NYANAGANDA 1.0

One of the unsung attractions found in playing EVE Online is the vast array of external game related activity that that goes on. This can vary from simply tweeting and following the #tweetfleet Twitter feed, right through to participating in player created gatherings. In between, we find a cornucopia of blogs, videos and propaganda art.

As an E-Uni student I recorded and posted a couple of my EVE game play videos (don't laugh, I know I'm bad at EVE and even worse at FRAPS recording & video editing). Creating each video was a real learning experience. In fact, I probably started blogging and throwing in the occasional tweet, for much the same reasons - to learn, to challenge and entertain - primarily for myself, but if a wider audience also benefited along the same lines too, then so much the better.

I have been especially impressed with some of the propaganda posters created for various alliances, corporations and in game events. I yearn to be able to produce something of the same quality and impact as those examples. As an in real life scientist, I find my artistic talents somewhat dulled down, but my enthusiasm knows no bounds. As a proud member of NYAN Cat Pirates corporation, I was keen to attempt to produce a NYAN propaganda (NYAN-AGANDA, get it?) poster. I discovered a super sci fi pulp magazine cover generator, via the RvB forums, in the shape of Pulp-O-Mizer. I created a very straight forward cover and saved it to my desktop. Using the free GIMP GNU image manipulation package, I imported my poster and added a couple more layers. Here's the result: 

I know this effort won't win any prizes, but consider it a prototype and the green shoots of better things to come.