The Far Reaches Webcomic

Writing The Far Reaches

Outlandish — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:07:12 +0000

Hey, everyone. Just wanted to first of all let everyone know that Wowio.com has finally improved now that they’ve landed the support of Top Cow comics, and they’ve changed their agreement. It’s now a more straight forward thing where you can preview the first 15 pages and then buy the full ebook for $3.99. I [...]

Gilrec Again

Outlandish — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Well I fixed the forearms and hands, sort of, and reposed him. And…I figured out a way to import the image into Flash then into Photoshop and quickly did some fancy coloring effects. This opens up a new line of thought. I really enjoy drawing and working in Toon Boom. It totally beats the pants [...]

Gilrec Test

Outlandish — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:00:00 +0000

I’ve been playing around with an animation program called Toon Boom and I wanted to see if I could use it for comics. Unfortunately, while it’s great for animation, it’s not so good for exporting a graphic at a large enough size for print. But it might work well for limited animation or for use [...]

Should I reinvent or refine TFR, or start a new comic?

Outlandish — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:45:46 +0000

I’ve just added a new search feature to the site. If you want to search for a particular page or blog post it should help. Also it allows me to use Google ads without pasting them all over the main screen. So feel free to use it and so on. Now to something more interesting. I’ve [...]

What do you think of the new look?

Outlandish — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:06:46 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve updated and I was looking at the site and loathing the bland white look of it. I like something a little more dark and dashing. I’m not sure I achieved that, but it finally looks more like what I had in mind. I’ve been wanting to fix the look [...]

Dreams and Doctor Who

Outlandish — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:58:00 +0000

It’s so strange how shows like Doctor Who effect me. It’s a very exciting drama (with just enough of that great British BBC cheesiness that I love) but it always gives me the most vivid dreams. So the other night after watching the end finale of David Tennant’s Doctor Who (I’m gonna miss him as [...]

Game Makers and Engines

Outlandish — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:52:02 +0000

I thought I’d share a few different game makers and game engines that I’ve found. First is Game Maker 8, which gives you free reign to make all sorts of 2d games. I’m playing around trying to see if I can make side-scrolling RPG prototype similar to Maple Story (only much simpler because obviously I [...]

Game Engines

Outlandish — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:52:52 +0000

Hey, all. I should begin by mentioning that I’m recovering slowly but surely from my car accident. Some idiot ran a red light and t-boned my car, hitting us in the driver’s side. I was driving. They had to rip the door off with the jaws of life and pull me out. Thankfully the xrays [...]

Final Fantasy III or Zelda

Outlandish — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:49:33 +0000

Back in the day, I remember playing Final Fantasy III and Zelda on my SNES. Now it’s actually possible to make games like those only with much updated graphics. So, which is your favorite style of RPG? The Final Fantasy style with random turn-based battles and lots of skills, or the classic Zelda-style action RPG? Personally, [...]

RPG with Visual Novel Elements

Outlandish — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:20:13 +0000

Hey all! It’s been a while so I wanted to give an update. I was playing around with various game engines and came across these visual novels. Now I don’t want to do a straight visual novel but I really liked the potential for story telling. For a long time I had been thinking about [...]