#contem

Something I made, from my most recent art piece, which I just painted last night. The backdrop connecting all 3 images, and the black framing around each, is all Canva. But the rest was me, and some acrylics.

View to Eternity.

I think they said I'll find out tomorrow if it makes it into the art show?

Might skirt the edges of more pop-art than gallery-art, but it was what I had in my mind/heart/soul to paint, in the moment.

AND I just discovered via a bit of Googling, that Canva has templates for tumblr graphics. And I do, in fact, have Canva Pro.

HUZZAH!

William Stoehr

Shelby 7, 2019

Oxenfree

It may not sound like it, but the idea of making a game full of real-time dialogue choices, with a horror setting populated with a cast of teenagers, is one fraught with difficulties. Not only do all the conversations have to flow naturally from whatever choices you pick, but they have to be done while people are talking (whereas most games tend to make you wait until they’re done talking) and still have to seem natural. At the same time, the game also has to be convincingly spooky and have the main characters come off as believable people, as opposed to the kind of unrealistic ‘totally radical’ caricatures that plague countless other media.

With all that in mind, it’s actually a miracle that Oxenfree manages to pull off such a feat without falling to pieces. And in general, despite a few faults here and there, it’s a well written, enjoyably unsettling adventure game that fans of the genre and horror should definitely check out.