A Question of Promise at Indy Planet

A Question of Promise is now available for purchase at Indy Planet. It's far cheaper than Lulu too - even if you consider the US dollar exchange rate! So if you haven't already, help a brother out and buy an issue or two!

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A Question of Promise at Issuu

Issuu is an online publishing service that lets you read books, magazines and other print publications. I'm starting to upload every issue of A Question of Promise there so that anyone can read them online (though you can still download the PDF from here).

The first issue is here, and the rest will be up soon. Be a friend and check it out!

EDIT: The rest of them -
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Fresh off the Press

I finally got around to buying some hard copies of all 7 issues of A Question of Promise from my Lulu store... and they look great! There's a nice feeling to be had when you can see and touch your work - writers will know what I mean. The print quality and binding is good, so I'm happy (except for the sad weakness of the Australian dollar which meant the comics cost 35% more than they should).

Anyway, please buy an issue or two and support a starving artist! :)

An Unfair War Wins Machinima Expo 2008 Jury Award

At the Machinima Expo 2008, An Unfair War was selected as one of the 6 Jury Award winners, alongside Leo Lucien-Bay's "Beast", Ian Chisholm's "Clear Skies", Michelle Petit-Mee's "The Snow Witch", Kerria Seabrooke's "Tiny Nation" and J. Rojas' "Turbulence".

I woke up at 5:30am to attend the presentation ceremony at Jamville in Second Life. It was my first time in Second Life, and it was pretty cool. Here's some pics and commentary of the event. Unfortunately I didn't stay long - had to go to work, being a Monday morning and all. Damn American time zones!


Here I am at the Expo site in Jamville. I didn't bother too much with customizing my avatar, but did put on some sunglasses just in case there was someone else like me.


The outdoor screen. The ceremony started with the screening my The Most Powerful Person in the World. Only saw half of it though because I was busy trying to figure out how to get the video streaming properly.


A view of the audience. A good turn out for the ceremony. There were some technical issues with the voice chat, but ultimately resolved. I was sitting at the back, but moved to the front row to hear the stage better.


That's me as the ceremony continued on. Some hot girls behind me - hopefully they're girls in real life too!


A view from the stage. Note the oversized novelty-sized MachinExpo award on the left.


Me on stage accepting my award, standing alongside the other recipients. I didn't have a mic, so I was unable to voice chat and so typed instead. Not sure if everyone in the audience heard my typing, but I made some good jokes :)


A group photo of the Jury Award recipients. A few of them work at BioWare, and if BioWare is reading this, if you're willing to hire me and ship me and my family to Canada, I'm willing to accept. I'm a machinima director and a game designer!

I wish I could've stayed longer, because it really was nice to virtually hang out with fellow machinima makers. To everyone who came, the organizers and the other filmmakers, thanks for a good Expo!

Buy My Stuff at Lulu!

I've just opened a shop at lulu.com, so now the world can buy printed versions of A Question of Promise, plus anything else I plan to put there for digital prosperity. Come and visit it, won't you?

Devinquest by Thuyen Nguyen - http://stores.lulu.com/devinquest