about origami, papercraft and companion apps

Heyhey!

Nutshell version:

I hope devs put out more extra-console-ial stuff
(Tearway's papercraft, inFAMOUS' PaperTrail, AC's Initiates) to do for us gamers.

Nutshell end.

Just finished my third papercraft thingy and I'm maybe a bit too proud of it. The occasion was my mom's birthday: A few months ago she saw me playing Tearaway and found it really great. She loved the art and how the whole world was presented. When I told her that you can even build it yourself, she demanded that I'll gift her something. So I decided to do a tiger elk.

After finishing the tiger elk I realized that this was the second game this week that made me do something game related in the real world. The first was inFAMOUS : Second Son with its PaperTrail DLC.

And then companion apps came to mind: I loved the Assassin's Creed 4 app, because I could explore the lore even when I'm in university and should listen to the prof :P And talking about the Initiates-website would very likely overstretch your patience :D

For me gaming is more than just a hobby. It's part of my identity. And therefore it is great for me to somehow carry my gaming life (normally sealed away in some tech cube) into the "normal" world out there :D

I really hope that this will continue and let us expand our gamer-us into the world out there more ;)

Oh, and I guess it's a good way to start a conversation with guest, when they see origami figures with strange numbers and tiger elks in my living room ;)

So see ya.

Next blog post will be about gaming inspired clothing or Sly : Thieves in Time.