http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:herrTevik&section=today deviantART RSS for by:herrTevik en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:08:04 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/26849073/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/26849073/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:40:59 PDT I'm back to school again, increasing my debt,
but hopefully increasing my skillz to mad lvls and also my chance at getting a job.

I've just started, and will post some of what I do here.

It feels good to be studying again.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/24991457/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/24991457/ Thu, 28 May 2009 04:34:53 PDT First is the PD^3 game project, where I have to do some 3d and concept art. In reverse order, of course.
Second is a tv series project with minute aliens hunting bugs.
Third is my board game with the working title "Dødtid" ("Dead time" or, more accurately, a period of time where I don't have nothing to do.) -Yeah, I need to change that eventually, but there is nothing that works as well as "the Quest" in Norwegian. Blah.

I'm not really feeling tired or anything, I just need some motivation. And lots of it.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/23711816/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/23711816/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:48:34 PDT
[link]

Most likely the 3D category, but while I'm at it I might as well enter the 2D one.
I'm not much in the mood for magic, so I guess I'll make a character for the Machine faction.
Now I have to find out what forum I'm with, so I can include colours in my creation.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/23376918/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/23376918/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:20:35 PST It's not that I don't know that I have to go through this to emerge victorious and skilled on the other side, it's just that it's so tedious making pieces that I don't like so I can eventually make other pieces that I do like.

Pft.
Eventually I'll be able to do awesome eight-minute sketches with my tablet, too.

I hope.

Until then I have to draw traditionally to avoid thinking too hard on how I am so daft.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/23099575/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/23099575/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:18:59 PST
It is strange that nobody in the position to invest money can see that you've actually got to take a chance on something new before you see whether it will succeed or not. You can't just throw new money after old money. Old money tends to work for the pockets of already wealthy and old people who placed it there in the beginning. Pft.

The worldwide game industry makes a larger yearly revenue than the movie industry, and has done so since 2003. Why do we then have to ask film-snobs for government funding for our game? When short films that will be seen by a few hundred and enjoyed for half an hour by each and probably never seen again, what makes that better than a game, potentially played by a larger community and enjoyed over and over again?

My city and county is socially retarded. Said in the undying words of the Beatles: "Help!"

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/22655062/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/22655062/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:33:13 PST
Hopefully, I'm getting a 3d artist position locally, and won't have to move anywhere to get a job. I was recently interviewed for an opening in internet TV I'm hoping to get. It's the most interesting position I've applied for in Trondheim.

I'm selling off my Warhammer 40k Eldar army. I haven't played 40k for years, and they're just eating space. It's a big army, but I'm aiming to sell it for less than half its value.

Also, I can focus more on building LEGOs. I've started building vignettes, and recently made one Fallout-inspired one. I upload my pics on Flickr, at [link]

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/22047039/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/22047039/ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:31:28 PST The others haven't all been so pretty, but always the prettiest I could make at the times I have applied before. I've dreamt of working at LEGO since I was old enough to understand it was someone's job to make the sets seen at the store. Now I'd be happy to do any sort of design for them. They're my favourite toy, and I think it has to be the best toy in the world, as you can rebuild it to whatever suits you when you've tired of the first model you built. The best.

I've decided that christmas starts tomorrow, and I have to be done today. Tonight. It's gonna be a long night. And I'm going to be tired tomorrow when we go downtown to buy the last two or three gifts.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/21319010/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/21319010/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:00:58 PST
I can do flash, so I'm gonna. I am also making a homepage so I can display more work-related stuff. Here, I want to upload just about any form of art I've made, and that's not always what's desireable for what I want to show a potential employer.

For Jól I want the Hellboy 2 DVD. I didn't get to see it at the cinema because baby.
And a job. Not just any job, a webdesigner or at best a game designer or graphic designer or 3D modeler/animator for games would do.

We'll see. I'm not waiting for it to fall into my lap. Eventually, I might have to make my own job, but I can do that.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/21227421/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/21227421/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:03 PDT
So, I'm learning HTML. That means I have to put Flash aside, and can't learn the more advanced programming in actionscript 3 yet. And also, I've got to take jobs completely unrelated to what I have experience with and what I can and want to do.

Not so sure putting Flash aside is such a great idea either. Maybe I should use what little I know to make a few games as a testimony to what level of ability I've got with Flash as of now.

My "Wizard Apprentice" flash game could be expanded, of course, which basically is a "choose the right thing or die horribly" type of adventure game. Easy to make, real easy.

I'd like to make a platformer, too, but then I ought to look into truly killing and spawning sprites. Pestilence upon ye, SHKS! I should've been a lumberjack.

So.. I'm making a NAzgul robe and applying for more jobs today. Right now I'm a bit pooped, but I'll be back by the end of the day.



]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/21173925/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/21173925/ Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:36:31 PDT I quest for work and I care for little children, many of whom might end up political adversaries, criminals or good things. Glass half empty at the moment, as I've no steady job. And I ought to have learned html, damnit, because it's necessary for a graphic designer to know in order to get work. Fine. I found these great tutorials, and I've been assured that spider monkeys can do html, if only you can make them sit still for a couple of hours. Yeah, they'd have to be conscious, sleeping or unconscious monkeys appear to be exceptions.

My brother inflicted Van Canto upon me. They're a german a capella metal band. They've got drums and mike effects, though. And they do covers. I got more respect for Apocalyptica after they released their own music instead of just being a gimmick metallica cover band. Cellos rock. A capella... not as much, but it was cool to hear Van Cantos Battery cover. I'll have to make up my mind about that later. Hear some more.

I once heard about this comic book called Donjon, or Dungeon. Then I went and bought the only one left in the one store that had it in Trondheim. It's a series of graphic novels, and I borrowed more at the library. Apparently, I bought the least interesting one, but now I know. Hooray for libraries and our socialist state. Yay!

Oh and Donjon is drawn by Lewis Trondheim, who's got these funny comic strips about an astronaut and a monkey. Yeah. I like his style. It's kinda like Sergio Aragones'. Ugly, but cute. And Lewis' style is funnier.

My Sporetime is abating slowly, and I'm being a better partner and father. Getting less sleep, but that's because I stay up to do my stuff.

I'm drawing monsters, but I need inspiration or they'll end up only squiggly bits of horn, metal and claws, and not in any cool, cthulhuish way.

Cthulhu f'thagn? Does anyone know?

I want to be either a batfaced vampire or a Nazgul for halloween. Hopefully I won't end up a buttfaced Nazi.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/20788750/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/20788750/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:36:24 PDT
It's rather silly, as the renderings cannot be used for anything, and like any other artist I ought to be allowed to display my work on the web so potential employers could see it, but I understand the principle. Basically, they're uncertain about what rights we have to these art assets.

Board Games Online is no more, and I am out of work, as I've written before, due to a contract leaving us on the deep end of the poo(l).

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/20578930/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/20578930/ Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:57:57 PDT
Me boy is growing.

I've posted some of what I've been doing for the last two years. What can't be seen here is their animations and the lot of items I've made for that game. It is unfortunate that it will never be published, and all because of a crappy contract leaving us on the deep end of the cesspool with tied up arms. Nice.

I swim pretty well with just my legs, by the way, but without arms to keep me up I'd be struggling, I know.

Maybe Finland will save us, I don't know yet. We shall see.

Spore is great, btw. My username is BionicBadBoi, check out my creations!

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/19654852/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/19654852/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:21:02 PDT
He's now over five weeks old, and he's started to babble. He's imitated laughter three times. He smiles when he is content, and to you who think they smile because they need to fart and that it isn't a smile, the way he draws his mouth when he's got gas is quite different from when he is content. So get your pus-dripping foodholes out of my face.

Other than that, I've read a couple of books, among them "The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski. His books about Geralt the Witcher are the inspiration for the game "the Witcher", and I thought it was good. Gritty modern european fantasy, drawing upon the deep traditions of eastern european folklore. Nice.
I recommend it muchly.

I've painted my post-gorkamorka orks. I wa supposed to put my Gorkamorka boyz together for a warhammer 40k ork army, but I only got to chopping them up for Grot parts and reassembling a couple of buggies. I've now built two Traks, one with a scorcher and one with Big Guns, and I'll need a big Trukk or two before I'm ready to battle with them. I've planned how to finish my Eldar army, as it is only half-painted, and half-assed at that. I started an Eldar army because I got a load of them cheap when I bought the warhammer second edition used from some guy. They're kinda cool, but mostly lame and rainbow gay. I don't think they've got their thing properly together. They need to shape up. I've got a good Eldar army, really, but I don't want it. So I'll assemble,paint and then hopefully sell it. What I really want besides my Ork army is a Tau army. The Imperial Guard are cool, but too close to the Orks, really. And third I might want to assemble a Tyranid force, not a big one, just big enough to replay some Starship Troopers scenes vs the Tau.

Anyhoo. I've also made a few sketches on the illustration style of my adventure board game. I find I often end up with a toony style because it appeals to me, but I am trying to do a style that is a bit more realistic, but then I don't get the amount of details I want. I may need to loosen up my realism altogether. I have drawn toony stuff for very long now. I can't just settle there, though. I need to evolve.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/18314309/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/18314309/ Wed, 14 May 2008 01:08:01 PDT
Sometimes I'd like to toss my belongings into a truck and drive them to the Free Store downtown. It's a place where you can give your things away for free. You can also take stuff from there for free, without donating stuff. It's a great concept.
But then I remember I need some of those things if I get visitors for dinner or they'd like something to drink from or we're playing games. But still, some of those things can be given away. Or trashed. I don't like trashing stuff, but stuff sometimes has to be trashed.

My things don't own me, I think, but they're kinda in the way.
And I'm making new things. That's what many of my things are for. And I own books. Pretty books, funny books, books of knowledge.

I've had a test ready version of Vigilante for a couple of months now. 'uter trouble has hindered my ability to print them and make appointments to play, though.
And summer is coming. The outside season.

And the baby is coming soon. Less than 4 weeks to most probable date of birth now.
I expect to spend most of my time handling the baby, then. Until winter I'll only get to pick at my games once in a while. But I guess that's okay. I get to be a father now.



]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/18063592/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/18063592/ Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:19:53 PDT though I don't expect as many as 15 separate people to post here, but hey, if you want to spread your audience a fraction of a fraction, post underneath, and I'll pick the three of your deviations that I like the most and post them in my journal. I'll write what I like about them, too.
The catch?

You gotta put this in your journal as well if you posted! Remember, if you don't post this in your journal, I'm not going to put your art up!

This is the list of deviants. It's empty for now...
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Naturally, I might have to post this list several times as I'll post you deviants as soon as a few reply.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17873758/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17873758/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:10:53 PDT [link]
But still, be vigilant. This might have given the capitalist devils some ideas.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17797151/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17797151/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:42:59 PDT
So, the US capitalists megacorporations are trying to gain the rights to all art produced in the US. Apparently, they're trying to do the same in Europe as well, but I don' expect the fucking capitalist swine to manage that in Europe, I expect France and Germany to be against it, based on the amount of important artists come out of those nations. Pft. Spain and Italy, as well. The UK has acted as the US lapdog over here lately, so I don't know about them.

Okay, okay. I'm breathing calmly now, but this is so irritating. I need to see if I find more info on this, but right now I just think people ought to know.

About capitalism: Sure, it's healthy to have some degree of a free market, to have some competition, but there ought to be a system of regulating the differences between rich and poor. We've got rich people in Norway, too, almost despite a socialist system.


Check this out:


Mind Your Business: You Will Lose All The Rights to Your Own Art
Mark Simon is mad as hell and, in this month's "Mind Your Business," he tells you why you should be too.

April 10, 2008
By Mark Simon


Mark Simon.

As you know, I usually handle the subjects in my articles with a sense of humor. That is not the case this month. I find nothing funny about the new Orphan Works legislation that is before Congress.

In fact, it PISSES ME OFF!

As an artist, you have to read this article or you could lose everything you've ever created!

An Orphaned Work is any creative work of art where the artist or copyright owner has released their copyright, whether on purpose, by passage of time, or by lack of proper registration. In the same way that an orphaned child loses the protection of his or her parents, your creative work can become an orphan for others to use without your permission.

If you don't like to read long articles, you will miss incredibly important information that will affect the rest of your career as an artist. You should at least skip to the end to find the link for a fantastic interview with the Illustrators' Partnership about how you are about to lose ownership of your own artwork.

Currently, you don't have to register your artwork to own the copyright. You own a copyright as soon as you create something. International law also supports this. Right now, registration allows you to sue for damages, in addition to fair value.

What makes me so MAD about this new legislation is that it legalizes THEFT! The only people who benefit from this are those who want to make use of our creative works without paying for them and large companies who will run the new private copyright registries.

These registries are companies that you would be forced to pay in order to register every single image, photo, sketch or creative work.

It is currently against international law to coerce people to register their work for copyright because there are so many inherent problems with it. But because big business can push through laws in the United States, our country is about to break with the rest of the world, again, and take your rights away.

With the tens of millions of photos and pieces of artwork created each year, the bounty for forcing everyone to pay a registration fee would be enormous. We lose our rights and our creations, and someone else makes money at our expense.

This includes every sketch, painting, photo, sculpture, drawing, video, song and every other type of creative endeavor. All of it is at risk!

If the Orphan Works legislation passes, you and I and all creatives will lose virtually all the rights to not only our future work but to everything we've created over the past 34 years, unless we register it with the new, untested and privately run (by the friends and cronies of the U.S. government) registries. Even then, there is no guarantee that someone wishing to steal your personal creations won't successfully call your work an orphan work, and then legally use it for free.

In short, if Congress passes this law, YOU WILL LOSE THE RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR OWN CREATIONS!

Why is this allowed to happen? APATHY and MONEY.

Artists have apathy and corporations have money.

We need to be heard in order to protect our incomes, our creations and our careers. GET OFF YOUR ASS!

That means writing letters to our congressmen and representatives. That means voicing your opinion about how we need copyright protection, as we've had since 1976, that protects everything we create from th... ]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17758125/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17758125/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:36:28 PDT Or have I been targeted for execution? Can I come with someone if I want to live, then?
Who? Suggestions? Does it have to be a terminator robot? Can it be a cute female one, like in the sarah o'connor chronicles?


The rules:
1. Post these rules
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Tags should write a journal of these facts
4. At the end, post 8 more bloggers whom you are tagging and name them.
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged
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1. I'm near sighted.

2. I currently have two pants.

3. I'm the admiral of the Etheral Legion of Mars.

4. I've got five siblings, including stepsisters.

5. I haven't eaten popcorn in at least four years.

6. I like raisins.

7. My palm is almost exactly ten cm across the inside of the knuckles.

8. I do not believe there is a god, at least not one of relevance to my fate.

I don't tag people, so bear with me, Lani.
I just can't be bothered.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17616410/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17616410/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:23:29 PDT
It appears my and every other Deviantartist has had their avatars replaced by mudkips.
And when I go to change my avatar, instead of the regular buttons I get "U doent liek Mudkips?"


That's actually rather funny, and no, I don't like mudkips as much as I like my Kadabra and my Medichamp. I also train a Manectric, as they're pretty cool looking and use lightning attacks, and I couldn't be without my Skarmory and its flying ability.

Besides, my Mudkip has evolved into a Swampert. It is now so huge I use it to terrorise the locals from my fortress on its back.

So, apart from the funny aspects, and well done to the hacker(s) behind it, now get it off!

This is a good opportunity to use a new avatar, though. Hmmm.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17396685/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17396685/ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:45:46 PDT Such relief! It all went smoothly. I'm now in possession of two oiled and, if I may say so myself, cleverly wrought stones.

Oh. If that seems inappropriate, I guess I have to specify that yeah, I mean geological stones. Exposure to Deviantart sure is healthy for development. I was browsing for works in stone here on DA before christmas, and I found this superb artist who had made a piece of jewelry out of quartz, which is an incredibly hard sort of rock crystal, and I asked how he'd had the patience to do it and with how many diamond heads for his dremel. he said he'd immersed it in water, which not only dispersed the problem of needing ventilation to suck away the dust, but also cooled down the diamond heads. Nicety nice. I'll show the results later, when I'm sure I've got good pictures of them. Or maybe I'll just scan them.
Ah. I feel good now.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17282793/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17282793/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:38:33 PDT [link]

I'm going to colour the others as well, but I may not use the actual drawings I've posted before. The movie star vigilante, probably, and some of the thugs, but the others might be redrawn or discarded.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17203305/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/17203305/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:16:59 PST
I'm devoting more time to the theatre troupe I'm currently leading, so I've got less time for the fun and career-making stuff. I'm going to learn Flash, I've got some training videos for it, that should be interesting. I've yet to make any concept art for the landscapes of "Your Kingdom" - which I am really looking forward to doing. Also, I've made many preparatory sketches for the free roaming platformer I am aching to make. Lastly, I've got some models for a cooperative project that I ought to finish. So Ive got lots to do.

All in all, things are the same as before.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/16874369/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/16874369/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:23:17 PST
And I am beyond 2000 pageviews. Cool. I'll put more stuff here, but I see I haven't really been too discriminating about what I put here. Also, I feel I need to do some more useful type of art or less useful, what I've got here all looks hobbyish. Somewhat. And I am not allowed to put my work stuff here, so I can't show that off. But I'm doing half-commercial stuff that will eventually be done, and I think I'll be able to put it here. And I want to do robots. I haven't in many, many years now. Hm. except for some Toony ones for a graphic story I seem unable to finish. It kinda died after being reworked a few times and I saw it wouldn't work. Sometimes I wonder if I am too self-critical. I've been told so on a few occasions, but I also see that most of what I finish doesn't seem to look polished enough.
I've got to learn some new techniques.

Anyways, yay for 2000, and I guess I could have put something up here, celebrating 2000 views. I'll think about it, but don't expect anything.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/16531089/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/16531089/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:03:38 PST I haven't used my aquarel watercolour pencils in a couple of years until last night. I am certainly going to use them more. I had planned to use acrylics, actually, but after I dug up my pencils I've changed my mind completely. I might have to get some more pencils for more colours, but for now I think I can blend them to a certain degree.

I've started making sketches for a game production bible, to a game I've described in my blog at [link]
The Warlock/Witch and Landsknecht are citizen models for the "Age of Tactics" game I've written about.

I've also started detailing a couple of car models for the Kybernesis group, and when they eventually are done, I will render them in as flattering a way as I think possible, and post them here. The cars as they are now look like cars, but they don't look like real cars yet. Just you wait.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/15913725/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/15913725/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:56:36 PST
I've ordered a black cartridge for my printer, and getting it will enable me to test my games, and thereby boost my inspiration for making more illustrations.

I've been looking at the work I've done, and I think I should do some more expressive art for the thugs and heroes of Vigilante, some war faces and such. A bit more Street Fighter-ish style, I guess.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/15687743/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/15687743/ Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:47:03 PST I thought I'd give it a try as I'm trying to take it easy today.
I've been sick this sunday and yesterday after taking care of my sick girlfriend, and I've gone to work today to see if I get better by being here. She got well enough to go to work yesterday, so...

1. Do you snore?
Usually when I've got a cold.

2. Are you a lover or a fighter?
What, I can't be both?

3. What’s your worst fear?
Hm. Why would I tell everyone that? I can say this much: it's not dying.

4. As a kid, were you a lego maniac?
I sure am... was.. am.

5. What do you think of “reality” tv?
Tv is real? *gasp*

6. Do you chew on your straws?
Contrary to popular belief, I am NOT a horse.

7. Were you a cute baby?
There are remarkably few pictures of me as a baby, so I'll have to guess..
Well, I guess people were too awestruck by my beauty to remember their cameras.
Yeah, that's it.

8. Is the single life for you?
Only if it involves more regular sex than being in a relationship.

9. What colour is your keyboard?
Grey. Black. Which one?

10. Do your sing in the shower?
If I'm happy.

11. Have you ever sky-dived before?
That depends on where the sky starts.

12. Any secret talents?
How would /I/ know?

13. What’s your ideal vacation spot?
If you go to Nice, down to the beach, and start off from the sand beach, go past the first two beachhead sections that only contain stone. I think that's the spot.

14. Can you swim?
Of course. On a planet with this much water surface?

16. Have you seen the movie "Donnie Darko”?
Yeah. What about it?

17. Do you give a damn about the ozone?
Sure. It's the smell of thunder.

18. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
I'd say... what, to the center? Um. What, exactly is a tootsie pop?

19. Can you sing the alphabet backwards?
Why would I? Is there a prize for it? A Guiness record?

20. Have you ever been on an airplane?
the Yes.

21. Are you a single child?
Only when my brothers aren't present.

22. Do you prefer electronic or manual pencil sharpeners?
No.

23. What’s your stand on hunting?
You kill it, you eat it. If possible, you wear it, too.

24. Is marriage in your future?
Hahahahaha, well... Hahaha. No. Why would it be?

25. Do you like your handwriting?
I like that I am able to write by the help of my hands.

26. What are you allergic to?
Pollen. Hazelnuts and almonds. Blind faith.

27. When was the last time you said 'I love you?'
Yesterday.

28. Is Tupac still alive?
Don't you read the news. What kind of question is that? Is Elvis alive?

29. Do you cry at weddings?
Haven't yet. Should I cry because it is so horrid?

30. How do you like your eggs?
Smiling.

31. Are blondes dumb?
Are you?

32. Where does the other sock end up?
If I knew that I wouldn't have lost any socks, would I?
I do suspect that there's a gnome who dissolves them and spreads them around to be lint bunnies.

33. What time is it?
09:22

34. Do you have a nickname?
Not that I know of. Hm. Should I?

35. Is McDonald's disgusting?
Argh, the fumes!

36. When was the last time you were in a car?
Friday, driven home from work.

37. Do you prefer baths or showers?
Showers. Don't like sitting in a pool of filth.

38. Is Santa Claus real?
Do you mean Fanta? I'm not very fond of Coca Cola.

39. Do you like having your neck kissed?
Oh. Oh, yeah.

40. Are you afraid of the dark?
Hahaha! The dark is afraid of me.

41. What are you addicted to?
Endorphines, I suspect.

42. Crunchy or creamy peanut butter?
Creamy peanutbutter looks like sick baby poo. Crunchy is so much better.

43. Can you crack your neck?
No, but I can crack my wrists, ankles and shoulder.

44. Have you ever ridden in an ambulance?
No.

45. How many times have you brushed your teeth today?
None. I brush in the evening.

46. Is drug free the way to be?
Sure. But painkillers do help.

47. Are you a heavy sleeper?
I weigh over 90 kg. You decide.

48. What colour are your eyes?
Blue.

50. Do you like your life?
Sure. T... ]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/15528531/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/15528531/ Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:04:25 PST All the things you try to wash off, they remain.
Sweat, stale sweat oozes out of my face in miniature portions,
too small to actually make my face wet, it is just the sweat of life,
not exercise, just the smell of body. And face.
Wonder what my face smells like to others?



I've simplified the Vigilante game, thereby reducing the amount of art I need to make. Yay!
Thus I might actually get to test the damned system as well. I've got these new game mechanisms I've devised, and I have to see if they work well.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/15428417/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/15428417/ Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:03:25 PST Why? Because every piece I do seem to be related to making some sort of product in one way or other. Like a game.

I've got some car models I have yet to texturise and two card/board games that need illustrations. I've got problems making the gangs of Vigilante into separately styled gangs, but the main problem is that I haven't devoted much time to it. Argh.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/14724110/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/14724110/ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:16:07 PDT Or so it used to be. I've gotten to the "in the good old days, everything was better" stage, apparently. The tv shows, per example. What we should have had when I was a kid was japanese toons instead of.. uh. Hm. Well, at the time, thundercats, He-man and transformers was cool. Even Jayce and the plant-things from outer space or whatitwascalled.

I'm gonna play an rpg again this sunday! Yay!
Gaming's too rare these days. I'm gamesmastering again, and I've decided to go with the Fireborn system, as there will be some combat, and fireborn combat is fairly dramatic. I've made the basics for an alternative magic system for fireborn as well, that allows for spontaneous magic, but it will be rather deadly if you fail to cast the spells properly. So learned and practiced sequences, or spells, will be safer to use.

The scenario I've made explores the relationship between humans and their gods.
I'm not going to explain more, as some of my players may read this.
This is the first scenario to be played in the campaign setting I've been developing together with some friends of mine. it's getting to be rather detailed and includes five civilisations, all layered together in an ecosystem that seems to work out fine.
In theory. I'm starting in one of the less explored ends of our world, and a bit earlier than "modern" time in our campaign world's history.
We're calling it "the Emerald Sea" because of the vast rainforest covering most of the known world. Airships plow the treetops of these extremely tall trees, and huge creatures lurk beneath that surface. Along ancient roads invisible from the air the colourful, masked nomads pull their carts from mountain Sito to outskirt village, the trade routes divided between their clans. Between the roots of the deeper forest, the beastfolk gibber and snatch, unknowing about the human peoples toiling around them.
In the high mountains at the end of the world, the wyrm raiders dwell, their people carving terraces of dirt in the mountainside, most of their foods used to support their raiders, who frequently attack the villages, flying ships and Sito of the High People.
In their many-towered cities, known as Sito, the High People receive materials and slaves from the rest of the world, they decorate their villas with treasures from ruined temples, and squabble amongst themselves for political power.
In the depths of the earth, lives a race more ancient than the emerald sea itself. Their magical power is said to rival the gods' powers. Gods who are said to have left this world. All but one. The golden faced sun god of the high people. The One of a thousand hands. The One who leads the chosen to the afterlife, away from the Soul eaters.

And I am really looking forward to playtesting the setting some.
Additionally, there's gonna be some cyberpunk roleplaying as well, sometime soon.
This is also to develop another campaign setting. Exciting stuff, but when am I gonna get the time, really? pft.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/14526448/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/14526448/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:55:07 PDT
I've found out that it is time to bring out the pencil again, and let the ballpen rest a bit.
The Vigilante game just falls behind as I am getting more and more impatient about making and playtesting The Quest. As The Quest depends on playtesting of Vigilante, this is a bit bad. I've been drawing stuff, but not much that I am comfortable with using for either game. I've even started doubting the art direction I've taken for Vigilante at this point. Maybe I should go even toonier.

I do have some characters I made for The Quest, but as I haven't decided on the final art style for that either, I'll leave them unscanned for now.
That, and my Scanner is still not being recognized by my computer.
Blasted windows, the driver is there!
Something happened at some point, I don't know what, and maybe it's got something to do with me having to replace the usb cable, but I got one of the same type as the original one. feceeeeeeeeeeeeees!

I've just moved. I've bought a place together with my girlfriend. Good times.
Ownage.

All I want now is Spore.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/13979091/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/13979091/ Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:25:34 PDT Some years ago we were comparable to a fundamentalist country, in that our church and state is one and we were ruled by a priest. Now the workers are back in power. Or so it appears. I am not sure about our government yet, but they seem to be doing okay. Better than the Christian Hypocrite Party anyways.

Recently our non-crown princess declared that she is starting a school.
Attending is $5000 per semester, and you'll learn to see and communicate with angels.
Nothing less than that. I want to see the contract where it says they guarantee results.
The ugly part about being on the receiving end of supposed revelation is that if you don't get it, well, then you're impure or undeserving. It is all your own fault.

Religion's great, isn't it? Whereas in science you may not grasp a new concept at once, but given time to study the basics, then advancing towards the new concept, you'll logically be able to understand it, or even dispute it, which, I think, is even better.
Being able to logically dispute an established concept would usually lead to improvement. The inability to accept this started the witch hunt, apparently.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/13600518/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/13600518/ Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:35:05 PDT
Vigilante is soon ready for testing. I realised it is a far simpler game than the Quest, as the quest will have more features than Vigilante, and be more focused on gear than maneuvers, which will be the main focus of Vigilante.

I've made three gangs for Vigilantes to fight now, but need to draw specific thug pictures for them, and backgrounds for the battle scenes, the Streets.
Also, the Crimelord needs his cards.

I really want a vacation, but there'll be none of that until we're done with this game at work. Vigilante is my own project, you know. Spare time stuff.
Wish I had more of that spare time. I'm still tired from working 0800 to 2100 every day of last summer. ]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/13171397/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/13171397/ Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:54:42 PDT I just need to spedify some aspects of the game first.
Then I need to make the card texts, and enough cards to test the fun factor.
Also, my assumptions of how many cards there should be of each type needs to be tested.

I need to draw more monsters and locations, as I've already got a collection of heroes. I've drawn some weapons, and need to make some other items as well.
I'm keen on testing the game soon, but I know it will take some time before I can do this. I'm really looking forward to this game. Masteroid is a strategy game that is over quick, and can become repetitive, but usually, you quickly see who is going to be the winner. In a fast-paced game, elimination of players is all right, but I generally prefer games where everybody plays until the end.

In the Quest, no player gets left out. The Overlord is always the antagonist, and the Heroes must cooperate or lose. There is no reward for the one hero, but for the group as one, as in some of the LOTR boardgames.

I am still uncertain of what style to do for the Quest artwork.
It could be fun to do it in a kiddie anime style, as in some of the Zelda games, but then I also want to promote it as a serious game, and maybe go for a gritty cthulhu-ish feeling. But then I have little experience in drawing tentacled horrors. I'll have to give it a shot. Perhaps spilling lots of ink and throwing white paint at it would work?
Hey, presto!

The stuff I have doen up until now looks like half-serious stuff, but not really good for anything but a placeholder, a little more natural than the Vigilante Pugilist sketches I've uploaded.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/13057634/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/13057634/ Tue, 22 May 2007 23:36:05 PDT But sure, I'd like an encyclopdia of the wizard world. Sure.
What's next, a pen and paper RPG. I can imagine Steve Jackson games' GURPS team have been trying to get the rights for it ever since book two.
Look:
[link]

Oh, and my brother needs to get a PS3, so I can play Little Big Planet:
[link]
I won't buy one, but if I was to, it would be for this game.

I've been drawing characters for Vigilante and the Quest, and making thumbnail sketches for monsters and Lords, but I can't decide on a particular look.
I'll draw a few sketches of different styles, and decide later.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12906650/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12906650/ Thu, 10 May 2007 01:35:41 PDT At least when it comes to vigilante and the Qeuest.
I've learned that I need to get other ideas out of my system as well, even if I am trying ot concentrate on one theme. Just sketching them is usually enough.
When I ignore these things and just keep them in the back of my mind, they clutter and clog the system and I don't get anything good past them.
Tried drawing an archer last night. Didn't go too well. Drew sketches for some jacket marks or whatchacallem. Went all right. But I'd rather have drawn the archer well.

I've been obsessively playing final fantasy tactics advance lately.
It's one of the best games in the final fantasy series. Being able to change jobs is cool, and in a tactics game it is essential. An advantager over other FF job systems in Tactics: You can use abilities from former jobs when you enter a new job. Why isn't FFIII like that, huh? Huh? You tell me, Square!

I've been planning to do something I haven't done in a satisfactory manner in about fifteen years: Draw landscapes. I need to draw landscapes for the Quest and Vigilante. I never draw landscapes. Almost never. Buildings, sure, but usually one at a time.
sure, I've drawn landscapes while looking at them, but that isn't the same.
I guess I can make it if I make up some cool feature in a building, rock formation or something and then focus on that and just fill in the blanks around that. Yeah.
I'll give it a shot.

I'm planning a costume for this laiv I'm going to in a few months.
It's a cross between a Raggedy Al doll and a Final Fantasy black mage, I think.
Some of it will be in preparation for another role as a jester in red, "the Red Riddler".
Oh, and I'm going to make the biggest sword used in a laiv ever. In true Final Fantasy tradition. Compensating for something? Oh no, It's just Japanese, meaning I have a troubled past or something heavy on my mind as well as my shoulders. Really.

What's your favourite monster?
Mine must be fish people or owlbears. I practically hate centaurs, hobbits and dwarves, loathe griphins and manticores, but kinda like sphinxes and owlbears.
What can I say, it's complicated. Mainly, I don't like stupid animal mixes that don't look like one animal, but just a taxidermy accident. Hobbits and dwarves are just silly.
"Kick the baby!" Aim for the hobbit instead.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12785157/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12785157/ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:09:05 PDT ...
Or rather, it's a way to prevent colon, prostate and breast cancer from happening.
Lack of Vitamin D seems to cause these most deadly forms of cancer.
As human sources of vitamin D is mainly produced in their own skin, people in the north, like Norway, are globally screwed. Sure, there's D in fish like Salmon, trout and tuna, but 15 minutes full body exposure to the sun is a far better source.
Oh, and far north, the sun isn't really strong enough.

Cringing castrates, Batman, what should we do?

Look for yourself, then wiki Vitamin D.
[link]

I'm getting good at drawing quickly, and I've got some hero drawings for The Quest, so I'll start making monsters soon, as well as landscapes. I'm looking forward to that as well. And even more to the first playtest.

Vigilante is coming along as well, but I'm needing more inspiration for it.
Got any suggestions for sources of inspiration pertaining to street fighters and martial artist vigilantes? Please?

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12663479/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12663479/ Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:47:44 PDT Took three hours. Spotted some flaws in one of the clans,
but the system seems to be alright.

I'm still working on the Quest, making character sketches and concepts.
I'm into the hero abilities as well, but I think it's time to organize my notes digitally, as it is too large a project for the notebook now. As it should be. Shows good progress.
I should make a progress plan. Yup.

Looking forward to drawing the minions I've named too. It's fun and very motivating working on several pieces that go together under the same project, towards completing a bigger goal. Ah. I want to play my game.

Guns. Why is it that people who claim video games are the source of violence get taken seriously by conservative americans? Is it because conservativism means "afflicted by technophobia and logical fallacy?" I would believe the presence of guns would be the first reason that people get shot in today's USA. Without guns, someone might still be hurt, but probably rather with a knife or by bludgeoning or by hand.
Which would mean that a smaller amount of people would get hurt.
Also, I believe the treshold of attacking someone barehanded or with a knife is higher than pointing a gun at someone and shooting. Especially when shooting at several people. True, we have knife killings here in Norway, and sure, there are stories of someone who shot themselves and their family once in a decade, or someone, usually a guy, holed up in his house (in the country) shooting at their neighbours, but not really hitting anyone. But that's rare. And people almost never actually get shot.
Now, is it the gun that allows them to do this? Yes.
How many times in my lifetime has it happened that someone in Norway has knifed their whole family and themselves? Never. At least not from what has been published in the media. I might be rambling here, but still, isn't it logical?
Guns make killing easy, not games.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12561472/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12561472/ Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:37:44 PDT There are two sides. One player controls all the monsters, and tries to hinder the hero team from reaching their objectives. The players have to complete a list of objectives to reveal the main objective, which they must defeat to win the game.
The Overlord or monster master or plot master or whateverlord must deprive the heroes of all their Fate points to win the game. At his disposal are dangerous monsters and cataclysmic events, like earthquakes, volcano eruptions and suchlike disasters. A rain of slugs, perhaps. Probably more apocalyptic events.

The lands, spells and powers of this world will be seen as infused with various elements, some stronger in certain areas than others. This affects spells, what monsters to expect and what threats to take seriously from the Overlord.
These elements will probably be known as Fire, Lightning, Ice, Nature and Death.
You may argue that death is part of nature, but the element of death represents the unnatural manipulation of unholy forces associated with necromancy and spirits of the dead.

Why make this game?
Because

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12438568/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12438568/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:12:38 PDT
After having a series of nights falling, I realised this was a dream, maybe out of recognition. And I decided I wouldn't be hurt for real if I fell all the way from this tall cliff and onto the hard earth floor underneath. I decided to see what happened. I thought all these things in mid-air of course. Then I hit the ground. I remember thinking: "Now I am dead. I can't move." But I could still see, and turn my eyes. and I heard people coming over, saying, "Oh, did you see him fall? Is he dead?" And I replied: "Yes I am dead."

After this I tried not landing instead, making me fly. I mentioned transferring the waking up technique from my "being chased by monsters" dreams. This time I transferred the flying technique from falling dreams into monster dreams. I could fly away from the monsters... most of the time. It gave me an advantage. I had nightmares of great magnitude far into my teens. I got rid of them by taking control of my dreams, gradually, until they were only challenges, and fewer than one dream a year now leaves me with my heart racing in the middle of the night.

I don't know when I developed the ability to use Telekinesis in my dreams, but I did it early. I learned controlling dream flight around 5-7 years of age, so maybe TK two or three years later. I don't really know. I've done it for very long, and I'm sure many others do as well, to some degree. Some times I've been able to manifest energy by proxy, never making lightning or fire erupt from my hands, but rather making someone be hit by lightning from the sky. Always at dramatic climaxes, of course.

Very often, nobody notices my telekinetic manipulation of objects. Either they deny it, like one dream where I lift my brother 3 meters (about 9 ft) into the air, and he still denies my telekinetic power, or they don't understand what is happening.
In tonight's dream my father's father (Farfar) was surprised by how the jugs of water would lift themselves off the table, and he told me to quit playing pranks like that on old people. He was angry, and didn't want to know how it worked. It seemed he and everone else involved decided it was done with wires somehow, and wanted me to stop.

I'd so love to know telekinesis in real life. I know the sensation I get at the back of my neck and lower forehead when I use it in my dreams, as if it is a real sensation I could reproduce. When I fly, I feel a sensation down my spine, and in the same place in my head, it's like a snake of cool wool up behind my ears and through my temples to the third eye spot in my forehead.

If memories are real, I know telekinesis and how to use it under the right circumstances. If memories are not real, I never wrote this or any of t he other journals, because even though I remember it, this isn't real. I think we all live in the past, and there is no present. My conscious mind is observing my actions, pretending I am making decisions.

Some biochemists and physics scientists believe that you don't decide to do anything. Before you make the decision, you've already acted upon the situation. If you're deciding upon kicking a dead horse or emptying the glass, you may kick the dead horse before the signal to kick it appears in your brain. The pattern that appears in your brain every time you kick something appears after you've kicked. Not before. Where is the decision made? When there is no signal before the action? No signal that travels from the brain, down the neck into the arm and finally the fingers closing around the glass? But possibly the other way around?

I suppose they could have been looking in the wrong places. But they have been and they are looking in quite a lot of places for quite some time. Maybe their equipment isn''t sophisticated enough yet. I want to know. "Where are the decisions made?" Whether we have free will or not isn't so important, because we'll still be appearing to make decisions. That's how we work. It doesn't really make a difference, does it?

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12438377/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12438377/ Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:37:29 PDT
]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12254976/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12254976/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:09:25 PDT I'm cursing Goldor the greedy asshat for breaking the fire crystal when the ninja job could be just within my grasp. Damn him! Damn him to tarnation! Uh.. wherever that is. The place where they produce tardiness, I suppose. In a can. And if you fill it with water after you've emptied it of tardiness, it becomes refilled. This time, however, it is full of re-tardiness. Enjoy.

Dark knights are the best. Soul-devouring power for chibi characters... Hm. Strange.
The nest Final Fantasy should be a big long first person RPG based on FF7. Or *retch* an MMO based on FF7. It's got a very good setting for it. Magic and science go together real well there. or bad, but in a good way. You know. Don't you? You do, don't you? Well, do ya, punk? Anyway, magic and motorcycles.

The real challenge with persistent MMOs now is Change. Players should be able to shape the world while playing. "What, someone destroyed King Apenuts castle on the Poofling server? Really? On ours its the most popular place around. We use Kingpoo for currency. So, how do you like them moon-catapult transports? You don't have them? Oh, yeah, you can go to the moon, but you need a crazy assortment of buffs and equips to get there. Oh, and something to actually propel you there, of course."

But I live in Dreamland, and our hardware is incompatible with yours, so... maybe in a few decades. maybe. And we'll all be riding flying cars. Yeah right. And eat pills for breakfast instead of real food. Um. wait. I think the pill bit is true for some people already. Okay, bad example. But, hey, flying cars, huh? Nuh-uh.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12151735/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/12151735/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:14:01 PDT Their winter is like our summer. It was nice.
Our hotel was on the edge of the SF slum area, apparently, but the hotel didn't seem to suffer from that. Meaning it still wasn't great, but the service was good, and it was clean. Like many other places in San Francisco, it had lots upon lots of fake features, like painted-on doorframes and windowsills.

The Game Developer's Conference was an interesting place.
The most interesting part of the expo was the independent game developers area, showcasing the nominees for the independent games awards. Check out Samorost 2, it's a puzzle adventure game, and a beautiful one at that. I've just been through the first two "pictures" of the story, but I'm gonna play it some from here as well.

Do check out the demo of Roboblitz as well, it's an action 3d person game, with lots of physics used, both in animation and in weapons/utilities. Good graphics, as well.

Something else entirely: Did you know that Monthy Python's Flying Circus was the highest rated tv-show in Japan in 1976, and it was retitled The Gay Boys Dragon Hour?
Crazy Japanese...

Oh, one of Ronin's friends in SF, Eliza, took us to a Goth club.
If you've played Vampire Bloodlines, you've seen how real american goths dance.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11902876/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11902876/ Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:57:28 PST
"The story is about a traveler who must work with an exorcist. It takes place on an ancient planet. The story begins with someone getting a new job, climaxes with the discovery of a long-lost relative, and ends with a tragedy. The fallout from World War I plays a major role in this story."

I'd really like to read that story, or see it as a movie. But then I'd have to write it myself. The climax with the discovery of a long-lost relative is difficult for me to imagine. I suppose it is because I can't think of any such climax that I've seen anywhere. Hm. if it was a lost sibling or suchlike I suppose it could be climatic, but then that'd have to be tied in with the main plotline. Fun, this.

Soon Vigilante Pugilist can be tested properly.
When VP is done, I'll keep working on Invasion, as I do now, but also start working on a more classic fantasy rpg-ish board/card game with many of the same rules as Vigilante. I've got many many ideas for this. I think it'll be good.

Really looking forward to the Game Developers Conference. I'll probably not have access to more than the expo and maybe some workshops, but I'm happy anyway. Actually I thought I'd never go to the US, but all it takes is a pass to GDC.
I'm in the industry and a game junkie to boot, so no surprises, really.

Looking forward to Spore.
Watch the half-hour presentation by will wright on youtube. It's amazing.
Been waiting for this game for over half a year now.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11717564/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11717564/ Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:57:51 PST
That's a cool thing, as the new place is double the size of the old one.
Not as in Ithaqua or Tsathogghua or those old ones, but as in the place I used to live before now.

Frustration is not having time or space to draw more. I've got some thumbnail sketches for Vigilante Pugilist I'd like to draw properly, but when? And where? Still have a lot of unopened boxes and stash. Computer's up, though. So I can play games when I'm tired of unpacking stuff. I get easily tired now.

My girlfriend and I managed to finish off our opponents in Age Of Wonders 2 before she left to visit her sister this week. I made a small map with 8 opponents and lots of goodies. I love turn-based strategy games, and AoW2 is the best one I've played. As Turn-based games is a dead genre now I suppose I'll have to make a lot of backups of AOW2 so I don't ever lose it. Grr. I want another turnbased strategy game with magic and stuff.

Been reading Erfworld, a webcomic. It's drawn in a very cute style, and the setting is inside a turn-based strategy wargame.

Grrrr. Maybe I'll have to make my own TBS game. pft.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11656117/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11656117/ Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:25:33 PST
Deviant Smallchange displayed her favourite results from a google search of
"name is", providing some hilarious results, like that she is developing the next generation of robots, among other things.

So, I tried with my name, and I was surprised there were results at all;
"Ståle is the leader of Gamle Oslo Venstre." (Old Oslo Left -Political party)
"Ståle is not a swedish mobile phone"
"Ståle is going to be fit till wednesday."
"Ståle is available here."
"Ståle is the narrator and main character in this novel."
"Staale is not a member of any public groups." -oh yeah?
"Staale is planning to read!"

My favourite;
"Ståle is an unknown quantity at this point."

I might be going to San Fransisco in March. To Gamedevelopers Conference.

I so happy.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11642496/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11642496/ Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:21:45 PST It was called Welcome to Wizardville or Wizardsville or something like that, unless the real title was printed in small print at the bottom of the upper side. It was illustrated by John Kovalic (Dork Tower, Munchkin and other Steve Jackson games). The players were to play the parts of wizards who make their own lair or dungeon, and send adventurers to mess up the other's dungeons. The goal was to kill off seven of the other wizards' adventurers. Looks like fun, resembles Magic; the gardening. Yes, the gardening. Played with Magic, and the wizards each have their garden, which they expand with swamps, patches of forest and so on, and they have to explain what happens when they play a card and why, or they can't play that or do that.
"My gardener (taps Force of Nature) misunderstood where the boundaries of my garden were, and invades upon your garden with a giant lawnmower golem."
"Oh, alright, I see. He happens to run into my wall of thorns."

Anyways.
I didn't buy Welcome to Wizardsville at first, as I wanted to read a bit about it on boardgamegeek.com first, if there were any reviews. But no, there were no reviews. And two days later, both the boxes I'd seen were gone. Bugger.
And Steve Jackson games haven't updated their pages since November last year, the limp, wrinkly wieners.

Maybe someone else made the game, john kovalic didn't illustrate it and it's got no such thing as wizard or ville or welcome in its actual name? If so, it'd explain why I can't find it anywhere. (-Damn Google.)

Hot fudge.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11550651/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11550651/ Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:59:13 PST You have creationists, who, in resistance against the overwhelming reality of physical science, fiercely persist in the belief of a physical heaven on earth and mainly that the world came to be as described in the bible. Evolution is wrong, they say, and it cannot be proven to be right, because nothing ever evolves into something new, an organism may either lose an attribute or add more of an already existing attribute.
Meaning, getting more legs is not evolution, and a human covered in feathers is just funny hair. They also say that changes don't happen in millions of years, but in short leaps. Further on, they say that the dinosaurs lived in the same age as mankind, but were killed in the flood when Noah was told to build a big-ass boat.
The tenacity of the religiously retarded will be the downfall of our civilization and possibly mankind.

That great evolution may happen in short leaps I can agree to. The rest is a load of putrescent backwards-minded religious fanatism. Possibly caused by fear of our modern time, and concepts unfathomable unless you are correctly informed. By learning how to observe the world and explain what you see and experience.
There is no God to fear. Fear-mongering is what's made the USA to be what it is today. Hooray to that.

Today I learned that there's a mathematician who wants to convince you that human history only goes back to 800 AD. Everything before that is either fictional or happened in the middle ages. There is no dark ages, he says. Renaissance people built Egypt and every other wonder around the world. Monks wrote the history books, and it is all a christian plot.
WTF?!
And he's basing it mostly on statistics. He is selling books on his revised history on amazon and other places. Fumenko, is his name, check it out an choke in futile anger, you too. Basing it on statistics?! You would be better off assembling ancient history based on breakfast cereal packaging from the last ten years. Statistics are never correct. Mathematics always get the correct results, if you compute correctly, but these results are based on no more information than you are feeding them. History is such a complex subject, that calculating how much is correct and not is more stupid than sticking your head up a diving octopuss' mouth and expect to be breathing in there. What? you can?
All I can say is "What about other sources? The christian monks falsified middle-eastern books? East Asian books? What? Renaissance people built the pyramids? The ancient greek temples, the oldest parts of constantinople, palaces and ruins of rome? And everybody thought they were ancient right away, but actually, they were new? Get a grip! What kind of anarchist nihilist movement are these people a part of?"

I'm no conspiracy theorist, I just believe in the inherent ignorance and stupidity in Humanity, and I hope some of the less mind-murderous can convince these *sound of twisting, smoldering iron* people that they are quite insane to serve people runny, infectuous crap packed inside the covers of a book.

Interesting ideas, as fiction. Hey, L. Ron Hubbard managed to make thousands believe his fiction to be real. Earned loads of money, got to use a lot of people before he died.
Interesting idea.

Moo moo and Baa baa.
Did you know the Yip yip martians actually made mankind out of the spare parts from cockroaches? Actually, these roaches were supposed to be spiders, but the Yipyips wanted to make more of the parts they got, so they made some roaches and lots of humans. They came back once in a while to make changes, and every time they added a new culture as well. Last thing they added was yoga vegans. they're running out of ideas, so they came up with a variety of rampant mercenary; creationists and historical revisionists.
Can you believe that? Got a spaceship? I want off this planet if the majority starts thinking like the above mentioned people.

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]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11477047/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11477047/ Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:54:17 PST
I made a three more sketches yesterday, and I'm rather pleased with myself.
I'll milk this newfound way of drawing as long as it lasts. Ohyeah.
One of my yesterday sketches were a plumber with a cap, mallet and carpenter pants (Snekkerbukse, for pokker, sainntja) - meaning the kind of pants that has straps that go over the shoulders. It's supposed to be a pun on a popular video game character, but it isn't very obvious. My plumber is a girl, unlike the original.

I'll scan and upload these soon, but I'm on the move, so I'll be putting all my belongings into little cardboard boxes the next few days, and oh, the next week as well.

But it is all yayness, for I am moving into a place with a big teevee and dryer and dishwasher. Yum! A teevee for my Wii. I'm gonna order a Wii soon. Real soon.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11393432/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11393432/ Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:46:35 PST When it really is winter, that is. Like now.
The snow fell during the night, covering the city in a thin blanket of white.
Cool air soothes me as I step outside, and I feel the bacteria inhabiting my skin dying from the temperature drop. In all this clean white, I smell almost nothing, no exhaust, rotting vegetable carcasses, no reeking trashcans. I imagine bugs freezing in midwalk as the snow falls, some curling up and simply cease functioning, possibly reawakening.
But today it is a joyous day, for the world does not stink, my head is cold, and the bugs do not walk.

I discovered Lojban yesterday. Discovered, in the terms the word is used about columbus. It was already there, but I hadn't seen it before, so I discovered it. Lojban is a pidgin language. I find it interesting, because it is constructed out of logical principles and what words most people in the world use to describe things. Naturally, a good part of the words are of a chinese influence. There's a good comeback to any statement including "most people", like "Most people watch tv every day." -Most people live in China. Anyhoo, I digress. One of the principles of this language is that no two meanings share the same word. e.g. In english, "great" can mean big, and good. Words like that can create misunderstandings. So in Lojban, there's no such thing. You can joke, lie and speak in metaphores, as I understand it, but never say anything that can be misunderstood literally.

My Beat-emup boardgame is coming along nicely. Working title; Vigilante Pugilist.
Invasion still isn't ready to play, and I believe Vigilante Pugilist is going to be first played. It is a game inspired by Beat'em ups like final fight, bruce lee, brawl brothers and such old games. Those mentioned were for super nintendo, but I guess some of them could have been ported to amiga or pc, though I doubt it.

I've had some frustrations with drawing lately, but they dissolved yesterday, as I managed to draw some characters for Vigilante Pugilist. I used a ball pen, and I really feel that's what I like drawing with the most. So. I'll keep doing that. The felt tip pens and other suchlike are too flimsy and runny for my hand. I'll go get a bunch of black ones.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11370237/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11370237/ Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:10:06 PST Wonder if it's the same in norwegian. Too bad I don't know anyone Studying Norwegian. Makes he\she unnecessary. Ahh. Relief.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11282899/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11282899/ Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:07:12 PST
I had a great idea for a card/board game this week. Or last week, whatever.
-A beat'em up game. It'll be nicely done, as I've some mechanics I've never seen in a board game before, so I'm looking forward to testing it sometime in the future.
Now, the work I have left is fleshing out cards, as the mechanics are in place.
Oh, and artwork, of course. Rudimentary sketches of people fighting in 80's style gang wear.

So I suppose it'll be ready for testing in september.
My Invasion game needs fleshing out as well, and I've been struggling with giving it a viable variation in cards against the number of different cards making a deck.

Both games are basically card games with board elements and dice.
I'd really like to win the lottery (LOTTO) so I'd have the money to publish one of my games.
I've been playing and reworking one game for years, and had a handful of other games that only became test games and didn't get any more work. It's what I like to work with.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11140294/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11140294/ Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:24:06 PST We managed to stay safe for some time due to not acting like slaves. We did have to fight a lot to get back, but as we were mystics and I (as I often do) had telekinetic powers, we managed to get back... or get out of there, anyway. I seem to remember a vast darkness and some entity speaking in our minds. hm.

I've uploaded some christmas cards I made entirely by hand, no digital effects.
They'll never ever be improved beyond their current state, and so I put them here.
I am aware of their crude unrefined nature, but they are finished, and therefore eligible for uploading as anything but scraps.

God natt.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11112590/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11112590/ Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:09:13 PST I started off once again in Romsdalen, or Møre, if you will. No specified place in that region. I was traveling to some place to work. Physical work, I think. There was a long fjord and an asphalt road 1 and a half lane broad. Pine trees everywhere. I suppose it was spring, as it was kinda wet, and the trees were a brilliant green. It was in the evening. The sun had already sunk behind the mountains, and the sky got progressively darker as I walked along this road. I was wearing white shorts, a small jacket and a tshirt, even though I don't wear Tshirts. Oh, and shoes. I imagine they were rubber boots for some reason.
A bus came by an picked me up. This may have been the first vehicle to pass by, but I am uncertain. I felt som sort of urgency to get away from the road.
This bus was going to germany, and was full of norwegian tourists. They were all between 50 and 70 years old, and all very happy.
We stopped at a gas station with an unusually roomy interior. Other cars would stop here, and sometimes, drunk youths with old, noisy, ugly cars would be asses around and inside the station. My brother K came from somewhere in that shop. I think he'd been looking for me. We were waiting for something or someone there.
At some point later, I was in Germany with the older tourists. There was a party, a nachspiel, though I don't remember going to any pubs, clubs or anything like that in advance. An ex-girfriend arrived at the party, and we talked about our past. However, our recollection of our common past was vastly different, and I thought she probably was someone else. I did not tell her this, as she'd probably be offended.



Nicked this name list thingy from SmallChange's journal, who in turn nicked it from someone else. Some of these name formulas are silly and useless, but it's kinda fun nonetheless. More fun than wiping your eyeballs with rough toiletpaper, anyway.

1. YOUR SPY NAME: (middle name and current street name)
Ståle Klostergata

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your favorite candy)
Odd Chocolate

3. YOUR RAP NAME: (first initial of first name, first three or four letters of your last name)
S Tevi

4. YOUR GAMER TAG: (a favorite color, a favorite animal)
Red Hawk

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Ståle Trondheim

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name)
Tevmer Den

7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwards)
Elåts Remmahdie

8. PORN STAR NAME: (first pet's name, the street you grew up on)
Den Sorte Kanin Fra Inlè Måssåveien

9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, the automobile your mom drives)
The Red Honda

10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME: (first name of a main character in the last movie you watched, last food you ate)
Aragorn Meatballs

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11035397/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/11035397/ Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:59:47 PST My brother stopped by, and when he tried to explain to me what the dog wanted, he temporarily turned into a talking dog himself.
I was sitting on the balcony of that house, and there were mice coming out of the door, from the kitchen. Someone threw a cat after them, but the cat was so small, the mice could use it for a horse, which they did. I remember going down to the water as the sunlit sky darkened and rainclouds covered the sky. There were huge tank boats there. Some woman with dark hair followed me there, and told me "They'll be here soon, and then there'll be war." I felt some sort of relief, hearing that, even though I knew the great magnitude of destruction that'd follow.

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/10955064/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/10955064/ Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:33:14 PST Oh, I like joyous eating and fattening in the harsh midwinter.

Midwinter isn't as harsh as it used to be, though.
There is no snow. At least not in Trondheim, deep in its fjord.
The birch trees have started springing out in bloom again.
That's at least three months early!

Oh, and I despise Yaoi, and resent finding it when I search for seemingly non-related things on deviantart.
Why? Do you have to ask why? Then you're either a fangirl, or you're gay.
I prefer being asked why by gay people, because I understand their angle.
I despise Yaoi for taking characters out of concept, and making them something they are not. It is a given that any main character from Square Enix is a girlie-boy, and may look extremely effeminate, but heretoforth I haven't seen or heard of any account of any one of them being gay or even bisexual. And when placed in a yaoi fanfic, they are made what they are not. Which takes them out of concept and soils my impression of these game and toon characters.
Fiction is easy to oversee, and just not read, though.
Pictures, once seen, are hard to unsee. If you can, at all.

Yaoi

I Cross my Fingers an Hope to Not See Yaoi

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/10807471/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/10807471/ Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:26:32 PST
I wrote a story in rhymes about a mechanic who builds a machine to divide time. What happens is that the machine makes everybody stressed out to fit more action into every little tidbit of time. This lasts until the mechanic realises this, and destroys the machine. Instead of being grateful, the townspeople attack him and he is judged guilty of destroying the basis of existence, time, and gets a death sentence. He manages to escape the mob and goes outside the enormous city, into mysterious forests, lands in the clouds and the dark depths of depression and self loathing.
I wrote it some years ago, and made sketches for the illustrations.
The illustrations were to be photos of poseable dolls and scenery.

Now I thought I'd try doing that with my illustrated story, Dran of Poon.
It's not a comic, as it isn't comedy, and I don't think it's a graphic novel, either.
All dialogue is to be in glyphs unique to this storyline.
Now, to buy large amounts of FIMO and CERNIT.



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]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/10719855/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/10719855/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:51:25 PST Stuff that isn't finished, and won't be in its current form.
There used to be a "View Scraps" hotlink, but no more. pft.
This is where my scraps are:
[link]

]]> ~herrTevik http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/10708992/ http://herrTevik.deviantart.com/journal/10708992/ Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:00:11 PST This game is something I've been developing over many years now.
I've been in conversation with various companies about distribution,
but as it will be rather expensive to produce as it is now, I'll be concentrating on my other games instead. They're mostly card games, and are cheaper to produce.
Non-collectible card games, mind you.

Maybe I should post pictures of the pieces.
I do own a camera that might do them justice.
Posting sketches of the pieces could convey more about the setting, though.
I don't know if I should post them anyway, as I'd not want anyone to rip off my idea.
Of course, the rules are safe, but still.

I'm gonna draw some prettier pictures of my nomadic mutants and post them here.
Then I'll post some random pieces from my sketchbooks.

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