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I promised you these wouldn't happen too frequently! Didn't I? Well, E3 is now over and people are feasting on the delicious news and trailer for the new portable Resident Evil Revelation, which was announced for the 3DS. Many are also probably wondering if we'll ever get to know what the fate of Resident Evil Portable for PSP is, some of you are probably keeping an eye on the upcoming 4th Resident Evil live-action film too and there are probably some of you who're also keeping an eye on the fan-film project directed by none other than forum member imacwesker, of survivhor.com fame.
With that out of the way; here's the deal, as you all know, Dot50Cal's still busy with life and I'm pretty much playing the role of anything from webmaster/admin to "watch me care"-minister. Personally, I'm in the middle of establishing a steady/reliable income source + also in the middle of peak of my profession for the past 5 years (as a professional videogame translator and localization editor), but that doesn't entirely prevent me from setting aside a few minutes here, pulling a few strings there and just generally getting a few things done around the site.
Do you remember that cheap April fools we had this year? Yeah... neither do I. It wasn't exactly as memorable as the ones from the years before that, now was it? What did we do this year anyway? I seem to recall us challenging people to fool us... or something... I think.
Either way! Did you know that we actually did have an April fools planned for this year? I even partly finished it, but 'cause of a few internal matters, it never went public and it was put on hold up until the very last minute and it never went public. It was basically meant to tie into our WIP Resident Evil 1 section and the plan was to get some of our friends to help us just spread this viral-link thing around various communities.
The whole thing consists of various Resident Evil 1 pictures, at various stages of development, heavily blurred out and with weird text written over each picture. It was intended to have an audio clip to play with each page too. The text and audio was entirely inspired by the fantastic English voice-overs for the Robogeisha Trailer.
So, do you wanna see it? If you do, here's the link;
Beta is... unreleased game!
Once you've clicked through it, see if you can find the secret pages! It shouldn't be too hard (it's all in the numbers, I tell ya!).
So, what do you think? Shame we didn't spread this "viral site" or for the better?
Speaking of the Resident Evil 1 section! I've been hard at work, trying to wrap together stuff I could post online, and to speed things up (totally not promoting my own laziness) I've been recruiting some external help. Dot50Cal recently sent me the data for the True Story Behind Biohazard too, so once I find some time, I'll hopefully be able to wrap up things there too.
One of the key things I want you to know about the Resident Evil 1 section is that over the years we --both we here at The Horror Is Alive, and a set of long time community members/webmasters of a few other sites-- have put down a tremendous amount of time and effort into acquiring content we feel would interest the public, to then put a lot of thought into how to best present this content to the public. Some of this stuff are things we've been sitting on for many years now... with absolute minimum to no public exposure, at all. Why so secretive? Well, we of course wanted the RE1 section to be extensive and in-depth, that's for sure! However, at least some of you probably realize that there are lots of DOs and DON'Ts out there for certain types of things and content, some with more than for others. This means that we sometimes just have to settle with the next best thing... or at least come up with an alternative that hopefully still does the trick.
This is where one of our recent additions to the team of contributors come in. Enrico Marini, of Resident Evil modding fame, kindly accepted (on our begging-like request) to do some minor favors for us... and boy did he deliver. Giving us a short list of what he'd need to work his magic, we provided anything he asked for and... well... I'd say he's over-delivering and going way beyond what we ever expected to get in return from anyone who's just being blindly confronted with some time consuming requests.
You ask a man for directions, but you don't expect him to give you the tour. Well, Enrico didn't just give us the tour, he's pretty much become our private chauffeur .
So --if a look into our canned April Fools-joke and a reminder that the TSBB is hopefully wrapping up soon wasn't enough-- to go give you another tease of what's in store for our upcoming Resident Evil 1 section (whenever it starts going online), I present to you one of the things Enrico's kindly been tinkering with for us recently (bet you Jill fans will get a kick out of this!);
Chris has got some cool facial expressions going there...
Able to guess which is which?
I can assure you that I'm not really trying to waste your time with this!
Jill is a woman whose face clearly has changed many times!
Did any of these per chance look familiar to you? I think it should;
Aah! So that's where you've seen those!
Well, that's about it... or wait... no!
I almost forgot! One more tiny thing for you all!
It's much more fun when it's interactive! Right?
----> Download Models <---
All thanks goes to Enrico Marini for his help with this. As I said before, we only really reached out to him to ask if he could give us a few pointers on how to do something and he ended up building us an entire house full of material worthy of a king. So look forward to his (massively impressive) contribution to our upcoming Resident Evil 1 section (and I can assure you that the presentation wont be nearly as messy as this news item was.)
With that out of the way; here's the deal, as you all know, Dot50Cal's still busy with life and I'm pretty much playing the role of anything from webmaster/admin to "watch me care"-minister. Personally, I'm in the middle of establishing a steady/reliable income source + also in the middle of peak of my profession for the past 5 years (as a professional videogame translator and localization editor), but that doesn't entirely prevent me from setting aside a few minutes here, pulling a few strings there and just generally getting a few things done around the site.
Do you remember that cheap April fools we had this year? Yeah... neither do I. It wasn't exactly as memorable as the ones from the years before that, now was it? What did we do this year anyway? I seem to recall us challenging people to fool us... or something... I think.
Either way! Did you know that we actually did have an April fools planned for this year? I even partly finished it, but 'cause of a few internal matters, it never went public and it was put on hold up until the very last minute and it never went public. It was basically meant to tie into our WIP Resident Evil 1 section and the plan was to get some of our friends to help us just spread this viral-link thing around various communities.
The whole thing consists of various Resident Evil 1 pictures, at various stages of development, heavily blurred out and with weird text written over each picture. It was intended to have an audio clip to play with each page too. The text and audio was entirely inspired by the fantastic English voice-overs for the Robogeisha Trailer.
So, do you wanna see it? If you do, here's the link;
Beta is... unreleased game!
Once you've clicked through it, see if you can find the secret pages! It shouldn't be too hard (it's all in the numbers, I tell ya!).
So, what do you think? Shame we didn't spread this "viral site" or for the better?
Speaking of the Resident Evil 1 section! I've been hard at work, trying to wrap together stuff I could post online, and to speed things up (totally not promoting my own laziness) I've been recruiting some external help. Dot50Cal recently sent me the data for the True Story Behind Biohazard too, so once I find some time, I'll hopefully be able to wrap up things there too.
One of the key things I want you to know about the Resident Evil 1 section is that over the years we --both we here at The Horror Is Alive, and a set of long time community members/webmasters of a few other sites-- have put down a tremendous amount of time and effort into acquiring content we feel would interest the public, to then put a lot of thought into how to best present this content to the public. Some of this stuff are things we've been sitting on for many years now... with absolute minimum to no public exposure, at all. Why so secretive? Well, we of course wanted the RE1 section to be extensive and in-depth, that's for sure! However, at least some of you probably realize that there are lots of DOs and DON'Ts out there for certain types of things and content, some with more than for others. This means that we sometimes just have to settle with the next best thing... or at least come up with an alternative that hopefully still does the trick.
This is where one of our recent additions to the team of contributors come in. Enrico Marini, of Resident Evil modding fame, kindly accepted (on our begging-like request) to do some minor favors for us... and boy did he deliver. Giving us a short list of what he'd need to work his magic, we provided anything he asked for and... well... I'd say he's over-delivering and going way beyond what we ever expected to get in return from anyone who's just being blindly confronted with some time consuming requests.
You ask a man for directions, but you don't expect him to give you the tour. Well, Enrico didn't just give us the tour, he's pretty much become our private chauffeur .
So --if a look into our canned April Fools-joke and a reminder that the TSBB is hopefully wrapping up soon wasn't enough-- to go give you another tease of what's in store for our upcoming Resident Evil 1 section (whenever it starts going online), I present to you one of the things Enrico's kindly been tinkering with for us recently (bet you Jill fans will get a kick out of this!);
Chris has got some cool facial expressions going there...
Able to guess which is which?
I can assure you that I'm not really trying to waste your time with this!
Jill is a woman whose face clearly has changed many times!
Did any of these per chance look familiar to you? I think it should;
Aah! So that's where you've seen those!
Well, that's about it... or wait... no!
I almost forgot! One more tiny thing for you all!
It's much more fun when it's interactive! Right?
----> Download Models <---
All thanks goes to Enrico Marini for his help with this. As I said before, we only really reached out to him to ask if he could give us a few pointers on how to do something and he ended up building us an entire house full of material worthy of a king. So look forward to his (massively impressive) contribution to our upcoming Resident Evil 1 section (and I can assure you that the presentation wont be nearly as messy as this news item was.)
And you too Carn 
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