Work Experience yippie!

Hello,

I applied for some work experience about a week ago and wasnt really expecting to hear back but luckily and thankfully the company I applied to have offered me some unpaid work experience when I go back home in July, the company is local to me, which is why I was so drawn to it, theyre called www.brightercreative.com and they do graphic design, web design, logos, branding etc. it all sounds really interesting and Im very excited to see what a real work enviroment is like!

Nat.

Game Review- 'The Sound Walk'

So during my scheduled tea breaks during these last few weeks of uni (not joking) Ive found a great way to relieve stress.

As most of you know Im usually on either Twitter or Newgrounds, Newgrounds is my favourite website, a place for anyone to upload their games, art, and animation and even sound scapes, it has a huge online forum and its great, any way. I came across this game called The Sound Walk, its by a guy called Cccplay, the aim of the game is to hit your arrow keys in time to the music so that you avoid things like monsters and stones blocking your path, there are three levels, Dream, Nightmare and Dementia. the latter being the hardest and without any guide as to when to hit your arrow keys.

I found this game completely charming and addictive, the game play its self can sometimes lag a little but you can turn off the sfx in the menu and that loosens it up a bit, the music is amazing and if you dont hit the right key or miss one it turns off making it harder to find your rhythem again. My favourite level is the second one, its soundtrack reminds me so much of the ost for American Mcgees Alice and I love the mechanical setting to it.

the character reminds me of Jack Skeleton on The Nightmare Before Christmas the backgrounds are beautiful but will make your head spin (litrally I felt so dizzy after playing the second level) and the monsters are intriguing and unique.

There are three levels to beat, and as I said before each with a 3 tier difficulty setting, there is also a fourth level which can be unlocked by beating 25 acheivements, I have so far only beaten 12! its very difficult as you cant earn an acheivement by playing the easy setting but it sure keeps you coming back!

I recommend everyone at least try this game, it can be frustrating when you think your on a home run with 100% near the end and then you trip... but still, its a great game. so TRY IT.

Nat

CV.

Heres a glance at my CV, I looked at quite a few websites for inspiration and I found Deviant Art especially helpful. I wanted a CV that obviously reflected how I like to work, and I wanted something Simple but effective, Im keeping the paint splatters a theme along side my website and my business cards.



Let me know what you think

Nat

Business card Ideas,

Heres a few ideas! Feed back would be appreciated, just say 1-7 when talking about them, I love 1,2,3,4 and 7 are my favourites, 5 and 6 where the beginnings, obviously they dont all have the info on them yet, but please be honest and let me know what you think :)

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STUFFS

hihi

So we had our rough cut deadline last friday and it was Hideous. I had so many problems with my laptop, programmes, hard drive, memory stick. ugh it was not good.

I managed to submit something and to be honest it wasnt great. Andys feedback was to make it more snappy and to look at adverts for games instead of making it like a game, so This week ive been re-doing work and its looking better already. Im beginning to feel excited about it all again. which is long over due because our deadlines in 3 weeks. :s

Nat

collaborations? good times??!

Hello.

So Ive probs blabbed on about how much I love Newgrounds (check them out at http://www.newgrounds.com) and recently Ive been thinking about what I really want to do with my self when I graduate. Anyway, I randomly made a post in the forum on the site about being a designer/artist who was looking for programmers to make games with.... and ive had a few replys :) so fingers crossed it leads somewhere and Ill be able to do what iVe dreamed about doing.

Nat