Sunday — February 7th, 2010
One thing that bugs us is all those video game companies that don’t inform release dates to the public. Polyphony Digital is a repeat offender in this area. So is Blizzard. We understand it when a company feels that it needs to take it’s time until the game is done properly, but that whole “It’s done when it’s done” mentality is just annoying, especially when the development cycle is eternal.
How long have we been waiting for StarCraft 2, for example? It’s been about three years since we were shown gameplay videos, and half a year after a promised “public beta.” Yet, Blizzard remains quiet about when the game will be done, saying only that it will be released sometime in 2010.
Same thing with Gran Turismo 5. What should have been the PlayStation 3’s killer app, has become it’s most famous vaporware. We hope the game has billions of cars and ten thousand different tracks.
Hey, they’ve had long enough for that.
December 18th, 2009
Hey dudes and dudettes! Do you want to show your geek side on the racetrack? Well, you can! In the Forza Motorsport 3 storefront, search for keyword picardoel. You may then download the official The World According to Geek sticker for your car! It’s FREE! Check it out below! Turn on your Xboxes right naw!
October 8th, 2009
As we announced a couple of months ago, by popular demand, we’ve been working on bringing you all the geeky goodness of our comic strip translated into Spanish. Well, here it is! The World According to Geek: En Español! We’ve set up a gallery where you can browse Spanish versions of our weekly strip. Right now, the first three comic strips are online. We’re going to be translating a couple of them a week, from the first one onwards, so you can look forward for weekly updates there as well. It’s sometimes hard to translate jokes into a different language, but we’ll give it a shot.
September 18th, 2009
I’ve always been fascinated by stories of writers who have the experience of meeting their creations in real life. For example, I read a long time ago that Neil Gaiman was once served by a waitress that was the real life equivalent of his fantastic Death character. William Faulkner, upon meeting Juano Hernández for the first time at the set of Intruder in the Dust exclaimed his amazement at meeting the personification of Lucas Beauchamp, his own creation.
While most of our characters are loosely based on people we know, they are still spawned from our imagination. So it is still a very weird experience to meet our exact creations in the flesh. This happened to me this week. I was lecturing during one of my classes, when David, my research assistant, stepped into the classroom. You probably know that David is the basis of Dave, Charlie’s long suffering research assistant. Rick has never met David, he designed the character with his own interpretation of my description of him, so our Dave was meant to be a loose, TWATG version of David. Until that moment. David had, unwittingly, cosplayed as Dave.
As David came into my classroom and he ceased to be David, my assistant. He was Dave. Charlie’s assistant Dave. I had to stop the lecture from laughing. Later, while doing some work at my office, I took a photo so I could share with you my weird experience.
Meet Dave. Dave in real life.
Cheers,
Pete
July 17th, 2009
The fantastic netcast produced by the staff at The Webcomic Beacon recently featured The World According to Geek in their Impressions section, a moment in the show where they look at particular webcomics and give their feelings and opinions on them. Their impression of TWATG was very positive, calling us “awesome.” We loved their reaction to our URL, which regular readers will know is completely intentional, with host Tanya calling it “the funniest ever.” We have to agree with that.
They also praised our weekly titlebar, something we three are extremely proud of. One detail that warmed our hearts was that they seemed to “get” us. Unlike more famous webcomics, like Penny Arcade, which mainly focuses on gaming, TWATG isn’t easily boxed into a genre. It is really about three guys and how they live their geeky lives. So, one week the comic can be about gaming, the other about relationships and the next about how hard it is to be a parent. All framed from a particularly geeky world view.
The hosts did offer some constructive criticism with the art, something we are always working with and really appreciate any feedback on. Needless to say, we will take their suggestions to heart and strive to continue to make our art better and better.
We would like to thank the staff at The Webcomic Beacon for featuring us on their netcast. It made our day to know that you guys enjoyed our work.
You can download this specific episode here. And, if you enjoy webcomics, remember to listen to the Webcomic Beacon’s netcast regularly. It’s a blast.
July 14th, 2009
We’re currently working on a new endeavor at The World According to Geek, bringing your weekly comic goodness in Spanish.
Yes, the Geeks are now going to be en español.
We’re still debating how to best implement this new concept. The idea is to simultaniously publish the weekly strip both in English and Spanish. We are playing around with a few options, but have yet to decide which to take. Most likely, we’ll have a parallel URL, something like http://www.twatgeek/esp with a parallel Wordpress/Comicpress install where we can publish the Spanish language strip.
Anyways, stay tuned to the upcoming launch of El Mundo de los Calculines (or whatever translation of “geek” we end up choosing!)
