Negatendo's Livejournal

The tough part was trying to get the in game characters to "act". They are limited and stiff. For example, it was hard to get them to stop on their mark. Trey said it was a lot like working with the puppets on Team America. He swore he would never do that again...and once again, but this time he was working with computer puppets. He still says it's better than working with actors.

negatendo came to represent the gaming world. 1105 points and counting! He played Texas Hold'em, and did it while marvelling at the framerates and stellar particle effects.

negatendo got four more swimsuits for Helena, gaining him 110 achievement points, and then spent several minutes with a bottle of hand lotion, staring at screen. What was he doing?

What time is it? Time to tell you about yesterday when negatendo came to play. Gamer score stands at 300. That is a gain of 60 points over last time! He played Oblivion gaining 2 achievements, and then I told him to keep playing but he didn't... out of spite I think.

Pat's installation consisted of an entire room basically filled with crap. Drawings, notebook pages, photos, half-a-dozen video monitors, two computers, a huge desk, a bar booth, sticky hands, etc., etc. His schtick is pretty much 'everything I do is art.' I think he definitely pulls it off, but when he asked me to do some sort of performance for the closing party, I thought, well, what better way to respond than to create a virtual replica and just blow it all up? After all, if everything you do is art, that's kind of like saying nothing you do is art; everything's on the same level.

Many years ago, I drew around 700 fantasy-themed avatar images for a games competition. The game (“Last Guardian”) didn’t win, and I didn’t use haven’t used the sprites since then, so I’m now offering the whole package [ZIP] under a Creative Commons license for you to use.