Nothing deep in today’s post, just odds and sods of my daily existence.

Gaming nostalgia

Tonight I added some more information to my personal gamer history section of this website. It made me somewhat nostalgic.

The years 2001 and 2002 were very dynamic for me. My friend notTricky had created his own game network and I was part of it. My clan WAR was flourishing. Then Valve created Halflife TV – an instrument for broadcasting multiplayer games as if they were television sport. Another friend and clan member, Evov, made Ozlife the first game network in Australia to use this to broadcast a round-robin game competition. I suspect that Evov popularised this world-wide to some extent. He was certainly one of the major experts outside of Valve.

Anyway, that’s up there on one of my gaming pages. Also I have managed to find some interviews from my old column “SoulSearching”. So in the menus above you can find that page and read 14 year old interviews with some of the people who were there in the early days of Australian online gaming.

I think the thing that gave me my biggest laugh in all this nostalgia was seeing my alias (SoulThief) together with my self appointed title back then “The Cardinal of WAR”.

Gaming for me back then was an immersive interactive story. Clans were part of all that. And the names we called ourselves were also part.

Plans for story related digital art

This is a bit ambitious, but I want to make a scene of the city of Shade focusing upon the city-within-a-city of Shushtar (the Krak