PDF DVD reviews, and something Captain Kirk never would’ve put up with
A glowing review of the PDF DVD over at Flack’s site – maybe it’s just because I slaved over the thing for so long, but I think he liked it better than I did at any point. 😆 There’s also some recent activity in the DP forum thread too. As Quark once said, buy early and buy often! 😛 I’ve burned a few new copies that I just realized put this thing into its third print run. I’m still trying to see if I can get my act together and at least send a few for someone to have on hand at OVGE, but things have backed off enough that we’re in “burn about 5 at a time, and don’t burn any more until those sell” territory, so I’m not sure if I can work a 20-disc run into the budget in time for the 9th. A lot of these DVD orders are winding up paying for baby chow (well, and daddy chow too – or, in today’s case, a new sack-o’-dog-food) so I’m not throwing the money that comes in at burning a huge number of ’em in advance at the moment.
In other news, I finally got the Enterprise plaque hung on the door to my game room again, with an addition that would’ve made James T. Kirk’s head explode. I thought it was kinda funny myself – the other sign was a gag gift from someone and here I go finding a use for it.
One last note: I’m apparently never completely out of the gaming scene, because I just discovered that an upcoming repro release of the finished-but-never-released Odyssey2/Videopac game Martian Threat will utilize some artwork I cobbled together just for fun a few years ago. It will debut next month at Eurocon and will get a general (but limited – 100 or so) release afterward, with both PAL and NTSC copies available. The “frame” seen around the artwork here will probably be different, since it will almost certainly be reworked into a more traditional Videopac-style package, but that’s a good thing – there’s a lot of fine detail that would’ve been knocked out by that frame, including the work I did to make the “cockpit” look slimy, organic and alien.
Fun fact: I’ve never actually played Martian Threat before (what with it being a rare unreleased game that I don’t own and all), so I have no idea if the artwork has jack to do with what really happens in the game. 😆 You can expect a review in PDF (the site, not the DVD) late this year after I have gotten to play it.
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