What Makes a Monster Scary
Big teeth, big claws, and big glowing eyes should work, right?
Meh.
Simply mashing together hyper-predatory traits isn’t scary. It’s just cool. A monster that can devour me in one bite may be threatening, sure, but it’s not frightening.… >> Keep Reading <<
Free Online World-Building Tools
While I’ve been working on Aerill, my own fantasy extraterrestrial planet, I’ve come across a number of awesome, free, web-based tools to help realistically generate or view your planet’s surface.
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Favorite Gen 3 Pokémon
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Continuing from my post on Favorite Gen 1 and Favorite Gen 2 Pokémon, let’s look at my favorite creature designs from Generation 3 and explain a little bit about why I like them.
Aron
Nubs! This Pokémon’s name always made me chuckle because it has a normal human dude name.… >> Keep Reading <<
Designing a Monstersona
Wanna make a monster persona? Let’s do it! Monstersonas are awesome because there are no rules or restrictions – it can be almost entirely human-looking but with bizarre behaviors, or completely bestial, or abstract and surreal.
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Favorite Gen 2 Pokémon
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Continuing from my post on Favorite Generation 1 Pokémon, here are my favorite creatures from Generation 2 and my review on their design elements.
CrobatThis furious little purple demon is the final form of the blind, obnoxious Zubat, though I always thought it looked more like an alternative to the huge-mouthed Golbat.… >> Keep Reading <<
Favorite “Dragon Quest VIII” Monsters
Warning: this contains minor spoilers for plot events!
“Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King” is a PS2 game that I inherited a copy of from a family member with no context or prior knowledge of the series.
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Favorite Gen 1 Pokémon
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I love creature design, and few creatures are as famous and well-recognized as Pokémon.
I played Pokémon Blue on an original black-and-white GameBoy when I was a kid, and transferred my creatures forward to Pokémon Silver when it came out.… >> Keep Reading <<
Favorite Spyro Reignited Trilogy Dragons
The Spyro Reignited Trilogy recently consumed my spare hours; the original was very close to my heart, and I still have my original PS1 discs of the games on my shelf.
Spyro the Dragon, the very first game, has you rescuing your fellow dragons from crystal prisons.… >> Keep Reading <<
Favorite Pet Game Designs
Pet games were ALL the rage when I was growing up. You visit a website where you play Flash games to earn money, buy food from virtual shops, feed and play with your pet to keep its stats up – like a Tamagatchi or original Digimon, only with much fancier graphics, a billion different kinds of items, and, most likely, a crazy-inflated economy where users try to hawk rare items off for your life savings.… >> Keep Reading <<
My Favorite Creepypasta
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There’s nothing like a good short homemade horror story to read before bed. Here are some of my favorite creepypastas ever. Make no mistake, the word “creepypasta”, which comes from “copypasta”, which comes from “copy & paste” may make it sound like these are anonymous, author unknown works that get handed around the internet like urban legends, but these are all excellent works of prose (and art, in some cases) that deserve just as much of your attention as any published novel.… >> Keep Reading <<