I set out to become a famous artist but end up dead in the gutter in ARTIST LIFE SIMULATOR, developed by Interactive Fate and published by Placeholder Gameworks.
In ARTIST LIFE SIMULATOR, players live the life of artist in 19th century alternative history. Collect and combine feelings, memories, ideas and inspirations. Fight with depression, addiction or madness & other demons of the psyche. Paint masterpieces, sell them for riches (or scraps) and explore the city of Nova Oportunia.
WYTCHWOOD was my favorite video game of 2021. I loved it so much, I put together a swamp witch kit with replicas of several items found in the game.
Some of the items were purchased, such as the grimoire, red feather, black rose, gold coin, iron nail, protective talisman pentacle and empty jar. But I made the others myself, including the reedy twine, mending poultice, witch spice, gnome hat, soporific potion, dryad fruit, hagshroom, digestive tablets, key to my heart, wicked gemstone and pumpkinjack bone.
I sent a chest full of swamp witch goodies to the developers, Alien Trap Games, and received this letter, which I framed and hung in my studio.
A second chest was put together for my 2000 Subscriber Celebration, where I gave away prizes based on several of the video games I’d played on my channel.
I also made a Wytchwood charm bracelet, with goat, heart, mushroom, red rose, cauldron, pentacle, grimoire, key and witch eye charms.
~ J.L. Hilton
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The problems of the world may seem insurmountable but despair is not a dead end, it is a call to action, it is a ravine in need of a bridge. When things seem hopeless, do not wait for hope, create it. A cynic sits in darkness but a hero lights a candle.
~ J.L. Hilton
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After today’s livestream of THE OUTER WORLDS, I discovered that I’d earned the “Poor Sportsmanship” trophy for hitting 30 enemies in the nuts during tactical time dilation.
Sweet.
~ J.L. Hilton
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I’m doing one last giveaway before HALLOWEEN and this one is BIG! There’s candy, cards, stickers, cat toys & a $10 gift card to OldTimeCandy.com! One winner takes it all!
Just for fun here’s a little video of some over-the-top milk shakes we made for Halloween. I had the graveyard shake, my husband ate the zombie shake, and our kids ate the others. Which one is your favorite?
The vampire shake had strawberry ice cream, strawberry sauce, chocolate bat & jelly donut with puncture wounds. The ghost shake was made with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, donut, pretzel & cookie.
The candy corn shake had vanilla ice cream, orange soda, a skewer of gummy candy, an orange candy stick, a chocolate-covered pretzel, whipped cream and candy corn around the top of the glass.
The graveyard shake had a chocolate skull, “RIP” headstone cookie, gummy worms, hot fudge, crushed Oreo “dirt” & peanut butter chocolate ice cream.
The zombie shake had mint chocolate chip ice cream, gummy eye balls around the top of the glass, a sprinkle-covered marshmallow, and a popcorn ball “brain.”
~ J.L. Hilton
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Watched the classic 1946 film noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice. Hitchhiking is no big deal, a random drifter’s hired without references, there’s an attempted murder by ball bearings, and gas station attendants wash windows and put air in the tires. It’s wild.
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Big Trouble in Little China is free to watch on YouTube right now, so I took a little walk down memory lane and yes this movie holds up. I was 15 in 1986 when this box office bomb now cult classic came out, and I loved it then and now.
Originally written as a “weird Western” set in the 1880s, rewrites moved the setting to modern day San Francisco China Town and turned it into an urban fantasy action comedy. Because of this movie, I visited that area in the 1990s, though most of the film was actually shot in Los Angeles. I’d hoped to have a Little China adventure of my own.
Director John Carter previously worked with star Kurt Russell on Escape From New York and The Thing, both classics that inspired a generation of Gen-X video game developers. Echoes of these movies can be seen in games like Among Us, Dead Space, Starfield, Fallout and the Metal Gear series, and in anything inspired by William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, which took some inspiration from Escape From New York.
“One of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima’s favorite movies is Escape from New York and he has often confessed its influence on his series, from sharing protagonists named Snake to having his characters infiltrating impenetrable fortresses.” – Screen Rant
Big Trouble in Little China featured a cast of talented Asian-American actors, including Victor Wong (Tremors, The Golden Child, The Last Emperor), James Hong (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Wayne’s World 2, Kung Fu Panda), and Chao Li Chi (Falcon Crest, The Joy Luck Club, The Prestige).
Check it out while it’s free on YouTube, I highly recommend it.
~ J.L. Hilton
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