Wildsided Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 In the first season of Epic Gaming something happened that had ramifications beyond our world. A story began but was ultimately left unfinished. In November the rest of that story will be told as we pay tribute to a legend. Think you might know what I'm talking about? Let me know below! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 25, 2013 Hash Fellow Share Posted April 25, 2013 Nope, no idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertexspline Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Sorry Dan-----I am not getting it yet either. But heck --who does not like suspense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilidrake Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 That looks like an old Atari joystick from back in the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertexspline Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Lloyd ---I think you may be on to something..................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildsided Posted May 8, 2013 Author Share Posted May 8, 2013 Gold Star to Ilidrake for recognising the old Atari joystick, But that was no ordinary joystick. It's the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who this November and Ace.Co Entertainment is celebrating the only way we know how.....By making a special tribute episode of Epic Gamin'! Those of you who watch E.G will hopefully remember the episode in which we reviewed Doctor Who: Return to Earth for the Wii. We established in that episode (Paradigm Shift) that someone or something had been messing about with time and the doctor suspected that the source of the problem could be found on Atarius IV in the Klax nebula. He invited Tech to join him on the journey and that was where we left things. In November we will continue the story in hopefully spectacular fashion as we pit the Doctor and Tech against The Atarians. Expect more updates as I finish stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildsided Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 Time for a short tale of woe. As a content creator and big fan of Doctor Who I feel its my duty to produce some kind of acknowledgement of the Doctors 50th anniversary (and now the stepping down of Matt Smith after Christmas). So the obvious choice seems to be to make an E.G Special, after all we did introduce the Games Doctor back in the first season. Anyway as I'm sure many who fans do, I had my own replica 11th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver. I say had because it was sadly snapped in half in an unfortunate stepping on it accident. The normal solution to this problem would be to either repair it or simply buy another (They're kids toys after all so they're not massively expensive). But I've never been one for taking the sensible/easy way out of a problem and so took the breakage as an opportunity to cannibalise the innards of the toy and build my own Sonic Screwdriver. Below is a 3D remake of the results of my first attempt. As you can see I salvaged parts of the emitter end and converted them (Along with bits of a light up pen) into a illuminated secondary power core, the rest was made of various plumbing supplies, a momentary switch taken from a laser pen and other odds and ends I found in my "Stuff that looks cool and might be useful" Drawer. "So Dan why didn't you just take a photo of the finished build and post that here? Why make it a 3D Model?" Well that's because literally within 5 minutes of finishing it and demonstrating it to my wife. It slipped out of my hand and all the plastic parts (Basically everything that came from the original toy) shattered all over my dining room floor. So it was back to the drawing board (and back to the hardware store) for more supplies. This time the prop would be entirely metal. I attempted to re-create the secondary power core by drilling holes into a metal cylinder. Unfortunately the drill bit broke and took a chunk out of my hand so I opted to make the Screwdriver dual ended instead. One end lights up green like the 11th doctors' and the other lights up blue like the 10th. Here's a 3d model of the Mark 2 I'll post a pic of the finished prop when I charge my camera again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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