Matt the Writer keeps me pretty starved for compliments when it comes to drawing this thing. He normally taunts me with all his writerly amenities like free time and self respect and a working toilet, while I'm locked away in my cage. Beavering away in blue, red, purple and black. But in an email he had these words to say about the latest episode "Hey these are coooool. Nice one man!" 5 stars, ten out of ten, three thumbs up, arbitrary measurement out of bar graphs tops!
But really what I'm trying to say is, FEZ(on the PC) feels like a buggy ass game and I'm gonna go back to playing Farcry 3. And the default controls? I felt like I was being trolled. Enter does what esc should? Ok dokie. I'm sure you have your reasons Mr. Angry Sideburns. Gorgeous looking game though!
Designer of Mr. Jingles credited to +Ryan Morrison.
So earlier today G+ changed it's notification button on the top right. I'm glad they did. it was the one thing that seemed to be a total afterthought when they did the columned redesign. It's definitely a lot better now. Before it was nested boxes within nested boxes with scroll bars for Africa. Africa doesn't even want them. They're just annoyed that Farcry 3 isn't set in their lovely country like it was last time.
I was struck by the little character they threw in there and decided to turn him into something everyone could enjoy. The file name on the original is "Jingles" so I'm gonna assume that's his name. Update Apparently his name is Mr. Bo Jingles, according to him. The font used in the text box is primarily defaulted to Roboto but most people will just revert to Arial when they see it in their browsers I think. Original font size, 13pt.
Update July 2nd 2013 Added the G+ 2nd birthday party hat version of Mr Jingles and the happy version of him when you click him and he jingles away.
So I've succumbed to getting involved in the ridiculious garbage that's going on in the console world. But that's one dead horse that isn't mine to beat. For me the biggest news from E3 was the debut of my most beloved game, Mirror's Edge. It's been 5 years since the last one came out, and I was kinda worried that it would never happen. I've been googling the rumours about the sequel ever since I played the first one. Feverishly flipping through forums and grotty looking news sites for the barest hint of something ME related. I heard the initial reports of it being thought about, and then DICE saying they'd canned it. Then it was being considered, but definitely never going to happen. Then there was like one lone guy working on it or something while the rest of the crew went and made millions of dollars pumping out Battlefield 3 expansions. Then in the month leading up to E3, little rumour mushrooms started sprouting in the forms of Amazon pages, EA troubleshooting pages, and the re-registration of the Mirror's Edge website.
DICE is following the tried and true method of not bothering to rename the game, but rather just calling it Mirror's Edge again, I guess since the vast majority of people out there didn't realize there was a "Mirror's Edge" in the first place, let alone a second one.
To celebrate I made an 8bit version of the logo. To fully appreciate it you should probably listen to the 8bit remix of Still Alive while you're at it.
Ok, so what do we know about the sequel so far? It's an origin story/reboot/prequel. I guess the prequel bit is a bit of a no brainer when you say it's an origin story. The reboot bit is what I think is the weirdest part. I kinda feel like they might be putting more of a fighter spin on her. In the little amount of time they've been working on the game it looks like they've been concentrating mainly on combat and various scenarios that involve glass getting smashed. I am glad there was no duel wielding weapons and crazy stuff like that though! In an interview some dude said "The first game was a lot about running away from things. And, even though you want to have sections with that, you also want Faith... she's a powerful character and you want her to take control. You'll see a little bit more of that in this game. Again, we're not going to turn this into a shooter. On the contrary, in fact."
They've put those fears to rest I think. And the fact the game is "open world", and by the description under the video, seems to be free roaming, a feature everyone cried out for during the first one. So there will be plenty of opportunities for me to just do daring escapes instead of single footedly karate kicking everyone in the throat.
Faith looks younger, which goes nicely with the prequel thing. And who are these dudes that have breakable glass helmets? They can't be from Project Icarus since all that jazz is in the future. Reboot it into the past I guess. Reboot whatever into the whenever-where.
Original ME
One thing they've settled on though is the city. The one thing everyone agreed on about the game was that the city was amazing. So they're keeping it that way. The aesthetics are just amazing.
Time to get some Mirror's Edginess into this comic. Man, If this is the E3 that finally announces that game I'll be stoked. There seems to be a lot of false positives popping up at the moment. First Amazon (although I don't know how that can even loosely be considered legit) and now the EA help page.
I really wish EA was nowhere near my beloved title though. They can't be trusted I tell ya. Although if you care about games you don't need me to tell you that.
