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Tips for Kuva Survival

April 18, 2018April 17, 2018 Medic 0 Comments advice, farming, kuva, rivens, survival, tips, tricks, warframe

Kuva Survival is the cool new thing, or at least it will be for a while until the new Sanctuary Assault game mode comes out in an upcoming update. It’s a nice blend between the normal sameness of normal Survival with a hint of Extraction thrown in, with the plus side that you don’t need to grab a billion power cores, you just need one to start extracting Kuva. Here are some tips for going into Kuva Survival, one of the highest outside of the Void and Sortie missions. Bring enemies to you Ideally, you want all the enemies to… [Continue Reading]

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How to Become a Voice Actor

April 17, 2018April 13, 2018 aabicus 0 Comments advice, audio, practice, project, voice acting

I had the exciting opportunity last week to give a lecture to a class of my fellow college students, and it was only afterwards that I realized my voice-acting hobby was largely responsible for how easy this presentation was! Full disclosure: I’m not a professional voice-actor, and I don’t have the qualifications to teach you how to get paid to voice-act. This article is mostly describing the many fun reasons a voice-acting hobby can broaden your horizons and genuinely improve your life. I’ve been voice-acting for a few years, ever since deciding that the Daily SPUF needed to expand into videos.… [Continue Reading]

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I went to GDC 2018!

April 16, 2018February 24, 2019 aabicus 0 Comments convention, marketing, real life

The Game Developer’s convention is a yearly expo where professionals in the games industry all meet up to swap stories, listen to lectures focused on the developer’s perspective, and give each other business cards in the hopes of forming connections and (for some of us) getting hired. This year I was lucky enough to attend! Due to my new position as lead marketer for Major League Magic, I prioritizing attending marketing lectures, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I never had trouble attending any lecture I wanted. Most of my fellow students reported their favorite lectures… [Continue Reading]

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Dresden Cookies

April 15, 2018April 13, 2018 valorsminion 0 Comments adaptation, Art of Adaptation, cyberpunk, detective, Dresden FIles, Harry Dresden, Jim Butcher, locked room mystery, magicpunk, moral gray, Novel To Comic, phobophage, Raymond Chandler, slasher movies, Snow Crash, wizardpunk

Dresden Files rang a bell when a buddy of mine recommended it last month, but when he said “It’s like a detective series, but he’s also a wizard”, I was immediately curious. (Plus the fact that, weirdly, he thought of it cuz I’d been telling him about the classic cyberpunk novel Snow Crash.) Harry Dresden is a well-conceived character. He’s got that Sam Spade swagger, a bit of Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman banter, and takes his work seriously enough that you’re invested in that journey for something more than wanting to know how the magical locked-room-mystery ends. One of my favorite traits of… [Continue Reading]

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On Sound Cues

April 14, 2018April 10, 2018 Medic 0 Comments left 4 dead, music, ramble, sound, Team Fortress 2

Playing Left 4 Dead 2 recently made me realize something. The sounds and music in that game and its predecessor Left 4 Dead 1 are absolutely amazing. Really, the more I think about it, the more I feel the sound direction is what ties the game together and gives both the game and the player direction without being in your face. You see, in Left 4 Dead, there’s not a huge amount of actual music. All the music comes from the many sound cues from your environments as you walk by. You know when there’s a tank coming, not just… [Continue Reading]

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Becoming Obsessed with Frost Again

April 13, 2018April 10, 2018 Medic 0 Comments avalanche, build, frost, tips, warframe

So a while back, Frost Prime was released as a Warframe bonus for Twitch Prime. He’d been re-vaulted a while back, and alongside the Soma Prime and Scindo Prime, was always a well-rounded frame, so as a free Warframe, Frost Prime was perfect for the huge amount of new players looking to try something other than Excalibur, Volt and Mag. Of course, because you could get these items with the Twitch Prime trial and a valid credit/debit card, it meant that almost everyone had Frost Prime. Unfortunately, this meant that everyone was using Frost Prime, and there simply wasn’t enough… [Continue Reading]

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Medical Necessity – A Final Update

April 12, 2018April 10, 2018 aabicus 0 Comments cancelled, magebrawl, medical necessity

Hi everybody! A few weeks ago our most recent dev diary went live for Medical Necessity, and unfortunately, it will also be our last. As our final project for the quarter, every team needed to showcase their progress during pre-production and demonstrate that they have a schedule for finishing production in the next three months. Unfortunately, the judges decided that the game we were working on wasn’t in a state worth continuing. They mentioned that the game’s core concept seemed ‘self-contradictory’, in that the player didn’t have enough control over the gameplay and that led to the game not being fun.… [Continue Reading]

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Zaws – Build Your Own Weapons in Warframe

April 11, 2018April 9, 2018 Medic 0 Comments custom weapon, warframe, weapon, zaw

The Plains of Eidolon brought with them a lot of content, a lot of which I never really got around to covering. One of the more prominent features was the ability to build your own weapons, using a combination of set parts. It’s a strange system, something that allows you to have a lot of creativity, but at the same time isn’t actually that creative. Actually I take that back. Zaws can be kinda creative. But there’s work to be had. First off, a Zaw comes in three parts. A pointy bit you hit things with (the strike), the blunt… [Continue Reading]

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The Sun-on-a-Stick

April 10, 2018April 9, 2018 Medicinal Warlock 0 Comments scout, sun-on-a-stick, weapon balance

The Sun-on-a-Stick is a rather unpopular weapon. It is a rather pointless weapon. I mean, just look at its weapon attributes: The 25% fire damage resistance was added during the Meet Your Match Update in an attempt to buff it. It seems nice, but when you can outrun the Pyro there is not much point in having fire damage resistance. Besides, the Mad Milk is available to extinguish afterburn. The 100% critical hit VS burning players is the main attribute that people take note of, but there are two main problems with this attribute. Since Scout has no way of doing… [Continue Reading]

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A Quick Guide to 1 Hour Survival Fissures

April 9, 2018April 6, 2018 Medic 0 Comments advice, guide, newbie, tips, warframe

Sometimes you need to open relics and fast. You’ve got a mountain of relics and Baro Ki’Teer’s coming tomorrow and you have no idea what to do. Alright, sure, you could do Capture and Exterminate missions, but you lose a lot of time between loading screens. Defense and Excavation missions offer endless rewards, but enemies are slow and often hide. Nope, if you want to open a relic every 5 minutes, you’ll want to do a marathon Survival Fissure. With the right set up, you can easily go for an hour or longer. And this is a quick guide on… [Continue Reading]