T w e n t y S i d e d
Concered, the Half-Life 2 webcomic, has ended. It ran twice weekly for a year and a half, and managed to keep a good pace and a steady supply of laughs. Christopher Livingston did an outstanding job. This was a fantastic comic and I’m sorry to see it end.
I think my favorite gag was this one, which had a very obscure movie quote in it. Given that most readers are probably in their 20’s, and that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off came out in 1986, I wonder how many people even got the joke.
That’s brave. I’d probably chicken out of a gag like that, but it worked and it made me laugh.
Now that the run is over I discovered that there are notes from the author at the bottom of each comic. You have to click a link to see them, and my brain just filtered it out along with the rest of the banner ad noise at the bottom of the page. Now that I’ve noticed I’m going through again and reading these comments. It’s pretty interesting, as I can see him learning his craft as he goes.
Great work.
Overused Words in Game Titles
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
The Gameplay is the Story
Some advice to game developers on how to stop ruining good stories with bad cutscenes.
Silent Hill Turbo HD II
I was trying to make fun of how Silent Hill had lost its way but I ended up making fun of fighting games. Whatever.
Quakecon Keynote 2013 Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
Was it a Hack?
A big chunk of the internet went down in October of 2016. What happened? Was it a hack?
I hope we get one or two more pages. The series should end with a laugh, not just with a fade-to-black. (Besides, I want to see what Half-Afterlife looks like.)
That *is* a shame. I’d drifted away from the strip a while back, but it was responsible for quite a few laughs.
Glad he’s “pulling the plug” intentionally, though, rather than letting it just fade away, unupdated.
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