As if I don't have enough things to do...

[bluejeans07]

During the break, rapunzel4 would come over and play Kingdom Hearts 2 while I watched. I really enjoy watching people play video games, as a kid my brother would hog the game system and not let me even touch it so I got used to watching him. But watching Anne play KH2 made me really nostalgic and lately, I've been looking at Amazon and going, "Hmm... games. Need more games."

(Actually, no, I don't need more games. Really. I spent a good chunk of my break getting really obsessed with knitting to the point that I've knitted 4 hats, 4 pairs of fingerless gloves, and 1 scarf. I've accumulated more yarn and needles than I know what to do with, and I still have several knitting projects in my head, including one that I started on that came out of the blue. I've gotten really obsessed with intarsia and Fair Isle knitting since I can basically make pretty pictures by switching yarns as I knit! To top it off, I joined Ravelry and there are SO MANY PATTERNS THERE. There's a pattern for a WONDER WOMAN BEANIE that would totally match the Wonder Woman fingerless gloves I have planned for myself! ARGH! XD)

But yeah, games. I want more games. Specifically, DS games since I really love playing on my DS! Mostly, I want RPG games but puzzle games are good too. I've seen that there are a few Kingdom Hearts games for the DS, and I still haven't played 'Chain of Memories'. Any thoughts or recommendations?

Of course, I really should be using this time to work on my drawings... and stuff. I've been working on a storyboard of Neil Gaiman's poem Nicholas Was after he suggested on his blog that people take the poem and do it by Christmas. I couldn't make the deadline, I couldn't even start until after Christmas, but either I accumulated an Inner Neil or Dream has become a sort of fictional patron saint (he appears in my dreams and tells me to do stuff) and so this idea won't leave me alone. I've thumbnailed it all out. It's pretty cool. I like it. I wish I knew how to sound edit better though, the mp3 I have has this long musical intro before it gets into Gaiman's reading of the poem and I wish I could shorten it a little.

Also, I have a booth at SDCC this year (\O/!!) and there's a ton of stuff I want to do for it, including perhaps another t-shirt design, more prints (especially some generic fanart prints instead of just the random slash I've been drawing), more resin necklaces, and I really would love to do a comic book. I have a story in mind, it's sort of a light hearted fantasy story, sort of Ghibli meets Sir Pterry meets Raymond Briggs. Really should get started on that.

So even though it's barely started, 2011 looks like another busy year. And I want to spend it KNITTINGGAMINGDRAWING ALL YEAR LONG~

Comments

[lynxgriffin.livejournal.com]

YAY GAMEAGE. For KH games on the DS, there's 358/2 Days, and Re:Coded which is coming out about a week from now. I'd say only play Days if you're a huge Organization fan or just a huge fan of the series in general...IMO it's the weakest one of the franchise, and it can be frustrating to play. Can't say much for Coded since it's not out yet, but it looks to be pretty fun! If you play Chaim of Memories, play the remade version for the PS2...it's easier than the GBA version, and has some extra stuff. 'The World Ends With You' is another good RPG for the DS, and I enjoyed all the Phoenix Wright games I played.

[merckurybubbles.livejournal.com]

Only because it's my FAVORITE game in the world (and an RPG to boot), Chrono Trigger has been on the DS for a while. <3

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

...but either I accumulated an Inner Neil or Dream has become a sort of fictional patron saint...

Can't it be both? Because both would be awesome.

Also, this is where I invoke reality blur and suggest that if a thing is occurring and working, the matter of fiction is perhaps academic. ;)

[ararejul.livejournal.com]

you might be officially the only other person I know that likes watching games like I do.

I had the same environment growing up - 2 brothers that refused to let me play a game till they had won it. And back then there was no save button so I got to watch games a lot.

Happy New Year!! It's good to know you're keeping up with your own projects, I'm so horrible at that.

[jeidai]

Do you eat a lot of falafels?

Also, it's so cool you're doing a Nicholas Was project! (I have yet to watch all the submitted videos though. >.>)

For sound editing, I don't know if you want to bother, it's a bit much just to edit some intro music, but you could use Audacity. You also need to get LAME if you don't have it.