This is just a test really to see if all my account linking is working – website ->twitter -> facebook

*magic*

OK, so its been a little while and I feel like I say this on a fairly regular basis but things seem to have settled now and I can post stuff with some meaning.

HOWEVER! tonight is not the night as im knackered and just wanted to test my Twitter / Facebook uber link is working.

But I will post this picture, because I like it (and I made it)

I’M A STUDEEEENNNNTTTT!!!

It’s been a while and I never actually thought I would say it again but I have signed up to do a video game designer course with Train2Game.

Originally kind of petrified that it might be a shame my worries have since been quelled and it seems to all be 100% legit, all the documents seem legitimate and I get an NUS card, I suppose it can’t get much more legitimate than that ?

I’ve tried to get involved as much as possible, been on the forums less than a week and have entered a level design competition and also offered my services as a beta tester on a game being made by someone on the forums.

I made the following level, the spec was for a 4 player death match level but I think I only managed to scrape together something that will struggle to fit two people, oh well, this is is :

DM_Venice

Altogether very very exciting! Kinda loosing focus at work but honestly I dont care, I have the chance of doing what I have always wanted to do and I’m not going to let that slip me by!

Happy days

http://mekadragon.com/work/udk/dm_venice/flyby1.png

Been hitting the games a fair bit as of late.

Firstly I bought the Monkey Island 2 remake, then I bought Deathspank, I bought all the expansion packs to Magic the Gathering, BlazBlue and I almost bought a new graphics card just to play the Final Fantasy XIV beta…

While not a bad thing it’s a bit of a change from what I had been used to over the last five years or so, coming out of a long ass relationship is never going to be easy, but you just tend to find your self with more time on your hands…

Deathspank I think I overdid, its a very good game and genuinely makes me laugh out loud but I must have played it for about 6 or 7 hours in two days and I’m a little fed up of it now. I will hit it again soon most likely, or it will end up in the pile of games I never actually finish but purchase on concept.

Magic the Gathering on Xbox live is a weird one, I purchased it when it was first on sale for 400 points but never really touched it, but since moving in with @Maximumfish and Moorby I have found us playing it on a fair few evenings and really enjoying the collecting of new cards and the genuine (if kinda lucky) challenge. However we have managed to crash the game on more than one occasion .

BlazBlue I bought because I had always heard good things about it, and Play were selling the limited edition version which comes with a really nice art book for £17.99. Snapped that up and I don;t actually think I have ever owned a Guilty Gear game, so quite looking forward to this one.

Well to be honest that’s not true, the game is not to fail, my graphics card is …

I got an invite into the Final Fantasy XIV Beta and I was actually pretty excited to give it a go, but after installing the launcher and starting to patch I was hit with an error.

After about 20 minutes or so I went through and trawled the forums to find other people with the same problems, more and more reading lead me to the awful truth. My graphics card was no longer up to speed, a game had been released that I actually cannot play due to the limitations of my hardware!

I understand this was going to happen eventually but the fact I put my graphics card on my application and got an invite and THEN find out it’s not compatible is a bit of an ass. I would understand if Square-enix sold graphics cards but then don’t and the temptation right now to go out and buy a new one is very very much there….

So looking around I certainly have some ideas.. but do I really want to go and spend £100 on a new graphics card when I have other things to play ? I finished Monkey Island 2 and am very close to finishing Transformers so maybe it is time for something else ? I would just prefer not to spend £100 to enable me to play it