Ze Weekly Random Nuggetsketch

Soooo... every year I tell myself I should be less lazy about sketching/painting, and do more un-work related stuff. Of course, being a sluggy nugget, I usually fail to be less lazy. *mourn self*

However, in yet another one of these twitchy attempts, I am now attempting to whip myself into doing at least one random sketch of someone, something, whatever, at least once a week.

And sooo we has: Ze Weekly Random Nuggetsketch!

I dunno who the chick is. These random people showing up on my screen, who are they? Who knows?

Tetris + Loot = Win!

I really, really love how Sacred Gold handles inventory.

Yes, down to the fact that each potion takes its own discrete tile. In Sacred 2, they made potions stackable, but somehow that wasn't as awesome.

Sacred Gold's system gives me the feeling that I'm actually packing stuff into my character's bags. ~_o God knows why, but that makes me a happy, tickled nugget.

I think it's a throwback from my days of playing tons of Tetris. Tetris + loot = win!

April Fool's in Guild Wars - Rotty's All Grown Up!

My favourite minipet above all other minipets is my plump, juicy, scrumptulescent Fungal Wallow - Rotty!

Rotty is now so talented that he can shapeshift! Yes! (Some people claim that I'm just carrying multiple minis, but that's lies, ALL LIES!)

So naturally, I had to bring today's Improved Rotty to meet his proud relatives, Sheena and Brutus.

I'm so proud to say that Rotty has outgrown them both. *wipes a tear*

(P.S. That's Rotty to the right.)
(P.P.S I just turned 1 year old in GW a month or so ago, and Anet gave me a ... Rotty. Fated I tell you!)
(P.P.P.S That tiny little thing on the ground is me. If you can even see me. Apparently in order to grow so large Rotty ate my molecular ?pixecular? mass while I was sleeping.) 

Second Life's "Improved" Newbie Experience

I keep trying Second Life every now and then (every now and then, being, oh, once every 6-12 months), and keep finding I'm not able to get into it for quite a few reasons. The excessively clunky interface. The fact that interaction is so stilted. How I walk like something out of Pet Sematary...

I keep wanting to like SL, because it seems that once you get past the initial clunk, there's so much fun to be had creating skins, models, textures and whatnot. But each time I try, I'm slapped in the face with a host of problems that I lack the perseverance to... persevere through.

This time seems to be no different.

Just as I was remarking that they'd certainly improved the newbie experience vastly, from the last time I signed in as a newbie.. (my email supports aliases, so I keep making newbies), this ... interesting screenie happens.

Before I'd said it, I was at least looking like a freshly dead zombie in an alien spaceship, as opposed to, a long-dead zombie in a world of flat planes.

And then of course, the moment I remarked upon this improvement - boom! That screenshot over there. Kinda figures. XD

Maybe I Should Design T-Shirts For a Living

One of the proposals for Sun's APAC user base profile updates. Yes, yes, t-shirts are nothing new. But then there's nothing new under the sun (ahem).

What I was aiming for with this, was to make it, if not brand spanking new, then at least... uniquely not-new. ;)

And so, the personalised t-shirt gift was born. Once users fully updated their profiles, they'd get to pick a shirt from one of the designs shown here, and their names would be personalised onto the shirts themselves.

Since Sun's target audience is a bit geeky, and if there's any target audience I know, it's geeks (I started poking at computers when I was 6)... I went a little bit crazy with the silliness factor of the shirts.

Sadly, there were too many logistical problems with shipping t-shirts all over APAC, so it didn't happen.

But I still love these shirts. Especially the Shakespearean sheep. One of these days, I might just make myself one of those.

(Images are stock, sourced by me.)