Have you seen Denver Funde, Bald Bull and Sonic on the Jump?. LEGO and pixilated video game characters are as delicious a combination as chocolate and peanut butter. The non-Salmonella peanut butter that is.
Among the list? A still-in-the-box retail Xbox 360, a Gears of War Zune and these, these magnificent LEGO creations. These amazing LEGO designs come from Cliff and company over at NetDevil who, between bouts of designing LEGO Universe, managed to find time to create 8-bit art for charity.
Here’s a break down of how Tristan and I turned a picture into a sizable piece of plastic art.
Getting Started
- Choose Your Character Carefully: You want to make sure whoever you’re transforming into a LEGO is going to use colors that not only exist in the LEGO universe, but that you either (preferably) own or can easily purchase.
LEGO are pretty damn expensive, so keep that in mind if you’re going the purchase route. Also remember that unless you have a LEGO story nearby, you’re going to be forced to buy kits or sets that have all kinds of colors you probably don’t need. We spent $50 on supplemental LEGO making this, which gave us about a third of the LEGO we needed.
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Life is full of games. Every hour of our waking life offers lots of adventures—you get to meet people from the different walks of life, make decisions on important matters that affect your relationship with other people and engage in interesting and sometimes frustrating aspects of your existence.
Sometimes to give a breathing space to our tedious existence, we play games to experience vicariously what the real world deprives us. Playing dating games, for instance, allows the player to escape from the real world once in a while and try to get a feel of the wonderful world of games. It is a basic instinct of man to seek challenges, particularly those which are interesting and engaging ones. The world of games is a terrific avenue for bored individuals out there who wish to spell magic to their dry existence.
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GOD Bless America! You know, being the leader of the most awesome country in the world is no easy task. And worse still, there’s no real way to prepare properly for it. Fortunately, the world of video games offers many would-be Commanders-in-Chief the opportunity to take a test run of some of their social, economic and military strategies and see how things end up. After all, if the North Koreans drop the bomb on us, it’s a piece of cake to load up an earlier save and wipe them out before they even get the chance. The stakes are pretty high for our next President and, since there’s no option for him to reload the country if things go to crap, we thought we’d offer President Obama a list of ten games that will surely help him prepare for this next term and rehearse his responses to some of the crises he might face.
10. The Political Machine 2008
Okay, okay. He already won the election for 2008, but that’s no reason not to skip over this one. Not only does it give the Obama team a head start on preparing for the next election, but it also serves as a nice snapshot of public opinion before the most recent election. So if the team wants to know how their stance on universal health care or higher gas taxes might fly in a given state, they don’t have to call on some fancy pants Department Secretary; they can just boot up the game and see for themselves.
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The new year is going to be an exciting one for gamers with some ground-breaking games planned to be released throughout the year. Here is a sneak preview into what I believe are the 10 hottest games to come out in the PC, XBOX and PS3 consoles.
HALO 3: Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (XBOX 360)
An obvious selection for this list, the game play of Halo 3: ODST bears a strong resemblance to previous Halo games. The difference is that the character played will be “Rookie,” a UNSC solider and not as the Master Chief. Since this ODST does not possess Master Chief”s superhuman abilities and armour, you”ll be much more vulnerable to weapons fire, thus suggesting a stealthier shooter. The main objective of the game is to lead the Rookie through the ruins of Mombasa and discover what happened to his missing teammates. The game has obviously been designed to be more tactical, driving the gamer to put more thinking into the play rather than going on a rampage and shooting stuff randomly.
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