Lenina on Union » Future

Lenina as she's meant to be, 'nuff said!

lenina — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:23:00 +0000

As a level 50 brute, Lenina is really strong and powerful. After years of classic body building and tabata training, she can lift a normal-weight man with one hand, do 66 ordinary push-ups in 60 seconds, perform one-hand push-ups with elevated feet and throw a small woman more than ten meters. With some demo editing, here’s the result:

Issue 17 is hear!

lenina — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:41:04 +0000

Issue 17, which brings the new stunning Ultra Mode, is finally hear!

Take a trip to the nearest tailor and dress up your toon with shiny stuff.

Champions Online and the future of costume editing

lenina — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:57:40 +0000

One thing that I love with capitalism is the free competition. Developers get incentive to create new amazing features that the costumers enjoy. Eventually, competitors might catch up and deliver a similar experience, carefully adopted to their own framework.

During the Halloween, I was offered a few days to try out Champions Online, which is a superhero themed MMO and a promising competitor to City of Heroes. The games have slightly different audiences, and I believe both games will co-exist for several years, inspiring each other to break the limits.

One of the most impressing things in Champions Online is the costume editor. You are finally able to create female bodybuilders, and the number of body sliders is amazing. Here are some pics of my fbb character Rubella.

Btw, don’t worry, I’ll keep my loyalty to Arachnos

Power customization with Issue 16

lenina — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:42:47 +0000

The upcoming Issue 16 has great power customization. You can change color and blending mode for many powers, and even replace the animations of fighting style power sets, like martial arts and super strength.

Issue 15 beta on test server!

lenina — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:04:09 +0000

Issue 15 beta is here on the Test server, featuring new costume options. Here are some teasers, featuring Intussusceptor and Sonja Johnson.

Female muscle

lenina — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:12:06 +0000

Issue 14 and Super Booster 2 are great, but what does Issue 15 and SB3 hold? SB1 covered the tech origin and SB2 is magic, what happens if SB3 is about the natural origin? Huh, natural, you think, wouldn’t that be boring? No way, natural (also applies to mutant) has the potential to cover the single most important hole in the costume editor: muscular women. Issue 9 gave us a free market, #10 gave us alien invasions, #11 gave us time travel, #12 gave us ancients and epic villains, #13 gave us day jobs and Issue 14 gave us Mission Architect. That was really ground-breaking issues – Issue 14 is a much better game than the socialist pre-9. Stronger women is the next logical step.

The lack of muscular woman was acceptable in the beginning, when the costume editor already was the best in the market. But with the tougher competition of today, it’s time to cover what stops many ideas of character design. Not every female character wants to be a mage or a healer. We’re not living in Cuba or Iran where everyone is supposed to look the same

Character in gallery is Toxin Temptress, lvl 23 arachnos widow. Client is current Issue 14, no 3rd party mods applied. No image manipulation but cropping is applied. I built the muscles by using a costume option that was temporary available a few weeks ago, probably for beta testing purpose. Those pictures do however not contain any non-standard geometry, so imagine female muscles to look better when it’s officially implemented.

Super group: Order of the Dark Sun