I'm slow

I was writing a post the other day to go with a video but I couldn't get the video to load. Meanwhile I ran across this powerful video that I wanted to post even though it has nothing to do with games.

Be warned this is a somewhat graphic video that doesn't pull its punches about what is going on in Sudan. You may have a visceral response to watching it.

What I've been doing

I'm still unemployed and my family has to move out of our apartment by the end of December so real life is becoming more of a focus and this blog less so. Posting will probably be sporadic and sparse until next year at least unfortunately. Got a job or a cheap family residence? I'm in desperate need of one of the two.

Meanwhile to keep at the QA thing and keep having fun I've been working on this:



Elemental Beta baby! One of the most primitive early betas I've been a part of and I've done a lot of betas. But playtesters are getting much earlier input than normal into a game's development which I think is going to make this a totally awesome game by release time.

Still here.. Activision hasn't censored me

I know it has been a while hasn't it? I'm a lot faster than updates on the development of VOR though!

Still unemployed, the economy is oppressing me and honestly there just hasn't been much to right about. VOR is in limbo, there isn't any local Anima Tactics action because the local game store doesn't want to support it, Elemental has been a few weeks without significant updates. So when I play games I've been playing more free DDO which is a great game and you can't beat the price! Unfortunately nobody I know is playing it which makes it not quite as fun as other games I could be playing.

So why Activision? Well it appears those who are protesting their latest Guitar Hero game are facing a lot of censorship for unknown reasons. Activision isn't talking much about their Nirvana critics, but their critics are being silenced by someone one after another. People say now that they've gotten huge from the merger with Blizzard they're trying on the scruples of their large competitor... EA. I say they still have a long ways to catch up but I hope they never get there. I don't have a significant reason to avoid Activision games yet (other than Quality) and I hope not to despise them like I do EA.

But if my blog does suddenly go silent, they're the ones you should blame!

Video editing isn't easy to learn

So I've been working on video editing skills with my latest video for Anima Tactics. I've been working on it for a few weeks off and on. My biggest issues all seem to be software/budget related. Basically as an amateur I can't afford real software that will do what I want it to. So I got stuck first with a video that was way longer and larger than it should be. Then using another program I found and installed to fix it, the quality got reduced slightly and a "unregistered product" notice added to my whole video.

So I guess the moral of my story is: "We are all still learning, I'm just proving it".



The plan is to keep getting better at it from here on out.