Category Archives: Meta

Barbario Smash!

Posted on August 17, 2012 by | 9 comments

Our very own Barbario stars in this awesome trailer! This is pretty darn cool, and Barbario certainly fulfills his promise as a bona fide bad-ass. Well done, sir!

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Hall of Fame updates coming!

Posted on August 10, 2012 by | 7 comments

Today’s usually “Sharing Day”, so I’m finally going through the nominations for new “Hall of Fame” HeroMachine illustrations. As a result you’ll see a ton of new posts today when each of them goes up. In other words, today should be a long series of awesome images, rolling on like the tide!

Feel free to use this as a space to discuss them as they go up, or to talk about whatever you like.

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Contest reminder

Posted on August 8, 2012 by | Comments Off on Contest reminder

Hey all, don’t forget about Ian T. Healy’s super-hero novel design challenge! It’s your chance to win a signed copy of his upcoming novel and eternal fame. There’s only one week left to enter, so get to creating!

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META: Remember to save your characters as text and images!

Posted on August 3, 2012 by | 8 comments

Folks, just a friendly reminder to always make text-file and image backups of your characters in HeroMachine. The latest Adobe update has in several cases erased all existing Flash cookies (where your saved characters live) after the automatic download, erasing the user’s hard work and save files. See this old post for details. Save early, save often!

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Lateness

Posted on July 29, 2012 by | 1 comment

I’m having a harder time than usual recovering from the trip yesterday, so results for the Pop Quiz might be delayed till tonight or tomorrow. My apologies.

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META: Guest posts

Posted on July 28, 2012 by | 9 comments

I just wanted to note that Andrew Hines, aka McKnight57, has graciously consented to do the occasional (or even, regular!) guest post ’round these parts about current comics. Be sure to give him a warm HeroMachine community welcome!

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Hall of Faves

Posted on July 26, 2012 by | 11 comments

I finally updated the “Hall of Fame” with the last dozen contest winners (thanks to reader Meres for the kick in the pants) and was once again blown away by your creativity and talent. So instead of our usual RPG day today, I was hoping you’d take a bit to go through the Hall of Fame images and give us one or two of your particular favorites, along with why you like them, what you think makes for a good design, and anything else that occurs to you.

Sometimes I find it very inspirational to look through galleries of cool artwork, and I want to spend today feeling that way. I hope you do, too.

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META: Freshening up

Posted on July 25, 2012 by | 17 comments

I feel like the blog is in need of some fresh material or new blood or something. Are there feature ideas you’d like to see? Anything you are sick of and want to retire? How would you feel about my adding one or more additional co-bloggers to produce entertaining material for you all, and what sorts of things would you want to see them cover?

Basically I’m trolling for new ideas and plan on stealing your brilliance to present as my own. It’s a win-win! Well, technically a win-lose, but … look, squirrel!

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META: Winning

Posted on July 15, 2012 by | 85 comments

I’m considering changing contests up around here so that there is no one “winner”. I’ll still pick out a handful of what I consider to be my favorites, but I won’t single out one to receive a prize.

I think people are getting too hung up on that one thing, when in reality anyone who enters is a winner. And once there’s just a handful of Finalists left, the selection of one person is pretty arbitrary. I mean, it’s just my subjective opinion.

Thoughts?

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dblade's Item Creation Poll Week 23: Energy Swords

Posted on June 16, 2012 by | 16 comments

It’s another week of item creation! This time it’s Fire Sword against Lightning Sword for a rare one-on-one battle for creation! The end result will be an Energy effect with the sword created wholly from energy. Great for creating auras for actual swords or just supplying your elemental blade fetishist with a weapon forged from the primal essence of the universe.

The Usual Disclaimer: Now’s your chance to decide what artwork dblade will work on next. Whatever wins the vote will be completed the following week. This doesn’t mean dblade won’t work on other pieces. The winning piece will just be guaranteed dblade’s attention.

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