Brick Gamers 04 - Piracy Issues

It's without a doubt modern piracy still thrives and in the digital form, the software arena is one of them. Games are no escape, but BrickGamers realised that there are justified reasons why gamers might prefer pirated over originals. Here we take a look at what grips Asia, and Malaysia as well:

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Brick Gamers 03 - Gamer Types

Like it or not, gamers are categorised into typical types as well, with the familiar RTS, FPS, and the modern MMORPG, which is an evolution of the CRPG, which is itself an evolution of the original D&D RPG. Still in its early days of comics, BrickGamers displayed the typical gamers your can find in a cybercafe...

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Brick Gamers 02 - Online Gamers

Online gamers are a modern trend who take advantage of the broadband era whom their former ancestors could not muster with narrowband dial-up lines. This spawned a line of MMORPG gamers, from the basic, to the online deity. As the 2nd comic, BrickGamers tackled something simple and fun...

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Brick Gamers 01 - Where It Began

This is where it all began. The first Brick Gamers appeared in the September 2006 issue of GameAxis Unwired Malaysia, the leading gaming magazine in the country, and part of the network of leading gaming magazine in the South-East Asia (SEA) region.

The first comic used the 3x2 panel format, which had to appear horizontally in the mag, and made it hard to read, so it was changed in the following issue for a better vertical layout. Then on all BG comics followed this format, which was suitable for a mag, but not online, hence BG Online follows the 1x5 format. That's why converted mag comics online have to be opened in a new window, as the confined display space would be too small to read the text.

BG01 touched on the popularity of Counter-Strike (CS), which at times, seemed like more students knew about firearms than they did about maths! This issue was the butt of jokes in the first BG comic. Of course, as they say, the rest is history :)

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