Fake Gazunta Stories: Awards Show
Wednesday — March 10th, 2010

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The reality is thus:

1. I didn’t make the game single handedly. I had one of the most talented teams ever to help make it happen. Good times! I just take credit for everyone’s work all the time.

2. I think it sold a bit less than 400 million copies I’ll have to ask EA.

3. It did win an award! Best Gameplay for a handheld game at the 2004 Australian Game Developers Awards. The company recieved a free copy of 3D Studio Max and a cool trophy. The trophy is in our trophy cabinet, the copy of Max is probably propping up a wonky table somewhere.

Funny Boob Comic

The viral power of Unwritten Man Rules #21 made it by far and away the most popular Funny Webcomic I’ve ever done, by a good lunar mile.

Thanks to everyone who posted it around and hello to everyone visiting Funny Webcomic for the first time, I hope you like the other stuff I’ve done here and you check out some other comics.

Um I guess every comic I’ll do from here on will involve boobs now

Failed Ideas

What, nobody remembers Webcrawler? I thought that thing was the bees knees back in the day. Then Google came along and made the internet actually usable. Thanks, Google!

Man, some of these ideas would actually work. I know the red or white thing would work pretty well as an iPhone app. Call me!

Twitter Week

Wow, talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel! This must have been a really good idea on a Sunday night as I saw the deadline looming. The results were not that spectacular. Still, I got in a couple of decent strips. I like the one about me going past the bakery, it’s a True Gazunta Story really.

True Gazunta Stories

This was one of the good examples of me using Funny Webcomic to just vent about whatever is on my mind. I think the “Something Else” vote won out this week and I was staring blankly at my notepad during a lunch break, getting pissed off about all the noise from the Team Fortress 2 players.

Look I don’t have an axe to grind with the game, I think I own a copy of it somewhere. Just the NOISE it generates in the office is a bit over the top at times. Oh I long for the days when playing video games was a dirty, shameful exercise that was best done alone in a dark bedroom!

Sorry!

Can a comic consist entirely of one word, repeated over and over again?

That’s the challenge I set for myself.

It is a challenge I failed horribly.

Blind Man & Smelly Guy

I didn’t really have a concept for this besides the silly title. You know how they teach you in storywriting books about how you should have a plot, and developed characters, and such, before you start putting stuff out into the world? It turns out that’s true!

I think they’re ’70s era crime fighting detectives that are comicly mismatched but ultimately offer each other complimentary skills. Blind Man is blind and Smelly Guy…smells a lot? Can smell good? Knows a lot about odors? I wasn’t really sure.

Office Drama Comic

This one started after I was toying around with the idea of doing a comic set in a law firm. What makes it work, what elements do you need to pull it off etc.

Turns out, you need to make it interesting and funny.

Oh well!

Lights Out Week

Hey, you know those times where you don’t have a good idea?

Bad Movie Sequel Ideas

Again, an idea that could work well enough on its own…if I was a real movie buff, I guess. Which I’m not. Well, not really.

I mean, the idea that I’d sit in place for two hours and do nothing but watch a movie is just odd to me. I’m watching a movie (From Dusk Till Dawn if you must know) while typing this, but I’m also twittering, sending texts to the wife and playing with the cats. Movies are kind of a visual background noise thing to me.

But I still know a bad movie sequel when I see it.

Hey this one’s kind of outdated already because now the hot thing isn’t sequels, it’s entire franchise reboots. Let’s all go watch Robocop and Aliens all over again!

And hey, colour!

Misplaced Anger Week

OK right off the bat I have to admit this one did not work at all. Or at least, originally it didn’t.

I started drawing this little story about a man who got cut off in traffic while I was stuck in a meeting. Before the concensus was tabulated and minuted and blah blah blah it had balooned out to 15 panels. I just thought it was funny that he was so angry for so long. It fit in with the Misplaced Anger Week theme so I figured cool, that makes for a good Monday strip…

Then I got stuck coming up with Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday’s strip. Looks like I blew my proverbial load on the Monday one. D’oh!

Four frantic days later I resort to cutting the Monday strip into five pieces, colouring them in and putting them online. Since it wasn’t designed to be run as seperate strips the whole gag falls flat. Oh well, better luck next week!