Sunday 28 April 2013

Side Quest 003: {Aku no Hana 01} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Aku no Hana

A strange anime with a different from usual art style.

Where do I start.. probably on what most people would hate about the anime - the art style of the animation.
Why would people hate this Anime's art style? Well it is a more realistic style of art where they main characters are based on real people with realistic resemblance and detail, including freckles. The animation is also very realistic in regards to facial expressions and body expressions.

The reason I believe they chose to use this art style was to enhance the feeling of how realistically possible that the situations shown in the Anime.

The theme of the Anime is a dark, depressing and psychological.

The Anime as of yet has no unrealistic scenes and I believe it will not.

The Anime's name translated to English is apparently: Flowers of Evil

Now you might have an idea on how it visually seems to be, but let me attempt to explain the story in a non spoiler fashion.

The story is of a male student in a school who reads a book about sins and evil etc. But it's somewhat poetic or something. One day he gets into a situation where he impulsively does something which happens to change his school life. Another female student witnessed this act of impulsiveness and takes advantage of the situation. Simply put, she's the one who makes it psychological.

From the first few episodes, I personally found this Anime quite weird, yet I'm curious on what is going to happen next, despite how weird it is.

If this Anime's art style was created in the typical way, it would not have felt as psychological as it is and the story might of seemed stupid.
Also the OST of this anime is very eerie. Especially that ED...

What Ideas could you or I get from this Anime?

Well since this Anime is very different from most Anime, we could learn how simple mistakes or events could be shown in such a serious way that it turns from stupid to psychological.

In short, ideas might bloom from this flower for a Horror/Psychological Game

Saturday 27 April 2013

Daily Quest: {Minecraft's Diamond Sword - Man at Arms} Random Youtube Videos



I thought I'd post this for those who haven't seen this channel's videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AweMeChannel

In this channel you will find many other weapons from TV shows to Video Games being recreated by a professional blacksmith. He recreates it to the point where it can be used as an actual weapon, even Batman's Batarangs and Kingdom Hearts' Sora Keyblade.

Enjoy!

Friday 19 April 2013

Side Quest 003: {Infinite Ryvius} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Infinite Ryvius (Mugen no Ryvius)

The anime Infinite Ryvius revolves around a ship called Ryvius, which was discovered due to various events, but we'll skip to the main plot. 
The main plot is that there are hundreds of children who are aged 18 or younger who are attempting to survive in a unknown space vehicle while being attacked by enemies.


The anime attempts to portray how children of different abilities would emotionally feel and react to various issues. Infinite Ryvius does this in a realistic way with little to no illogical miracles that appear out of nowhere.

The main thing I want to gather from this anime is to find out in more detail on how and why the characters turned out to what they are, as this would greatly influence my ability to design characters and how they would interact with each other.

This is a very original anime and you should watch it! It's a bit old, but if you like character development and story over animation quality, you'll enjoy it! I give it a 9/10

Main Quest 001: Pick your poison - In Progress

What should I use to make games?

  For a while now, I've been wondering what programming language or game engine I should learn to use, I have a basic understanding of code and have been trying out Python and Unity. 
  I have heard that Python is an easier language to learn and that Unity is a good engine, but I have just recently found out that the Oculus Rift is only compatible with Unity Pro and not the free version.

  I am thinking of learning how to use UDK to get a better understanding on how games are created then proceed to learn a programming language to create a game from scratch, most likely C++.

Sunday 14 April 2013

Daily Quest: Daily Happenings

Sound Problems

So I tried rolling back my sound drivers to make my microphone work again, instead it f**cked up my sound, even after attempting to reinstall drivers and I even tried system restore and that's f**cked up too.

Now I'm going to be reformatting my computer thus slowing my progress further =/
Luckily I have most of my files on my hard drives somewhere.

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Daily Quest: Random Youtube Videos



Checkout this guy with an epic beard do Guile's Theme - Acapella Version!

And checkout Smooth Mcgroove's channel for more videos! Including Final Fantasy Acapella songs!
http://www.youtube.com/user/SmoothMcGroove/

Side Quest 002: {"Shingeki no Kyojin" aka Attack of the Titans} Recommend Anime to the Internets - In Progress

Shingeki no Kyojin

FIRST EPISODE OUT. WATCHED IT. FKINGAWESOMESAUCE.
This is not from the first episode

Okay, maybe I'm just a little hyped up about this Anime, or just easily amazed. Here I was thinking Bakuman and Zetusen no Tempest were going to be the best anime of the year for me, although they probably are for their genres. 

But this new Anime for this season came out of nowhere (for me at least).
At first I thought this was going to be a generic action Anime with flashy effects and stuff BUT I was fortunately mistaken and drove me to a sensation similar to what I felt when I watched the Berserk Anime series (not the movies), they have very similar sort of themes and the art style looked to be influenced by Berserk itself.

Not only this but the Director, Araki Tetsurou directed Death Note, Guilty Crown and Highschool of the Dead some of my favourite Anime of all time. In addition Kyoji Asano, the Character Designer of Shingeki no Kyojin, worked on Guilty Crown, Psycho-Pass and Sengoku Basara.

The Anime also reminded me of Lost Planet, How?
Not the snow. But groups of people working cooperatively in order to take down beings of greater scale despite their size. Also they have grapple-hook-winch thingies.

Whether or not you read any of this, is not the point, what I'm trying to say is..

WATCH IT NOW.
http://www.cyber12.com/page-Shingeki_no_Kyojin.html - Download and Donate! (Has a few ads that aren't too annoying)

Saturday 6 April 2013

Side Quest 001: {Ready Player One by Ernest Cline} Gather Inspiration & knowledge from books - In Progress

The book Ready Player One is just simply amazing, it has a perfect balance of friendship, video game references, love and tragedies.

This is also the first fictional book that I personally picked up and read (and hoping to re-read) in years.
It completely immersed me in it's fictional world within a fictional world, with a theme I like and which is scarily a possibility that might happen to us in the future, which made the book more immersive and believable.

It also directly referenced a lot (and I mean A LOT) of games and movies which made me feel more relateable  to the main character.

There is soo much I like about this book, that I can't put into words, so I just recommend to read the book.

READ THE BOOK NOW!


I'd like to thank Oculus for recommending the book in the Kickstarter Update #19 - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game/posts/421939 

And of course to the Author of the book, Ernest Cline! - http://www.ernestcline.com/

Thank you for this 10/10 Masterpiece.