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Blaugust Topic Idea: Pretty Pictures
When you are struggling to find words remember that a picture paints a thousand of them! This is a technique Bhagpuss admits to using himself, and is one I'm going to use right now because I wanted to...
View ArticleBlaugust Topic Idea: Stories and Guides
Stories are a good method of writing practice and lend to being perfect "ammo" to store up in your "prepared posts" list. There are two major downsides to them though and the first is the prep time,...
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Blaugust Topic Idea: Reviews (and a Daylight Review)
An updated map would have solved everything. Due to terrible luck, a bunch of people get stuck in a tunnel as it collapses on both ends and begins to fill with water. Their only hope is an ex-rescue...
View ArticleBlaugust About Me: Writing Origins
We're now in the "Get to Know Each Other" week of Blaugust, and there's a lot more of that going on in the discord channel! If you haven't joined in yet, now is as good a time as any. :)Today I'll be...
View ArticleBlaugust About Me: First Online
Today's writing prompts are courtesy of the Belghast himself. I'll just be cherry picking topics that go well together: mainly describing my first online gaming experience, how I got involved with my...
View ArticleBlaugust About Me: My Favourite Things
I'm continuing with a few more of Belghast's writing prompts today, namely - write about three favorite items from any video game ever, and about any goal I achieved in the past and what it was like to...
View ArticleBlaugust About Me: I Play Games
Today I'll be answering cherry picked topics from Gracie's Moonshine Mansion and Armagon Live. It's so easy to generate blog content during Blaugust. Thank you to Atherne for collating a whole bunch of...
View ArticleBlaugust About Me: Viable Opinions
End Game Viable has a huge list of blogging prompts, so I thought I'd go answer a few today.What are your thoughts on lock boxes?Lock boxes are gambling, and are only in games to make the devs more...
View ArticleAbout Me: More Viable Opinions
A continuation of prompts from End Game Viable - imagine if I only answered one of these a day! :PWhat makes a game a “survival” game?I'd say death mitigation, and not the type where you have to dodge...
View ArticleAbout Me: Half Truths
I've made a little game for today, the last day of the Blaugust Reborn"get to know you week". Much like Bhagpuss said, I'm in the boat of trying to be anonymously famous so I've made a list of things...
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Developer Appreciation: Neverwinter Online Barovia
It's the start of the Blaugust Developer Appreciation Week and I thought I'd start with the content I've most recently been playing, Neverwinter Online's Barovia zone and Ravenloft campaign in general....
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Developer Appreciation: To the Moon / Fear not this Night
This elegant RPG Maker game is fantastically crafted and is my answer to last weeks prompts from Belghast of "a game that made you cry" and End Game Viables "favourite or most engrossing story...
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Developer Appreciation: Mabinogi Combat System
Today's Dev Appreciation is focused on the cutesy MMO Mabinogi, which still has the best basic combat system of any MMO I've played so far. Unlike everything else which is basically trying to maximize...
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Developer Appreciation: Stalker
In mother Russia, your first quest is to kill yourself!The Stalker series is easily one of my favorite to date. In it, you wander the irradiated zone around Chernobyl while solving mysteries, fighting...
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Developer Appreciation: Dark Souls
I previously talked about how I enjoyed Stalker's oppressive and challenging environment. Switch it up to medieval times, plug in a haunting sound track, up the graphics and add a whole cluster of WTF...
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Developer Appreciation: Wizardy Online Permadeath
Death is a slap on the wrist in many MMOs these days with even "corpse runs" becoming extinct as far as I can tell. Even Dark Souls "punishment" is only a mild inconvenience when you think about it....
View ArticleDeveloper Appreciation: Blogger
Short, non-gaming Dev Appreciation for Blogger today since it's been hosting this blog for free since 2011. Easy to setup, easy to use, and it takes most of the coding part out of my worries as a...
View ArticleStaying Motivated: Oddities of Life
It's now the Blaugust "Staying Motivated" week, and one of the things that always help me against writer's block is to take inspiration, or in this case knowledge, from real life and share it.Somewhat...
View ArticleStaying Motivated: Asking Questions
Gaining knowledge is always a good motivator, and every so often I simply ask a question as a blog post. For today my question is:How do you pick which blogs to read everyday, especially now that it's...
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Ori and the Blind Forest
Decent game, great story.Made by Microsoft (in Unity) you'd expect big things from this platformer, and it does deliver. The story, music and art are all fantastic. It's in the gameplay where the flaws...
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