Big Dreamfall deadline today, and we didn't wrap up until quite late in the evening - as always, there were annoying last-minute bugs - but the end result was worth all the hard work. Location one looks amazing, while location two is well underway to become even better. Best of all, every location in the game has its own ambience, its own mood and visual style, and they are all completely unique; not only visually, but also in terms of gameplay. On Monday we're starting with location three (keep in mind that these aren't single-screen locations; rather, they are massive, coherent, connected 3D worlds), which will be very familiar to those of you who have played the first game. So far, we're looking at about a fifty-fifty mix between new and returning locations, but this will change. Expect lots of hitherto unseen bits & pieces of Stark and Arcadia...and beyond.

The lateness of the hour and the tiredness of the mind and body does, however, mean that I don't have the wherewithal to post a picture tonight. Check back tomorrow for two (yes, two) new photos from the Beijing segment of my China trip.

I did manage to squeeze in a movie tonight: A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon), a Korean ghost-story that managed to scare me so thoroughly that I had to turn on the lights in the apartment and put on pop music afterwards. Granted, I'm easily frightened, but I've watched my share of horror movies - Asian and otherwise - and I've grown jaded with black-haired women and ghostly white children...I thought. Sisters was unusually unsettling, disturbing, shocking, and, while quite confusing at times, it has an internal logic that holds up to inspection. It's worth watching twice. If you're a horror fan, you need to see this one. I ordered my copy from DDDHouse in Hong Kong - they're cheap, reliable, and effective.
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