Juliet Starling - Lollipop Chainsaw

Lollipop Chainsaw came out in 2012. A lot of people responded with "wtf is this?"

This was the character who really kick started Jessica Nigri's cosplay career (Cool Gender-bend Vagita by the way!). When she cosplayed as Julia at PAX East 2012 she got banned for being far to uh.. How do you say it? Non-PG? It kicked off a big debate about what can and can't be worn at gaming conventions. I guess it's about keeping everything child friendly. A game convention isn't a titty bar after all. The game itself got an M (17+) for partial nudity and sexual themes as well as the usual plethora of graphic violence and gore (which aren't really things you can portray the same way with a cosplay.)

The game itself was a collaboration between Goichi Suda & James Gunn, a dude who's less involved with games and more involved with writing movies. You might know him for Super which he wrote and directed. If you haven't seen super you should. It's a bit like if Juno and Kick Ass had a baby. Huh, I just remembered it has Ellen Page in it. Well anyway, if you don't know super, in a couple months you'l have his Guardians of the Galaxy crammed down your throat by every bus stop, commercial break & Pepsi can.

Clara Lille - Watch Dogs 8Bit

Not sure if Clara is awesome enough to go into the pantheon but I've done her anyway. I guess we'll find out in a couple years or so when this series is finished whether or not she was a character worth remembering in the history of games. I haven't played the game yet so all I have to go on is all the White Knight journalism or whatever. Apparently she is female and is involved in tropes. She also wears a Call Of Duty Ghosts Dedsec shirt.

As for the rest of the game it seems it's aight. Apart from Multiplayer. But who really rushed out to get the game for that?

Robo Mech

So while on the G+ Pixel Art Community, about the only place online I find time to haunt, someone chucked out a link to IRKALLA. The test videos made me veritably jizz at how cool the artwork was, so I had to go and do my own mech as a homage. Robots are something I draw a lot. They're my go too doodle when I'm sick of curvy chick drawings. They haven't leaked into my digital art all that much however, purely because of how chaoticely drawn they are. I do super simplistic ones for Snow and that's about it.

Anyway, go google Irkalla and maybe follow them till there is a crystallised dense product for you to enjoy.

P.s. I think the sketch looked better than the end product.

Snow: Episode 45

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This weekend has been a mighty productive one. A bunch of pixel girls and finished off an episode of Snow I drew about this time last year. Next week I'll celebrate by not partaking in any sort of productivity!

I got a G510s Logitech Keyboard today. It's pretty fancy, with 18 function keys and an LCD HUD thingy. You can load apps into it which is nifty. I loaded up the Battlefield 4 stat display and stared at it for a bit and then decided that it was in no way helpful and definitely wouldn't give me "the edge in combat". However I imagine these function keys would really come in useful if I ever decided to get into MUDs again.
I started playing an MMO on my Nexus 4 the other day "The Infinite Black". I like the mechanics for moving around, and I reckon that with enough tweaking it's got a system that would really enhance a role playing enforced MUD. I have a feeling I know what I want in an RPG MUD type game, I just don't know the search terms to use. All I ever find is MUD clients, and that's just not it. It's antiquated to use cardinal directions manually typed in to move around, but a fully graphic game throws out the role playing baby with the bath water.
Something like Illarion perhaps. But not clunky.

Trip - Enslaved:Odyssey to the West 8Bit

So I never played this game. I wanted to! It's premise interested me a lot. However I wasn't in a "financial situation" at the time. All finances were non existent. My situation was independent of the concept of what a finance could possibly be. I was broke. Or Gigarich as Telecom would say.

Also the game had a very "Playstation" look about it that wasn't appealing at all, although now I'd be more willing to give it a go.

The game is loosely based off "Journey to the West", a folklore infused story of real events. Trip would represent the monk from the original story "Tripitaka" or "a whole bunch of other names".

Dragonball Z also riffs off the story, Goku being based off the Monkey King.

Pokemon does its own shout out as well in the form of Infernape and Emboar. Also there are about as many Animes referencing it as there are western movies misquoting the bible.

Bayonetta 8bit

Bayonetta was released in late 2009 by Platinum Studios, a bunch of ex-Capcom Clover Studio guys who were behind the critically acclaimed Ōkami. In Japan she was marketed with her butt, while in the rest of the world she was sold on the fact she has guns for high heels. Her entire character was almost reworked to appeal to a western audience but never amounted to anything. The westernised outfits seem very medieval almost? I guess they went and saw that we have a massive stiffy for norse mythology or something.

Snow: Episode 44

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We've been doing more research into how we can popularize the comic more and we've struck upon a little TV show that not many people have seen but I think it uses little tricks that we can cash in on in a proper fashion. The show is called "Game of Thrones", and while it hasn't been very popular it has had a book spin off which follows the show quite closely. It also talks about stuff that doesn't happen in the show, but since it really isn't canon I tend to ignore anything that comes out the fanfic.

But one plot thingy they use is killing off the main characters. So I'll be posting a poll and everyone will get to choose their favourite character, Red hair guy (Hero), Purple hair guy (Aaron), the robot, or the token female (Elissa). Also if you could write in with your reasons for why you're so attached to any particular character it will become even more gratifying for us when we kill them off. If you choose either one of the guys I can have 'em dead by the next episode I think. All sorts of things can go wrong with jumping off a building. I'm sure +Matthew Rust won't mind having to write less dialogue for either of 'em.

Also we'll have more nudity and weird sex stuff. Which will be worrying if everyone likes the chick the most, because that just leaves a couple guys and a robot.

Scratch that. We might just go for the Joss Whedon/Firefly ending, and just kill off the coolest character so people go "Man, I wish they'd make more Snow, it only ran for one book, oh wait, they killed ____, it wouldn't be the same, never mind."