Harken To This!: 2013

Fun with Arrows, Trouble with Heater Shields - Mount and Blade Warband!

When taking a castle, it's a good idea to have plenty of fearless mercenaries on your side.

Genie vs Mage

"Is that the best you've got?! Come On!"

Haji and Jeannie battle the evil Profion in a struggle for power!
Without a cartoon dragon to devour the Dark Mage, will the Genies prevail?!

You're probably asking, "What's this? TV Land meets the SciFi Channel?" That would be a good guess.

A couple weekends ago, I saw parts from a rather bad movie - from the standpoint of direction, graphics, scenes that should have been re-shot, writing, line delivery, acting, etc. The film was Dungeons and Dragons made in 2000. The one thing that stuck out the most for me was the awesome, over the top performance by Jeremy Irons as Profion. This guy is bad and likes it so much it drips off of him. He's just covered in Bad!

He reminds me in a way of a diabolical Leo Sayer...

The movie had an odd bit of magic sparkle, that wasn't consistent with what others have described as Dungeons and Dragons the game (I'm not familiar with it myself although I could tell this missed the mark). When seeing the glittery magic, the first thing that came to my mind was Jeannie (Barbara Eden) coming out of her bottle in a puff of pink smoke. So there you have it. Genie vs Mage

Another character that is starting to grow on me is Profion's bald, blue lipped companion, Damador. I've just got to get a suit like that!

Some Multiplayer Action

Villains are feeling justified in everything they do, and for everyone else the livin' is a danger! With the Grakons on the loose looting and pillaging the galaxy a fight for survival is inevitable!

Freedom fighters unite. Play as…

Felanie

Rita

An updated Scout with her shadow hood

And here are some game shots...

And here are some drawings of what happened...

Rita, wounded and weaponless, trying to escape grakon sharpshooters...

And following the course set by history...

Felanie was wounded in the great battle....

Just like General Wolfe...

Just like Lord Nelson...

Game editing and 3D rendering

Using Mount and Blade as a platform, my brother and I constructed level variations and new characters. In Blender we created new player skins from scratch, using our own textures and designs. We download the mod Star Wars Conquest, but it failed to play since it was for a previous version of M&B. Some of the pieces came in handy for making the game levels you see here.

Babs weapons up for Grakon eradication.

Grakon attack!!!

Rygols attack!!!

Even old Ben Kenobi joined in the fight.

He had this cool one handed thrust move. He could like... He was like...

Jooooooooom!

We also had a bad run in with Dark Raiders, although none of us survived long enough to get a game still shot. We can only provide this artists interpretation...

Other shots from the game.

The Clones carry machetes... a minor hiccup I'm sure.

Forget your Ninja Law. Let's return to reality!

Super Mario Kart, Battle Extreme

Much can be said about Super Mario Kart's battle mode. Three balloons orbit your kart, protecting you from an untimely demise. Battles can be long - battles can be short, but first one to ten or four in a row takes the prize.

Anthony as Toadstool - aka Hovishnaw

Gussie as Koopa Troopa - aka Tordis

Alex as Yoshi - aka Lizaaad

Andrew as Luigi - aka Cram

Needless to say, some pent-up hostilities can extend beyond the game, but that must be saved for the next round.

Who is this mysterious Player Two?

The Case of The Super Mario Kart Addiction.

There's NO case we can't solve!

Role-playing games

While strife erupts in the kingdom, a magic potion is given to the fair Rapunzel by none other than the evil Count Dooku himself. Strangely enough this was drawn before Lucasfilm was bought out by Disney. I have no doubt that Dooku is behind that as well.