Welcome to Sixbuttons!
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- Published on Monday, 18 July 2011 23:52
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Hello, and welcome to Sixbuttons.co.uk.
What is this place?
sixbuttons.co.uk is the personal and professional blog of RB. Essentially a dumping ground for my opinions on video games, hassles in life, and theories on game design. There may also be general scatterings on the writer's other hobbies and interests, which range from Japanese culture to motor racing to professional wrestling.
Okay, that makes it "personal"... what makes it "professional"?
In fairness, nothing right now. But something I wanted to do coming into 2011 was spend more time working on video game design and development. I'm no coder (10 PRINT "MENS ASSES" 20 GOTO 10 RUN), but I am a keen student of development politics and production, and I'd like to be able to apply my own ideals to a practical project. That's why the "professional" side of this little corner of the web will be along the lines of promoting, previewing and discussing my designs, and the hopeful application of those in the more simple "game maker" type applications.
That's not so professional.
You're right - it's not. Think of it as personally professional.
That doesn't even make sense!
Don't worry, if you talk to me long enough you begin to understand it rarely ever makes sense. But I hope there's a method in the madness, and ultimately if I can make an impact and leave a footprint with at least one person, I can go to my grave happy that I made a difference.
If by any chance, one of your designs or games becomes omega popular and you become some sort of internet celebrity, then what?
I'll be pretty damn flattered, and pretty happy. I'll also look for coders, artists and musicians to transform my primitive and quite probably copyright infringing visions into actual sellable product on mobile devices and PSN/XBLA. Brother has to make some scratch, right?
What's with the site name? I was expecting a fighting game website...
When I was still in school, I had a Sega Saturn. For those who don't know, the Saturn is well famed for its incredible ports of 2D fighting games, far superior to the same games that appeared on the PlayStation. I have fond memories of rocking it with my friends every single weekend on Alpha 2, King of Fighters 95, X-Men Vs. Street Fighter and more besides. Those six face buttons on the Saturn pad are probably the most consistent things I had as a teenager, so the name is a sort of homage to a fond time, now passed in the mists.
If you elect to challenge me at any 1v1 fighting game, if you have any modicum of skill, you will almost certainly defeat me (although I'm alright at Virtua Fighter). I'm no big fish - I'm not even a fish. As I said, the name really is pure homage. Sorry to disappoint.
If you're looking for the fighting game website of a similar name, then head off to sixbutton.co.uk.
What else do you do, then?
By day I work customer services. By night, I have a couple of side jobs. Neither of them make enough to pay the bills, although I'd love to be able to make that be true.
Your Brain Dumps are incoherent and inconsistent! You, sir, are a bounder and a cad!
Well, those accusations are probably true, however, if my Brain Dumps seem disjointed, that's because they are Brain Dumps. Several years ago I ran my own blog that was 80% angst and 20% commentary. I'm older now, and don't have the kind of time nor interest to pine over things of absolutely no interest to anyone else, and carefully construct my words when I have to do SO much of that at my other jobs. If the site expands to something where I might want to resume proper commentary, the Brain Dumps category will be archived and other things will replace it, but for now, this is how this site is. If you're not down for that, fair enough - I won't ask you to stay. But unless you want to pay me for my work, then you should probably just move right along rather than complain :)
Game Collection?
Yeah, I know. That's something for the future. I always liked the idea of cataloging my games collection with commentary. I've got some beloved titles, some semi-rare titles, and a handful of very rare objects that I'd like to discuss and invite debate on. I'm proud of the effort I've put into building a set of personally desirable objects, and I'd like to share that with someone.
And no, just to clarify, I don't have anything that is quite rare enough to be seen on Assembler. I have one "Excalibur" esque piece that I spent years trying to track down, but certainly nothing more than that... so don't set the game publisher police on me ;)
Cool, I think that's all I wanted to know.
Excellent. Then please, enjoy the site.