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Mad as a hatter

Darren Arquette — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:41:11 +0000

I’ve just noticed that I haven’t posted in a while so I thought I’ll quickly write something.

The reason why I haven’t posted in awhile is because I’ve been a bit busy with university work, writing reviews and then completing Dragon Age: Origins as a City Elf.
The rest of the time I just haven’t been bothered really as there wasn’t much to update on.

But there is now, recently I got my feedback from Games Design & Production 1 and received and 80 which is one of the highest in the class and well on my way to getting a first. You can read my Games design doc here Engauge Your Enemies.

Other news I sent off my application off to Disney for an internship, really looking forward to a reply, hoping they accept me like. Other than that I might be off to see Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, which I think they should of called “Return to Wonderland”, sort of like ‘Return to Oz’ because it seems more like a sequel then a remake. Oh well.

Animex

Darren Arquette — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:59:21 +0000

Animex was this past week, well still going on but I only go for the Animex Games bit really. But continuing my success of getting the nerve to talk to the legend that is Sir Ian Livingstone, the founder of Games Workshop and the importer of D&D – as well as President of Eidos (or Sqaure Enix Europe now?).

I managed to speak to Scott Campbell, awesome dude, from Double Fine who is the Art Director of Brutal Legend and Psychonauts.

Eric Baldwin Lead Animator at Naughty Dog, learned that all the animation on the characters faces was actually hand animated. Which blew my mind because of the animation in Uncharted is soo amazing especially with the characters faces; there’s soo many little movements in there that most people don’t notice but need to be there to make the characters feel alive.

And probably my highlight of the night, John Palamarchuk from Sony Santa Moncia, Lead Cinematic Environment Artist on God Of WAR 3!, whom told me some little technical details about GOW3 which just shocked the hell out of me, there’s no trickery with the titans one screen, they’re on the screen in real time! Like if you found a bug that teleported you over to the Titan you’ll be able to run on them as they’re just as big as the entire level.

SOOO looking forward to the GOW3 Trailer appearing on GamertrailersTV Tonight.

Watch out Jaffe's About

Darren Arquette — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:42:46 +0000

As some of you may know, I’m a massive fan of David Jaffe (Director of God Of War and the Twisted Metal Series) well eariler in the week he had a rant and so inspired by the now infamous Bale Out remix I decided to do a parody of it… using David Jaffe.
And so is the video Jaffe Out.

However I noticed on his blog, later that day, that he posted the video up and said he found it funny and liked it. ;p

Click here to see the blog entry.

Mainstream

Darren Arquette — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:49:18 +0000

In the past couple of years I believe Games have been going more mainstream or at the very least becoming more accepted with the public, evidance of this are the Tomb Raider Lucozade Ads.

(Other trailers are; another two Lucozade Ads, a Mastercard Ad and finally Fiat Cars Ad.)

However that shortly died down but maybe it’s on the rise again now with there being more and more video game ads, mostly for the games rather than advertising something else, however with games such as LBP on the market and even systems like the Wii a few people have took notice… which is the purpose of this post. I just found a music video using LBP by a Japanese Band called Beat Crusaders and the song is called ‘Phantom Planet’ it’s a nice little song using the asserts of LBP quite well.