For the past couple hours, I’ve worked on what you see above. I’m no sprite artist, though I would love to be! (I can not draw hands real well either.)
For years, I’ve wanted to make a videogame inspired by the cliches of various tokusatsu series such as Super Sentai and Power Rangers. I wouldn’t say [...]
Welcome to the website of the adventurer known as Kent Ward! What you are seeing below is my blog! It’s filled with passion, anger, and excitement! The words and views of Kent Ward do not reflect any person, group, or organization other than himself. Enjoy!
This past week, I finally got around to purchasing, playing, and beating Braid, the game that asks the question “if we’ve learned from a mistake and become better for it, shouldn’t we be rewarded for the learning, rather than punished by the mistake?” I felt I did just that, or so I thought. Not only [...]
Within five years time, beat ‘em up videogames like Double Dragon and Final Fight grew in both the number of gameplay features and also in popularity. Players on both consoles and at arcades loved kicking lots of ass and more importantly to the success of the genre, they loved doing it as a team.
By now [...]
A fire for justice has lit up in my stomach once again as I have returned to the streets to kick ass and take names! And then kick some more ass! Girlfriends are being kidnapped by gangs all over and it time to open a can on every eight-bit thug crawling the city streets like [...]
The day after I saw the movie Scott Pilgrim vs The World, I got the game that was based off the same comic the movie was. After playing the demo, I was convinced it would be a good game to purchase and I was right. It is a throwback to classic beat em ups like [...]
On a whim, I decided to see Scott Pilgrim vs The World yesterday to determine whether it was the movie that defined our generation(or is it the one following me since I am now officially “old?”) as some fans have proclaimed or if it was “the most obvious exploitation of geek culture as a shallow [...]
It was announced today that one of my favorite anime directors, Satoshi Kon has passed away at the age of 46. He directed several anime movies that were all critically acclaimed. Not one movie he made was ever mediocre or worse. The first one he directed was also one of the first anime movies I [...]
Yesterday had a fantastic turnout for Cure for the Run, a series of chairty sprint races to benefit New Hope For Kids. I have never done a charity race before so I am glad that I finally did. It was not only fun, but a rewarding experience as well!
As you can see in the [...]
For ten years, never has there been a more important weekend to decide the fate of America through movie theaters than this most recent one. We had a chick flick based on a book Oprah liked, a movie starring Micheal Cera that I’m supposed to like becuase I get all the videogame references, and then- [...]