Archive for July, 2009

I have the PC game Spore, which is about the only game I own and play that can be called current. I really like making creatures with it, it’s still the best part if the game for me.

I picked up the Galactic Adventures expansion pack and I’ve been having a blast with it. It’s used for making adventures with the creatures, buildings and objects you make in the game, and playing them as a mission for your space captain to beam down to a planet and engage in.

I had to spring for this expansion because I’ve been waiting since I was 14 and playing D&D for a good RPG creator on computer. I’m putting the stories I make online, so if you have the game you can download them and play them. There’s one uploaded so far. Just search for fakelarry on the Spore network and you’ll come up with a crapload of stuff I made this year. I like this, creative fun keeps me sane.

Recently, the company Maxim that makes the game made a patch that allows you to make creatures asymmetrically. Before this they had to be symmetrical; if you put an arm on your creature it had to have either two on each side or one in the middle. Now you can have one on one side, two of different sizes. or a whole mess of stuff sticking out at all angles. This is awesome, it allows for much greater freedom.

Here is the first thing I made after installing the new patch. His name is Eyegore for obvious reasons. I’m thinking he’d make a good mascot for this website. I should probably get some clothes on him, but here you can see the colors you can choose for creatures, which includes some ugly textures like stitches, scars, and patches of exposed muscle.

Making monsters that come to life is this horror fan’s idea of big fun, and I would have shat myself empty if I had this as a kid.

Holy crap kids, I forgot to put up a new Ghoultoon on Thursday. Sorry about that, I guess I was too busy making photoshop jokes on message boards for other podcasts. I’ll try to get it on here tonight, I wanna do another comic strip to make fun of something else I saw in horror news this week, so those do take a bit longer anyway.

Thanks to all the new people that have been coming here to check them out.

In other news, George Romero announced that his new zombie film finally has a title which is apparently Survival of the Dead. Since the word survival is the antithesis of being dead, I’m not sure I get the reference. Who exactly is surviving here? The zombies are dead already, their lack of survival is what started the whole problem. Idunno, I just hope it’s better than Diary was. George is really looking frail these days so I hope he knocks us on our asses again soon, God bless’m for chain smoking to his heart’s content though. Sorry George, I’m still trying to figure out Bruiser.

 Night, Dawn, Day, what the hell was wrong with Twilight of the Dead? Oh right, that angsty vampire thing ruined that title. Sparkly ZOMBIES? Brrrrrrrr…

I’ve got chunks of podcast files that need to be edited, and when I get more recorded I just might have enough to release two shows at once. Coming up – I do my part to tip the hat to Michael Jackson in a slightly different way, I also compare two recent DVD releases and use them to explain that the hell is wrong with everyone. Yeah, I tend to do that. Then we go 80s retro and I have a few mysteries to clear up there too. Finally we get happy by killing teenagers. I will also have two promo files ready for anyone who wants to plug the show. One is short, one is long, both are funny. I hope.

Y’all come back now, hear?