I have a problem with action-adventure games…
I like adventure games. I like the investigating, the puzzle solving, the strong story-lines. I like action games and first-person shooters. But recently I found that I have a problem with Nintendo-styletm action-adventure games. This genre includes the recent Zelda, Metroid, and Paper Mario games. I haven't finished any of the recent games in any of those categories. I've gotten to the final boss and lost interest and it's not because they're not good games and that I didn't enjoy the gameplay or the stories. It's because they're too predictable.
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Maps - To The Sky Video
This is the video we made as an entry to the Radar Festival. When we chose the song (which was a while ago) we had a much different concept for the video. Not entirely different, but different enough that we changed everything we had to shoot. At one point we were an hour away from our scheduled shoot time on the original concept with one actor (out of about 10 necessary actors) and a green screen in a room barely large enough to hold it. We shot the green screen footage the next night after discussing what to do to make the video work. That was actually a recurring theme to our discussions while working on this. We'd get to a point that seemed impossible to pass given the time restraints and the reality of what a limited crew can accomplish. But we figured it out and I'm pretty happy with the result. And happy it's done. Mostly. You can also check out some still images from the video in this gallery.