Page 111 of Zheph Skyre, and 24 Hour Game Jam at Becker College

This past weekend I finished page 111 of my web comic Zheph Skyre. Also this past weekend I went to the 24 Hour Becker Jam. I recorded some footage of that and it will be up on WCCA TV13 shortly. I don't know if I will be allowed to post it on my Youtube channel or not.

I think Jahovac's reaction to this fight quite amusing. He's this toughened warrior and a goth princess outshines him in combat. I decided not to have Jahovac just to have a problem with the fact that a girl has outshone him, but someone who has been raised in royalty and has never been allowed out of her castle.

Zheph and Vanessa are now having a conversation as they now appear to have the situation under their control now. They talk about how Zheph has been through a lot and required her assistance. They also agree that Vanessa's dreams could possibly be predictions. They both agree that the more dreadful part of her dream is outrageous and could never happen...

Internet Radio

I never heard of the website Pandora before the 24 Hour Game Jam. Someone's laptop was playing Within Temptation, a band I really enjoy listening to. I noticed that after the song of Within Temptation, the laptop played songs from other bands that I never heard before, but I enjoyed how they sound. I decided to try out this website for myself.

I was surprised at the substantially huge selection this internet radio has. This seems like the logical route to take for all radio to go. You type in the name of a band or a genre of music and this website will begin playing music from that genre or that are similar to that band. If there is a song you don't like, you can always press skip. There are commercials, but there is only one commercial in between two songs once in a while. These commercials are not as annoying as most of the commercials I have heard on the normal FM radio. There's an upgraded version when you sign up for an account, but I just stuck with the free version, and I am satisfied.

I have found a few new bands that sound awesome! From there I have looked into their albums on Itunes and saved them in my wishlist. I don't know where else this website is accessible other than on a computer, but I highly recommend this internet radio.

Free Kaiju Card Game

Here are the Official Rules of the card game I helped create at the Becker 24 Hour Game Jam:

"Kaiju Card Game Rules

Turn order will be decided by the flip of a coin.

A game of Rock Paper Scissors, Die roll, or a best 2/3 match in Super Smash Bros Brawl determine who will decide which player gets to call heads or tails during the coin flip to see who plays first.

The player that plays first does not draw a card on the first turn of the game.

No maximum hand size.

When the game starts both players draw 5 cards. Draw 1 card at the start of your turn.

1 Kaiju per turn
    You can only call Kaiju on your turn.
1 Nature per turn
    You can play a Nature card at any time.

Kaiju can attack your opponents Kaiju.
Each Kaiju can attack once per turn.
You may use your Kaiju to block attacks directed at your other Kaiju.

Damage stays on Kaiju permanatnly, and can only be removed by card effects.
Only attacking Kaiju deal damage, defending Kaiju do not unless stated otherwise.

To whoever gets 10 or more power on the field first:

Congratulations on amassing the most terrifying army of Kaiju that should have never met in the first place. You are now doomed to a post apocalyptic existance, in which you struggle to survive. You have to live off of the corpses of the lucky ones that were killed by your army of Kaiju. Why would you assemble such a force?! NOBODY NEEDS 10 POWER!

TL;DR: You win. Hope you had fun."

Also, I would suggest printing out 4 of each card that we made for two people and then choose turn by turn which card you want in a 40 card deck.

 We never got to test play this game, so if anyone prints these cards out, please let me know if this game works or if certain rules do not make sense.

If this game actually works well and is fun, perhaps I will try to expand upon it while  making the images better. I couldn't have done this without the help of my partners Justin LaFleche-Tomlin and Ryan McCurdy.

Becker Collage's 2013 Game Jam: Part 1

I went to Becker College's 2013 Game Jam this past Saturday. I was invited by Breeze Grigas, a student at Becker College and a friend I met from one of the 24 Hour Comic Book Marathons at the Worcester Art Museum. He has created a tabletop game of his own called Project AEGIS. I had a really good time working on creating a card game in 24 hours with two other people in a group. There were plenty of other things going on since we had access to computers.

My main job was drawing up pictures for the cards after we discussed the rules for the game and how many cards we would require. Our group was assigned to create a card game based on water and Kaiju, Japanese giant monsters. I really enjoyed sketching these creatures. I might even fine tune some of these sketches and use them for my web comic at some point.

Here is a sketch of a phoenix and a alligator and a lobster hybrid.

Here is a sketch of a dragonfly monster with a scorpion tail and tentacles as well as a beast I refer to as the Jersey Devil.

Here's a sketch of a giant robot and a snail monster.

Here's a sketch of a twisted version of a Venus fly trap and a slime monster.

  

Here's a sketch of a Kraken and a hydra. I based the Kraken mainly on a sperm whale and I gave the hydra a turtle shell.

 Here is a sketch of a bee, a fish, a clam, and a seahorse. They all have some strange aspects about them, but I considered these the smallest creatures for the game.

These were sketches for certain affect cards in the game.

Here's a sketch of a cybernetic shark and a sting ray spliced with an octopus.

Here's more sketches for certain affect cards in the game.

There was some food brought for everyone participating, though many people brought extra knowing the food would only last a while. People took naps whenever they could.

This was one of the most experiences I have had in a while where I had been able to run off of about 3 hours of sleep.

Page 73 and 74 of Zheph Skyre

 I have uploaded page 73 and 74 of Zheph Skyre, and I have also updated the archive page.

Here we see Zheph is very nervous and tries to back out of this sparring match, but Vanessa brings up the point that they both require practice. It does not sound like Zheph is doing too well in this duel though...

Zheph leaves Vanessa's bitterly with more aches, but why is he in the slums? Does he live there? Is it even safe for him?

Last night I went to see the play "An Ideal Husband" at the Cannon Theater. Tonight I will be participating in the 24 Hour Becker College Game Jam. I will explain more about both of these events next week.

Page 73 of Zheph Skyre is Uploaded But Not Finished

Again, sorry that I have uploaded an unfinished page of Zheph Skyre. I am just glad that I have had some spare time as of late to work on this. Though I only have two days of work this week at the Worcester Art Museum, this week will still be a little hectic.

I want to go snowboarding after work one last time before the season ends, I will have the job interview on Thursday, the performance of "An Ideal Husband" to go to after the interview at the Cannon Theatre in Littleton MA, and from Friday night to Saturday I have the 24 Hour Game Jam at Becker College. I have a busy week!

Page 71 of Zheph Skyre and Becker Game Jam

 I have uploaded page 71 of Zheph Skyre. Luckily, there are only a few coloring details here and there that I was not able to include yet, but that will be remedied soon.

I will be participating in Becker Collage's 8th annual 24 Hour Game Jam in Worcester, Massachusetts. People will be gathering together in order to create games from scratch. Teams will be created in order to create either a video game, board game, card game, or It will run from 5:00 PM Friday April 5th to 5:00 PM Saturday April 6th. More information is available on their Facebook page and you have to sign up in order to participate.