Web Site Underconstruction

Hey everyone guess what I'm making a website. This website will be host the the Saturn Has Moons Web Video Productions. Although no videos are currently available for upload they need a nest for the eggs or so to speak. So first of all one needs a logo. Sense the company is called Saturn Has Moons I thought to start out with Saturn as the logo and incorporating a slogan that fits the web video production aspect.

Now the color palette for the site follows a close relation to the logo for a good feel of consistency across the site.

Now following a slight space theme, the web page will have the logo as a strait home button. The navigation bar will consist of moon pictures that connect to other pages on the site, things such as the certain series that are produced and the about us page. Contact information will of course be on the very bottom of every page to keep the good stuff in the center. The center, or body, of the page will hold brand new things that have been added to the site to give the site a new flavor every time it is visited.

The concept of this site is simple, give people a place to go to watch Machinima and find information on the latest video games. We produce our own videos and bring together important info from across the web for gamers. The space idea has little connection to video games of web video production but its different and isn't nailed down by "the man" which gamers prefer.

So hopefully my associates and I can get this up and going in the near future. A more finished version of the site will soon be up for view.

What every gaming pad needs

To tell you the truth I am a little disappointed in myself. I do not have many nerdy geek gamer furniture, cloths, or accessories. I have a few posters, some movies, a light saber and even a Darth Vader alarm clock but I definitely need to get going or I wont be able to clam my nerd status for much longer.

So I went out in search of such items and on my journey I found plenty of posters, shirts, figures, and even a toaster that prints Darth Vader's face on your toast but there was barely any geek furniture. I was shocked, how am I going to build my man cave now? I asked myself. Well I could do what this guy did.

Awwwwwww Ya. That's right a NES classic controller. It's perfect. This coffee table would make anyone a nerd for life, just look at it! Crafted from $200 of material and 70-100 hours later this man created a work of art. One can not only set the mountain dew filled coffee mugs on this table but can store all of their games inside the spacious compartment inside.

You might think to yourself that you really want to push the A button. Well guess what, YOU CAN!!! This table is also the worlds largest controller, just plug it in to a NES system and get you buddy to hit the A and B buttons while you control direction.

Bottom line it's awesome and I want it, it's just to bad it's not for sale.

The good and the bad...websites

Quantity vs quality, professionally done vs user based, the good vs the bad: these are the attributes that are always questioned about a website both before and after creation. So what would be a good example of a good website take Kongregate for instance. 

Its got a simple logo on top with a strait informative slogan. Directly to the right is utilities such as such and the logging in option. Directly below is a simple menu bar with the the prime subjects of the website that split into sub topics to help the user narrow down even more. In the middle of the page is latest news, what all the users will want to know right away. Plus if one does not know what they may be looking for there are great game suggestions a little further down. There are related ads that are not distracting. Finally on the bottom of the page is all the professional information to remind users that there are good people behind this site.

But if that's a good website whats a bad one. Simple take The World's Worst Website Ever for example. It's not just a clever title this one is truly horrible. Brightly colored bad resolution both to small and to big pictures litter the floor of this page. The background is a repeating mess. The information is unorganized and hard to comment on it nicely. The topic is clear to the point that this is a bad website but otherwise it is completely unthoughtful. There are a bunch of little animations that are interesting as an individual things but added in a site and they're not cool at all. Lastly it's browser specific as in it only really works on several browsers and not the rest.

Those are just a few examples of good and bad websites. To make a good one just basically start with a template that has good organized information for a solid foundation then feel free to be creative. 

If video games were meant to fly, they would have been given wings

I am just going to start with this. This is the article I currently read on Kotaku about the future of airline gaming.

Designed by Contour Aerospace and Factorydesign this chair is called The Not For Wimps Prototype and I think awesome.


Basically it's a plush chair with a noise cancellation bubble for high quality audio. A carbon fiber arm stretches over you to present the screen to you. It is only a prototype though so it's still in its molding step so it still has many possibilities. I certainly hope I will have enough money to take gamer class on a plane or perhaps I can settle for a possible room chair version of it.

Aaaaaarrrrrrrr you ready for some Legos?

I don't know about you but ever sense I was a young child I have always loved Lego's and what's not to love. At that age Lego's gave the ADD human child the freedom to build practically anything. The skies the limit so to speak.

Now when Tt games turned those lovable blocks into 3D models and fused them with famous movies it turned my world upside down. Well maybe that's a little dramatic but I did enjoy them very much. Lego Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman kept me happy and content through all their comedic levels and reminding me of memories of old.

But now there is a new Lego game making its way to consoles in May, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. That's right, soon we will be able to play in the already messed up world of Jack Sparrow. The game will of course be in Lego's, have zero voice acting, and have some strange things that weren't originally in the four movies. Four? Indeed, four. This game will also have the new movie, also coming to theaters in May, too.

So I don't know about you but I am probably going to buy this game because no matter how old I get I will always have a special place for those connectible blocks.

Kotaku Article

Video Game Parkour

My friends and I one day got into looking up a ton a videos on the topic of Parkour. You know that free running thing like the game Mirrors Edge. So we watch so many of these videos that we got to talking about doing it ourselves. Realistically none of us are in good enough shape and it's a slim chance that any of us ever would be but we can still dream, can't we?

Anyway I was doing my daily browsing of Kotaku when I stumbled upon this article. In a brand new place called Tempest Free Running Academy there has been a bond between video games and Parkour. Basically it's a gym for those who want to practice free running with a ton of walls, ramps, bars, and platforms to climb and jump on. But all the equipment has been painted and themed around the virtual world so that one may play a video game while staying active. 

Unfortunately it's all the way in California and there is still a small chance that I ever would be fit enough to show my face in a place like this but one can hope and perhaps a summer road trip may soon be in the near future. 

Gaming, shaped by your mind

I don't know about you but sometimes I play a game and I practically cry when one of the main characters die, other times I couldn't care less. It would be nice if companies could get a across the board formula for this kind of thing. Well, maybe they can.


Puzzlebox Jigsaw created by Steve Castellotti tracks your brain waves in both relaxation and concentration levels by its Neurosky's neurofeedback EEG headset.

Basically here's the skinny. If they can track how your felling during game play companies will be able to make things harder, easier, meaningful, fun, and even scary. Personally I can't wait to see how awesome a game can be when it is proven to scare your brain.