CaTZ! Studio

Most people who's close to me would know by know, the most unexpected development in my life.

I became a university lecture, teaching Game Development Class.

Me.

Lecturer.

For most people who know me,

personally,

for a long time, that's probably the biggest joke in life :D

SO, never mind about that.

The point is, my class is about game development and it's divided into two semester. Well, it was planned that the class consist of IT students and design students, for some reason unknown to me, the class wasn't offered to the IT students.

SO to compensate, me and Erik, a fellow lecture, bent on teaching how to design a workable gameplay mechanic.

Without IT students

The result? We asked them to create a board game. Since, That way, we though, it would enable them to create a game without an IT students, and learn about gameplay design at the same time.

So, up to this month, 11th week not counting mid-term, after few weeks of theory and practice, they created a nice, playable and a very good Prototype.

Most of them, at least.

Selling Game
The first game we tested today, was a game about selling stuff to customer, the customer ask for certain things, and it's the job of the player to provide it to them to score points.

The Media is card game, there's still a lot to improve, for instance, a score board for easier tracking, but so far it's playable to finish.

Sadly, that's about it for today's class, there's still three groups that unable to show their product. Which is kinda sad for me, since I've been expecting to try them all out.

So if the groups in my class happen to read this, there's a keyword to describe what will happen

Collective Responsibility
look it up.

Making the work lighter is not the only reason why this is done in groups

Ever since I saw the first preview of this product, I always knew I'm going to get it, especially the ravage one. Now after a long wait, we get to see the actual product photo and its packaging.

Truthfully? I think it's a rip off for a 2Gb Thumb Drive, really.

But the cool factor negates all logic (in my brain, at least). A thumb drive that transform to Ravage! Imagine that!

Pretty big for a thumb drive, isn't it?


The Packaging.


The back of the box shows the other in the line, which is USB Drive Ravage, Optical mouse Grimlock, and USB Hub Blaster. They said you could put a cassetron inside blaster.

Now THAT's tempting


I wonder if he comes with this clear stand?


Simple transformation, but cool nonetheless


The memory encase in it's head, you just have to flip it out to reveal the usb connector


Ravage & Tigatron together

I worked on Hoi Hoi San last night and finished her too. Boy, she's something alright. Took me about 4 hours doing her while watching a couple of episode of Ninkyo helper.

She's pretty good when finished, can't say I'm a fan of Kotobukiya plamo Quality though. Sometimes there are pieces that doesn't fit really well with each other and I need to cut a bit off in order for them to fit.

And no, this is not my first experience with Kotobukiya kit. My First one is a Hucklebein (from super robot war), even then the quality of material and mold is still far compared to Bandai.
Hoi Hoi San, 4 years later, have better quality than Hucklebein, to be honest. SO I have no regrets in getting her

Like Gundam, you start from the feet, up to her waist. Even building her panties too. No Problem so far, but the feet and the ankle does not fit snugly enough for my taste


I wish the skirt are made of rubber though, since it's plastic, though it's not flexible for articulation. It still look good.


Now this photo shows her torso opened. At first I had planned to fit a MP3 player onsode her. But seeing how small her torso is from the inside, Especially with the ball jointed waist, Now I'm not so sure. At least, I'm not so sure I can fit something inside of her AND keeping her articulation at the same time.


This shows the USB connector slot on the side, which the base of my idead, now I'm not so sure


Torso and Skirt assembled, showing details on her apron.


This is the 'face' that comes with her. At her promotion picture, I though there will be some kind of mechanism for her eye, I'm mistaken. Sadly :P


Head finished! If you notice, her eyelash and eyebrow are pre painted. but you got the water decal as well should you decide to paint her


This is the most troublesome part of HoiHoi San, The hair. The middle hair are two piece part,a hair and a ball joint connector. It's not molded together, and you HAVE to glue it together otherwise it'll fall off easily. Even the manual state so


Hoi Hoi San, ready for action!


Now Yotsuba-chan have a friend to play with

I'd say I'm really happy with my purchase, there are a few gripes, but they are minor. I'm pretty sure Kotobukiya surprised by her popularity and now decide to milk her dry, as evidenced by the last plamo show

Honestly, I never even heard of Hoi Hoi San before, but when I saw Her at Play-asia.com, I knew I'm gonna get her.

Hoihoi San is a 1/1 Scale model kit.

Wait, You'd say

a 1/1 scale of a female figure? how big and, most importantly, how expensive would she be? - you'd wonder

Relax, I was startled at first, but when I read more about her, turns out she's a small cockroach-killing robot. Using a projectile weapon against them since conventional bug spray can't.

I didn't realize her box will be so huge, it's almos as big as a MG Gundam plamo, and certainly dwarfed my PSP. Also I got Reycal, but I'm thinking of getting rid of her as I already spend and GOING to spend too much until the end of the year


Inside there's the stundard Runner. Her pieces is not as much a GM Gundam. But hey, it's a plamo of a girl figure, how much parts do you think you really need? :P


The manual book shows a USB port on her back, ofcourse, the figure itself is empty. I wonder if I can find a chinese made mp3 that's small enough to be fitted in her body and make use of that USB connector


The color chart, for those who interested


and of course, a water decal.
I wonder If I'll be using this... it's been a bad habit of mine to not use them since I always thinking I would paint them.... someday (even though in actuality, I never did paint my gundam. Well, there's this ONE time....)

They're not going to let me catch a break, do they?

Mindwipe
Size: Voyager
factions: Decepticon

Skystalker
size: Scout factions: Decepticon
Note: Can dock with mindwipe

Lockdown
Size: Deluxe
factions: Decepticon

Scattershot
size: scout
factions: Autobot

Brawn
size: Deluxe
factions: Autobot

Ratchet
Size: Deluxe
factions: Autobot