{"id":25745,"date":"2014-05-14T07:41:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25745"},"modified":"2022-03-03T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:01:09","slug":"turning-pixel-weapons-into-bronze-and-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/turning-pixel-weapons-into-bronze-and-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning pixel weapons into bronze and steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this Geek &#038; Sundry project might be interesting. It&#8217;s called Arcade Arms and the idea is they take a weapon from an online game and try to create a real-world version, then use that to see what kind of damage you can do with it. The first episode is about a massively oversize mace from the game <em>Elder Scrolls Online<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sz6CbICIIgM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 13 May 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jake Powning shows Nika Harper how to forge the Mace of Molag Bal, featured in <em>The Elder Scrolls<\/em> series. Then Andre Sinou shows her how much damage a mace can really do!<\/p>\n<p>Get Elder Scrolls Online for yourself: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elderscrollsonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.elderscrollsonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Arcade Arms Nika brings gaming into real life by taking the most potent digital weapons, from <em>Final Fantasy XIV<\/em>&#8216;s Gae Bolg to <em>Elder Scrolls Online<\/em>&#8216;s Mace of Molag Bal, and smashing things with their real life counterparts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Real world downer note: most single-handed weapons were significantly lighter than this fantasy mace: it clocks in at 35 pounds, which is a lot more weight than you&#8217;d be able to swing in a real fight (their combat demonstrator also points this out &#8230; and note how much smaller the examples he shows are compared to the &#8220;Mace of Molag Bal&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d hoped there would be more &#8220;how we made this&#8221; footage, but I understand the majority of the audience only really want to see how much damage the weapon can do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this Geek &#038; Sundry project might be interesting. It&#8217;s called Arcade Arms and the idea is they take a weapon from an online game and try to create a real-world version, then use that to see what kind of damage you can do with it. The first episode is about a massively oversize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,663],"tags":[1459,192],"class_list":["post-25745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-technology","category-weapons","tag-metalworking","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Hf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72079,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745\/revisions\/72079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}