes makes your finger tired. But the attack button works well. I played as a warrior, not as mage. But there is some differences as you may notice on this images.
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| Warrior view |
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| Mage View |
DUNGEON QUEST Universal
★★☆☆☆☑
GameCenter On: Leaderboards
Fun game!
Shiny Box
FREE* at [AppStore]
*price until this post was published.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Fleur
Father and Son have the most precious conversation about Paris attacks Le Petit Journal - or how to talk with your children about terrorism.
Monday, November 09, 2015
Friday, November 06, 2015
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Monday, October 05, 2015
Friday, October 02, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Redesign of Game Characters [Angry Birds movie trailer]
I saw this new video for the Angry Birds movie:
And was thinking about the game characters design evolution. I think it is funny that a character works for a game, make success then it just don't work anymore, need to updated. If Sonic got critized by his legs, what to say about Red? The Angry Bird main character?
I believe it was on Dreamcast that Sonic start growing long legs to looks cool.
And not a... AGH JESUS, my EYES!!
And was thinking about the game characters design evolution. I think it is funny that a character works for a game, make success then it just don't work anymore, need to updated. If Sonic got critized by his legs, what to say about Red? The Angry Bird main character?
I believe it was on Dreamcast that Sonic start growing long legs to looks cool.
If it was to follow the original design, the cover should be like:
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| fanart by Age-Velez |
Well. I'm Ok with creative freedom to design. But legs growing looks like a trend for Sonic haha
In the Angry Bird trailer I notice that the ball shaped bird grow up legs and "wings" (that is arms in reality). A humanoid bird like. Looks like when Tweety (Piu-Piu / Piolin) was turned into a monster in the Mr. Hyde episode:
Is this to be easier to make animations and stuff or to be closer to a Minion-like design and renew the brand? I don't know. And hell, is this kinda of a 'mischaracterization', isn't? I know that for human characters it is kinda easier to make an evolution. But it is really obligatory to RE-make the entire character if it will change media/hardware?
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| Polygon shaped to well human rendered looks a normal smooth evolution for Lara Croft |
Nintendo evolute Link from Legend of Zelda series with a nice plot twist at some point. With a Cartoon version on it promotional stuff and in-game character also.
Ok! Another human shape. Let's think about...ugh... Jigglypuff? From Pokémon. Got a pretty smooth 3D conversion.
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| Jigglypuff wildly appearing on GameBoy |
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| JigglyPuff on SmashBros |
And not a... AGH JESUS, my EYES!!
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| by SoupAndButter |
Ok that the real-plot-wise evolution kinda look like the actual design choice for angry bird... but this is not Jigglypuff anymore. It is a Wigglytuff. So.
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| A Wigglytuff |
Talking about Nintendo and Pink stuff, what about Kirby? Kirby started on GameBoy, as you may know, Gameboy is monochromatic. So at the beginning Kirby was kinda pale. With the evolution of console, GameBoy Colour and stuff. It got Pink. In Canvas Curse it got a ball shape to interact with lines users generated on the screen and move rolling. Kirby still stayed Kirby as we know. It was like Sonic turning into a ball to do his shit. Not like his limbs fall down or something out of the blue. And we have the Epic Yarn design that is my favourite. The original concept is still there, but it is completely different aesthetically. This is genius. :D
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| Hi, Comic Sans. :'( |
Welp. Who am I to judge? But I think if Angry Bird suits fine for T-shirts, games with a lot of styles... why not try and animation with a similar approach? The Red on Angry Bird movie looks like a monster. Not a bird. Thinking about the marketing, the products... Think about it as a "plushie"... This character looks 'huggable'? Ok... it is an ANGRY bird... but C'mon. Look how adorable the original concept looks like on this:
The original concept also looks neat with 2D animations:
Keeping the original design would work for an Angry Bird 3D animation?
Anyway, the movie looks ok to watch with your little fellows from family. Just wondering if this redesign was needed and how the marketing can gain or suffer with it. The Angry Birds is kinda saturated and the "Angry Birds 2" game didn't make a commercial triumph. The name can deceive too. Like it was the second game. There is Angry Bird of everything. Star Wars, Shakira, Racing, RPG... everything! Maybe this movie bring a new refreshing breeze to the franchise. Because thinking on the other side, with legs and arms/wings a lot of new game concepts can be made. Creativity freedom is valid, always. Let's see how it turns out for Rovio fellows. And what you think about it? Did you have a character killed by evolution? Or did it make the character more awesome yet?
Friday, September 18, 2015
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Video Series - Strength
"Following total atomic annihilation, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you. That’s why Vault-Tec has prepared this educational video series for you to better understand the seven defining attributes that make you S.P.E.C.I.A.L.!
Today we’ve released the first video in the series – starting, of course, with Strength. Study it carefully to ensure your survival and to discover what makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L."
Today we’ve released the first video in the series – starting, of course, with Strength. Study it carefully to ensure your survival and to discover what makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L."
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Friday, September 04, 2015
[Free eBook] Bedtime Stories for Awful Children
A free illustrated E-book with grim new stories from the horrific world of Year Walk. Translated to English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. Sweet nightmares!
[Free Download here]
[Free Download here]
