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Red and Wolf
Concept artist Lin Ran cranks out yet another beautiful fairy tale inspired Grimm image. Check it out below.
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Scary Monsters
Our latest addition to the Spicy Horse team, Lin Ran, is an amazing concept artist with an immense range of ability and styles. The stuff he’s been doing for our latest project is stunning. Here’s a sample:
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2007
Happy 2007!! Life in Shanghai has been great. Busy but great. We’ve moved Spicy Horse to new offices, have brought on some additional team members, and have been doing “lab tests” for the new game concept. A Feng Shui master told us that our new offices are haunted by zombies. The Feng Shui master even…
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Violence, game and other
On a topic that I’ve grown tired of even thinking about, video game violence, I recently read the following… First this: Video Game Violence Goes Straight to Kids’ Heads TUESDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) – A study of adolescents finds that violent video games stir up the brain’s emotional-response center while reducing activity in regions…
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Dags?
While dealing with the bureaucracy of starting a business in China I’ve also been trying to find a place to live in Shanghai. A straight-forward enough task – get an agent, view houses, etc. Some of the locations are at a distance from the new office, so I’ve been thinking of buying a gas scooter.…
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Poke, Poke, Prod
Welcome to Shanghai, now bend over. Yesterday we went to the doctor. But it was more like an assembly line of poking and prodding. A model of Chinese scale and efficiency. The goal: To be certified as healthy, happy, and sane before acquiring our China live/work visas. At the beginning things were pretty standard for…
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Call for Sponsors
My Shanghai-based game development studio and our sister game art-outsourcing company (Vykarian – www.vykarian.com) are running a video game art contest in China to spotlight the best and brightest game art talent in the country. We are working in partnership with a China’s most prominent gamer/IT magazine, “PopSoft” (www.popsoft.com.cn). In addition to their huge online…