i made a promise to reblog this every time it appears.
it doesn’t lose its relevance
Divas. There’s this Thai musical comedy called ‘Tom Yum Rum Shing.’ I don’t know what it means, and I haven’t actually watched it since there are no English subs available. But I thought the over the top costumes real cute, and it seemed to be a lot of fun with all the the leads dancing and singing. Hence, this fan art. It’s funny how with one look you can tell the heroine from the villain.
Starring Chompoo Araya Hargate (female lead), Por Thrisadee (male lead) and Veerawan Phongam (antagonist). Costumes above are based on the series. :D
Large version HERE.
Jon thinks their band name should be The Sword in the Darkness.
Dany thinks it should be Wake the Dragon.
Cersei is pushing for Lions of the Rock.
Tyrion is leaning toward Shagga Likes Axes.
Jaime is sulking because somebody suggested Kingslayer.
I saw this poster along Annapolis St. today and just had to blog about it. Bannister Academy. The logo looked familiar too, so that’s what got my attention. And they probably didn’t mean it that way, but it appears to have 2 children (siblings?) in the front, and it promises a 360 degree education or something like that. :D
Wala lang.
{ Dukno Yoon }: beautiful, kinetic, flying rings.
Sometimes people make things for no other reason than that they’re lovely. Bless them.
BubbleTea ice xDD lol
yumiiii i want it :P
Wow, first time I’ve seen bubble tea in ice candy form *__*
Fine Dining - A short film by Lance Katigbak on poverty, dignity and the unconquerable nature of the human soul.
Drawn The Painted Tower trilogy is an amazing adventure game series and IMHO, one of the most beautiful and haunting. I got chills just from hearing the narration in the youtube game teaser.
Aside from impressive voice acting and graphics, the Drawn story concept is relatively unique compared to other games. A little girl has the ability to create works of art that come to life and an evil force wants to take this power for himself. It’s up to you to rescue her and restore everything. To do this, you get to enter different worlds through the girl’s paintings. Once inside, you usually interact with several characters and get to do a variety of puzzles, code solving, and the usual figuring out what to do with items you’ve found.
There’s also a lot of gameplay I haven’t seen in other titles. In the first game (Drawn the Painted Tower) users get to decipher symbols, paint stones and trace pictures to animate them. The second game (Drawn: Hidden Flight) goes a step further by introducing the pop-up book where, prior to entering a magical world you first solve the pop-up activity as a primer, thereby finding things within its pages that you’ll need later. The last game of the trilogy (Drawn: Trail of Shadows) expands on creative puzzles like making puppets, recreating stencils, multiple choice sequences where you trace your answers with chalk…you even get to play a golf game at one point.
Drawn’s game atmosphere might be described as morose and tragic; you really feel like you’re in a magical world that was destroyed by evil. But given the way the game was put together, you can’t help but feel uplifted once you’ve finished all the challenges and a scene literally changes from dark to light, and a landscape blooms again. Can’t recommend this series enough.
Types of Hidden Object/Adventure Games
For the past few months, I’ve rekindled my interest in playing adventure games- the mystery solving, hidden object finding kind, with puzzles. Unlike Angry Birds, Tetris, Bejewelled or even The SIMs type of community building games, adventure games aren’t the kind you play over and over again. Usually once or twice, sometimes thrice if they’re well made.
Still, I find them incredibly fun and addictive. Among all the games I’ve played, they’re the ones that remind me most of reading a book. A lot of creativity goes into creating a story that provides the backdrop of the game, as well as the challenging puzzles and beautiful visuals of the setting.
After playing a couple of them, I learned that there are 3-4 kinds of adventure games
- HOG- Hidden Object, where the only thing you do is find things within an area, based on a list. When you’re finished finding the hidden items in the beach for example, the landscape changes to an indoor dining room and you’re given a different list of objects to find. HOGs can be fun, but only if you play them randomly from time to time. (Ex: Amazon Expedition, Mystery Case Files: Huntsville)
If you actually want to solve something, a traditional HOG game gets boring and you’re better off trying iHOG, FOG or adventure. - iHOG - interactive Hidden Object, where aside from finding things, you also solve mysteries, do different kinds of puzzles, and ‘apply’ the items you find to other objects in the setting to be able to get further in the story. I love these. (Ex: Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Women’s Murder Club: Little Black Lies)
- Adventure - It has everything iHOG does, minus the hidden object scenes. So you’ll have your puzzles, your application of objects to get out of a locked room or to be able to open a treasure chest, but you’ll never get hassled to find a list of items. I enjoy these just as much as iHOG games. (Ex: Drawn The Painted Tower series, Broken Sword Knights of the Templars, Agatha Christie And Then There Were None)
- FOG - This is essentially the same as HOG but instead of finding a whole item, you have to find fragments of it. FOG games usually have puzzles and a bit of adventure, so they’re one my favorites as well. (Snarkbusters Welcome to the Club, Dark Parables The Exiled Prince)
Li vs. Lee
This is a tribute to two of the greatest martial artist-actors of Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema, made for my monthly art challenge with andrael. Theme was ‘The Impossible Battle’, where we’d depict a fight scene that’s never happened (and never will) between two characters or personalities.
In here, Jet Li dons a costume from his Shaolin Monk/Once Upon A Time in China days, while Bruce is in his usual baggy black pants. This can also be seen as a Wushu vs. Jeet Kun Do thing, and I’m not sure which martial art form would best the other. Jet looks like he’s winning, but that’s not the case. It’s just in Bruce’ style to look angry every time he kicks or punches.
Larger version uploaded to my deviantart gallery, as always.
