Dueling Analogs: Gaming Web Comic

Wow, I can actually use the phrase “two things to plug” in a sentence without it referring to your mom. BAM!

First off, there’s the 4th Annual Webcomic Holiday Postcard Fundraiser! Where by purchasing any of the holiday themed postcard sets created by webcomic artists, you’ll actually be donating to Child’s Play, a charity that collects toys and donations for sick children each holiday season.

And the other is a Hamthrax t-shirt inspired by this Dueling Analogs comic. Get yours today!

I did a coloring job on a piece of artwork of the character She from the webcomic Fajita done by Ryan Thompson. If you want to see what the original piece looks like it’s located here and the colored version is located on deviantART. Had a lot of fun coloring it.

What is PEGI? Well, PEGI (Pan-European Game Information) is the equivalent of the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) here in the US. Where this entity supplies the video game rating system that is used throughout most of Europe and elsewhere.

Now PEGI goes one step further that just giving an appropriate age, but also uses these things called descriptors to make consumers aware of what content is contained within their potential purchase. Said descriptors are “Bad Language”, “Discrimination”, “Drugs”, “Fear”, “Gambling”, “Sex”, “Violence” and “Online”.

Unfortunately, I feel that PEGI could have used a few more descriptors that consumers would definitely benefit from knowing about.
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I recently conducted an interview with The Xcentrikz. Oddly enough it had very little to do with Dueling Analogs and was mostly about the outer circle. It was a fun change of pace and I feel the interview turned out pretty good as well. If you get a chance, definitely check it out.

As always, ConnectiCon (kə-nĕt’ĭ-kŏn) treated us awesomely. Matt and George made life easy and I think the layout of the program turned out well. During the weekend I was either working at the table or hanging out with various webcomic people. The working part was just that, sitting at the table working. So here are the people I got to talk to and hang out during the other parts (I hope I didn’t leave anyone out)…
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