Cigar of the Day: Perdomo Lot 23 This isn’t going to be a very comfortable item to sit through and read and it would not be fair to you guys if I didn’t start with that. I have been coming back and forth to this particular draft for months now and reconciling what has to […]
Before we begin today’s musings, it was announced last week that one of the key actresses for the upcoming survival horror game Resident Evil: Village passed away. Jeanette Maus was well known as an acting teacher and numerous rolls across television and film. Her role in Village was to be her first video game credit. […]
Sierra Ops was a title with a long development history: originally getting its legs under it as a concept in 2012, achieving a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2014 before a troubled production history put it through the wringer for six years. I’m not here to comment on its development history, although I will applaud Innomen […]
Jon Huber (AKA Brodie Lee, FKA Luke Harper) December 16, 1979 – December 26, 2020 Cigar of the Day: Drew Estate Liga Privada T52 It’s Wednesday. You know what that means. I swear if I ever do another convention, I’m bringing sticks with me to do a live Calcutta Club. If nothing else, everyone who […]
Welcome to a new corner for my musings and observations. The Calcutta Club is the latest platform for me to speak my mind, only this time while enjoying my favorite vice: cigars. The name for the feature comes from the room where the writers of the 24 television series tossed ideas around and developed the script for […]
Welcome to a new corner for my musings and observations. The Calcutta Club is the latest platform for me to speak my mind, only this time while enjoying my favorite vice: cigars. The name for the feature comes from the room where the writers of the 24 television series tossed ideas around and developed the […]
I had a talk recently with a friend of mine who, due to just about all of us being stuck at home during this pandemic, expressed interest in developing a visual novel. My friend didn’t know who I was as I don’t exactly broadcast my hobbies outside of reading, cigars and golf. I did ask […]
First and foremost, Harland Sanders was a real guy. The Wendy’s mascot is based off a real person: Wendy Thomas – Dave Thomas’ daughter. Why does the Internet insist on making memes out of real people? Anyway, I don’t really have too much to say on this one. It was announced this morning that KFC […]
Fans have a very odd relationship with the source of their fandoms. That was on view this week when The Walt Disney Company and the Sony Corporation, two multi-billion-dollar enterprises, couldn’t come to an agreement and tried to mobilize their separate fandoms. Watching people act like their favorite in the fight is some beggar-child just […]
In 2014, crowdfunding had just begun to take shape as a business. The appeal of Kickstarter and Indiegogo as a way of mitigating expenses opened the door for young and upstart developers to start their dream projects immediately. For the English Visual Novel developers community, it provided an opportunity for developers to get higher end […]