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Watch Jameson Wilkins’s Nifty Niche Contest Winner Gamejam! on Livestream.com.

ITS LIVE FOLKS! Get on in here and listen to my awkward voice say goofy things while I make a game about a Goblin with management issues! Stream should be going on most of today, July 28th 2013, so don’t hesitate to stop by, and please reblog as well!

IT"S OVER!

First of all, thanks for the support guys, the original contest post has 350 notes, 250 of which it got yesterday alone! WOW! Now that I’ve got you all following me, look forward to more awesome games and fun stuff coming your way in the future!

Alright, so lets get to the winners!

FIRST PLACE: inkytomes! Congratulations! I’ll be making a game starring YOU or y’know, an OC or friend, or family member or something! (more news on the game further down in this post).

SECOND PLACE: ringside101! You get a pixel portrait of yourself, an OC, or a friend or family member!

THIRD PLACE: Forever Spooky! You get the same as above, a pixel portrait of yourself, or an OC, or a friend or family member!

I’ll be contacting the winners today with the information that I need from them. Of course I’ll also post the finished portraits on this blog.

As for the game, well, the fun’s only getting started! 2 weeks from now, on the weekend of the 27th-28th of July, I’ll be livestreaming my development of it! Think of it as a mini-game jam just starring yours truly. Be sure to reblog this post to get the word out on that! I’ll also remind you all as it gets closer to the date!

 - Pixxel Stixxers -

Me and Jameson Wilkins have been throwing around some wall decals and stickers so you turn your room into a video game! Guess who’s idea that was (hint: he makes video games!)

These are just samples and prototypes, we want to make sure they hold up with time and are easy to use! Stay tuned!

I find it hilarious that you’ve gone ahead and commended Microsoft now. This is the exact thing you were against wasn’t it?

My point is there is nothing wrong with people commending Microsoft’s console division for attempting to fix the situation they got themselves into. Your original post acts like that is somehow some great sin to…gamers? Yourself? I don’t know. Who is this bad for exactly? I think I’ll go with no one.

and wow. you really did miss the point entirely. i never once said it was a bad thing that they changed their mind. i’m saying DON’T PRAISE THEM FOR CLEANING UP THEIR OWN SHIT. THEY FUCKED UP. THEY’RE REVERSING THEIR OWN FUCK UP. THIS IS NOT WORTHY OF PRAISE. THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE CONCEPT, WHY YOU CANNOT COMPREHEND IT IS BEYOND ME.

“I’m GLAD they changed their mind and i think it’s the smartest thing they could have done with what they got themselves into.”

That's praise. It's not the kind of thing you get to choose isn't. You said a positive thing about the way they handled the situation.

Secondly, your analogy falls apart almost immediately when you realize that the XBone is a product. I don't pay people to beat me up then get pissed when they render said service in my face. I can instead...simply not pay to be beaten up.

A more accurate analogy would be that Microsoft attempted to work some very obtrusive policies into their next product, and then the competition and public at large called them out on it, and then someone within the company decided that their policies were clearly going to negatively affect sales and that customers never had to be "beaten up" and instead could just choose a different product.

Oh wait that's not an analogy at all, its just what happened. It doesn't sound nearly so aggressive or ridiculous when put that way eh? It sounds like businesses doing business (albeit poorly) and then attempting to rectify the situation. 

I find it hilarious that you've gone ahead and commended Microsoft now. This is the exact thing you were against wasn't it?

My point is there is nothing wrong with people commending Microsoft's console division for attempting to fix the situation they got themselves into. Your original post acts like that is somehow some great sin to...gamers? Yourself? I don't know. Who is this bad for exactly? I think I'll go with no one.

You're right that Microsoft shouldn't have done what they did, you are also right that they did not change their policy because it was the "right" thing to do, it was most certainly motivated by sales.

But the concept that people shouldn't change their minds despite the fact that Microsoft changed theirs is just stupid. The only message you send at that point is that gamers are a petty lot that don't care when a company admits wrong doing and at that point there is literally 0 incentive on Microsofts side to ever change policy due to public outcry.

Have another preview of the upcoming piece I’m working on!

This is the Sorceress from Vanillaware’s Dragon’s Crown. Lately, this character has been getting a lot of heat, becoming the new icon of sexism in video games. Are you offended by this character? Do you find it sexist? Well guess what, it’s not.

This whole post also seems to miss the tiny little point that stylizing a male character in the way vanillasoft has (tiny head, accentuating desirable traits like musculature, etc) doesn't even remotely have the same effect it does on those male characters the way the female characters designs do.

Do that to a male character and it turns them into a beast, an animal, not a sexual object or something to strive for in terms of real-world aesthetic. This makes a lot of sense for a beat em up, a genre defined by killing waves of enemies like a murdering creature of death. In theory I would argue you could actually pull something very similar off with a female character. In fact I would say that the Amazon almost does it with her musculature. Too bad shes got the same doe-eyed anime face and overly skimpy clothing that just turns her back into a fetish model.

That's actually a really big thing here. See, the male characters in DC have a pretty varied line up of faces. The dwarf's a pretty gruff lookin' guy, he definitely doesn't have the stereotypical male anime character face, hell he'd look right at home in a western fantasy game or comic. The soldiers face is almost completely obfuscated by his helmet (again, dehumanize and make him beastial), meaning the only playable male character that looks like a standard anime male face is the wizard.

Art in the Park Facebook now Live!

You guys may have seen me make a few posts about Art in the Park every once in a while.

But now it’s time to tell you guys what it’s about because I need your help.

Basically me, Jameson Wilkins, Xue Thao, Ben Raymonvil and a few other local Florida artists have been working hard on a community project bringing art and artists to the newly developed Bradenton Riverwalk to just spread art to the community, kids, seniors and other artists or anyone that wants to get involved, learn or just have fun.

We need your help to spread the word so that anyone in Florida that wants to get involved can see it, also like the facebook page so you can get instructions and fun stuff about the demos we do, contests and all other kinds of fun stuff!

I’ll take a moment to explain what the edutainment title I am being commissioned to develop is about, since I haven’t yet done that!

In the 1800’s, Havana Cuba’s fisheries were basically depleted. However, the Florida Bay’s fisheries were densely populated, which resulted in a migrant fishermen population that would travel from Havana to the bay area and back again between Hurricane seasons. These fishermen were called Ranchos.

The journey usually took less than 48 hours, and upon arrival they would set up small communities that would house and feed the fishermen as well as their families. They primarily fished using seine nets, which are essentially long nets spread between two poles and weighted at the bottom. Fish would get caught in these nets and the fishermen would go out and collect them. They would then dry them, and salt them in some cases. They lived on these fish as well as local fruits and vegetables they would grow, and upon returning to Havana they would sell the dried/salted fish.

These ranchos actually existed well into the late 1800’s, but many were lost when the US gained control of Florida from Spain, and refused to honor the land claims these ranchos held over the area.

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