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Steve Napierski — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:05:00 +0000

With Gamer the Movie coming out in September, I decided to do a couple gaming movie ideas that I would actually like to see.

Swamped with work right now, but hopefully I will have some time to come back and elaborate on this posting later. If not odds are I will appear in the comment section in one fashion or another. But the comic had been finished for hours and I didn’t want to keep postponing it because of the news post.

Enjoy…

ConnectiCon 2009 Webcomic List

Steve Napierski — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:55:38 +0000

I’m putting the ConnectiCon 2009 program together right now and I wanted to make sure that I had all of the webcomic artists who are going to be attended listed. So I’m posting it here and mentioning it on my Twitter account as well. Not saying that everyone will see this list via reading Dueling Analogs or Twitter. But I’m hoping that someone who sees this, or that, will know someone or daisy chain it in some way so that the right people will inevitably see it. Nonetheless this is the list I have right now -

Guests of Honor (webcomics):

8-Bit Theater - Brian Clevinger
Applegeeks - Mohammad “Hawk” Haque & Ananth Panagariya
Atomic Robo – Brian Clevinger & Scott Wegener
Blind Ferret / Least I Could Do / Looking For Group – Ryan Sohmer & Lar DeSouza
Ctrl-Alt-Del – Tim Buckley
Dernwerks – Darren J Gendron
Dominic Deegan – Michael “Mookie” Terracciano
Evil Inc – Brad Guigar
Explosm.net / Cyanide and Happiness – Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Matt Melvin
GuComics – Woody Hearn
Starslip / Chainsaw Suit – Kris Straub
Three Panel Soul / Machall – Ian McConville & Matthew Boyd
VG Cats – Scott Ramsoomair
XKCD - Randall Munroe

Industry Guests (webcomic):

Bardsworth – Peter Tarkulich
Blue and Blond – Chris “Kilika” Malone
Boy on a Stick and Slither - Steven L. Cloud
Caf-Fiends - Kevin Roy & Blondie
Comedity – Garth Graham
Commissioned Comic - O Abnormal (Sergio Villa Isaza)
DC is Going to Hell – Sophie Goldstein & Jenn Jordan
Dead of Summer / Art Fight School – Nick Borkowicz & Marty Day
Dead Winter – Dave Shabet
Dueling Analogs / The Outer Circle – Steve Napierski
Evil You Know – Haley Millman
Exiern
Faulty Logic – Fox Bruner
Garanos – Alex Heberling
Geist Panik – Brian Wilson
Joe Loves Crappy Movies - Joseph Dunn
Johnny Wander – Yuko Ota & Ananth Panagariya
Left Handed Toons – Justin and Drew
Less Than Three – Steve Baird
Lucid TV – John Keogh
Machinegun Angel – Sincerity “Sin” D’Angelo
Misfile - Chris Hazelton
Moon Freight 3 – Luke Foster
Mystic Revolution – Jen Brazas
Near and Far – Rachel Ayers & Aaron Wood
The Paul Reveres – Tina Pratt
Prime of Ambition - Naomi Craig & Alyssa Follansbee
Rosscott
Rumblo / Hate Song / Horribleville / Gunshow – KC Green
Shadowgirls – David Rodriguez
Short Packed / It’s Walky – David Willis
The Slackerz - By Scott Smith and Scott Hepting
SNAFU – Dave Stanworth
Staccato/HALOLZ – Shawn Handyside
Taka Comics – Trevor
Wasted Talent - Angela “Jam” Melick
Weregeek – Alina Pete
White Rose – Jeff Pelletier
WiGu / Overcompensating – Jeffery Rowland
The Zombie Hunters - Jenny Romanchuck

Video Games are like…

Steve Napierski — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:29:00 +0000

Man, am I exhausted. Between the fourth of July and my daughter’s birthday, this weekend has been anything but relaxing. Nonetheless, the weekend is over and I’m back to the comic.

You know what game I’ve been playing recently? Mega Man 64 (Legends). And you know what? Nintendo 64 games look horrible on HD TVs. The game is still fun, but the pixelation takes a little getting used to again. You get so used to crisp 3D graphics that you forget there was a time that they weren’t so… crisp. Also, the voice audio on this game is bad. Not so much the acting, the original Resident Evil prepared me for level of quality that Capcom voice acting would be at that time, but the way it’s delivered. You play the game with your audio at a certain level, but then someone starts talking and you have to turn the volume to the max just to hear it. All the while hoping to be able to turn it back down before it returns to normal levels and blow your speakers out. Regardless, it is a fun game.

I need to find a copy of Mega Man Legends 2 for the PSOne. I see them on eBay starting around $50 USD, but I might try to find it cheaper somewhere else.

I wonder if they will ever make a Mega Man Legends 3. I found an article on 1UP.com from June of 2007 where God Keiji Inafune said, “If I was able to make a sequel without having to worry about money in any shape or form, I think it probably would be Mega Man Legends 3. And that’s not just me — a lot of the original team members would also love to make a sequel. They talk about it. I talk about it sometimes. I know they love that series and so do I. If I were to say right now, I have a tiny, tiny, tiny dream that I wish I could realize, but I don’t know if it’s possible, it would be to do a sequel in the Legends series.” While that is nice and disheartening at the same time I also think there are other options that Capcom might not be exploring. The development costs for Mega Man Legends 3 could be cut drastically by releasing it on the Nintendo Wii or maybe for the PSN or XBLA. And maybe make it episodic as well. It worked well for Telltale Games and Penny Arcade. Who knows…

Ooooo… maybe someone made a good modded/hacked version of one of the Mega Man Legends games with a new story and levels. I should really look into that.

Until next time…

Happy 4th of July

Steve Napierski — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:56:00 +0000

It’s been a hectic week for me. Bunch of freelance projects, getting ready for the upcoming conventions, my oldest daughter’s birthday on Sunday and Independence Day (US) on Saturday. So rather than post another console comic, I decided to post this animated GIF instead.

Hope everyone has a fun and safe weekend and I will see you on Monday.

Royal Fail Whale

Steve Napierski — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:58:00 +0000

This marks the second Fat Princess comic [first one]. Apparently, I’m really looking forward to the game.

If you don’t get the reference to the comic, you haven’t been on Twitter. If you’ve been on Twitter and still don’t get the reference, you haven’t been on Twitter for more than thirty seconds. Speaking of Twitter, if you’re interested in following me on Twitter I’m right here.