May have made a thing because I’m a touch bit obsessed with a certain genre of video games……….
We’re getting near the end of the campaign! Let’s have a strong final push so we can bring these magical girls to life <3 <3 <3
A hand-drawn, story-driven fighting game forged by the minds that brought you Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur and more.http://thechainsawincident.com/THE
CHAINSAW
INCIDEEEEENNNTT!!!!!!!!
I’m so, SO excited to be able to share this with you guys. The Chainsaw Incident is an upcoming horror-inspired fighting game that just launched on Kickstarter, and I’m one of the main voice actors on the game. So if you guys help this get funded, I’ll finally be able to live my dream of voicing a playable character in a GOSH DANG FIGHTING GAME!!!!!
Please please pleeaaaase share this, check it out, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your dog, do anything you can to help support this, including backing it on Kickstarter! This project means so much to me, and it’s such an important thing for me, so I really hope you guys can help make this a reality. Thank you so much.
Oh man spread the word this looks AMAZING!
According to some people on my Facebook, the pic of me in the red Mario hat makes me look like some secret fighting game character.
I am so beyond o.k. with this you have no idea. My love for fighting games is serious business. Like someone mentioned Terry Bogard and now I’m super fangirl happy.
So I’ve been trying to get something in a Dreamspinner Anthology for a while. Last year, nothing made it, but this year I saw that they were doing a sports anthology. I thought, “I’m gonna write about video games,” because… I’m a geek.
And holy shit it worked.
So I’m reposting this because it comes out in a month and my video game short story will be in it! It’s a tale of gay romance, video game stereotypes and the people who happily turn them upside down. It’s got all sorts of fun video game references, because video gaming is a sport, right? You can either get the entire anthology, or buy the stories individually in June. Mine is called “Press START to Play.”
Below is a story description and a small snippet where I make mention of
my obsessiona game series I like ^^Description: Lukis Singleton’s once-popular sports column is fading fast, thanks to the terrible track record of the local football team. In an attempt to save the column, Lukis’s editor, John, decides that he needs to go in a different direction. Video games are all the rage these days, so John insists that sending Lukis to a huge video-game tournament in Los Angeles will shake up his current readers and bring in new ones. Lukis isn’t thrilled about reporting of games with impossible powers or gamers who still live in Mon’s basement, but then he meets a tempting flaw in the game stereotypes of unwashed man-children. Aaron Sanders is a gorgeous breath of fresh air at the tournament who takes Lukis’s less-than-stellar view of gamers and turns it on its head, leaving Lukis to wonder if if might be worth being Aaron’s player two.
Snippet:
Lukis wonders, as he watches the intro video, why high school students are even allowed to fight with swords and strange monsters that they can summon. Don’t they have parents? And since when can bears talk, fight, and smoke cigars? Was that a robot just now? With an axe?
“Told ya it was completely different,” Aaron says, picking some kid who uses a gun and has some sort of fly as a monster friend.
It’s still exciting to watch, he thinks. Aaron’s character is fighting against some tall, buff guy who uses a folding chair as a weapon, it makes no sense at all; who brings a chair to a gunfight?
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Yes I made a kannao reference in something I’m getting published. I realize I have a problem. No I do not wish to seek help thanks though.
In which my OTP makes an appearance in my original writing. Yeah.
Here it is! The pre-sale for the anthology I wrote for is now up! Follow the link for prices on the entire anthology and/or the individual stories. Yay!
To celebrate, here’s a fun snippet:
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This next game, Lukis realizes, is a rather strange one. He doesn’t bother trying to play. Instead, he watches as Aaron fights against someone else. Lukis wonders, as he watches the intro video, why high school students are even allowed to fight with swords and strange monsters that they summon. Don’t they have parents? And since when can bears talk, fight, and smoke cigars? Was that a robot just now? With an axe?
“Told ya it was completely different,” Aaron says, picking some kid that uses a gun and has some sort of fly as a monster friend.
It’s still exciting to watch, Lukis thinks. Aaron’s fighting against some tall, buff guy who uses a folding chair as a weapon — that makes no sense, either, who brings a chair to a gun fight?
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Follow the link to see how you can get a hold of this story and others :)
YAY!
Hey everyone, check it out! This is for the short story I wrote in Dreamspinner Press’ upcoming sports anthology. It’ll go on pre-sale next week, so I’ve been given permission to share the cover image and the story blurb.
Lukis Singleton’s once-popular sports column is fading fast, thanks to the terrible track record of the local football team. In an attempt to save the column, Lukis’s editor, John, decides he needs to go in a different direction. Video games are all the rage these days, so John insists that sending Lukis to a huge video-game tournament in Los Angeles will shake up his current readers and bring in new ones. Lukis isn’t thrilled about reporting on games with impossible powers or gamers who still live in Mom’s basement, but then he meets a tempting flaw in the gaming stereotypes of unwashed man-children. Aaron Sanders is a gorgeous breath of fresh air at the tournament who takes Lukis’s less-than-stellar view of gamers and turns it on its head, leaving Lukis to wonder if it might be worth being Aaron’s player two.
It was a ton of fun writing this. There are quite a few geeky nods all throughout the story, from Marvel vs. Capcom, to Street Fighter, and even some Persona 4 Arena. Fighting games are one of my favorite video game genres, so as soon as I saw “sports theme” I thought “fighting game tournament.”Lukis is the naysayer, the “games are stupid” character. But Aaron is all “games are awesome” and breaks all of Lukis’ stereotypes since he’s attractive and social. The main point of this story is to show that us gamers aren’t just a bunch of anti-social children who can’t function, who still live with mom, and who waste their lives with a controller in their hand. There’s so much more to video games, especially in this day and age, and on top of the gay romance is the theme of, “Don’t make assumptions about people because of what they do. Don’t make assumptions about something until you try it yourself.”
I’ll post a link when the pre-sales start. Until then, enjoy this snippet :)
On top of my book “Treat Me Kindly,” there’s a short story coming soon! Remember to follow my writing blog for up-to-date information :) And yeah, Persona 4 fans you read that write, there’s a nod to the game in the story along with a bunch of other fighting games ^^ I just couldn’t hep myself!
Just playing around with my new camera. Much better quality than a camera phone, whoo! And thanks to the SD Card reader I have, I can use my Chromebook to get the pictures off the memory card! I’m really excited about being able to take better pictures, especially of my crafts :) So have some random Geek Room pictures of my collection of things ^^
My phone takes terrible pictures, I’ll try and take better pictures once the room is completely clean (it’s still not completely clean, I rearranged a bunch of stuff). Anyhow, the first picture is my fighting game collection, and um… that’s not all of it. I couldn’t fit the Mortal Kombat stuff because the fight stick is too big, I’ll try and get a picture of that later ^^;;; Two of the Street Fighter things are signed, including the VHS tape (which I completely forgot about, but I got it signed by Akuma’s VA yeeeears ago!) I have way more figures than that, they’re just in the hutch in the living room, I just grabbed a couple. There’s also the Street Fighter 25th anniversary box which was like, one of the best purchases I made last year. I mean… the American Street Fighter cartoon is in it!
The bottom row is full of Tekkens and Guilty Gears and BlazBlues and Soul Caliburs.
The second picture is all Shin Megami Tensei. Yeah there’s two Catherine boxes, two Raidou Jacks (one still sealed with the game), my Golden is still sealed because I STILL don’t have a Vita, um… I have two copies of Digital Devil Saga 2, and just… P3, P3 FES, the P3 and P4 guide, figures, and just…
… help I have problems I mean…
This does NOT include the artbooks, since there was no room for them. Oh! And my Kanji and Naoto cake topper is there too ^^;;;
The third picture is Jiraiya, because I swear I spent like ten minutes just posing him and giggling. I decided to have him doing a handstand on top of a P4 mug, lol! P4 game and artbook that was given out with preorder because they’re signed by Yu/Souji/Adachi (I’m amused that he signed it as Adachi on the game cover, by Yu’s,Souji’s face, like, “You know who the real star of the game is right?”)
Anyhow, that’s the progress so far. I want to take better pictures of the whole room when it’s done, which… won’t be for a while ^^;;;
Interesting…
Persona 4 Naoto victory quote: That’s what comes with underestimating me.
Persona 4 Arena Naoto quote: That’s what comes with not knowing your place.
I don’t know why I find this interesting. Maybe my mind is thinking too much, but it seems like in P4, her quote means, “Hey, people don’t think I can hold my own, but I can,” and in P4 Arena she’s past that and is like, “Don’t try and fight me, I’ll just humiliate you if you even try.”
I dunno, it’s early, good morning!
