Long time no see

Whoopsie, it's been a while since I posted anything here. Well, let's see what's been happening while I was on my "blog break".

I (finally) graduated from school.

Now, looking back, those five-ish years just flew by. It was probably the best time I've had so far with all the amazing people, interesting subjects and projects and also the whole Living alone in my own apartment was pretty sweet. I'm so glad I decided to go to this school, I've had so many doors opened for me in the costuming and theater world and I've met many awesome actors, directors and other people that share my love for theater. <3

Then I got a sudden little project at the theater I've worked before. "Sudden" as in about a week before the premiere I got a call:
Caller: "Hi, I heard you're doing this project now."
Me: "I am?!"

Turns out that director from previous year had recommended me for the work and someone did forget to ask whether or not I can do it... Well, it was quite stressful but I managed to finish the project in time. I made/modified some costumes for the play "Jaakko Teppo goes to Mallorca".

Picture from  http://www.menokatu.fi

Then I started working at my local 2nd hand store. It's pretty nice work, thought in future I want to work with costumes and not so much in customer service type work. My boss and other people that visit there are very cool and no two days are alike at the shop, so I like it. (And I also get free stuff from there, like fabrics and such.)

Then, in my free time I have, among other things:

• Drawn a bit: 

Sephy

Zack 

(I kinda also created a DA account: http://risaha.deviantart.com/)

• Got a new car and glued buttons on its side (finally! I've wanted to do that for years!):

<3

• Made some plushies/soft toys:

Peco from BoF3

Prinny from Disgaea games (all hand sewn since I couldn't bother to set up my sewing machine)

• And I've also met awesome new people and made new friends in the interwebs and I always feel so welcomed when ever I talk with them in the chatrooms. <3

Well, I think that's all for now. See ya later ^.^

To The Moon

Recently I came across a beautiful little game by Freebird Games. It's an indie RPG that has the most touching story I've heard in a long time. The music in this game is also amazing and perfect for the story. This is a little sentence from Freebird's website:

To the Moon is an indie RPG/adventure game, 

about two doctors traversing through the memories of a dying man 

to fulfill his last wish.

Picture from Freebirdgames.com

Game has some comedial elements but mainly the story is deep and so very captivating, that I played it through in one sitting last night. Word in mind is ...wow. 

Best 12€ I've spent in a long time.

For more information and for a free one-hour trial, go to http://freebirdgames.com/to_the_moon/

Let's Play!

I mentioned LPs on the last post briefly, but now I figured to dedicate the whole post to talk about my great addiction.
LPs or let's play videos are genre of videos in Youtube. In these videos a player is recording the game as he/she plays and provides commentary to it. Often games are blind runs (meaning they haven't played them before) but not always. The tube is flooded with such videos of different games so they are easy to find. Finding the ones that suits you among this is just matter of your personal taste. I myself am really picky, but I have found some awesome let's players I follow regularly.

I first came across LPs when reading Scandinavia and the world by Humoncomics. She did a comic about Amnesia: the dark descent game and in the description box was a link to Mangaminx's let's play. I watched few videos and was hooked. So she was the first LPer I subscribed and through her I found the world of let's plays.

MangaMinx
She was the first I started to watch. She's from UK and does both blind runs and reruns of games she has already played. She does horror games only. She's on hiatus now but she has many full let's plays you can watch on her channel.
/Edit: She came back with new channel TheRPGMinx (in which she focuses RPGs as the name suggests)

666theheartless666
I found this guy through Mangaminx. He is simply put HILARIOUS! A natural comic (oh those funny one-liners). He's in my top two LPers. He's also from UK. He does blind runs of horror themed games. His slow descending to madness when he's frustrated is so amusing. Atm he's on hiatus.
EDIT: He's back too. Yay!











Helloween4545
This guy is also from UK. He does also horror themed games (I see a pattern developing here.. ). He has great LP of Alice: madness returns and the previous game also. He uploads new video aprox. every other day.

ChaoticMonki
This guy is definitely in my top two favorite LPers. He's from USA, he uploads new video every day and he's awesome. He does mostly LPs of scary games, but also other stuff. He plays many weird small indie games you might not otherwise even know existed (I know I wouldn't), such as White Day. He also plays many amnesia custom stories and have done voice acting to few of them too (this guy has awesome voice). He's also started to do weekly livestreams at twitch.tv with his friend RussMoney (who is a creator of amnesia custom story La Caza). The stream starts saturdays at 11pm EST. Unfortunately that means it starts at 6am for me (damn timezones!) I still have attended all livestreams so far 'cause it's just too much fun.
Did I mention he's awesome.