SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG
Around a year and a half ago, one of the game's developers sent me a VHS transfer of some animation and colour tests, showing Spyro the Dragon in some of its earliest stages. We estimate that the version of the game showed here dates to early 1997, well over a year before the game was finalised.
You might've heard Spyro was originally intended to be green, but prior to his colour scheme being finalised, they tested out a handful of other colours, too - one of the clips on this VHS shows those colour tests. Sadly, despite a couple green dragons being depicted here, his original colour scheme was apparently totally overwritten by the first clip on the VHS, showcasing some animation tests of a more final-looking version of the dragon. At this point, Spyro's model was nearly complete, but the whites of his eyes are notably vertex coloured, rather than textured. The final section of the video shows off an enemy that was made during testing but never used in the final game. Apparently it would have featured in a test level created early on in development.
I figure it'd be worth sharing here, since a lot of people here might not have seen this before! I've also linked a Hidden Palace page below where I recently did a longer write-up on this video and its background.
Hidden Palace: Link
Internet Archive: Link
Happy 20th Anniversary to Ratchet and Clank!
…and that other game that came out the following day.
You know. THAT game. That game that starred another Insomniac creation.
"But she gave birth to you, you owe her!"
My mother wanted to be a mother. It was her dream to be a mother. She poured all her energy into being a Good Christian Mother.
She did not want me. She wanted motherhood. I was a side effect of her dream. Once I was old enough to disagree with her, she hated me. I wasn't making her look like a Good Christian Mother. I was loud, disobedient, needy... almost like a child. Not quiet and pretty and grateful for crumbs.
Yes, she birthed me. For herself and her partner. For the people who were already born. Not for me. As all mothers have for all of time. It's not the birthing that makes a mother worth honoring, it's the parenting.
QFT:
It's not the birthing that makes a mother worth honoring, it's the parenting.
Uruk, Iraq
The sorta literal translation from the arabic is so much more beautiful
“From here rose the first written letter, (finding its way) to every point on earth”
I like this version more
Flipnote Hatena nostalgia: I ain’t got no Ⅰphone.
Wanted to figure out how chimera’s wrote and ended up starting on their written language proper. MASSIVE info dump below!
Anonymous asked:
thoughts on cream colored woodpeckers
I think GameFreak is going to sue.
"This has to be edited." I say, looking up the animal
"The cream-colored woodpecker (Celeus flavus) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay" From Wikipedia
There's also it's close cousin, the Chestnut-Colored Woodpecker for your Phoenix needs: