• Blaugust,  Bujo/Planning,  Dev/Creator Appreciation Week

    Developer Appreciation Week: Sticker Shops

    If you don’t know, planners and stickers (and well, stationery in general) are something I have gotten into a lot. I have quite a few sticker shops I frequent, but I wanted to call out the few that I head to first when I hear it’s release day. The Honey B Shop Shan and the Honey B Team create hand-drawn stickers that are a perfect mix of alternative culture and cute! Pretty much everything she creates (including her washi tape!) is something I adore and have to get my hands on! Creating & Co Paige focuses on lots of book stickers—whether they be reading challenges, or themed around books… and…

  • Blaugust,  Dev/Creator Appreciation Week,  Streaming

    Developer Appreciation Week: Streamers

    Lately I’ve been watching a lot of Twitch streams… even though I mostly lurk. It’s become my form of entertainment to replace TV/movie streaming, quite honestly. Except for when I’m feeling in the mood for an audio book, of course. Because I’m watching so much Twitch, and have found a home in quite a plethora of streamers’ chats, I wanted to list out some of my favorites for y’all to follow! They’re mostly variety streamers that focus on social issues, mental health, fat liberation, etc. So check them out and at least give them a follow! Streamers I’m loving the heck out of in alphabetical order. Andrealausell BeardPrincess BigMikeyOcho Blizzb3ar…

  • Blaugust,  DBD,  Dev/Creator Appreciation Week,  FFXIV

    Developer Appreciation Week: Games

    This week is the start of Developer Appreciation Week! Bel defines this as follows: The D.A.W. or Developer Appreciation Week is an event that used to happen in our blogging community but fell by the wayside. The idea behind it was it was a week to show our appreciation to the people that make all of those games that we love. The thing is over the years we have grown past just being a “gaming” thing, so for other communities it might be a time to reflect on your favorite Authors, Musicians or just Creatives in general. I’m going to do a few different appreciation posts throughout the week, but…

  • Blapril,  Blaugust,  Dev/Creator Appreciation Week,  Soaping

    Appreciating Soapers

    Developer/Creator Appreciation Week It is Developer/Creator Appreciation Week for Blapril. On Bel’s Blapril announcement post, he defines this week as follows. One of the things that has happened over the years with Blaugust is that it enveloped some of the better ideas from other events and combined them as part of the single month long celebration. Years ago Scarybooster started this idea of devoting a week to the sharing our love of the Developers and Studios behind the games that we play. Last year this morphed a bit to also include a celebration of the various content creators that we enjoy as well, so I am officially tweaking the name…

  • Blade & Soul,  Blaugust,  Dev/Creator Appreciation Week,  WildStar

    Developer Appreciation: NCSoft and Carbine Studios

    This was originally posted on MMO Games on 27 April 2016. It is being re-posted here to archive the work I have done in case the original website ever shuts down. This week is Developer Appreciation Week—a blogging event that began in 2010 with the intention to simply shed positive light on the gaming industry, and appreciate the game development teams that have done so much for the MMO genre. You can read more in detail about this years’ event at Tales of the Aggronaut. Belghast puts it succinctly in the introductory blog post. “The good folks in the games industry enter it because they love video games, and often times…

  • Dev/Creator Appreciation Week,  EVE,  FFXIV,  Neverwinter,  Secret World,  Star Trek Online,  WildStar,  WoW

    Developer Appreciation Week 2015

    Today marks the final day of Developer Appreciation Week for 2015. Lots of folks around the blogosphere have been thanking Developers in games that have made a difference in their life (even a small one) left and right. While there have been many games I’ve played that have made a difference in my life, whether they be console, handheld, or one-shot computer games, I would like to specifically thank the MMO developers out there. Why? Belghast said it best: I have a hard time viewing these companies as the evil empires they are made out to be. No one sets out wanting to make a horrible product, and no one…