Epic FailSyberia is a point and click adventure game set in an imaginative alternative earth. It centres around a female protagonist, Kate Walker, a Lawyer who is trying to acquire a toy Factory from eccentric inverter Hans Voralburg. But when she arrive in Valadilene he is nowhere to be found and she has to pursue him. I have a love/hate relationship with this game. Some of it is exceptionally well done and other parts are done very badly.
Patchwork is a 2-Player tile-laying Board Game. It consists of a game track with counters, two 9-by-9 grids (one for each player) and different shaped tiles or ‘patches’ that players must place within their grid to create their ‘patchwork.’ There’s a small jigsaw element in that players can only place tiles that will fit, and there is a bonus for being the first to create a perfectly filled 7-by-7 square. There are also Buttons which are the currency and each player starts with five; these are used to buy patches. Each patch costs buttons and ‘time’ – how far forward the player must advance on the game track. The game ends when both players are at the end of the track. Some patches have buttons attached which makes them very valuable because they pay out that amount of buttons each time the player passes a button symbol on the game track – and whoever has the most buttons wins!
Last nights Lunar Eclipse was Epic! It was a supermoon – which is when the full moon is closest to the planet so appears biggest and brightest in the sky, and a Bloodmoon because when light is filtered through the earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse it leaves only the red spectrum, thus Super Bloodmoon!
These are my photos taken from my back garden in Oxford. As the light got low the long exposure times made it tricky not to get a blurry shot, plus the cold night are made my camera lens keep fogging up. If I ever do this again a steadier tripod and lens wipes are in order!
My first ever Let’s Play video (be gentle with me) Letts Plays Mass Effect (because this is me playing Mass Effect and my name is Letts).
In this video I create my custom Female Shepard (femshep) Renegade (chaotic evil-ish?) character and play the Intro section on the spaceship, The Normandy. A lot of key characters are introduced: Joker, Kaidan, Captain Anderson, Navigator Pressly, Jenkins, Doctor Chakwas and Nihlus.
I’m not planning on making a blog post for every video I make, so if you’re interested please subscribe to my YouTube Channel.
I have to eat my words here. In my review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (which I loved) I said I didn’t care how much they milked the Lord of the Rings franchise. Well I take it back! You’ve milked enough! No more milk for you – I’m cutting you off.
It’s difficult being the middle child in a film trilogy, and Desolation for me felt like a really long set up for Battle of Five Armies. It doesn’t resolve anything by the end, saving it for the next movie, which left me feeling unsatisfied. I have read the book so I feel they could have reached a resolution here whilst still having a cliffhanger and plenty of conflict left for the finale. This would have made it feel more like a complete and satisfying movie in and of itself.
Epic Fail now has it’s own Pizza thanks to Dominoes Pizza’s Legendary Pizza Creator! Dominoes kindly let me create my own Epic Fail Pizza for free (thanks). this is what I made:
This is a large ten slice pizza with maxed out toppings. It is truely epic – perfect for gaming night. Here are the ingredients: Large Domino’s Stuffed Crust® Cheese & Sauce: 2x Mozzarella Cheese, Sundried Tomato and Garlic Sauce Toppings: 1x Red Onions, 1x Sweetcorn, 1x Mushrooms, 1x Tuna, 1x Domino’s Herbs, 2x Baby Spinach.
It tasted great particularly the stuffed crust and sundried tomatoes. You can order your own with a 30% Discount by following this link (and also watch a cool animation). Or you could make your own Pizza Legend. Also check out the Pizza Legends Hall of Fame where you can vote for all the best Pizzas.
Sexy Bunny Day is an event run by United Webcomics that brings comic creators together to draw their characters as sexy bunnies.
When Epic Fail last participated it was the dwarf, Clodin, who donned pink bunny ears. If you want to see what that was like it’s this month’s vote incentive. Since this years is more on the comedic side than the risqué I decided to post it straight. This means I probably won’t get as many votes as I usually do during an event but if you like the art and find it funny please consider sharing it on the socials.
So, the narrative here is that a polymorph spell has gone wrong turning Tinuvielle into a Sexy Bunny! …Or at least a kind of Furry Elf/Bunny-cross, mutant thing. But it gets worse: she now has the sex drive of a rabbit (hence the sexy part). Plus other characters have been transformed as well!
Happy Easter from Epic Fail.
Please check out other webcomics participating in Sexy Bunny Day listed below:
| Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz – Rasputin Catamite | Amy Letts – Epic Fail | Niaouro Psaka Raspberry Rain | Narphy La Mancha Upir’s Mark Blog | Thomas Lowe Bridge University
It’s Friday the 13th known to some as Blame Someone Else Day, so me and a bunch of other artists from United Webcomics are taking this opportunity to tell you whose fault it is we all turned into artists, or, that is to say, name our influences. And do it with ART!
So this one is sorta a combo for me: I have drawn the Goblin King from Labyrinth as played by David Bowie*. I cut my teeth drawing portraits of David Bowie’s Face. Labyrinth is my favourite film of all time and vastly responsible for getting me into the fantasy genre. The art design was also done by one of my favourite artists of all time: Brian Froud. He’s known for books about faeries illustrated almost exclusively in watercolour. Oh and there’s Jim Henson, too.
* Sorry I cheated and used an old piece of Fan Art instead of drawing something brand new. Because migraine.
Epic Fail – Lacey Investigations – Rasputin Catamite
Happy Valentine’s Day! Time again for the yearly Valentines Day Sex Drive where webcomics across the world draw their characters in the buff.
You’ve seen Amuletts naked, you’ve seen Martin in his birthday suit, and you’ve seen Tinuvielle nude. Now it’s time for the one you’ve all been waiting for…. *drumroll* …. iiiit’s Clodin au naturel!
But there are many more webcomics participating in the Valentines Day Sex Drive 2015, so check them all out.
Nate Hammond – Jazz and Jess (NUDITY HERE) | Captaingerbear – Grant | Alli Perry – Out of My Element | Miluette – Lovefeast | Juno Blair – Star Cross’d Destiny | Dave Barrack – Grrl Power | Jackarais – Bicycle Boy | Andrew Hunter – Delve | Bearalzebub – Devilbear: The Grimoires of Bearalzebub | Rabbitual Offender – Rabbitual Offender | Raven Perez – Raven’s Dojo | Jeromatic – Bunny Wiggins | Spaces – Holy Bibble | Nick Greaves – The Great Isle of Prentil | Zach Vanzile – West Tree Academy of Heroes | Jeremy Begin – After the Dream | TK Doherty – Nikki Sprite | Doomy – Demented | Mike Aston and Shaun Nicholls – Lacey Investigations | Lou Graziani – CyBoar | John Harrington – The Savage Sword of Sharona | Niauropsaka – Raspberry Rain | F.T. Benjamins – Holding Pattern | Phil and Max – Indifferently Evil | Yellowgerbil – Zoe the Vampire | Mark Egan – Bata Neart | Mark Egan – Back Office | Peter Anckorn – By The Book | Amy Letts – Epic Fail | Casey J. – Buying Time | Sean Harrington – Spying With Lana | Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz and SA – Rasputin Catamite | Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz – Rasputin Barxotka | R(ed) – Meiosis | Byron Wilkins – 1977 the Comic | Stef Marcinkowski – Sarah Zero
Faery – Legends of Avalon is a charming RPG which reminds us that Fantasy comes in all shapes and sizes. I love faerie mythology, and have stacks of books about them (mostly by Brian Froud) therefore I was delighted to find a game where I could finally fly on delicate wings, trailing pixie dust. Originally released for Xbox live it ports seamlessly to PC.
Faery – Legends of Avalon is suitable for children and offers the choice of following an almost entirely non-violent path which I personally thought was the more interesting one. It’s very simple and a good introduction for somebody new to RPGs who want to get a feel for them without getting overwhelmed by complexity.
