Adventures in Game Development Returns!

Hey everyone, posting while I am on vacation has proven to be rather hard. But I have returned with great news!

The Elysian Shadows dev team has released a trailer for their new set of videos. It gives a brief look into the life of the team and the troubles that they face. It looks fun, heart wrenching... And grown up. Which is weird, because the last time any of us watched their vlog, we were much younger.

But older is not worse, because the trailer looks amazing! So check it out, and support the team!

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Amibile Paladin. Mind Tour Studio's New Indie Game

Hey everyone,  Kadajett here to talk about something very special. I have been holding off, but I cannot anymore!

Mind Tour Studios and officially been created. We are a company that develops independent video games and tabletop games. As of right now, there are about five of us, working as close to full time as possible on our first game.

This game is a 2.5D rpg scroller, being built for XNA, PC, and for all you hardcore mother fuckers out there... DREAMCAST. 


It's code name for now is Amibile Paladin. You all know what a paladin is, but what amibile means will take a little explaining.

Amibile means beautiful, and not in the western supermodel meaning of the word. I use beautiful to represent complexity, complexity of the mind to be precise. Hint hint.

We would like to keep this project fairly secret, so I wont be posting any of the details, but know that the engine is already in development, we already have the design document almost finished and the artwork is being owned by our talented artists.

One thing I can show you, is our original sketches. They are fairly simplistic compared to what we have going on now, but it might give you an idea what the style of the game is.

As I have said before in earlier posts, we are making a Kickstarter Project after we get our first demo running. And what we are trying to do, is figure out what kind of gifts you guys would like IF you donated. Not saying you have to, just want to know what you might like.

One idea that we all have been passing around is a miniature version of the main character or one of the enemies made by our very own Maker Bot 3D Printing machine that we are going to use for our table top games. If you like that idea, or have a better idea, throw it in the comments. If its a good enough idea, maybe you will get it for free! When we make them obviously.

If you are a fan of indie games or RPG's, spread the word. The more publicity our Kickstarter gets, the faster  the game will be made. We will also be able to put more production value into it because we will be able to buy food and energy drinks throughout the process.

Thank you all for reading this post, like I said, spread the word. make Amibile Paladin a household name and we will be able to produce bigger and better games in the future!

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Super Hero Movies & Deathly Impatience

It is a very gloomy day here in Florida. There are no birds chirping, and the clouds are just bursting at the seams. And as I started my normal morning skateboarding session(decent cardio), I realized that I was a very sad nerd. So wallowing in my sadness, I continued to skate as fast and hard as I could, till I was out of breath, then I went inside. Of course, straight to the computer, I went. And the second I opened up You Tube, I realized why I was sad! There, right in front of me was a link to the new Marvel Avengers Assemble movie. I had heard stories at the local comic book shop, but I had evaded looking until just today. I had waited so long to look at the video that the Force was working it's mind tricks on me and making me sad. But no more! I shall appease the Medi-Chlorian masters by helping the rest of the lost nerds find their way! As you could have expected, all the recent Marvel Heroes movies led to this momentous occasion. Captain America, Thor, (Hispanic?) Hulk, and more assemble to fight what looks like a gigantic CGI Dragon. Aside from Captain America, this is a dream team of pure power. No offence to Captain America fans, but I think he is the weakest link. Regardless, To see some of my favorite comic book heroes together in the closest thing to real life I will probably ever see is going to be a very happy day.

Without a doubt, Ironman is my favorite Avenger. I am a very intellectual person. So I appreciate a self made super hero, who used his mind alone. (Batman doesn't count because his power is just being really rich.)  So now is the time for you to watch the trailor, tell Life of Ramen what you think, and tell us who your favorite Avenger is! 

After you have read all that and made you watch a video, how dare I ask you to do one more thing right? Wrong, you are contractually obligated to get pissed at the Elysian Shadows Dev Team for not Releasing Episode 18 of their You Tube Series. But they did announce that there was going to be a behind the scenes video released, so be excited. And pissed. 

You can flame them right on here in the comments , and beg for the next video! Or you can go to their Facebook page and tell em I sent you! :D

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/elysianshadows

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Elysian Shadows Game Development

Good morning everyone, it is supposed to be a lovely day today, which probably means it is going to rain one minute and be like a sauna the next. The latter is quite undesirable considering my major wine experience last night. It is not agreeing with my stomach this morning. But what settles my tummy more than Pepto, or crackers is none other than watching a couple YouTube episodes of the Adventure in Game Development Series, or later called Elysian Shadows Revolution.

These videos depict the silly team antics and growth as they create the multi-platform RPG Elysian Shadows. Elysian Shadows is a game that has been through more transformations than a boy going through puberty, but every change was for the better in my opinion. They ditched their old artists, and gained new more skilled ones! They rebuilt the engine a few times to implement and improve it's capabilities, and they re-wrote from a shaky C foundation to a more solid and reusable C++.

But this is all ancient history, as the team has been on hiatus from posting videos. All their loyal fans shed a single tear of regret for the possibly dead project.

But fret not little nerd men, Elysian Shadows is not dead! According to the figure head and possible team lead Falco Girgis, the team has been working on the game almost non stop for the past 2 years. And that being so, he also stated to me that they are very close to releasing the next video chapter of Elysian Shadows Game Development. I am almost literally giddy with excitement, considering the fact that this series is one of the reasons I went to school to get a computer science degree.

We have been promised a mind blowing visual experience, unrivaled by any other video they have created thus far. This video is supposed to show off the new team members that have been gained, and all the work they have done together. We can all hope, that the video gives a possible release date so we can all spend money on them. But aside from that, we could all use a little motivation to start making our own games to give Life of Ramen something to talk about!

Ok, enough rambling! I am going to post one of their newer old videos so you can get an idea of their process, and you can assess your will to watch the new video when it comes out.



That is all I have to give everyone, remember that all these images and videos belong to the Elysian Shadows Dev team. Make sure you comment if you want to show your love for Elysian Shadows, or Life of Ramen. And now for linky links...

• Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/elysianshadows
• Homepage:  http://elysianshadows.com/project/
• You Tube:  http://www.youtube.com/user/gyrovorbis?

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