August 23rd, 2010
posted by Raijin
Does it seem a few weeks early? Well, the gathering was a month early, it happened a couple weeks ago. There may be videos of some sort later on, if we ever get something useable out of them. That’s not my department, I just write about it. Don’t forget to check the photo gallery too.
It’s that time of year again.
Meanwhile, I also snuck in that last little AXE walkthrough update I wanted. The boss guide now has full details on each version of each boss.
August 2nd, 2010
posted by Raijin
Coming at you live from the Mech’s Meet where I can apparently make updates even on the road. It helps that I finished these two walkthrough pages before leaving and just needed to uncheck a box over here on the other side of the country. So today is the last two walkthrough pages that were stinking up the index page with their lack of linkage. Maps and Virus Breeder. Now I could probably say the walkthrough is finally complete, but there are a few more tasks to complete in the existing pages before that. At least now the links are all there so it looks complete to the naked eye.
July 23rd, 2010
posted by Raijin
Okay, so what’s been going on the last six months? Well, not much here, evidently! I went back to school for a bit January to March, focused on projects for the Maniacs’ 10th Anniversary April to May, and then kinda pissed away June on video games, only recently getting back to being productive for July.
The primary result tonight is the Walkthrough’s Miscellaneous section, containing lots of tables of boring data on what you can buy at shops, where to find all the power-ups, and stuff like that. There are also some weird obscure things thrown in at the bottom, like an explanation for the above image. That just leaves the Virus Breeding and Maps pages now. Looking back in the archives, it looks like it’s been almost exactly a year since I said I had all this data waiting to be formatted and that it wouldn’t take much longer. So much for that.
Speaking of archives, Gauntlet’s been bugging me to get all the AXE updates reconciled with the main blog (okay, so he asked me one time and I ignored it for a few months), and I finally got around to it just now, so AXE updates are archived in the blog. Does it matter? I dunno. G seems to think so.
Story updates ought to be coming soon as well. And this is “soon” as in a week or two, being wrapped up right now, not “soon” like 2011. Honest.
January 10th, 2010
posted by Raijin
Sunday January 10th, 2010, Drillman
Happy New Year. I had hoped this update could still make it in for December, but it was considerably more work than I expected. Par for the course as it would seem. The big new page this time is the EXE3 Walkthrough’s Virus Guide. Like the NaviCust and StyleChange guides last month, I put much more research and effort into this page than was really warranted, but it’s complete, and that’s what I was aiming for.
Also check out Crys’ gallery for a New Year’s pic. And speaking of the new year, that means it’s time to archive the old updates again.
December 13th, 2009
posted by Raijin
Probably the last update of the year. The walkthrough now has complete info on EXE3′s NaviCust and StyleChange systems. I spent considerable time pulling and testing the data for these sections rather than just copying off of GameFAQs, which turned out to be a good move since I ended up finding a few things the other walkthroughs got wrong or missed.
Still no more Inter-Missions yet. Gotta establish more story before we can properly play off of it.
November 15th, 2009
posted by Raijin
Check out my art gallery for a couple new pics based on Crys’ characters. That’s the only added content for the moment. The main reason for this mini-update is to announce that Akutare has quit as Bubbleman. There will be no recruitment drive to replace him right away, as I’m leaning towards the scaled-down approach – same reason we still don’t have a new Bowl or Yamato, I want to make sure I can mobilize a tight group of reliable members rather than continuously take chances on untested new ones.
An unsettling impact of my decision not to replace Aku is the blank spot it would naturally leave in the bio navigation bar up there. After weighing the options, I kept the button linking to the Bubbleman bio which now just describes Bubz as an NPC. It’s a little off since all the other NPCs are listed on a separate bio page, but it’s either this or completely redesign the navbar and I don’t think this development is worth the effort.
October 11th, 2009
posted by Raijin
The new Annihilation story finally gets its second installment. It’s a big one. New artwork from Crys and another Inter-Mission comic as well. Gauntlet also upgraded our navigation bar last week. Now you can know when it’s working.
July 12th, 2009
posted by Raijin
I’ve been spending the last month and a half finishing up the walkthrough, at least the storyline part. All nine chapters have been finished. There were ten chapters before, but that was just so it would match up with VI’s EXE1 walkthrough, which is also numbered wrong. I just combined the “Helping Tora” and the “Plantman” scenarios as originally intended. Now I just need to add supplementary pages for the walkthrough, which shouldn’t take much longer. I already have most of the data, just need to organize it.
Also updated today are Akutare’s and Beastman’s art galleries. My embarassing Inter-Mission comic experiment continues with no discernible improvement, except perhaps in the lettering department.
May 30th, 2009
posted by Raijin
Annihilation updates again with stuff in the art gallery, new sprites in Drill’s and Beast’s bios, and an in-depth guide to Bubbleman’s scenario in the walkthrough.
There’s a big update and overhaul to the Navi Marks Gallery. Now’s definitely the time for your own submissions, since I’ve pretty much wrapped up the official portion of the project, added a template and guide, and revealed some of the very unorthodox symbols from various outside inspirations I’ve made over the years.
Then, to top it all off, there’s a very special Inter-Mission…in comic form. DRAWN comic form! Crappily drawn at the last minute using an old script by Nijubu and full of amateurish mistakes since I haven’t drawn a comic in years and was never very good at it to begin with drawn comic form, but drawn comic form nonetheless. Drawing a regular comic series is something I’ve been wanting to do for the longest time, and now I’m finally taking the first steps towards it.
May 16th, 2009
posted by Raijin
I’ve been cranking out a lot of images for the BN3 team lately. See the latest additions to my gallery and the remastered items on the Navi Icons page. Also FlameChick no longer has to be represented by the images of her male counterpart, as I have built a set of sprites, a mugshot, and a chip image in her own likeness. They can all be found on her bio page.
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