E.V.O.: Search for Eden fanart series to commemorate our victory over one of the best SNES games ever (click to view the full version)!
Ema’s Corner
I have almost completed my E.V.O. Search for Eden fanart commemorating our Game Center CX-style challenge. Check back tomorrow for the E.V.O. fanart post. In the meantime, here some rainbow meat:
I had always thought the flashing meat in E.V.O. (that awards increased life and evolution points!) was rainbow meat… the sprite art reveals that it is flashing GREEN meat:
Yum!
J’s Corner
My new desktop. It commemorates the beginning of me playing through The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I sense that I will complete this quickly. The fact that I played through no less than five Zelda games in the last six months puts me in a position to be quite prepared for the game. My well honed Zeldar™ tells me I am about two thirds the way through the game; it’s possible I will even complete it this week! So far I am really enjoying the game. The music is probably the most stand out part of the game to me. I think it’s spectacular. The motion controls are great and the changes Nintendo made to the gameplay, mostly with the stamina gauge and in the level design, really make the game feel like a new game instead of “Ocarina of Time Part 5.”
Llama’s Corner
Llama is Super-Mega-Puff!
Ema’s Corner
Meet 80′s Llama Cat! She is “awesome to the max!”
You too can enjoy the awesomeness of 80′s Llama Cat on you iPhone or Galaxy S II! Download the wallpaper sets below 
For your iPhone:
80′s Llama Cat Lock Screen Wallpaper
80′s Llama Cat Home Screen Wallpaper
For your Galaxy S II:
80′s Llama Cat Lock Screen Wallpaper
80′s Llama Cat Home Screen Wallpaper
For the holidays we ordered customized 80′s Llama Cat microfiber cleaner cloths as gifts for lucky members of our family. One side features 80′s Llama Cat looking radical and the back side has the stylish houndstooth pattern:
J’s Corner
Tomorrow marks the end of synAMA‘s release. The final track, “Tosa Suto,” will be released. There is going to be an all in one download of the entire album and the album/track art; it will also be available as a collection on SoundCloud. The album took about four or five years to complete; a lot of tracks that were created in that time didn’t make the album. Maybe I’ll put them up just here on hutna.com. It has been really fun releasing synAMA on the net. I hope the songs make you feel something; either way, thanks for listening.
Llama’s Corner
Llama battles the pancake!
Songs from albums we liked a lot at hutna that were released in 2011. Ordered to sound nice together; a “mix” if you will.
If you follow hutna on twitter or one of us on tumblr and/or google+ you would have known that on Jan 31st 2011 we attempted our third video game challenge.
We like to take a day off and play through a retro game in the same style as Arino-Kacho of the amazing Japanese TV show: Game Center CX. We have already taken on Zelda and Zelda 2, and now we attempt:
We challenged the SNES game E.V.O. Search for Eden. This action RPG, or dinosauRPG as it became known durring the challenge, is a very fun and unique game that uses the idea of evolution as it’s RPG world and story. The game is broken up into chapters with corresponding time eras, and your free evolving critter changes into whatever fish, dinosaur or mammal that you want!
A couple bosses gave us some trouble (looking at you pink yeti and yeti’s kid), but we emerged victorious. The game took about eight hours from start to finish to complete, and it was a fun ride.
Ema’s Corner
E.V.O. is a big time nostalgic SNES game for me and it was a great victory to finally reach the end screen! I scribbled up cute versions of our critters we “evolved” during the course of the challenge. I am in the process of cleaning these scribbles up (see the Red Bellied Flying Gila Monster work in progress below).
Keeping in the spirit of the “chewing” theme in E.V.O., here is a snapshot of the yummy-licious homemade breakfast from the morning of the challenge.
I also recommend the scrumptious sandwiches and breads from the Clover Bakery (our lunch on the day of the challenge).
Happy new year!
J’s Corner
So not only did I complete or help complete one game this week (the above mentioned E.V.O.), I also completed Xenoblade and Dark Souls! I’ll probably post final thoughts about the games in the blog over the next couple weeks, and I’ll also post my thoughts on the new game I started: The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword.
E.V.O. was the most recent game clear thanks to the awesomely fun challenge on New Years eve. The game seemed easy to me (though admittedly Ema took on the final boss); the combat wasn’t difficult and once you understood the ability to evolve to heal made death something that should be easily avoided. The real fun was making your creature and finding an effective combination of parts while still looking how you like. It is especially fun when an evolution doesn’t go your way. At the start of the dinosaur chapter I wanted a long neck (in honor of Llama of course), but when we evolved it made killing ground dwellers nigh impossible. We had to find an area where we could chew on stuff to evolve further. Which brings me to my primary observation of the game: chewing is everything. Chewing is all you ever need to do to save the world, if not the universe. You chew threw tragedy and bad ideas, and there is no choice; you chew. You eat the leaders of birdmen, causing their castle with a cloud foundation to crash to the earth. Then eons later learn of a species of bird that has no capability to fly and just stand on a beach and look at the sky crying. There’s nothing to do but chew these birds into meat to further your own evolution. Survival of the one who chews most.
Only two songs left to release from synAMA. Tomorrow’s is “Like Warm Snow.” Hope you enjoy listening.
Llama’s Corner
2 Llamas and a 3DS.
Ema’s Corner
I edited a set of wallpapers featuring my latest illustration for my iPhone. Feel free to download the below wallpapers for your iPhone, too:
I am excited to finally have a good chunk of time off of work for the holidays… as I have quite a few art projects that I am hoping to make some progress on.
I now leave you with a random scribble of the Llama:
J’s Corner
Tomorrow one of the oldest songs written for synAMA will be released. Titled “Mocha D” it was one of the first songs I wrote in the style of this album and developed a lot of the elements that were used in the other tracks. The title refers to the real whale that inspired Melville’s classic Moby Dick. To me the basic element or theme of Moby Dick is obsession. The melody for this song was an obsession for me in that I couldn’t write another song or even conceive of another melody for a song until this one had been recorded. It’s turned out to be the most popular (a relative term with my music, similar to how Tom Servo describes poverty in the middle ages) song I’ve ever written. The song had again haunted my creative health years later when I had it and a collection of songs in various states of completion. I had become kind of exhausted with the style and elements of “Mocha D” by this time, but whenever I tried to write a song differently I would fall into the same habits that “Mocha D” created. I decided that I needed to finish these songs, record a couple more and put them together on an album so my involuntary obsession with the song could be expelled. This album, 2 years later, became synAMA.
Llama’s Corner
Llama in silhouette.
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