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MBKF1

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  1. You may or may not know this, but I'm really into design, logos, infographics, branding, typography, etc, and in the last few months I've realised that this is what I would like to do in the future. That means I've been doing a tonne of research online and I recentely got in touch with an artist called PJ Tierney.



    You may have heard of him, and if you haven't then you may have seen his work as he did those awesome F1 race posters, and the F1 constructors infographic. I think he even made an ccount on the forum. Anyway, I got in touch with him and asked him about his work, how he got to where he is and whether he had any general tips for me. He was extremely helpful and he even wrote a blog post specifically about my questions which was awesome.



    He also has a side blog where he shares cool inspiration, and I was taking a look and found these awesome Martini Williams Monza designs. They're so cool I had to share them with you.

    http://coolstuff.pjtierney.net/post/95742103646/martini-monza-sean-mcclintock

  2. For me, F1 2010 was the best game in the series, it was just great, and I found myself spending hours on it doing many seasons of career mode, various sprint races online, single player races. It had those great ‘Live the Life’ menus which made you feel like the driver. You had your agent, you saw the press waiting to get that quick interview done with you, you had the press conferences, you had your motorhome that you sat in. I really hope that F1 2014 returns to the paddock ‘Live the Life’ menus, firstly because it immerses you in the game, and also because so many people seem to have expressed their wish for it to return.

    I think it may be my favourite because there was a lot of hype surrounding the game as it was the first one since 2007, and it was the first official F1 game on Xbox 360 and PC in a very long while. The game seemed so well publicised, the build up to the game was really long which was great! They started talking about it like half a year before, or maybe even longer before. They released something like seven developer diaries with endless gameplay, showing the customer exactly what was happening from the eyes of the developers. They had so many videos from Gamescom that year of nearly every circuit and car in action.

    I don't remember any other game having that same level of great treatment since, and this year for F1 2014, they only officially announced the game at the start of August, giving it a two and a half month build up. There are no plans for developer diaries, they weren't at Gamescom, but instead they have some hotlap videos and screenshots!

    F1 2010 may have had a lot of bugs and flaws, but I loved it more than any other and I honestly think that the level of immersion is what made F1 2010 so great for me, it’s why I played it day after day. Those awesome paddock menus are gone in the latest games and therefore the press conferences and interviews are gone so it doesn’t feel like I’m personally taking part in the races any more. I’ve just taken over someone else’s car.

  3. I'm going to try a new thing by asking a Question of the Week (QOTW), so each week I will ask you a question about something to do with the F1 games. The DiRT game forum had a Question of the Week (QOTW) thing going on a while back but for some reason it never took off into a weekly thing.

    So the first question is 'What is the best Codemasters F1 game?' Judge it on everything, the handling, graphics, physics, game menus, features, online, etc. New question next week!

  4. You know the forum badges, well there are three which are 'Dedicated to F1', 'Dedicated to GRID' and 'Dedicated to DiRT'. Any chance you could add a 'Dedicated to Off-Topic' badge too?! :p

    Nah, but on a serious note, I think the badges are cool and I've just looked back when the forum first started and Loore said:

    'As for badges, we've got a lot more planned. The idea was we wouldn't go overboard right at the start but gradually add them over time. Badges aren't all automatic either, we do have the ability to grant people badges based on their behaviour (good or bad...) so you won't be able to abuse the system.'

    I haven't seen any new badges added since the start, so I was wondering whether these will be added at some point? 
    I guess when the forum gets out of Beta?, i asked the question why haven't any of the dedicated badges been awarded since the start of the forum and the mods said that they only award them for your helpfulness in the forums.
    So i guess those groups of people who got the dedicated badges when the forum opened were all helpful at the same time lol
    Maybe when the forum isn't beat, but awarded for being helpful, I don't agree completely. Looking at those on the 'Dedicated to DiRT' list, they deserve to be there as they are on the DiRT forums all the time, looking at gossip, discussing the game, adding ideas, etc.

    Meanwhile look at the 'Dedicated to F1' list, and you have Tiametmarduk. Yes he has done very well on. YouTube, but he's only posted 5 times, and not since the 6th April, just 4 days after these forums opened. Same story with that aarava guy. 

    There's a lot of people who stick around on the F1 Game forums, yes a lot of them are unhelpful and whine, but there are some who are very helpful yet haven't been rewarded yet.

  5. You know the forum badges, well there are three which are 'Dedicated to F1', 'Dedicated to GRID' and 'Dedicated to DiRT'. Any chance you could add a 'Dedicated to Off-Topic' badge too?! :p

    Nah, but on a serious note, I think the badges are cool and I've just looked back when the forum first started and Loore said:

    'As for badges, we've got a lot more planned. The idea was we wouldn't go overboard right at the start but gradually add them over time. Badges aren't all automatic either, we do have the ability to grant people badges based on their behaviour (good or bad...) so you won't be able to abuse the system.'

    I haven't seen any new badges added since the start, so I was wondering whether these will be added at some point? 

  6. Amazing thanks for sharing! Finally we get to see some gameplay with the HUD. That's pretty important for me.

    I hope that instead of just hotlap videos we get something similar to what GRID did, something like "Lewis Hamilton vs Suzuka". A short 3 lap race with the HUD, no fancy replay cameras, just a simple video so we can see the HUD, what the engineer says, how the engine sounds, handling etc. That would be much better than more hot laps in my opinion.

  7. Doesn't look like there'll be a massive shake up for 2015 as it really all happened this year. McLaren, I honestly think Button's time will be over at the end of this year and I reckon they'll bring in Vandoorne to partner Magnussen.

  8. I'm going there so I can't wait to play those games! Shame that Codemasters aren't going cos it would have been awesome to maybe meet Lee, Luke and Ben.

    EDIT: Just found out that my mate didn't buy the tickets, and Saturday and Sunday are sold out. Poop
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