Ways to Avoid Christmas
December 15th, 2010

Posted by Matt

Bah humbug!

If you’re anything like the LRR crew, you hold the conviction that Christmas and it’s various trappings should, in general, be confined strictly to the month of December. Unfortunately it seems like the rest of the world isn’t on the same page as the LRR crew, and so we bring you this handy guide to give you a few ideas about how you too can avoid the Christmas creep. We realize, of course, that in order to be of any use to you this year this video would have had to have gone online sometime back around the first of September, but so steadfast are we in our unwillingness to let Christmas bleed into other times of year that we had to wait until now to release it. At least there’s next year.

Unskippable this week was Beowulf. You can find it here.

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Every OS Sucks
December 6th, 2010

Posted by Matt

Assuming your OS doesn’t bail on you en-route, head on over to the Escapist and check out this week’s video.

This video has been on our to do list for a while, and it’s good to see it finally produced. This video features the musical talents of one Wes Borg, (who you may have seen at Desert Bus performing this very song), our good friend Missie Peters stealing the show as Linux, and the crafting ability of Tally in the form of some awesome Windows earrings. Check this video out – it was a blast to shoot, and is even more fun to watch.

Then go checkout deadtroll.com for more of Wes’ (really funny) stuff.

Unskippable this week marks the series’ 100th episode! In celebration of this milestone, Graham and Paul have put together the Unskippable Guide to Cinematics. This guide is a treasure trove of advice for game developers, helping them to secure their games a place among the Unskippable halls of fame (and to ensure that Unskippable has enough games to let them run for hundreds more episodes).

Cheers all!

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James Cameron’s Desert Bus
December 2nd, 2010

Posted by Matt

Coming soon, to a computer screen near you: It’s this week’s video.

Sorry about the late blog update, between the end of desert bus, and some serious sickness on my part (I barely got out of bed on Tuesday) this kind of fell through the cracks. In lieu of my own words, I present to you some things Paul had to say, because he wrote the video.

This video actually started with a completely different idea, I wanted to make a video that was a series of trailers for a Desert Bus movie. As I started going through the different movie options (Desert Bus of the Travelling Pants, The Desert BUs Runs Thought it, Field of Desert Bus, etc.), the one I kept coming back to was a parody of a James Cameron film. I have nothing against James Cameron, Terminator and Titanic were great and Avatar was a least fun to look at, but his increasingly ridiculous movie budgets and even more ridiculous box office returns makes him the perfect person to make Desert Bus: The Movie with the silliness it deserves. Once I had the idea and decided to do it in the format of one of those puff piece DVD documentaries, the pieces came together pretty quickly. I was especially happy with the shots of the CG artist working on placing every grain of sand and Katheen’s shot, in which we used a full body green screen to green screen her onto a bigger green screen! How’s that for tricky? I am also proud of how my photoshops of the Terry Gilliam and Stanley Kubrick movie posters turned out.

Unskippable this week was Yakuza 3: Part 2.

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It’s Magic!
November 16th, 2010

Posted by Matt

I tap two mountains and summon this week’s video. It has haste, and swings for 2.

So if you’ve been paying any attention to the crew at all, of late, it will come as no surprise to you that this episode is based extremely heavily on actual events. They did, in fact, give away Magic cards at PAX. That is, in fact, what got us back into magic. Many of us are now deeply… shall we say, “invested” in the game. There were spending limits. They did go away. Kathleen actually does have an angry kitties deck. Alex can do magic. Some of us have two or even three different decks we play in rotation. Some of us play at Friday Night Magic at Yellow Jacket.

All in all, I hope you appreciate what a fricking miracle it is that we’re even producing videos anymore.

No, I have not spent $40 on one card. (I was also not the first to cave under the spending limit).

Unskippable this week was Clash of the Titans. You can find it here.

Cheers!

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Decadent Sports League
November 9th, 2010

Posted by Matt

You can’t possibly afford to compete, but perhaps you should consider tuning in to today’s recap of the first annual Decadent Sports League Championships.

Well, that’s not entirely true, you could probably afford to participate in the chess events.

This particular video was filmed over several days and at several different locations throughout town. The most notable of these is the human-sized chess board located down by the Selkirk waterfront and trestle bridge (here). It’s one of the more scenic places in town. It used to be mostly industrial, and somewhat rundown, but in the last decade or so has seen some major urban renewal, and is now home to some very nice condos, trendy coffee shops, and warterfront park space. Also, inexplicably, a giant chess board.

Filming the scenes we did proved a little tricky, as we were within sight of the Galloping Goose trail, a major recreational and transportation (cycle, foot) route though town. Naturally, we had a whole bunch of prop weapons, which we were trying to keep on the down-low, but it’s hard not to attract attention when you’ve got a bunch of goofy looking folks playing with swords on a concrete chess board. Ultimately, we ended up having to shoot around a few interested parties trying to watch us, and one fellow who rolled up on his bike and started trying to chat with us.

It was an adventure to say the least.

Unskippable this week was White Knight Chronicles Part 2, and it can be found here.

Cheers!

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