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Go to my website www VG-heart com [link]

or

www VG-heart deviantart com [link]

for recent work.

Thank you!

Nadia Karroue

My gawd,.. seriously gawd!

Aight, so here's what's been going on in the life of Nadia Karroue lately. As some of you might know I graduated from the course Design for Virtual Theater & Games at the Utrecht school of Arts last summer. Since then I've been working on a kickass game with the amazing artist ~red-monkey Dreambear Meanwhile I was preparing to introduce myself to the dutch gamebizz: working on a little website, making new connections, getting an office, entering the global game jam [link] and all that jazz. It was real scary to take all these big steps on my own, but it was also really exciting.
But i was also trying to take my art to the next level. I felt I was playing it safe and I was eager to know what it felt like to have exhibitions and that sort of stuff. So I talked to people and and entering competitions. And now I probably get to go to Venice for the opening of the Venice Biennale and exhibit an interactive artwork there on a huge ass screen. So that's also beyond awesome since I've always wanted to go to Venice and I wanted to show the world my artwork. I'll update my journal about that later but I can already reveal one thing. My artwork is going to have kickass robots in it. Hell yes.
And also! I'm sick of dorms, I need to get an apartment.. yes!

And then there's this other thing! I'm changing my account to fit my new company name. So no more slither astray but VG <3 But I'll keep checking this account until june 1st.
So for updates and new artworks you'll have to check or my new website [link]
I'm still working on my office but as soon as it's finished I'll post some pictures. It's real cool, it has this sort of nature takes back the industrial/post apocalyptic look. Gritty and shiny and weird.

What do you guys think of my new name VG <3? It means Video Game Heart

I'm so excited! I want to write more, but no time!
bay!!

Go make yourself some tea and take a good 15 to 30 minutes to answer this question as best as you can or like.

[edit] ok ok.. a short answer is cool too, just gimme somethin!

You are where you are right now while reading this. And right now you are being confronted with news broadcasts on the tv, radio and internet with live videos and everything telling you that a zombie plague has come out of now where and it's spreading fast. Probably it will take less then a week before the overpopulated areas are infested and another month or so till it spreads out over the entire world leaving only the smallest and most remote areas unharmed.
Where would you go, what would you do? What are your strategies for short term survival? And How would you try to survive on the long run?

I invite you to go crazy with these questions and I very much look forward to reading them all!

I just came back from a beyond kickass trip to Berlin. I went there to be with friends, meet new ones, get inspired, party and apparently fall in love?!
It's quite strange though because I Berlin makes me feel terribly dutch. And I never feel dutch! (probably has something to do with that non dutch blood of mine )It has to do with me having trouble reading people there. At first I felt the random people I met on the streets or at parties were less social but if I showed effort to get into some silly conversation, they turned out to be terrible chatty. I had tons of fun moments just riding the metro or buying something at a store.
But yeah.. Berlin. I LURVED the public transporation system, the fuckedupness of the buildings and the sheer beauty of em. The contrast created a new type of amazing you dont see here in holland.
The little cool cafes, the young people with the perfected street styles, all the cute boys with geeky glasses, the exccentric shop owners, the clubs, the drunks, the girls, the boys, the shoes, the hats.
The food, the drink, the art, the life. (not the water though, yuck!)

Also I met and
Such amazing, talented and sweet people. It was tons of fun hanging out with them. Good folk!
Sadly I did not get to meet -_- Hopefully I'll still get the chance though.

Anyhows, I'm happy. I'm gonna hypnotize my best friends and make em come live with me in Berlin.

I want to a game in which I can dress up in a Victorian or maybe French revolution type of style, in a world that has robots en spaceships and I want to have a big gun and go to big dances full of fancy dressed people with masks (they're flirting and dancing).. I guess it's a masked ball and I have to assassin one of em.. I'm not sure who it is.. since their all wearing masks, so I have to mingle with people in a way that will allow me to gather info about who is who and then find my target and persuade him to follow me to somewhere quiet where I kill him in a neat ninja like style. Yes.
I forgot my gun! What am I supposed to do with my big ass gun?!? Oh! I know! After that I'm real hungry so I go out to hunt a deer and then I skin it and roast it and eat it. Yes.

So.. either you go and make this game for me or you give me money so I can go hire people and make it.
So what will it be eh?