The Importance of Back-story

In my opinion a back-story or lack of one can completely make or break a story, be it a movie, game, book or other form of media. Especially if a story is set in fictional or partially fictional universe a lack of back-story can completely shatter something which had the potential to be very good. [...]

City 17 Madness

The universe created by game developer Valve is a very detailed and interesting one. The story of Gordon Freeman in the Half-Life games is truly one of the most epic and emotional pieces of storytelling ever done in video games. It’s not surprising many people have gone out to write fan fiction about Half-Life. Many [...]

Lighting 101 – By Christian Bale

For anyone who hasn’t heard yet, Christian Bale, the actor who played Batman in The Dark Knight, went completely balistic on one of the crew members of Terminator Salvation. Apparently they were doing a scene and some guy randomly walked on to the set to check out if his lights were working or something. The [...]

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