Posted on January 19, 2011 - Tags:
She & Him, Music video
She & Him is the band of Zooey Deschanel (vocals, piano, ukulele) and M. Ward (guitar, production). If you like 60's pop songs you will like the song and the video!
Click the picture to see the video
Director Jeremy Konner
DP Logan Schneider
Editor Jeremy Konner
Producer Billy Parks
Executive Producer Jeff Pantaleo
From the Album "Volume 2", available at Merge Records - mergerecords.com/s/30243/
Director Jeremy Konner
DP Logan Schneider
Editor Jeremy Konner
Producer Billy Parks
Executive Producer Jeff Pantaleo
From the Album "Volume 2", available at Merge Records - mergerecords.com/s/30243/
Posted on January 10, 2011 - Tags:
reggie and the full effect, Poster
Yes, they're back !! I like this band and it was supposed to be dead, but they're back from death and gave a show for the new year's eve. I didn't see them live (because i live in France) but I talk about them because the poster below is cool. If you don't know what the hell i'm talking about take a look at this video.
Posted on January 3, 2011 - Tags:
iPhone, Game Dev Story
I don't play a lot on iphone. I had to admit that i don't like the touch controls, especially for classic games. But for games built with that limitation in mind it's ok and sometimes fun.
Last week was the first time I spend a complete afternoon on an iphone game. That game is Game Dev Story, the game that offers you to manage your own game dev studio. You choose who to hire, what game to make among dozens of game type, on which platform and how to promote it.
Don't expect a full simulation it's a pretty simple game, but that's what make this game so fun. For example, you can choose to go to an annual big game show with a simple booth or with babes, or even better, a superstar. Each year you go to an Award ceremony where the best game are rewarded, and sometimes you're invited by the manufacturers to see their new hardware. But before developping on a new hardware you will have to buy an expensive licence :)
Now let's talk about my studio: Bullshit Soft.
I've made 43 games in 18 genres. My top sale game is Time Quest 2 an Action RPG about Time Travel on PlayStatus (7,348,708 units and 34/40 by the reviewers).
But beyond the numbers of game for gamers (Super Race, Time Quest, Ninja Shot XXL, Ninja Legend, Ninja RPG, Space War, ...) my studio is capable of making games like Learn Train an educational game about trains (4M units), History an Historical Audio Novel on PlayStatus (1.5M) and CosPLAY a music game about cosplay... don't ask me what is all about :)
If you're a big video game fan, you will love this game and spend several hours on it to create dozens of games and try to be the bigger studio in the world.
Posted on September 21, 2010 - Tags:
Ok Go, Music video
Click to see the video
Posted on August 1, 2010 - Tags:
Game design, Tutorial, Red Steel 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2, City Life, Batman Arkham Asylum
Recently I've bought Super Mario Galaxy 2 (incredible game!) and I was surprised to see that the game was sold with an "How to play" DVD. It explains all the basics the new player need to know and some advanced technics.
This DVD reminds me a thought I had about the fact that watching a tutorial can be better than playing it. Why? I'll try to explain.
SMG2 for dummies: the DVD Menu
Six month ago I played Batman Arkham Asylum, a great game with a clever level design. Anyway, I had some difficulties near the end of the game with the melee fights. It was enough hard for me that I had to watch a walkthough video on Youtube to see how I can pass through. And I realised that I didn't really understand how to defeat the guys with the knife (you need to stun them first, then jump over them to be able to kick them). In fact I remembered having played the tutorial with that guy but, I suppose that I have defeated them by doing the right thing by chance. Perhaps the tutorial was not clear enough but I don't think so. It's very hard to do a great tutorial and must harder to detect if the player has fully understand it.
In that case, the walkthrough video from Youtube was a great help.
When I worked on City Life I remembered the Lead Game Designer (that was the producer too) saying that he was really impressed by the tutorial video of Burnout 3. The first time you play the game you watch a short video (it can't be skipped) explaining every rules of the game. It's short, dynamic and cool. I think it works better than an ingame tutorial especially for a game as speed as Burnout where it's hard to indicate to the player how to play during a race.
So in City Life we have done some short tutorial videos for every game features. The other big advantage is in termes of production, it was easier to do than an ingame tutorial. Finally I think that it was almost the main reason ;)
On Red Steel 2 we used videos during the tutorials but not exactly for the same reason. On the Wii, during the tutorials, you need to show how the movement must be done and how the wiimote must be hold in hand. But it's something that is very hard to do with icons. Only Nintendo seems to do it pretty well on their titles. And in all the wii games I worked on it's the thing we had difficulties with (on RRRTV we used the rabbid to show the movement and that was a big fail because of the rabbid morphology not very near to the human one). Finally, it was working well on RS2 with a video of a girl doing all the movements, better than if we have done it in any other way.
RS2 tutorials with the "cute girl in white"
So you understand that I love tutorials in video. But I'm not that obsess, and here's my thought about what could looks like the ultimate ingame tutorial:
Step 1: explain how to play to the player with ingame text & voice.
Step 2: give the player the choice to do it by himself or to watch a video first about how to play.
Step 3: if the player has achieve the tuto without seeing the video, give him the possibility to watch it before resuming the game.
Tutorial with video in Super Mario Galaxy 2
Also, what could be interesting would be to add an ingame menu with all the tutorial videos. The player could consult them at anytime if he has forgotten something (which happen very often to me when I stay two weeks without playing).
With that kind of tutorials I wish I could understand how to play the duel fights in Red Dead Redemption ;)
This DVD reminds me a thought I had about the fact that watching a tutorial can be better than playing it. Why? I'll try to explain.
SMG2 for dummies: the DVD Menu
Six month ago I played Batman Arkham Asylum, a great game with a clever level design. Anyway, I had some difficulties near the end of the game with the melee fights. It was enough hard for me that I had to watch a walkthough video on Youtube to see how I can pass through. And I realised that I didn't really understand how to defeat the guys with the knife (you need to stun them first, then jump over them to be able to kick them). In fact I remembered having played the tutorial with that guy but, I suppose that I have defeated them by doing the right thing by chance. Perhaps the tutorial was not clear enough but I don't think so. It's very hard to do a great tutorial and must harder to detect if the player has fully understand it.
In that case, the walkthrough video from Youtube was a great help.
When I worked on City Life I remembered the Lead Game Designer (that was the producer too) saying that he was really impressed by the tutorial video of Burnout 3. The first time you play the game you watch a short video (it can't be skipped) explaining every rules of the game. It's short, dynamic and cool. I think it works better than an ingame tutorial especially for a game as speed as Burnout where it's hard to indicate to the player how to play during a race.
So in City Life we have done some short tutorial videos for every game features. The other big advantage is in termes of production, it was easier to do than an ingame tutorial. Finally I think that it was almost the main reason ;)
On Red Steel 2 we used videos during the tutorials but not exactly for the same reason. On the Wii, during the tutorials, you need to show how the movement must be done and how the wiimote must be hold in hand. But it's something that is very hard to do with icons. Only Nintendo seems to do it pretty well on their titles. And in all the wii games I worked on it's the thing we had difficulties with (on RRRTV we used the rabbid to show the movement and that was a big fail because of the rabbid morphology not very near to the human one). Finally, it was working well on RS2 with a video of a girl doing all the movements, better than if we have done it in any other way.
RS2 tutorials with the "cute girl in white"
So you understand that I love tutorials in video. But I'm not that obsess, and here's my thought about what could looks like the ultimate ingame tutorial:
Tutorial with video in Super Mario Galaxy 2
Also, what could be interesting would be to add an ingame menu with all the tutorial videos. The player could consult them at anytime if he has forgotten something (which happen very often to me when I stay two weeks without playing).
With that kind of tutorials I wish I could understand how to play the duel fights in Red Dead Redemption ;)
Since several years I'm a big fan of all the books published by the Pix'n Love Editions. It's surely the most interesting books about video games and vg's creators, and it was a really chance to be French and being able to order and read these books. Today Pix'n Love Editions has found Pix'n Love Publishing that will publish their most interesting books in english. Here's some words you can read on the official website:
Two years ago I've made a post on the History of Nintendo Vol.1. I recommend you to read it.
Pix'n Love Publishing was founded in 2007 by three young Frenchmen, each very passionate about the history of video games. Their goal is to offer gamers, as well as anybody curious about the subject, a selection of reliable books about their passion: video gaming and its history. During their three years on the market, they've published, re-released, translated and written over 25 books in French. Some even became real best sellers in France and French speaking territories. Today, Pix'n Love Publishing goes international and is proud to bring you some of their most successful releases, fully translated into English. Secured, safe and trustworthy, this website, via Paypal, will allow you to get a hold of books recognized as the ultimate resources on the subject. Every item will be shipped within 48 hours following the order and delivered in less than a week (average international shipping). Three books are already planned to be released. The first one, the History of Nintendo (1889-1980) will be available around the end of August. We recommend you pre-order it though, as this will be a very limited edition!
Two years ago I've made a post on the History of Nintendo Vol.1. I recommend you to read it.
Posted on July 7, 2010 - Tags:
The Get Up Kids, Remix
I'm a big fan of The Get Up Kids, and when I knew that a remix contest was organized on the TracksAndFields.com website I saw a good opportunity to see if I was able to remix one of their song.
Below you can listening to the original song Keith Case, and all the remixes submitted. My remix is named Keith Case (Ced' Remix). Tell me what you think :)
Below you can listening to the original song Keith Case, and all the remixes submitted. My remix is named Keith Case (Ced' Remix). Tell me what you think :)
His best friend write comics with himself in it as the main super hero. He used to drawn himself with a big dick...
Bored to Death season 1 contains 8 episodes and the second one is currently in filming. Jonathan Ames is played by Jason Schwartzman that sing the theme song, and the tv show is writen by Jonathan Ames that gives his real name to his main character :)
Bored to Death is brilliant, funny, surprising. It's a "serious" tv show but the singularity of the main characters creates unbelievable situations what you won't forget.
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