Summerfall Studios @summerfallgames Don't forget! Join @davidgaider and @liamesler as they continue on to Ostagar as part of their Dragon Age Origins developer commentary playthrough! Friday 5pm PST / Saturday 11am AEST (note the Aussie time-change!)
Crystal McCord @mrscmccord I was telling my niece not to be worried about what she chooses for college. A lot of people end up moving into a different profession or area anyways.
To prove my point- what did you go to school for/specialize in and what are you actually doing for work now? #careers #college
Melissa Janowicz deedlite I went to animation school. Went into indie games in a lot of “generalist artist/designer” roles and then transitioned fully into design. Now I design bosses and creatures for BioWare.
Crystal McCord @mrscmccord Would you describe a huge difference between designing creatures and animating creatures?
Melissa Janowicz deedlite Yes it’s really different, I decide how the creature functions in terms of its actions and how it will fight the player. I have conversations with my animator and we brainstorm how the creature will “perform” and move and they will animate it.
It’s almost like... I provide the rules and the logical side. We do talk about it together but the animator puts on the performance, like an actor, and can do anything that fits the rules for the creature.
Summerfall Studios @summerfallgames Don't forget! Join @davidgaider and @liamesler as they continue on to Ostagar as part of their Dragon Age Origins developer commentary playthrough! Friday 5pm PST / Saturday 11am AEST (note the Aussie time-change!)
Oh, hey, the cut human barbarian origin was supposed to be chasind not avvar.
"You are required to do nothing, least of all believe. Shut one's eye tight or open one's arms wider, either way one's a fool." - Flemeth
Clarissa @lobo4600 Me trying to piece together all my theories after read Tevinter Nights and replaying Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age 2. @patrickweekes @biomarkdarrah #DragonAge
Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah Ok here’s a hint. Vowels. Vowels are key. And consonants. Those too.
I’m on DA Twitter and I can tell you it’s mostly just thirsty Solas fan art, though I have been encountering a lot of “Alistair with pointy elf ears” pictures lately. (To my dismay, I would add.)
BTW, GameRant named the Broodmother as the scariest video game monster in one of their many DA-related articles.
Repulsive, yes. Horrifying? The visuals are not horrifying. What it means is horrifying
I kind of had a similar thought what was horryfying about that sequence was Hespith's poem and figuring out the implications of how one becomes a brood mother...the whole sequence was probably the most horryfying sequence in gaming, but the brood mother itself? Not really.
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Some of the best of the genre and the most horrifying movies are where the "horror" goes on outside the view of the audience, letting them fill in the blanks with their own imaginations (or like a girlfriend of mine [an actual drama queen] used to describe it, the audiences' "magicnation").
It's very difficult to elevate a live action movie, much less a video game "cartoon" to that level … generally, what they achieve is less horror and more gross out.
Like phoray and colfoley say, the horror is in the unseen act … described in the poem … and while the broodmother is some kinda yuck, she's still just a cartoon and not the source of horror.
Some of the best of the genre and the most horrifying movies are where the "horror" goes on outside the view of the audience, letting them fill in the blanks with their own imaginations (or like a girlfriend of mine [an actual drama queen] used to describe it, the audiences' "magicnation").
It's very difficult to elevate a live action movie, much less a video game "cartoon" to that level … generally, what they achieve is less horror and more gross out.
Like phoray and colfoley say, the horror is in the unseen act … described in the poem … and while the broodmother is some kinda yuck, she's still just a cartoon and not the source of horror.
really that is the number one rule of horror really. The more you get exposed to something the less horrible it is, Alien, Signs. Of course the exception to this rule is body horror...of which the brood mother could certainly qualify.
Though I'd say the most horryfying individual monster is the amalgamation woman that one guy did to Leandra, amongst others.
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Well we're here, so let's make the most of it . How you been bud?
At work. It's been an easy day. So far. How about you?
None too bad. Balancing research on a new method to improve our companies sensor, while also maintaining some office plants we use to test out said sensor. The companies primarily agricultural.
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At work. It's been an easy day. So far. How about you?
None too bad. Balancing research on a new method to improve our companies sensor, while also maintaining some office plants we use to test out said sensor. The companies primarily agricultural.
None too bad. Balancing research on a new method to improve our companies sensor, while also maintaining some office plants we use to test out said sensor. The companies primarily agricultural.
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None too bad. Balancing research on a new method to improve our companies sensor, while also maintaining some office plants we use to test out said sensor. The companies primarily agricultural.
A point redemption program for one of the banks I am working with just went down and I got swarmed with complaints. Thankfully, stores are closing so as transaction traffic goes down, the system will experience less stress and become more responsive. Then we'll need to figure out what went wrong and why, so that's a couple hours of extra work, just troubleshooting, trying to recreate the problem and figuring out what caused it. I don't get paid overtime. Should be fun.
I shoulda bit my tongue.
When I die, I want Bioware to carry my casket, so they can let me down, one last time.
I first read that as KFC Meredith and was really confused, welp that's enough off topic for today.
KFC Meredith commands her troops with an iron bucket of chicken wings. Simultaneously feared and revered by her troops, for when the bucket comes knockin', the wings go poppin'. The troops may be a little beaten and worn, but they are surely well fed.
When I die, I want Bioware to carry my casket, so they can let me down, one last time.
I first read that as KFC Meredith and was really confused, welp that's enough off topic for today.
KFC Meredith commands her troops with an iron bucket of chicken wings. Simultaneously feared and revered by her troops, for when the bucket comes knockin', the wings go poppin'. The troops may be a little beaten and worn, but they are surely well fed.