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The Matrix website
"Mr Anderson..."
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An online webcomic which is updated every day!!! The artist, Mr Akira
Hasegawa, knows how to treat his fans, too. This got me hooked to online forums.
The comic started off as a script-submission system where the readers get
to write their own scripts online using Akira's program. The script can then
be shown online with interface similar to dating-sim game. Akira started drawing
the comic to give personality to his characters, based on which he hoped readers
can write scripts easier.
If you want a daily dosage of cuteness, this is an excellent place to go to.
3 November 2002 addition:
A fan of Tsunami Channel, LiloAznAngel, made an adoption site for Tsunami Channel characters.
I adopted Onii-chan.
Please visit Lilo's website. And thank you for the adoption thingy, Lilo =)
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A kind of online arts forum going-to-be. A good source for Photoshop tricks
as the host, Hanna, is really good at creating abstract backgrounds using
Photoshop.
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Rules of Make-Believe
Another webcomic. This time, the story is about a VR game called
Gorge Fusion (which gives me a third interpretation for the acronym GF).
As this webcomic is relatively new (it has only been to the second chapter
at the time I write this description), I can't really see where the plot
will lead to.
I myself is not a keen supporter of the idea of VR gaming. VR seems to be
overly complex to be adapted to the gaming world. It works well for simulation
because the human-computer interaction is somewhat limited, for example
steering a car or piloting an airplane.
In gaming, players want the luxury of beautiful graphics (which is sometimes
compromised in VR systems) and the interaction is far more complex than
simulation. For example, in GF's case, how do we give the player the feeling
that their character's clothes restrict their movement? How do we simulate
character tiredness and weight of weapons? How do we approximate the the
players' physical condition to the character's fighting ability?
Still, RoMB has some interesting concepts. The artist, Ms Ju-lian, certainly
has the idea of how the system works in her mind, even if the idea is at
high-level abstraction. I sometimes have to bear the temptation of asking her
low-level questions. I have to keep telling myself, "It's only a comic..."
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