Comments on: Skylanders speed drawing

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:58:00 +0000

GodDAMMIT, that´s some tight drawing! I think I need a cigarette, and I don´t even smoke anymore.

By: Cactaur

Cactaur — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:10:00 +0000

That’s a lot of merch… I can hear parent’s wallets weeping.

By: liquidstar

liquidstar — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:07:00 +0000

(reply to chellberty )
Well you have the figurines (dolls) that you can buy, and they are transferred digitally into a virtual space (instead of using a drug to create the identification with that virtual space) where you can identify with and interact through them. I find the similarity to be functionally very close. Presumably the company would want to put out more and more elaborate figurines with better features, much like the Mars colonists would save up to buy toy cars etc. This business model has been foreshadowed through the use of specially coded cards in cardgames that allow greater functionality in MMO’s, and I see no reason why more companies wouldn’t pick up on this, and expand it as it is intuitively available to both the customer (squeals when sees her/his favorite figure on the shelf) and the company (sees a physical commodity that can be converted to cash for virtual property). I am only referring to the layouts part of the book. PKD seemed to have a very sophisticated approach to drugs, and generally treated them in his work as functional metaphors (take Ubik for example). As for the layouts in the book, the critique of American society and its obsession with material goods is obvious – they are literally reduced to toys. The creepy part is reality has in turn returned the favor.

By: greg59

greg59 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:05:00 +0000

…..i’ve always loved Bjorks music… looks and politics……ya just
have to be on the same organic plane as her to appreciate what she
stands for….If not…..then you should at least appreciate her for exposing
her soul to us………..and if not that…….then why bother leaving a
negative comment……kind of pointless don’t ya think??

By: shiftdelete

shiftdelete — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:59:00 +0000

This is actually a really fun game. Super polished and excellent presentation. Story by the original “Toy Story” writing duo (although Skylanders pales in comparison).

Their business model is intriguing if not a little evil (throwing mini video ads into the game for characters you have to buy). But I think it will be successful.

As for the video, it’s totally brilliant. I love to see concept artists at work.

(I’m also REALLY loving the PKD analysis!!)

By: chellberty

chellberty — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:22:00 +0000

This is “mixed reality” and that does not correlate with what he meant when they were playing with the layouts, they were using psychoactive drugs or communions with malevolent or cruel and indifferent forces.
“How many times today they have to play that dumb game? Timothy asked himself. Forever, I guess. He could see nothing in it, but his parents played on anyhow.”
~ The Days of Perky Pat
It was thought by the uninitiated to be a waste of life, As in many of his stories the analogy is of drugs rotting your brains and people need to get back to reality whatever that is.

PS if anyone is reading about Fremont right now, it is A RAM Check
not Aramchek they are in a machine.think Pente.

By: michael b

michael b — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:13:00 +0000

When I draw, I’m always happy I get the shading right on my cube, cone and sphere…haven’t gotten much beyond that, I guess.

By: liquidstar

liquidstar — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:29:00 +0000

This is pretty cool, but it’s eerie how much the whole set up reminds me of of “game” at the beginning of PKD’s Three STigmata of Palmer Elderich.

http://www.allreaders.com/topics/Info_10971.asp

PKD has that eerie prophet thing going sometimes.