Now that my E3 coverage for Phoenix Gamer is done for now, I thought I'd finally get around to writing another bloggy update thing.
First off, I'm currently working on episode 31 of Mel the Office Gamer Girl. I won't say that it is for certain, but It's probably going to cover the Parodius series. I don't usually say what games I'm going to do my videos on, but I don't think it really matters at this point. I've got bigger fish to fry.
I've gotten a few requests as of lately to do a tutorial on how to make a video game show on a budget. I think that I may do this some time soon if I can find time between my other current projects. What projects are those might you ask? Well one is I got invited to contribute to a video game documentary. I don't want to disclose what it is right now because I don't want to see it fall into production limbo and then not happen so I'll just leave it here as in-the-works and will post updates as we work on the project.
I had also been invited to contribute to Retroware tv, but in the end they changed their mind because I mostly use emulators, you know, because the games I cover aren't super obscure and hard to find or anything. They say that some of their contributors use emulators “only sometimes”, and that's supposed to be somehow better than using them all the time (which I most certainly don't, I own
a couple of the games I've covered so far). It's the same damn thing in my eyes, and that statement alone makes them seem like elitist hypocrites that I don't want to work with anyways. While modern game piracy does harm the industry and I don't encourage it, Game companies don't see any money made from the resale of older games. Most of the games that I've covered can't be found for less that $40-$80 a pop, and that's if you can find them at all! I won't pay that much for a used game, that's just absurd. Also, something you might not know, is that in my personal life I'm very much a minimalist, so I don't take pride in having piles of retro games just lying around to show off to people who probably don't give two shits anyways. I have a small organized collection of consoles and select games that that I play at my leisure, almost everything else is emulated because it's just about the gameplay. I want to show people games that have been forgotten about, or that they may not know about. I'm not going to tell people that they need to buy the games to enjoy them, especially when it's an impossibility for some. Enjoy the experience of playing games for fun, don't ruin the experience for others because you feel you need to justify the insane amounts of money spent on your collection. Okay, I really should stop there...
Aside from all that I've been working more on my art stuff and will be selling it at Arizona Collector's Marketplace on Saturdays, time permitting. Video Game Trivia will be going on again at CADE Gallery on the 16th of this month, hosted by myself with prizes provided by Phoenix Gamer, Bookmans, and CADE. I also have 2 more Documentaries that I'm helping work on but they aren't video game related so...yeah.
I've gotten a couple of voice over gigs this month, nothing too spectacular, just some stuff for online commercials and that sort of thing. Doesn't pay much, but it's good experience for sure. Hey, you know, if you need someone to do voice over for you or if you like my videos and would like to do a cross-over or promo thing please do let me know. You can contact me via everywhere.
