https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN6KUvYaUIU This is the first time anyone involved in video has made a short film and I don’t think you can tell. Filmed with a Canon 600D and Canon 550D, Relic is a post-apocalyptic film that follows a 15 year old boy trying to survive the loss of his family. I think the running effects […]
Archives for April 2014
Pasts, Personas & Prophecies funds
There’s about two days left on the Kickstarter clock and the indie RPG Pasts, Personsa & Prophecies has made it past their $8,484 funding goal. The pitch video introduces a lightweight, story focused RPG with an interesting use of prophecies to drive character development. This European blogger is struck by the “super radical” use of […]
Frankenstein’s Bodies from Andrew Harman
Andrew Harman might be best known as the author of books like The Sorcerer’s Appendix, Talonspotting and The Frogs Of War but he also worked with Iain Lowson and others on Dark Harvest: Tales of Promethea which is a collection of novels based on the Dark Harvest RPG. It’s Dark Harvest that’s inspired this card […]
Music video: The Lava
The Lava is a song by the French ban Equateur. The music video a sci-fi styled with bold colours and shapes, filled with robots and drama. The animation is by Kadavre Exquis and very much on form for the shop. If you like the song you can grab it from iTunes.
Momo Kyun Sword trailer
Momo Kyun Sword won’t win any prizes for sensible female armour design. Despite the impression the trailer might give, which also acts to introduce the theme song “Momorio Fantasy” by Haruka Chisuga, Momo Kyun Sword is actually based on a famous Japanese folklore. The story Momotaro (which translates as Peach Boy) follows a boy born […]
Winning tips for running Paizo’s The Daughters of Fury
Every year Paizo hold a great big competition in which GMs compete with ideas for monsters, adventures and a host of other RPG situations. This year the RPG Superstar competition was won by Victoria Jaczko. Victoria’s entry, The Daughters of Fury, is expected to be released as an adventure module by Paizo in November of […]
Short film: Dysco
A short film set in the future by Simon Russell. Dysco is a world in which there are loads and loads of surveillance state. What’s the result of all those cameras? Neon dubstep, as it turns out. Fancy another? Use this random teleport link and the site will pick a new video for you.
Take a look at LARP: the movie
It’s not often you see a Kickstarter video that oozes cinematic skill. In fact, there’s so much video goodness that there’s actually two videos; one for Kickstarter and another pitch video. Let’s look at both. [Back this Campaign] A $1 backing gets you a vote as to whether Larp Girl‘s character lives or dies. That’s […]
60 year old book Leia battles screen Princess Leia
At the start of March we discovered that Suvudu would run another Cage Match of science and fantasy. On one side we had book versions of characters and on the other screen versions of characters. They would fight until the last one was standing. Each fight was imagined by an author and decided by a […]
Short film: Minimus
Imagine the scene – it is ancient Rome, the armour-clad gladiators are in the Colosseum and these powerful men are ready to fight and die in front of the crowds. An honourable death awaits these powerful, experienced warriors. And then there is Minimus. He is the weediest gladiator the arena has ever seen. How much […]
