Lego Universe Gameplay Video.

Here’s a video of me playing Lego Universe at CES. It was very impressive for an Alpha build. The few minutes hands on I got actually got me excited about beta testing this game. I was a little awkward moving around because the mouse look was not inverted. Especially check out the very end of the clip where I build a gun out of the left over bricks of a big baddie. I apologize for the poor camera work, my uncle was behind the camera.

CES Pics

OK, lots of pics and a couple of videos from CES coming tomorrow-ish. I tried to post pics the other night but for some reason my data signal to my phone was crap on a stick. I’ll also have a couple articles coming up in the next few days and expect a new Max Geek “soon”.

CES Coverage

Alright folks. I’m heading to CES this year for my actual job but while I’m there I’ll be twittering and blogging live from the show. Expect pictures and videos. So keep an eye out here starting Friday (I don’t arrive until late Thursday because this was a WAY last minute deal).

New Page Up

Check out some new details on the Maximum Geek Ultimate Writing Challenge. http://www.maximumgeek.org/ultimate-writing-challenge/ Now to work on some tools for tracking our word counts.

MGUWC Update

Never fear, I really am I working on some specifics for the challenge. In the next week or two expect to see some tools pop up and some final details on the challenge itself. Keep an eye here for more info and watch for, at the very least, a short cast tomorrow night.

Jeff on Dead Robots Societ

Jeff was a guest on this weeks Dead Robots Society. Check it out. http://deadrobotssociety.com/2009/11/10/epsiode-107-two-interviews-for-the-price-of-one/

Maximum Geek Ultimate Writing Challenge

OK, so I posted the basics, now let’s get a little more specific. Basically this is like a 300 day NaNoWriMo but less organized. Since 2,000 words a day is pretty hardcore we’ll be breaking it up into tiers and over the next month I’ll be putting together a page for tracking your word count and all that. Who knows how fancy I’ll get, it all depends on how much time I have.

The point of this is to build a writing habit. I used to set aside an hour of every day to write, then I stopped. If I can get back to writing an hour a day I can actually produce something. So I figure with a little competition and encouragement from other writers I can get back to that habit and actually finish some things.

Now even at only 500 words a day you can easily write more than one novel in 300 days. We’re not all Jeff and sitting on 7 novels. So I’m open to suggestions on how we count editing and revising once we get to that point. In the mean time, we’re quite a way from that so we don’t need to worry about it. The goal is to write everyday.

We’re starting with just doing the standard NaNoWriMo deal. That gives me time to figure out some guidelines and put together some tools for us to use to track everything. So, if you’re interested and not already registered for NaNoWriMo had on over to http://www.NaNoWriMo.org we’ll use their tools to track everyone for a month. Once you’re signed up email us at challenge@maximumgeek.org with your NaNo username and we’ll get buddied up.

That’s it in a nutshell. As we decide on the details of the tiers and how to handle editing once a first draft is done I’ll post those. Hoping to get a lot of emails on this. Come on and take the challenge.

Maximum Geek Vol. 3 Ep. 1

That’s right, we’re back. Who missed us? Come on, don’t be shy, you can tell us if you missed us. Well here is the latest installement after a 10 month hiatus we’re back. We talk tech, movies and TV but mostly writing. Sit back, take your shoes off and prepare for 1 hour and 21 minutes of Maximum Geek. Or as I like to call it, 1.21 gigawatts. There’s a bit of wonkiness with the audio, Jeff cuts out a bit (we blame his netbook) and while our volume levels are pretty close, I  am a bit louder, just loud enough to cause a bit of distortion if I really get up there. Anyway (notice the lack of an s, there is no such word as anyways) here’s the topic list.

• Windows 7
• The Nook
• Random stuff
• NaNoWriMo
• Maximum Geek’s Ultimate Writing Challenge

More info on that last bit is coming soon. If you’re interested in the challenge give us a yell, @maxgeek on twitter or email challenge@maximumgeek.org. The more people who join us the more fun it will be.

On the topic of future episodes, there will be some, a schedule has yet to be decided though, we’ll keep you informed. If you’re not following us on twitter, you should. We actually post there once in a while.

 

 Maximum Geek vol 3 episode 1 [81:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (296)

A Writing Challenge

This challenge is not for the faint of heart my friends. First of all, blame Jeff, he started it. The challenge is 300 days of writing. 2,000 words a day. Once he told me what he was doing I decided to join in. So here’s the deal, I’m putting together a sort of word war page, it’ll list my word count and Jeff’s. If anyone wants to join us we’ll be happy to add you too.

There isn’t really any winning or losing here. The real point of this is to get yourself writing everyday. More details coming on this particular challenge (once we know what those details are).

Podcast incoming

Jeff and I have scheduled a time and put together a topic list for the next episode of Max Geek. That’s right, we’re actually going to post a new podcast. It will be up by the end of the week. Get ready to get your geek on.