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Our Daily Beard – 08/02/13

Calling all app developers!

One good idea came to me today and I need you to make it for me!

-The Palantyr App-

Build a video chat app akin to Skype or Facetime. Or borrow one, or whatever.

Apply a fisheye lens affect to the display.

Put a fiery animation on the borders and faint elven script.

Apply a slight warp to the sound to make it all ‘doomy’.

Possibly make a script that will occasionally interrupt your video chat with the Eye of Sauron and snatches of his voice.

That is all. Palantyr App. Why are you still reading? Make it, call me, 50/50 split.

 

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Our Daily Beard – 06/02/13

Craaaaaab people.

Today heralds the arrival of Dragonborn on PC!

Yes, the acclaimed Skyrim DLC is out now, to be downloaded from Steam [http://store.steampowered.com/app/226880/] or shop bought (ha!) for £13.99.

For any who don’t know yet, it takes you to the island of Solstheim, just off the Morrowind coast. New towns, new people, new things to stab. It’s very pretty- dare I say even more so than the lovely snowy glaciers of Dawnguard?

Naturally there’s new shouts and the much celebrated ability to tame and ride dragons, while you go up against the original Dragonborn. He was the first, you see, and presumably a bit of a tool, so it’s really awkward.

Advice to those purchasing Dragonborn:

1. Use kinect controls to assign something you use often to the Bow slot, so that you can enjoy saying “Equip- Bo!” like Craig David.
2. Make your character a Redguard who looks like Craig David.
3. Name your character Craig David.

 
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Our Daily Beard – 05/02/13

Hello everyone, happy Tuesday!

Let’s see, what have I been up to?

Well, writing and working, of course. My current project is a short story- my last one for the foreseeable future, perhaps outside of the odd flash fiction for the blog.

I began writing it as a present for my girlfriend for Christmas, but it took too long! However, it’s nearly done. I’m not sure yet whether it will be posted on here, or reserved just for the compilation, or neither. It’s about Bastet, everyone’s favourite cat goddess.

While that simmers, I’ve been preparing to embark on the Next Big Project. I was torn for a while, between my personal Everest, Aegis (the unwritten novel we all have lurking) and continuing with Sleepwalkers.

Well, I’m erring on the latter. I’ve done so much work on the Sleepwalkers RPG, that it’s basically a completely realised setting, lacking only properly tested mechanics. Rather than shelve all that work, I’m going to write a standalone novel set in the same world. Simultaneously, I hope to finish said mechanics. Working on both at the same time should keep me rooted in the right frame of mind.

Mechanics wise, I’ve been hoping to find a suitable OGL, because my own mechanics make my head hurt and I don’t have the time to test them enough. I’ll keep you posted, but here’s an initial update:

RuneQuest is a no go. Love the mechanics- and the book itself, it’s very freeform- but their licence would mean turning Sleepwalkers into little more than a supplement. While it would work very nicely, it’s not my intention.

What form will the Sleepwalkers novel take? Will it feature anyone from the Sleepwalkers short stories I’ve done?

Squiggly and no.

See you soon everyone!

 

 
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