Greetings, I’m Steff! Today we’ll be looking at the recent contributions to the gaming world from Shadiversity (Shad M. Brooks), Australian HEMA (Historical European Martial-Arts) YouTuber, media critic and author of the Shadow of the Conqueror series… Speaking of authors, show some love to ‘Not to be Mistaken For Sorbet‘, a poetry anthology by a good friend who co-hosts on The Hmm Collective podcast, also very fun.
Spill The Ale, Brethren: Shadiversity recently released this video with the aim of providing game developers with reference material for combat animations. Shad’s a vocal advocate for more realism in media, especially film and gaming that depicts medieval and old historical settings. Even in fantasy and sci-fi media, some true-to-life elements can really help elevate the text and I wholeheartedly agree with him on that.
Shad’s got the hashtag #medievalcombatreference started and invited other content creators to get join him in getting the ball rolling with providing material for realistic combat moveset animations.
How I got into Papa-Shad:
The first video of his I saw was from his Fantasy Rearmed series, where he applies his knowledge to come up with entertaining and unique ideas about what kind of weapons would be realistically most effective against (and for) different fantasy races. That video on giants was especially horrifying in big-brained kinda way! Let’s just say David wouldn’t have stood a chance against Goliath if they swapped weapons.
Then I got to his fight scene analysis pieces on Star Wars and other media analysis. Then I fell in love with the way he says “stick” for reasons even unknown to myself! Smash cut to now and I’m getting paid to write about the lad.
Product Poems:
There was once a lass so tiny, Tina. Who wonders land, borders, Tsushima? Excuse me miss, but I must dismiss your credentials from… Shujin Academia.
There was once a young woman called Aloy, who’s south-end faced west like McCoys! Surely forbidden, so purely well-hidden, till coming under Lottie‘s employ.
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