konsolen und zeug

Yesterday night i've discovered a new game for the PSP called Patapon.

The goal of Patapon is (AFAIK) to hunt down animals (collecting meat), create servants, provide them with weapons / armor and destroy the enemy tribe(s). To hunt or attack you'll need those little creatures. To control them, simple-yet-rhythmic sequences are required. Here is an example:

PATA PATA PATA PON stands for (Square) (Square) (Square) (Circle) and makes your minions move some pixels approach the screen. If you keep the rhythm, at a certain amount of combos a special-meter called "FEVER!!" will appear, unleashing more power, faster reactions and more bonuses for your footmen.

Patapon is really hard. You have to concentrate and due to the japanese language (i can barely read simple japanese in romaji characters, but at this time kanji, katakana and hiragana are just to difficult for me) i keep on trying and guessing at the several options. BTW: The style of Patapon reminds me of LocoRoco, also a great game for the PSP.

If none of this helps, harrassing agony per IRC is always a good way to carry on

01:33 <@ryz> hab auch ein huhn und son dickes schwein mit ins lager genommen
01:34 <@ryz> AFAIK
01:34 <@ago> cubi und sno also
01:34 <@ryz> :>
01:34 <@ryz> ma option fuer naechste stage suchen
01:34 <@ryz> :_

01:37 <@ryz> wie der baumlarry mich einfach anschreit
01:39 <@ago> boah
01:39 <@ago> ryz
01:39 <@ago> du assi
01:39 <@ago> halt dein maul
01:39 <@ago> :>
01:39 <@ago> ich bin hier am zocken und konzentrieren
01:39 <@ago> im augenwinkel sehe ich deinen satz mit dem baum sven
01:39 <@ago> und fange an zu lachen
01:39 <@ago> weil ich sein face vor augen habe und sein 'lied'
01:40 <@ago> und bin nur noch am lachen hier
01:40 <@ago> mitten im fever
01:40 <@ago> ich lach immernoch
01:41 <@ryz> :>
01:42 <@ago> so
01:42 <@ago> wieder ne stage
01:42 <@ago> maul nu!
01:42 <@ryz> oki

Anyway, after reading a really bad guide/FAQ for Patapon this morning, i've decided to write a guide for this wonderful game by myself.

The first thing in such a writing is (of course) a nice piece of ASCII art.
After 4 hours of "drawing", many cups of coffee and pretty much fun, here is my final outcome of the Patapon logo in ASCII:


original size

I've converted the logo to an PNG-Image for better viewing.

Of course i've made it from scratch using vim and this picture as a master:



Here again, inverted colors, PNG.


original size

Here's the logo again, this time in real monospaced ASCII.

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      ?88L   JAP     ?AL  :88:  JAP     ?AL   ?88L         "?8888888P"   J88"     V   
                          :88:
                          :88;  Patapon Logo ASCII by ryz 
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I've optimized the logo for the excellent Font "Terminus" in 12pt, that's why the logo looks a bit shifty. furthermore there are some ugly spaces betweens the lines.

The first version of the guide will follow in few days.

PS: And oh, it's my first public myopera-blogpost! hooray! \o/

PPS: Does anyone know how to prevent my.opera from resizing the images in this post?