masakari-prime

Hi! I've been here on DeviantArt and around the Battletech community for a long time! I've been playing tabletop games since the early 90s having started on Battletech 3rd Edition, and later Renegade Legion and Warhammer 40k, in addition to CCGs like Magic, Battletech, and Shadowrun. I've worked on Mechs and Mech games and mods for the better part of the last 20 years, going back to Battletech Mod Productions and mods for Homeworld, C&C Generals, and the Battlefield series. I've started a Patreon to fulfill my dream of working on Mechs and Tabletop Games full time, while making tons of cool miniatures for everyone to play with. A labor of love! I'm doing models for 3d printing & rendering and focus on maximum quality - too many models out there aren't suitable or optimized for 3d printing, are under detailed, or have errors that are hard to fix. My work is custom built for quality, added detail, and problem-free printing! My personal project is The Black Death, a new fast paced

Got Windows 8 installed. The actual install (upgrading from Win 7 Ultimate), which most people breeze through, was pretty long and idiotic. Seems Win 8 Setup doesn't like the latest x64 CPUs / Mobos and AHCI SSD tech - I have one of the latest hexa-core intels, one i7 3930k with an SSD as primary... so yeah, major problems. How this got past MS testing is beyond me. Anyway, after 3 days back and forth I managed to fix it by upgrading Mobo firmware and disabling AHCI (which disables some advanced SSD processes, but it's not noticeable). Now that it's done, I really like the new Windows even though none of my monitors are touch enabled, contr

Well, the results so far don't surprise me. Most prefer their Mech games on the "realistic", "military" side. But the reality of the situation is, having almost no money and being a tiny team, doing anything like that is almost impossible. I've been thinking and thinking, and the more I think, the more I reach the conclusion that the game's art style will need to be simpler / more toony, because it's easier and much faster to make. I've been considering that something along the lines of Rochard's (PC/PS3 game) art style would suit a real time tactics game nicely. It's not as simple / basic as Planetary Annihilation, and not as complex as DO