Win my Wacom Tablet (art contest)

I just posted the Wacom Nude Portrait Contest, in the Newgrounds.com art forum.

heres the link.
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1033214

and heres the info:

ART CONTEST: Wacom Nude Portrait Contest!

I recently got a new wacom and want to give my previous tablet a new home, i thought what better way to give one away then making a contest where people draw me nude to win it!?

WHAT TO DO:
Draw me nude.

I dont care what you use, or how you make me look. just draw a picture of what you think id look like nude, best drawing gets my personal standard Wacom Intous 3 Graphics Tablet.

THE RULES:
1. The picture must be of me, and i must be nude in it
2. No one else can be in the picture.
3. Humor is awarded above technical skill.. this is for a wacom tablet so i encourage all you mouse wielding maniacs to bust something out and win this thing.

DEADLINE:
Entries must be posted by 11:59pm on March 18th.

PRIZES:
1st Place: My Personal (aka used) standard Wacom Intous 3 Graphics Tablet, and a signed copy of my CD, This is a Cry for Help.
2nd Place: A signed copy of my CD.
3rd Place: An unsigned copy of my CD
4th Place: A piece of paper that says fuck off loser on it, signed by me.

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Here is what i look like. (do note that under those clothes im fat, hairy and tattooed)

http://flickr.com/photos/danielleorama/2747276905/in/set-72157594348931889

Here's an example of a drawing i did of myself nude:



Feel free to join in the fun!! :)

-Edmund

Mochi awards!

I'm extremely please to announce that both Coil and Aether are up for Mochi's!

Aether is going for "indie game of the year" and Coil is in the "creative" category.

The competition is nuts, so mu hopes arnt set to high, Aether is going head to head with the hugely popular Fancy Pants 2 and Coils up against the Majesty of colors (sad to see this made it in over I wish i were the moon).

Ill actually be speaking at the event after the awards show, they have me on a panel talking about "what makes a flash game a hit", im tempted to just say "tits" and walk off the stage :). Should be interesting either way, anyone else going?

In other news, Meat Boy and Aether are also both up for NG Tanks, Once again going up against FPA2 and Majesty of colors. the NG awards are a lot harder to win then the Mochis seeing as there are like 10 other games going up against them, but you never know what will happen.. it would be fucking awesome to have a Tank on my desk :)

Wish me luck!
-Edmund

AVGM (retrospective)

So its been a few weeks so i felt enough time has passed to talk a little about AVGM.


AVGM was a joke, no one was actually meant to play it at all. The flicking of a light switch to unlock stuff or "level up" is an example of what Tyler and i view as Abusive Video Game Manipulation (what the game stands for :P).

Its a tactic that's used in all MMORPGS, its a horrible and abusive way to get people hook on your game and an incredibly lame thing to do. The upsides of this tactic are obvious, its easy to get people hooked on your game and pay for it, and as long as you string them along with more expansions of the same situation you can basically bleed people dry while giving them nothing in return.

Now don't get me wrong, i understand its fun to play with people online, ive played battlefield 2 for years, but its strange to me that so many people fall into the horrible design of MMORPGS even knowing what they are doing the whole time. The level grind is a horrible and boring thing.. and what do you get from it? a more powerful character you can PK with? why not just play an online multiplayer game where everyone starts out at the same level? why should someone with less of a life then you have an equipment advantage? why are people ok with being rewarded with meaningless and empty digital icons for time spent clicking a button?

well its a simple and easy formula, and here's the break down of AVGM.

AVGM has 41 unlockable items that appear on screen and you click a button, the more items on screen the more clicks it takes for the next item to appear. Once all 41 items are unlocked they start to become colored, nothing else happens.

To finish the game you have to sit there and click the button 10,000 times. and here are the stats on how many people did this.

http://www.mochibot.com/shared/shared_trafficreport.html?key=cf99275a4769339e539571558d174da8

As of feb. 20th, 337 people have clicked AVGM 10,000 times each.
The whole thing gets even more pathetic when you know that only 8,000 people played it. That's what? 5% of people who played AVGM sat through 10,000 clicks....

Granted quite a few used auto clickers to finish it.. but the point is they still went out of their way to download an auto clicker to do so.

Its funny how small digital rewards can keep people playing something for hours, then again ill be buying Diablo 3 when it comes out, so who am i to talk.

just thought some of you might find this interesting :)

PLAY AVGM NOW!
(or just go outside for a change)
-Edmund

A Meaty Week

Tons of big Super meat boy news!

So first off the unveiling of the Super Meat Boy Teaser trailer on gametrailers.com. Created by a good friend of mine James Id, the teaser is a huge throw back to those early 90s animated MTV video bumpers, Liquid Television and NES video game commercials. Meat Boy screams early 90s nostalgia, so i thought it would be perfect to do a teaser in the same vein, and James did a really great job here.

Lets Watch!





In other news Cube Craft just posted a paper craft of Meat Boy, its quite awesome, hes sitting next to me as i type this.

Download him here: http://cubeecraft.com/cubee/meat-boy

Tommy and i also did an interview with Destructiod about SMB, another nice read for this super meat filled day.

-Edmund

New Merch!

So secretly last week D posted 3 new items on my Etsy shop, some of you seem to have already found out and ordered a ton of the buttons, but here is the official announcement.

New to the store:


Coil Print (gold):
The Coil print is a 9'' x 5.5'' 2 color screen print. This print is a limited run of 30.


Button Grab Bag:
10 randomly assorted 1'' buttons featuring art from all my games and other selected work. There are over 200+ different buttons so you wont get any doubles in your orders.


C Word Button set:
8 1'' buttons featuring art from "The C word".

As usual all the new content is handmade by myself and/or Danielleorama

Anyone who has missed the other items that have gone up in the past weeks be sure to check out my Etsy Shop.

-Edmund

Mary Z, Final.

so heres my final version of Mary.


I did did these remixed versions for the hell of it.


DONE!
-Edmund

Zombie Mary time lapsed drawing.

So there it is.. sadly it took longer to put the video together then actually draw it. but ive been wanting to do a video like this for years so .. there ya go.

i should have a totally finished version posted in high rez tomorrow night.

night
-Edmund

PS: sorry about the low rez, my pc crashes when i try to render it any higher

Ill see you in hell!

Theres this gallery thingy going on in Santa Cruz where a bunch of local artist are drawing zombies. I thought id take it as an opportunity to work on my light sources a bit... and draw the virgin mary as a zombie.

Heres what i have so far.



Its not totally finished but i wanted to put up what i have so far to see what people thought. I recorded my process last night with camtasia, but my pc is having issues rendering out the 3 hours of work it recorded... ill try rendering it on my work pc tonight.

more to come
-Edmund

Road to the IGF

Gamasutra has posted its article/interview Road to the IGF about Coil. If you want to know the honest inner workings of that game i recommend checking it out.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22106

Also anyone attending the GDC feel free to come by the IGF pavilion and say hello, ill have a ton of lame swag, that will be worth about what i paid to have it made, after im dead.

(buttons and stickers)


In other news the game im working on with Eli now has a name, its called Spewer. It should be finished by march, and its a lot more in depth then the other flash games ive released recently. im currently rigging up the doctor for animation, heres his basic rigging.



Im also still working on that "untitled" experiment (game) with Florian, its taking longer then expect but i also hope to have it done my march as well.

-Edmund

Niners Win!!!!!

So Tyler and I made a game in 3 hours for the 48 hour global game jam.



Its called AVGM and its pretty much better then jesus in terms of its healing powers and martyrdom.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/481434

Play it, love it, live it.

FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im a nerd.

UPDATE: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/02/02/point-and-click-and-click-avgm/
Rock Paper Shotgun is the fist to find and post about the secret skeleton ending! i wonder when someone will post a video on youtube...
-Edmund