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(From "Crime Must Pay the Penalty" number 3, 1948.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
(Mashlagoo was kind enough to put together this nifty guide for how to make a portal effect in HeroMachine 3. It's great stuff, I hope you enjoy it! -- Jeff.)
The intended purpose of this guide is to show how multiple backgrounds can be combined to create the illusion of a portal.
I assume the reader has a certain level of familiarity with using HM3. So, I will not be covering much of the process I used to create the background to the left. I will instead only be covering how the effect of the portal was made and what I used to create the border of the portal.
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Instead of Open Critique Day, I want to try something new -- I think we should all get to know each other better. To that end, in the comments below I invite you to answer the following question about yourself:
(Via Comically Vintage.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
DiCicatriz and I have finished his prize for coming in second overall in the last Friday Night Fights. Here's the character description and visual I was sent:
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, Friday Night Fights
Not that kind of ho ... probably. We'll see. This is a family adventure, after all. The votes are in and we're proceeding to Earth:
Your trip to Earth goes smoothly; your craft smoothly brakes as it approaches Earth's atmosphere. Suddenly you can't see anything through your windows but the dense clouds that cover the planet.
A voice comes from speakers on the instrument panel. "Greetings from Earth Orbit Monitor Twenty-Two-Two-Two. We have been advised by Suprema Eight-seven to the Fifth Power that you wish to land. Normally, only archaeologists and reconstructionists visit Earth. It is not classified as a habitable planet. Nearly all descendants of Earth survivors have moved to distant colonies. Are you sure you want to land? If not, we can redirect you to Sintra, which has an environment similar to the one Earth had during its prime eons."
On one hand, Sintra sounds a lot like Sinatra. A planet full of blue-eyed crooners and swingers might be just the ticket, since Earth looks like nothing more than a second-rate Venus by now.
On the other hand, it's Earth, baby! The Caves of Time are there, too, so maybe we could make our way to some more exciting locale.
Which'll it be, intrepid explorers?
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The votes are in and we're heading back to decrepit old broken-down Earth! Perhaps my future as a travel brochure writer is in jeopardy. Regardless, off we go!
You wake up in a tiny spacecraft. You're in a chair molded to your body. Stars are visible in all directions. To your left and slightly behind you is Saturn with its spectacular rings. To your right is Jupiter. Its famous "red" spot has broken into three flecks of orange, but its four largest moons are as prominent as they were to Galilelo when he discovered them long before you were born.
Directly ahead is a red-hued planet -- Mars. You must be close to it, because it looks brighter and larger than Jupiter even though its diameter is twenty times smaller.
Beyond Mars is another planet. The large moon near it tells you that it must be Earth, but it doesn't look like the Earth you remember, with the swirls of white clouds over blue oceans and brown-and-green-hued land masses. The entire planet is covered with thick gray clouds!
Has the sun stopped shining on the Earth? Is its total cloud cover the result of the "greenhouse effect," caused by the increase of carbon dioxide in the air? Scientists warned that this might happen back in your own time.
Why does Edward Packard hate America?
Could you stand to live on such a planet? It's a horrible prospect, but where else can you go? Mars, perhaps. Maybe there's a colony there, and Mars is quite close by. You look at the instrument panel and control levers. It may take a while to learn how to steer this craft, but the computer will take care of the hard part. Why not take control and head toward Mars? If you see signs of a colony, you could land; otherwise continue to Earth.
Phrases like "the computer will take care of the hard part" strike terror into the soul of this former Dell technical support guy. "Coming in for a landing now, Cap -- BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!" But hey, maybe by the future Windows will be less buggy. The question is, do we continue on like stalwart, stubborn adventurers of old, or are we more of the freelancing, take a chance as it comes kind of guy?
I'll try to let this vote go for just a few hours then go with whatever's ahead then, so we can try to get in more adventure today.
(Text and images ©1985, 2010 by Edward Packard.)
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Posted in Return to the Cave of Time, RPG Corner
(From "Crime Must Pay the Penalty" number 3, 1948.)
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I've just posted B. Clouser's prize for winning Caption Contest 91, a realistic Human Heart:
It's now available in Insignia-Nature, at the very end.
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
I've just posted Lime's prize for winning Character Contest 52. She requested "something Japanese" and given the popularity of the Oni mask, I went with a Kabuki mask:
It is now available in Headgear-Mask.
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
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