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Bullet Heaven Episode S206 (Ep.28) Is LIVE!

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J.O.M.G! - 01/24/11

"Whatcha Been Playing?"

J.O.M.G! is my answer. This one's a bit different from Bullet Heaven and CHC; JU5T.0N3.M0R3.G4M3! is a personal video blog about what I'm playing and what I've gotten. No fancy features, no ratings, just what I think of what you're seeing.

Enjoy!

-Ser

SMP Q&A for Bullet Heaven, 01/21/11

The Q: Recently, I've been getting a lot of requests to review a couple of games, Raptor: Call of Shadows and Crimzon Clover, both for PC. There are a couple of factors keeping me from doing this right away, but after discovering where I might be able to get these games (for a very reasonable price in the case of Crimzon Clover), I finally have an answer for those of you asking for these particular titles to be looked into in Bullet Heaven's second season.


The A: After PAX East, I'm going to obtain a copy of these games, and look into the best way to obtain direct PC video recordings. Currently, I use a USB device to grab video and audio from my game consoles for Bullet Heaven and everything else I do. With PC, frankly, I have no idea what I'm doing! However, because I've received so many requests, I'm going to make every effort to get these episodes done for my viewers! By year's end, you'll see how both (and likely even more!) of these PC shmups "stack up"!

-Ser

J.O.M.G! Intro Complete! Full Vlog Coming Soon!

Who's Better? Two Artist Enter, one Artist Leave.

In the image before you, you will see two different art pieces. One is drawn by my woefully self-discouraged (and extremely talented) wife. The other is drawn by me, The Original Ser. Image #1 was made with a computer tablet, the other, drawn with a pen and coloured with markers, then scanned.

What brings this up? My wife is dead-set on the absolutely false notion that her art is so terrible that no one wants anything to do with it. I'm calling complete bullshit. I know for a fact that she possesses much more talent in the art department than I do. We both use traditional and digital methods to create our pieces, so in the interest of fairness, I'll never say whose art is whose. I did choose the piece she created that best matches what I was aiming for in my piece, so the comparison would be more equal.

So today, leave a comment saying whose piece you like more. Number one? Or Number Two?

Bullet Heaven Episode S205 (Ep.27) Is LIVE!

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Help Ser get to PAX East!

Money is a hard thing to come by for someone such as myself working a pitiful, meaningless, part-time job. I am going to Pax East, and I will get there. However, I still need to eat. With that said, so as not to starve myself in the mean time, I'm in the process of creating a series of auctions to raise money for my plane ticket. If you'd like some swanky art by The Original Ser, stay tuned for information on how you can buy it. Every little bit helps!

Super stylin' art like this COULD be yours!

Stay tuned for more details. 

-Ser

The new SMP Blog is here!

Welcome to the SMP Blog! Studio Mudprints was founded in 2007 to bring fresh, original commentary, video productions and musical pieces to the internet. Though still a small studio, SMP has taken leaps ahead to become bigger, stronger and produced even better in 2010. But 2011 is a new year, and SMP isn't nearly done expanding yet!

Though Studio Mudprints (SMP)  is the point of origin for many productions, including forthcoming video game soundtracks, only a couple will be shown here because of agreements of timed exclusivity for several sites. However, I will also provide links to my partners' sites, so that all of the SMP content you know and love will be available to you! Think of this blog as your hub town, where paths to the locations everything is found is accessible to you. So how does SMP break down, exactly? Here's where you can find the following productions!

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Bullet Heaven debuted in October 2009 as a dedicated Shoot-'Em-Up (also commonly known as 'shmup') type game review series and as of today has a total of twenty-seven produced episodes over its two seasons. Season 1 ended on June 24, 2010 with a total of 23 episodes. Season 2 started on October 6th, 2010 - exactly a year after its debut in 2009 - and is currently in production. Bullet Heaven also had a summer sub-series in 2010 by the name of Single Pixel Hitbox, consisting of eighteen episodes. 

Bullet Heaven can be found on its new home's site, Press Pause Radio, which is based in California, starting with Season 2. You can also find Season 1 and 2 can also be viewed on Studio Mudprints' YouTube Channel.

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Casually Hard Core (or simply CHC for short) debuted in July 2007 as a personal video blog and has had a total of twelve core episodes produced to date. It evolved out of being a vlog and grew into a long running - if sparsely produced - video game variety show, spanning anything that might be of interest regardless of time period or console. It also has an additional seven shortened episodes known as CHC Moments and a pair of special sub-series, My Nostalgia and Gaming Type-H which had seen only one entry each.

CHC Episode 8 was featured on the front page of GameTrailers.com  for a week in 2008.

Currently, episodes 9 and 11 can be found on its new home's site, We Are Arcade, based in the UK. The series is set to continue with a more dedicated and aggressive production schedule in 2011. Many episodes are also available on Studio Mudprints' YouTube Channel.

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J.O.M.G! (shortened from JU5T.0N3.M0R3.G4M3!) is a forthcoming production meant to be a personal video blog with higher production values and a bit of humor. The concept behind J.O.M.G! is simply to make a video of and pickups and what I happen to be playing every two weeks or so, during that specific time.

The episodes are projected to be fairly short, and will showcase footage and video of hardware of whatever I happen to obtain and play during the time period examined. 

J.O.M.G! will debut in the coming weeks, and can be found right here on the SMP Blog, as well as on Studio Mudprints' YouTube channel.

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SMP Music Productions is the new brand for any strictly musical production. Currently, three projects exist within SMP Music; 

Where the Air is Thin is the debut album from Studio Mudprints' Ser Flash. Currently sitting at six tracks, it it set to be released once the album reaches its target of ten musical selections. With several styles of  music, including rock and electronic music with a heavy chip-tune influence, Where the Air is Thin caters to multiple musical tastes, making it a fairly uncommon type of album. 

It is projected that the album will be priced at $10.00 with individual tracks expected to sell for $1.50.

SMP Music is also tasked with the soundtracks of two forthcoming video games. However, due to sensitive development agreements, all that can be said is that one of the two classified projects is a 'Shmup, the other an RPG. Further updates will be forthcoming, however, so make sure to check back with the SMP Blog for further developments!

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SMP has new goals for 2011 as well. The first milestone will be a presence at this years PAX East in partnership with Press Pause Radio! We are currently working an many big events at this years PAX East, so stay tuned for developments as to what they are and where to check them out! 

SMP is also attempting to bolster its visual fidelity and hopes to make the jump into HD Video by the end of the year. CHC, Bullet Heaven and all of SMP's future video productions will never have looked better! For now though, we're still using the same equipment we started out on. However, as with everything else we produce, SMP's quality will still be maintained at the maximum it can be!

So thank you all again for visiting the SMP Blog's premier entry! There is so much more to come, in 2011 and beyond! I hope to see you all again very soon!

-Ser Flash, Founder, Studio Mudprints