Allan R Anderson.com

Hello Everyone,

If you haven’t already noticed, and you should have since you had to come through it to get to the blog, We have a new look.

Apparently people in the Games Development Industry will quite happily throw away your application if you don’t have a web presence. Sucks eh? So I’ve made my website more “Employer Friendly” Including my CV and some Examples of the work I do.

But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean I have forgotten about all you “none employer” people out there who just want to know what your favourite person is doing?

Later People!

Here I am again, finding myself with spare time and to many thoughts to keep in my small brain…

My love of Pool is waning, caused by having to do a pool table simulation for our 3D graphics and simulation module for University. Having to figure out how to Move the balls, cause accurate collisions with gradually decreasing speeds of the ball just kinda sucks all the fun out of it… C’est la vie.

Hopefully over the summer holidays (Round about half the year off, Yea! thats right!) Ill be giving the full website a redesign, My Photoshop skills are slipping due to lack of practice and I may dabble in PHP or try and get my head around CSS again, PHP should be easier since I’m guessing it will be more like actual programming.

So Guys and Gals, What’s going on in your lives? Currently I can think of about 4 people who will defiantly read this when I shamelessly plug my new blog post on Facebook and Twitter, but if you are new, feel free to add a comment, the more comments I get the more likely I am to Continue posting. So its on you .

Look out for the redesign in the summer…

Later,

Allan R Anderson

Edit: Got asked where RinoaSangria had gotten to… She finally got a job, which was good for her, but obviously that means the author count has dropped back to one. What? Am I not enough for you all? , Ill send all your regards next time I see her though.

Mass Effect Revelation Book Cover

By Brotherhood619

Yes, this is the self-proclaimed book hater writing a review for, shock horror, a book, but don’t despair children, the world is not coming to an end. Well, not yet anyway.

Just as a warning, in this review I will be assuming you have played through the Game Mass Effect, or that you just don’t care about the spoilers.

Revelation is a prequel to the stunning Video Game, and soon to be Blockbuster Movie, Mass Effect. It follows David Anderson (the Original Captain of the Normandy) during his time as a Lieutenant for the Alliance, trying to find and bring to justice the Mercenary’s that destroyed a research station, with only one lead, Kahlee Sanders. He is not the only person investigating the attack, however, A spectre named Saren (boo hiss) has been appointed by the Council to bring the perpetrator to justice, by any means necessary.

The book was… quirky, it had the mix of investigation, sci-fi shoot outs and brutality that I was expecting, but when it switches you between Sanders, Anderson and Saren almost every chapter, you tended to get a little confused. Why is Saren cowering in a crumpled heap? Oh wait, that’s Sanders. Still it got a lot easier to manage during the later parts of the book when the characters have finally come together.

David Anderson was almost exactly what I expected him to be from the games, but I guess this is easy when Drew Karpyshyn writes both the books and is the lead writer for the game. There was less description of him than maybe some new people to the series would like, but his “features” are supposed to be “seen” in the game. Kahlee is where Karpyshyn shows his style, to me she was a blonde bombshell that should not be in the military, but then shows her strength later on (and even more in Mass Effect Ascension). I honestly like the character; she gives a healthy breath of fresh air to the story compared to the rough and tough of Anderson and Saren.

Some of the locations they visit, I wish were described a bit better, and yet there were some that were described almost perfectly, I’m not sure if this was intentional but one location, Saren in the Brothel, was described really well, but then the worker camp near the end wasn’t covered much until… well a certain spoiler event happens. In the end you make the story yourself just by imagining the scenery, rather than have it described to you.

I liked the book, not as much as Mass Effect Ascension, the sequel, but it was a good read and it did leave me wanting more.

I’ll give it a 6/10.

If by some chance you disagree with me, and Yes you have to read the book before you are allowed to disagree with me, Leave a comment below.

P.S. After putting this through a spell checker, I realised something… I can’t spell for toffee.

Sorry I havent been keeping up with this, but ill try a bit more scince University is now giving me plenty of breaks that i need to fill with useful things to do…

God Uni is awkward at the moment, the modules are just not what i expected from there titles. Not that im going to quit. ive planned this life scince i was 5 or less, not quitting now .

I do wonder if im typing these posts out just for myself, good stress relief really. But im going to have to plug soon, i have had 20 hits in the last week. No thats not good, they were all from me.

I’ve started playing the Sims again… But I can’t really work out why this game’s so addictive! Any ideas? It’s basically just doing normal things like eating, showering, watching TV… so why did I just spend all day on it? From about 12 noon til… now – 12.30 in the morning. :S And i barely even registered the hours passing… Gonna have to try to refrain from doing the same thing tomorrow…. But seriously, if you have any ideas why this game is so addictive and popular, post them in the comments. I’m interested to know. But it’s time to sleep now, I reckon. Night all.

RinoaSangria

I think that this quote is probably true

“The few people who understand relationships are the people not in one.”

When people care about others there logic kinda flys out of the window, instinct takes over, blinds you. not that there is anything wrong with that, because that means you care. if you were thinking straight 100% of the time, you probably arnt committed to the relationship 100%. Heh probably where i go wrong, what a commitophobe. Constantly backing out.

AllanRAnderson

Hi guys, I’m a friend of Allan’s and have a lot of random thoughts so he kindly set this up for me so i can blog too… so hopefully my username will become a familiar sight to you all. I have too much spare time on my hands, and far too many really random thoughts which I’ll be posting on here, so make sure you let me know what you think.

Firstly though, I’d like to thank Allan for taking the time to set this up, hope you enjoy my blogs too, I’ll try to keep them quite regular.

And secondly I guess I’ll introduce myself as RinoaSangria – I feel more comfortable with an alias on the internet. I’m 19, female and am into metal music, video games and decent film genres like horror, action and comedy. I’m obsessed with the Final Fantasy series of video games, and currently addicted to Dragon Age. So some references to these may come up from time to time.

Anyway, hope you’re all gonna enjoy my posts, you’ll hear from me soon

RinoaSangria

turns out my website got a virus, but dont worry, all has been sorted, im virus free again, if that doesnt scare off the ladys i dont know what will.

SORRY, i know i didnt post before new year, hey ive got exams to revise for ok? gimme a break, thank you

how you guys doing?

My thought of the day:
I like Toast!

Well they cant all be winners

Yup the snowman was made the first night it snowed, ITS TALLER THAN ME…

But now its the day before christmas and all round the house, not a creature was snoring, well except for my dad on the couch.

Trifles galore id say, i love trifles thats why im always the one that makes them, yum Just waiting for the custard to cool.

I wonder why im not in the christmas mood yet, i can say im a real festive person, but it just hasnt hit me yet… ive only got less than 24 hours to go.
Are you Feeling the Christmas Buzz yet?

anyway i hope you have a good christmas, and ill post something up before the new year, Right off to post about this on facebook, shameless plug i know.

i think ill end with a quote from The Santa Clause

A Merry Christmas to you All, and to All a Good Night, When I get home, Im getting a CAT scan.

Stick the storage in the front of the car, because then if you crash it, you save time because the person hidden in the boot has just been killed for you.