I am responsible for very little in Sega’s upcoming Golden Axe: Beast Rider title. I did however do a little storyboarding for the project. Storyboarding in general is not my first love. It can be a lot of fun but it’s also tedious and fast paced. While I was doing the first board pass on the script I entertained myself by playing a little game: How many Butt shots can I put into the boards? (Very mature of me, I know.) The answer was quite a few. As expected, most of them were cut or re-boarded. I did the first pass, and most of the time the first, is never the final.

I got a surprise last week that made me giggle like a little kid that just got away with a hilarious prank. I was checking out the new Golden Axe trailer at Gametrailers.com when I saw one of the butt shots that I boared in the trailer. I nearly did a spit take at my desk and started laughing immediately. It was too much fun, my own private joke had made it into the game. I wasn’t going to post this originally but I reconsidered when I read that I was partly responsible for what Justin McElroy at Joystiq.com calls: “…the most gratuitous digital ass shot of this or any other decade.”

Like I said, too much fun.

I suck at the internet so here is the link to the Joystiq aritcle and the trailer itself:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/29/are-you-prepared-for-a-new-golden-axe-beast-rider-trailer/