No different from a 3D model then. The model in wireframe looks pretty ok, then you put shaders and texture on it. The rendering process that follows is an artform in its own right.

I found the one I had in 4th grade (uh...96?) in a box of crap I had in my closet (which also included those graphing calculators they forced us to pay $90 for).
I just need to get some batteries for it...

Especially since people seem to be really good at being hilarious in a game that is generally not trying to be humorous. That said, I knew that once DS3 was coming out Kotaku would once again be 40% Dark Souls and I would feel left out like I did during DS2. So I am pretty sure these vids are the reason I bought DS3…

I mostly loved making my friends pronounce the game's name correctly to watch the awkwardness.

After playing but not completing Dark Souls I because it was on a roomate’s PS3 whome of which moved out before I could complete it, skipping dark souls 2, and never playing bloodborne: Dark Souls 3 was like getting my first experience back. I think the moment where I spawned after getting my ass handed to me, I was…

The Bernie in a bikini reminds me of the end of Aphex Twin's Windowlicker music video....

This guy would be a rockstar at dev-jams/game-jams whatever people call them wherever they are. A few teams of about 5 people each bust out a game in a single sitting and compare completion.

After watching the vid, I read every comment in that accent as if it was the folks at the local gas station talkin about it.

This is one of the most common practices in 3D animation. And it is directly a result of 2D animation styles. Making comic book poses requires putting existing parts of a 3D model that would in 2D not ever exist since it is off the page or out of view and never drawn.. somewhere. Animators use 2D techniques and for…

Guitar Hero was good for making the walls crawl/melt if you played too long.

I made it to the bottom....
“I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain”

I like to think of a game price like buying a $20 15-case of beer.
On a Friday to Saturday I would probably finish 10 of those beers and then have enough to have one can per day after work during the week.
In that short amount of time I would consider a game that gives me several weeks worth of entertainment to be…

The last photo leaves me imagining him shouting “O’Doyle Rules!” moments before taking a steam catapulted aircraft nose-cone to the chest.
Jokes aside, great article.

It’s insane.
And I came home with a GTX970 yesterday. I have spent too much money on game related stuff and yet still have not spent enough on the games themselves. Deserts of Kharak is next for sure. I just cant justify any purchases for a bit...(i’ll break, trust me).
I had completely forgotten about the arrival of…

I think I said similar last time, but another round of Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) A-10c.
One change, I finally got my Thrustmaster Warthog replica joystick, trackIR, MFD panels (the buttons that go around the targeting screens which you can tack onto a second monitor and render the target screens in that space,…

The price-tag surprises me but I am very excited to see where this goes and how deeply they refine how the vessels are controlled. I haven’t paid any attention to their community yet, I wonder if they intend to implement or at least if their is clamour for crew on board to run around doing things and a task such as…

It’s missing Dwarf Fortress, where another category called “Fun” is added after Hard Fun and the game is place on an erratic curve rather than a point which rides low on the excitement level and then suddenly blasts to the top for a brief moment before crashing to the bottom again while you are in tears over the…

Excited to read DF article.
Reads DF laced work of art that embodies my everyday struggle as the wheels of time grind to the last stretch before hitting 30 and a new form of reality takes precedence.
Coincidentally I was playing DF last night and had these very thoughts, at the moment I was a bit stuck as to what to do…

Dwarf Fortress because I finally got the 2014 version of the Masterwork mod package and boy does it run well (but the most recent version of Vanilla DF is very unstable).
Also getting back onto DCS A-10C, I am about to give DCS 2.0 a spin to see how poorly it runs before I upgrade my vid card next weekend to see it in…

Probably could have sub-divided that sphere a few times before printing it. Game shaders have some satisfying ways of making low poly geo appear round. Either way, great model and the panel look gives it character.