Author Archives: Taskbaarchitect

About Taskbaarchitect

Game Designer and Writer.

Animal Crossing 006 – Trevelyan

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

It’s been a busy week in Neo-Twycross; cats have arrived, alchemy has been performed and I’ve decided to murder Blathers the owl. Firstly, though, I need to rectify a mistake I made when starting this blog – I blithely assumed … Continue reading →

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Animal Crossing 005 – Enslaved

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

Time for an update from Twycross – the one on my Wii ,that is, not the actual one which would be all about tractors and drizzle. It’s been a busy week and I’ve started to settle into an Animal Crossing … Continue reading →

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Animal Crossing 004 – Browncoats

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

It lacks of the connectivity of its DS and Wii descendants, of course, but the Gamecube version of Animal Crossing isn’t an entirely solo experience. There’s a password-based trading system, for one thing, but today I’m taking a rather more … Continue reading →

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Animal Crossing 003 – Fowl Ambitions

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

The weekend has arrived, and while a man dressed like a shock trooper takes a buzzsaw to a stubborn tree stump in my garden – which is a lot less exciting to watch than it sounds – it’s time for … Continue reading →

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Animal Crossing 002 – Broken Chains

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

I can’t imagine that my horned doppelganger had a fantastic night’s sleep – spent as it was on plain wooden planks surrounded by a pile of cherries – but I for one was eager to get back and see what … Continue reading →

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Animal Crossing 001 – The Bloggening

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

It’s all Eurogamer’s fault, really. One minute they’re printing a dewy-eyed retrospective on the Gamecube Animal Crossing – I’d call it “the original one” but I’d be bludgeoned to death by otaku and their specially-sharpened N64 carts – and the … Continue reading →

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The Last Monster

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

Just behind the fairground was a path that was almost impossible to find, unless you knew it was there. It wound and twisted its way through the rabbit warrens and past Warden’s Pond before finally reaching the dark forest, where … Continue reading →

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Five cable TV cartoons nobody else remembers

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

When I was a kid, we had a cable box. Cable companies were feudal things back in those days, yet to be swallowed up and homogenised by Virgin Media, and so the channel selection was spotty and reception was poor. … Continue reading →

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[Doctor Who] Drone – Part 2

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

On the fortieth day of his journey, XKD-47 came across a unit like himself, buried almost waist-deep in sand. Her datacast was badly corrupted by damage and corrosion – clearly, she had been caught in the storm and had spent … Continue reading →

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[Doctor Who] Drone – Part 1

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Taskbaarchitect

On the first day of his journey, XKD-47 stepped out of the bunker, moving in perfect unison with his platoon, and began the fulfilment of his existence. They marched in step where possible, though some units encountered obstacles along the … Continue reading →

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