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We received the invitation to showcase at Indiecade's E3 booth this year about a week and a half ago - and now we can finally share the news with you guys! This is a huge honor and we are so excited to be showing off our latest Oculus Rift enabled demo of our new and improved UE4 Rainforest!  We've been working frantically trying to get something playable and polished enough for E3 ever since we got the news. Here's to hoping it will be an awesome show. If you are attending E3 this year, come by the Indiecade booth 2835 South, and say hello. Here is the full list of games that will be in the Indiecade pavillion this year: http://www.mavpr.com/blog/

A few days ago, I was talking to another author who is in the process of writing her first book.  She mentioned that she was having a problem with dialogue - in essence, she couldn't get away from using the word "said": He said... She said... Barb said... And so on,  ad nauseum.  All conversation seemed to require the use of "said." I understood her dilemma, but - as I informed her - in truth there are dozens of words that can be used in place of said: Commented Replied Responded Stated  Mentioned Remarked And if you need to see examples: "You dyed your hair," Bob observed. "Your dog is sick," the vet noted. "I will hate her for as long as I live," David solemnly declared. In fact, it's not even required that you use an indicator of speech: Bob arched an eyebrow skeptically. "Oh, really?" Angie stared at Muffin, then turned to James with a look of incredulity. "What the hell did you do to my dog??!!" Basicall...

Hello everyone! Time for another update :) We are hard at work rebuilding XING in UE4, and are still extremely happy with the decision to switch engines. We just finished up most of the level re-design work for our beach environment, so check out some of the in-progress shots: Note: When first blocking out an area without having the correct meshes, we take meshes we have already imported for other levels (in this case the Rainforest) and figure out the basics of where we want later structures to go. Also, that green water just means that we hadn't finished building the ocean material shader with reflectivity and transparency yet. We still haven't finished it actually, but at least the one we have now is a lot more Palette-able. Har har. And where we are now: ~ Koriel: Working with Inspiration ~ When I'm building a level in editor (from broad strokes to minute details), I like to have some inspiration while I work. That usually comes in the form of images from the internet, ...

If you're an indie author, odds are that you already have a Twitter account. As most of you no doubt know, Twitter is a powerful form of social media. And if you're anything like me, you've probably used it heavily for promoting and marketing your books at one point or another. However, aside from being a part of your marketing plan, Twitter is also a tremendous resource in terms of obtaining information.  Using hashtags (which are words or phrases preceded by the pound sign, "#"), you can locate tweets about almost any subject under the sun.  For authors, however, there are several hashtags that may be particularly valuable. The first hashtag I'll mention, #MSWL, came to me via my editor, the fantastic Faith Williams of  The Atwater Group  (and in the form of a tweet, ironically enough).  It stands for "ManuScript Wish List," and to be frank - until I saw it in Faith's tweet - I had never heard of it. In essence, this hashtag is used by agents a...

I'm proud to announce that Warden (Book 3: Attack of the Aswang) has been released. (In truth, it was released a few days ago, but I'm only just getting around to noting it here.) As is evident from the title, this is the third book in the Warden series. This time, I tried to show a little foresight and actually had a cover reveal a few weeks ago. (In essence, I'm starting to do things like a real author!) In line with the previous entries in the series, I tried to focus on a non-traditional supernatural creature. Thankfully, there are myths and legends about all kinds of creatures out there - a wealth of information, in fact - and I had a great deal of fun writing about the aswang. As usual, Amazon's estimate of the book's page length is a little off. Amazon estimates the page length at 150 pages. However, it's actually more than 200 pages. That's really about 50 pages more than what I had intended, but - as I always say - the story tells itself.   Anyway...