Tuesday, August 30, 2011

ISML Ruby Period - Round 3 Results / Round 4 Votes





ARENA 01: Asahina Mikuru [[Iwasawa Asami]]
ARENA 02: [[Nymph]] Shiina
ARENA 03: Furukawa Nagisa [[Yui]]
ARENA 04: [[Victorique de Blois]] Shiina Mafuyu
ARENA 05: [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] Konjiki no Yami
ARENA 06: Seraphim [[Charlotte Dunois]]
ARENA 07: [[Katsura Hinagiku]] Huang Lingyin
ARENA 08: Fujibayashi Kyō [[Sakagami Tomoyo]]
ARENA 09: [[Index L. Prohibitorum]] Eucliwood Hellscythe
ARENA 10: Tōsaka Rin [[Nakamura Yuri]]
ARENA 11: [[Kotobuki Tsumugi]] Kōsaka Kirino
ARENA 12: [[Sengoku Nadeko]] C.C.
ARENA 13: [[Hiiragi Kagami]] Holo
ARENA 14: [[Hirasawa Yui]] Shinonono Hōki
ARENA 15: Laura Bodewig [[Misaka Mikoto]]
ARENA 16: [[Shana]] Louise Vallière
ARENA 17: Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko) [[Shirai Kuroko]]
ARENA 18: [[Saber]] Last Order
ARENA 19: [[Aragaki Ayase]] Kasugano Sora
ARENA 20: Fate Testarossa [[Nagato Yuki]]
ARENA 21: [[Aisaka Taiga]] Hirasawa Ui
ARENA 22: Izumi Konata [[Akiyama Mio]]
ARENA 23: Sanzen'in Nagi [[Senjōgahara Hitagi]]
ARENA 24: [[Tachibana Kanade]] Haruna
ARENA 25: [[Nakano Azusa]] Kuroi Mato
ARENA 26: Kōnagi Yui [[Sakura Kyōko]]

Monday, August 29, 2011

ISML Ruby Period - Round 2 Results / Round 3 Votes






ARENA 01: [[Nakano Azusa]] Shiina Mafuyu
ARENA 02: [[Kōsaka Kirino]] Laura Bodewig
ARENA 03: [[Katsura Hinagiku]] Furukawa Nagisa
ARENA 04: [[Tachibana Kanade]] Fujibayashi Kyō
ARENA 05: Holo [[Index L. Prohibitorum]]
ARENA 06: [[Hiiragi Kagami]] Eucliwood Hellscythe
ARENA 07: Asahina Mikuru [[Hirasawa Yui]]
ARENA 08: [[Kuroi Mato]] Victorique de Blois
ARENA 09: [[Senjōgahara Hitagi]] Fate Testarossa
ARENA 10: [[Izumi Konata]] Saber
ARENA 11: [[Hirasawa Ui]] Shinonono Hōki
ARENA 12: [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] Aragaki Ayase
ARENA 13: Last Order [[Akiyama Mio]]
ARENA 14: Kasugano Sora [[Charlotte Dunois]]
ARENA 15: Seraphim [[Konjiki no Yami]]
ARENA 16: [[Tōsaka Rin]] Shirai Kuroko
ARENA 17: [[Shana]] C.C.
ARENA 18: [[Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko)]] Shiina
ARENA 19: [[Yui]] Huang Lingyin
ARENA 20: Louise Vallière [[Sengoku Nadeko]]
ARENA 21: [[Misaka Mikoto]] Kotobuki Tsumugi
ARENA 22: [[Nagato Yuki]] Sanzen'in Nagi
ARENA 23: [[Aisaka Taiga]] Iwasawa Asami
ARENA 24: Nymph [[Nakamura Yuri]]
ARENA 25: Haruna [[Sakagami Tomoyo]]
ARENA 26: Illyasviel von Einzbern [[Matō Sakura]]

Thursday, August 25, 2011

ISML Ruby Period - Round 1 Results / Round 2 Votes





ARENA 01: [[Kōsaka Kirino]] Shirai Kuroko
ARENA 02: Shinonono Hōki [[Sakagami Tomoyo]]
ARENA 03: Kasugano Sora [[Shana]]
ARENA 04: Konjiki no Yami [[Senjōgahara Hitagi]]
ARENA 05: [[Victorique de Blois]] Hirasawa Ui
ARENA 06: Shiina Mafuyu [[Aisaka Taiga]]
ARENA 07: Louise Vallière [[Fate Testarossa]]
ARENA 08: [[Yui]] Last Order
ARENA 09: Shiina [[Misaka Mikoto]]
ARENA 10: [[Nagato Yuki]] Aragaki Ayase
ARENA 11: Laura Bodewig [[Index L. Prohibitorum]]
ARENA 12: Nymph [[Eucliwood Hellscythe]]
ARENA 13: Iwasawa Asami [[Nakano Azusa]]
ARENA 14: Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko) [[Kotobuki Tsumugi]]
ARENA 15: [[Nakamura Yuri]] Hiiragi Kagami
ARENA 16: Fujibayashi Kyō [[Hirasawa Yui]]
ARENA 17: Asahina Mikuru [[Tachibana Kanade]]
ARENA 18: [[Kuroi Mato]] Haruna
ARENA 19: [[Sengoku Nadeko]] Seraphim
ARENA 20: [[C.C.]] Charlotte Dunois
ARENA 21: Katsura Hinagiku [[Izumi Konata]]
ARENA 22: [[Saber]] Furukawa Nagisa
ARENA 23: [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] Sanzen'in Nagi
ARENA 24: [[Akiyama Mio]] Huang Lingyin
ARENA 25: Holo [[Tōsaka Rin]]
ARENA 26: Ana Coppola [[Tōdō Shimako]]

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

ISML Ruby Period - Round 1 Votes




ARENA 01: [[Fujibayashi Kyō]] Shiina Mafuyu
ARENA 02: Laura Bodewig [[Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko)]]
ARENA 03: Izumi Konata [[Yui]]
ARENA 04: Furukawa Nagisa [[Akiyama Mio]]
ARENA 05: [[C.C.]] Sanzen'in Nagi
ARENA 06: [[Katsura Hinagiku]] Last Order
ARENA 07: Hirasawa Ui [[Nakano Azusa]]
ARENA 08: Aragaki Ayase [[Senjōgahara Hitagi]]
ARENA 09: Haruna [[Hirasawa Yui]]
ARENA 10: Victorique de Blois [[Iwasawa Asami]]
ARENA 11: [[Misaka Mikoto]] Shirai Kuroko
ARENA 12: Kotobuki Tsumugi [[Hiiragi Kagami]]
ARENA 13: Eucliwood Hellscythe [[Tōsaka Rin]]
ARENA 14: [[Nakamura Yuri]] Index L. Prohibitorum
ARENA 15: Huang Lingyin [[Saber]]
ARENA 16: Aisaka Taiga [[Kuroi Mato]]
ARENA 17: [[Sengoku Nadeko]] Kasugano Sora
ARENA 18: [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] Fate Testarossa
ARENA 19: [[Kōsaka Kirino]] Shiina
ARENA 20: Seraphim [[Shana]]
ARENA 21: [[Nagato Yuki]] Konjiki no Yami
ARENA 22: [[Tachibana Kanade]] Shinonono Hōki
ARENA 23: Asahina Mikuru [[Sakagami Tomoyo]]
ARENA 24: Nymph [[Holo]]
ARENA 25: [[Charlotte Dunois]] Louise Vallière
ARENA 26: Li Meiling [[Yuzuhara Konomi]]

Friday, August 19, 2011

ISML Emerald Period Necklace Winner

Congratulations to Taiga Aisaka for winning the Emerald Period Necklace! Once again, Shana has been ousted by another competitor, but hey, it's still KugiRie XD


Tuesday, August 16, 2011

ISML Emerald Period - Round 7 Results / Necklace Round Votes





ARENA 01: Aisaka Taiga Suzumiya Haruhi [[Shana]] Akiyama Mio Nakano Azusa Katsura Hinagiku Eucliwood Hellscythe
ARENA 02: Cerberus [[Botan]] Luna Tama Mokona Steak Akamaru
ARENA 03: Rose Lisanna Arf Hanekawa Tsubasa [[Ika-Musume]] Sawatari Makoto Margery Daw
ARENA 04: Negi Springfield Yūno Scrya Emiya Shiro Tsukiyomi Ikuto Yagami Kazuma [[Stiyl Magnus]] Aikawa Ayumu
ARENA 05: Kinomoto Sakura Kiriya Nozomi Kamio Misuzu Kō Shūrei Lucy [[Remilia Scarlet]] Yagami Hikari

Monday, August 15, 2011

ISML Emerald Period - Round 5 & 6 Results/Round 7 Votes


*I didn't vote on Thursday, so I'll just put what would have been my votes on the Round 6 results.




ARENA 01: Victorique de Blois [[Izumi Konata]]
ARENA 02: [[Nakano Azusa]] Akiyama Mio
ARENA 03: [[Charlotte Dunois]] Nymph
ARENA 04: Misaka Mikoto [[Shana]]
ARENA 05: Asahina Mikuru [[Yui]]
ARENA 06: Index L. Prohibitorum [[Sengoku Nadeko]]
ARENA 07: [[Sakagami Tomoyo]] Kuroi Mato
ARENA 08: Laura Bodewig [[Senjōgahara Hitagi]]
ARENA 09: Shiina [[Suzumiya Haruhi]]
ARENA 10: [[C.C.]] Shirai Kuroko
ARENA 11: Iwasawa Asami [[Hirasawa Yui]]
ARENA 12: [[Holo]] Louise Vallière
ARENA 13: [[Hiiragi Kagami]] Konjiki no Yami
ARENA 14: [[Aragaki Ayase]] Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko)
ARENA 15: Hirasawa Ui [[Shiina Mafuyu]]
ARENA 16: [[Kotobuki Tsumugi]] Seraphim
ARENA 17: Katsura Hinagiku [[Tachibana Kanade]]
ARENA 18: Furukawa Nagisa [[Fujibayashi Kyō]]
ARENA 19: [[Tōsaka Rin]] Sanzen'in Nagi
ARENA 20: Fate Testarossa [[Kōsaka Kirino]]
ARENA 21: Haruna [[Saber]]
ARENA 22: [[Nagato Yuki]] Eucliwood Hellscythe
ARENA 23: [[Nakamura Yuri]] Kasugano Sora
ARENA 24: [[Last Order]] Shinonono Hōki
ARENA 25: [[Aisaka Taiga]] Huang Lingyin
ARENA 26: [[Yagami Hikari]] Haibara Ai

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

ISML Emerald Period - Round 4 Results / Round 5 Votes





ARENA 01: [[Hiiragi Kagami]] Aragaki Ayase
ARENA 02: [[Charlotte Dunois]] Tōsaka Rin
ARENA 03: [[Laura Bodewig]] Louise Vallière
ARENA 04: [[C.C.]] Shiina
ARENA 05: [[Nagato Yuki]] Holo
ARENA 06: Victorique de Blois [[Akiyama Mio]]
ARENA 07: [[Misaka Mikoto]] Sengoku Nadeko
ARENA 08: [[Senjōgahara Hitagi]] Eucliwood Hellscythe
ARENA 09: Kasugano Sora [[Kotobuki Tsumugi]]
ARENA 10: [[Aisaka Taiga]] Furukawa Nagisa
ARENA 11: [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] Shirai Kuroko
ARENA 12: Huang Lingyin [[Fujibayashi Kyō]]
ARENA 13: Hirasawa Ui [[Hirasawa Yui]]
ARENA 14: Nymph [[Sanzen'in Nagi]]
ARENA 15: [[Tachibana Kanade]] Sakagami Tomoyo
ARENA 16: [[Index L. Prohibitorum]] Fate Testarossa
ARENA 17: Shiina Mafuyu [[Iwasawa Asami]]
ARENA 18: [[Nakano Azusa]] Saber
ARENA 19: [[Nakamura Yuri]] Seraphim
ARENA 20: [[Kuroi Mato]] Katsura Hinagiku
ARENA 21: [[Shana]] Kōsaka Kirino
ARENA 22: [[Yui]] Shinonono Hōki
ARENA 23: Haruna [[Izumi Konata]]
ARENA 24: Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko) [[Konjiki no Yami]]
ARENA 25: [[Last Order]] Asahina Mikuru
ARENA 26: Lucy [[Shirakawa Kotori]]

Modern Warfare 3 Survival Mode Trailer - BREAKDOWN!



Features:
- Timed Waves instead of enemy numbers.
- The game uses a cash system. It is confirmed that you use this cash to buy new weapons and "reinforcements" that could comprise of allied personel (Delta Force and Riot Shield allies confirmed) and air support (Predator confirmed).
- Bottom left bar shows extra rewards for getting streaks and other midgame challenges
- You have "armor." There's a shield icon on the bottom center that says "Armor 100"


Confirmed Weapons and Gear:
- AK47 Modern. Recoil has been changed drastically. It no longer has the COD4-BOps animation. It is now steadier, but the recoil pattern is changed in a circular pattern.
- Model 1887 Modernized. Fire rate for singles is increased.
- G36
- FN57
- USAS 12
- M16A4
- M60E4
- ACR 6.8 (The will be using the Remington ACR model, not the Magpul Masada)
- Auto Grenade Launcher
- MP5
- Riot Shield
- Sentry Guns

Sunday, August 7, 2011

League of Legends - Patch 1.0.0.123 Preview

I actually like some of the buffs in this patch, especially Leona. She definitely needed the cooldown reduction, seeing she really doesn't do anything besides being a stunbot in teamfights. Garen's utility buff will help, as well. Pantheon finally gets a buff, much needed after the ulti global removal.


ISML Emerald Period - Round 3 Results / Round 4 Votes




ARENA 01: Shiina Mafuyu [[Kuroi Mato]]
ARENA 02: [[Shana]] Tōsaka Rin
ARENA 03: Katsura Hinagiku [[Hirasawa Yui]]
ARENA 04: Iwasawa Asami [[Sakagami Tomoyo]]
ARENA 05: Louise Vallière [[Kotobuki Tsumugi]]
ARENA 06: Huang Lingyin [[Victorique de Blois]]
ARENA 07: [[Eucliwood Hellscythe]] Seraphim
ARENA 08: [[Index L. Prohibitorum]] Sanzen'in Nagi
ARENA 09: Laura Bodewig [[C.C.]]
ARENA 10: [[Tachibana Kanade]] Hirasawa Ui
ARENA 11: Furukawa Nagisa [[Nakano Azusa]]
ARENA 12: [[Akiyama Mio]] Shinonono Hōki
ARENA 13: Yui [[Aisaka Taiga]]
ARENA 14: [[Senjōgahara Hitagi]] Shiina
ARENA 15: Suzumiya Haruhi [[Nakamura Yuri]]
ARENA 16: Fate Testarossa [[Hiiragi Kagami]]
ARENA 17: Kasugano Sora [[Holo]]
ARENA 18: Izumi Konata [[Fujibayashi Kyō]]
ARENA 19: [[Sengoku Nadeko]] Nymph
ARENA 20: Konjiki no Yami [[Misaka Mikoto]]
ARENA 21: [[Charlotte Dunois]] Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko)
ARENA 22: [[Kōsaka Kirino]] Aragaki Ayase
ARENA 23: [[Saber]] Asahina Mikuru
ARENA 24: Haruna [[Last Order]]
ARENA 25: Shirai Kuroko [[Nagato Yuki]]
ARENA 26: Mineva Lao Zabi [[Kō Shūrei]]

ISML Emerald Period - Interesting Round 4


Seeing they are one ribbon and one letter away from suing each other for copyright infringement, I wonder if one of them is going to win by one vote.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

ISML Emerald Period - Round 2 Results / Round 3 Votes




ARENA 01: [[Akiyama Mio]] Fujibayashi Kyō
ARENA 02: [[Furukawa Nagisa]] Haruna
ARENA 03: Shiina [[Kasugano Sora]]
ARENA 04: Charlotte Dunois [[Kōsaka Kirino]]
ARENA 05: C.C. [[Eucliwood Hellscythe]]
ARENA 06: [[Yui]] Victorique de Blois
ARENA 07: [[Izumi Konata]] Shinonono Hōki
ARENA 08: Shiina Mafuyu [[Tachibana Kanade]]
ARENA 09: [[Shana]] Hiiragi Kagami
ARENA 10: [[Nakano Azusa]] Last Order
ARENA 11: [[Laura Bodewig]] Seraphim
ARENA 12: Tōsaka Rin [[Fate Testarossa]]
ARENA 13: Hirasawa Ui [[Kuroi Mato]]
ARENA 14: Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko) [[Sengoku Nadeko]]
ARENA 15: Kotobuki Tsumugi [[Nagato Yuki]]
ARENA 16: [[Index L. Prohibitorum]] Konjiki no Yami
ARENA 17: Sakagami Tomoyo [[Hirasawa Yui]]
ARENA 18: [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] Holo
ARENA 19: Saber [[Aisaka Taiga]]
ARENA 20: [[Nakamura Yuri]] Senjōgahara Hitagi
ARENA 21: Nymph [[Aragaki Ayase]]
ARENA 22: [[Asahina Mikuru]] Huang Lingyin
ARENA 23: Louise Vallière [[Shirai Kuroko]]
ARENA 24: Sanzen'in Nagi [[Misaka Mikoto]]
ARENA 25: Iwasawa Asami [[Katsura Hinagiku]]
ARENA 26: [[Kamio Misuzu]] Hyūga Hinata

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Back to the GameDev Groove - Presenting, "ZERO"

Thinking of new ideas for a new game is easy. Applying it into a new game is the hard part.


I don't know if people noticed, but August has marked the start of my "tryhard/workhard" period. This is the time where I stop playing too much video games, and start working many of my career-related works, like my 3D model/animation portfolio as well as a general game design portfolio.

I learned that if you want to make it into the 3D field, whether it's entertainment, architectural, medical, educational, etc., you must first learn that field. Make sure you know all of the current tech they have. Know the big conventions that people actually care about. Most importantly, let everyone know you have potential by showing them your BEST work in a portfolio. That's what I'm doing now. I'm not that great at character design, but I'll have to do it and place it in my portfolio. It has to look very presentable, too. However, I am a prop/geometrical designer. That includes buildings, vehicles, weapons, and other geometric objects. This is what I'm good at, so I'll be focusing my efforts on those.

As for general game design, I think I'm going to pursue more of an administrative role. I actually love the leader role when it comes to these kinds of things. Of course, this doesn't mean I'm not doing actual "grunt work." From what I have read and absorbed over the past few days of reading, it is much better for your project to be somewhat at a "tech demo" level before you hire. This means some programming, some sound engineering, some of everything. What this does is it lets the people you are going to hire (or ask help from, if it's not paid) that you know what the deal is on their side of the project. You know how your main job weaves and connects to the other aspects of the game development phases and jobs.

On that note, the first order of business, I present to you, "ZERO." ZERO will be a 3rd-Person Shooter, with borrowed mechanics from Battlefield and Call of Duty. It will have singleplayer and some multiplayer, if I could get a team to work with it. My options for an engine include Source and Unreal 3. I think those would be good platforms as they have some prefabs until I could actually find artists to make new content. Anyways, I actually want the singleplayer to have a storyline, so I'm definitely working on that myself. Of course, multiplayer is still the core, as with many games. Balance is the biggest issue with online games, and with 3rd-person involved, corner peeking can't be avoided. I'm still trying to figure out if I'm going to use a sticky-cover system (so overused) or just the plain old "crouch/prone behind something thick" tactic.

Anyways, I'll leave a link below on what I currently have in terms of multiplayer. I'd like to balance things out, and I might end up removing the Balanced categories and just stick to power/speed.
http://pastebin.com/jUeaGLvQ - "ZERO" Super-Rough MP Design Document

ISML Emerald Period - Round 1 Results / Round 2 Votes




ARENA 01: Saber [[Fujibayashi Kyō]]
ARENA 02: [[Katsura Hinagiku]] Hirasawa Ui
ARENA 03: Kotobuki Tsumugi [[Senjōgahara Hitagi]]
ARENA 04: [[Kuroi Mato]] Hirasawa Yui
ARENA 05: Huang Lingyin [[Nakano Azusa]]
ARENA 06: [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] Laura Bodewig
ARENA 07: [[Akiyama Mio]] Asahina Mikuru
ARENA 08: [[Tōsaka Rin]] Konjiki no Yami
ARENA 09: Sanzen'in Nagi [[Kōsaka Kirino]]
ARENA 10: Shiina [[Nagato Yuki]]
ARENA 11: Izumi Konata [[Aisaka Taiga]]
ARENA 12: Shinonono Hōki [[Furukawa Nagisa]]
ARENA 13: Aragaki Ayase [[Misaka Mikoto]]
ARENA 14: [[C.C.]] Holo
ARENA 15: [[Last Order]] Victorique de Blois
ARENA 16: [[Fate Testarossa]] Gokō Ruri (Kuroneko)
ARENA 17: Haruna [[Yui]]
ARENA 18: [[Shirai Kuroko]] Seraphim
ARENA 19: Nymph [[Shana]]
ARENA 20: Kasugano Sora [[Eucliwood Hellscythe]]
ARENA 21: [[Charlotte Dunois]] Index L. Prohibitorum
ARENA 22: [[Hiiragi Kagami]] Sengoku Nadeko
ARENA 23: [[Nakamura Yuri]] Louise Vallière
ARENA 24: [[Sakagami Tomoyo]] Shiina Mafuyu
ARENA 25: Iwasawa Asami [[Tachibana Kanade]]
ARENA 26: [[Kiriya Nozomi]] Isurugi Mio