Fancy a Ninja Fingers t-shirt?
I got myself a Ninja Fingers t-shirt a month or two ago. I didn’t plan to do anything special but it looks so damn good I deciced to show it off. I just setup a store over at printfection, where you can order any of the 4 characters on shirts and t-shirts for men, women and kids sizes.
Here are a couple of previews of what’s offered, as well as a cellphone photo of me wearing a size M standard t-shirt (for reference I’m 180 cm tall and wheigh 80 kg).
Go ahead and visit www.printfection.com/ninjafingers and give yourself or a friend a treat!
Abbreviations! (NSFW)
I recently introduced my sweetheart to Reddit. I had a hunch she wasn’t getting all the abbrevations used so I asked about the first ten I saw.
Here’s what she thinks they mean:
- stfu – so that’s fucking unique
- wtf – what the fuck
- omg – oh my god
- asap – as soon as possible
- gtfo – get the first out
- fyi – for your information
- imho – I’m hooked
- tl;dr – this is life ; don’t rush
- TIL – That I like
- NSFW – Not so funny… something, something
- gl hf – good luck, high five
gl hf is what a lot of players say at the beginning of a starcraft 2 game, which see’s seen when watching Day9. I just love the idea of players high fiving each other before the game!
Mispronounced words from Reddit
I was linked to a post on Reddit entitled Which words did you mispronounce for years because you’d only seen it in writing?
I was surprised of the kind of words people were mispronouncing and decided to check the correct pronunciation on Dictionary.com. To my dismay, the digitial voice of Dictionary.com didn’t pronounce some of the words in the same way I have been doing for 28 years. Entering all these searches took some time so I thought I’d help you along the way and link to the pronunciation of some of the more common tricky words mentioned in the Reddit post.
As Reddit’s darien_gap so nicely put it: mispronunciation is the sign of somebody who reads at a level above the education level of the people he spends time with.
Here’s the list, once on the new page click the little audio icon to actually hear a digital voice pronounce the word.
albeit
anime
annihilate
awry
archive
banal
bass
cache
chaos
circumference
colonel
conch
debris
debut
deficit
deus ex machina
draught (as in draught beer)
ethereal
epinephrine
epitome
eunuch
facade
focaccia
gauge
hegemony
heresy
hermione
hors d’œuvre
hyperbole
indictment
lingerie
melee
macabre
meatus
meme
miscellaneous
paradigm
phlegm
pseudo
quay
queue
quixotic
ricochet
segue
sentient
sieve
sovereign
subtle
trough
vehement
victuals
zealot
qr code
So, it was easy enough making a QR code at http://qrcode.kaywa.com/. Now to the tricky part – where to use it?
Conquest of Heroes trailer
My old friends at Beyond Ascension just uploaded a video of Conquest of Heroes. I’m really glad to see the progress.
Spare time game developer
This year I have – together with people all over the world – spent my spare time working on a game demo for PC.
The progress on the game itself is going slow and steady and we have lots of other material ready.
Our novel called Conquest of Heroes has just been finished and will be published shortly.
Hilma
This is an audio book where I did the mastering/final editing. The book is read by Ingegerd Johansson, in swedish.
It’s now available on this link free to download.
“I ett bohuslänskt kustsamhälle bor det unga paret Hilma och Oskar strax intill hans föräldrar och syskon. Gunhild, Oskars yngsta syster, vill bryta upp och söka sig nya vägar. Hilma blir hennes förtrogna.
Medan Oskar – trots kriget – ägnar sig åt fraktfat till Norge skurar Hilma mattor, hyr ut till sommargäster, fiskar makrill, bär vatten och samlar vrakved. Minsprängningar till havs och varuransoneringen sätter sin prägel på vardagen. Samtidigt som hon strävar för att sköta hem och familj är hon hela tiden upptagen av att försöka förstå den ofta svår tolkade omgivningen. Långsamt börjar hon urskilja dolda mönster och hemligheter av olika slag…
Havet, horisonten, saltet och vindarna är hela tiden närvarande i denna skildring där vardagslivets omsorger kontrasteras mot mycket dramatiska händelser både i familjen och i omvärlden.”
In Real Game
In Real Game is the name of my Bachelor Thesis. It’s a project about marketing games through live performances in order to focus on the games feel rather than its graphics and sfxs. This idea has been applied to the game PaRappa the Rapper to Playstation, resulting in a video documention of what Stage 4 – Cheap Cheap the Cooking Chicken would be like in real life. Enjoy!
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a “Capture the flag”-map for the game Quake III – Arena.
My part of the project was creating a soundtrack relevant for the design of the map, as well as the gameplay, meaning dark, heavy, and a bit stressful. It also recquired me to create sound effects according with the level design.
The map consists of two sides, red and blue. The only way travel between them is by using the trains. There are two trains, one on each side of the flag camps.
In order to launh a succesful attack the members of a team have to cooperate. A single person arriving with the train is not likely to have a great impact.
If you want to try it out for yourself you need a copy of Quake III – Arena.
1. Download Nitrogen_final.zip
2. Extract the contents and place them into the Arena/baseq3/ directory.
3. Start Quake
4. In the console write:
/sv_pure 0
/devmap nitrogen_final
Process model
I had the great oppurtunity to be part of a team that have created something that was to be used as educational material.
This is our approach on a game development process model.