Had to split poor Brian in half so the image quality wouldn't get all crunchy lol. Was only really intending to draw Rachel but she looked too lonely so I gave her some pals.
therapist voice thank you for being so forthcoming about your trauma. with what youve told me during our past three sessions, i believe ive heard enough to pose a tentative diagnosis. youd be a breaker 4/blaster 6, liquid body with high pressure water blasts,
therapist voice thank you for being so forthcoming about your trauma. with what youve told me during our past three sessions, i believe ive heard enough to pose a tentative diagnosis. youd be a breaker 4/blaster 6, liquid body with high pressure water blasts,
Super Brocton Bros was a lot more well-known but I think Uber + Leet is where you can really hear that signature sound start to develop. Definitely worth checking out if you're at all into the genre, especially given how influential these guys were in the pre-GM era.
I wanted to make the armor panels a little darker... But it was sooo hard to make the figure readable. I hate working with all black, not looking forward to drawing Grue :/
Anyways, this is post SH9 Skitter! No shawl included... Sorry, already managing too many things here.
Hopefully I'll draw some more Taylors soon... Even more Worm characters!
Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?
To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:
SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!
Ren'py (and also a link to it if you click here do it):
THE visual novel software. Comic artists, look no further
✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It has great documentation! It has a bunch of plugins and UI stuff and assets for you to buy! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) You can also port your game to a BUNCH of consoles!
✨Cons: None really <3
Some games to look at: Doki Doki Literature Club, Bad End Theater, Butterfly Soup
Twine:
Great for text-based games! GREAT FOR WRITERS WHO DONT WANNA DRAW!!!!!!!!! (but you can draw if you want)
✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's versatile! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch)
✨Cons: You can add pictures, but it's a pain.
Some games to look at: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, Queers In love At The End of The World, Escape Velocity
Bitsy:
Little topdown games!
✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's (somewhat) intuitive! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! You can make everything in it, from text to sprites to code! Those games sure are small!
✨Cons: Those games sure are small. This is to make THE simplest game. Barely any animation for your sprites, can barely fit a line of text in there. But honestly, the restrictions are refreshing!
Some games to look at: honestly I haven't played that many bitsy games because i am a fake gamer. The picture above is from Under A Star Called Sun though and that looks so pretty
RPGMaker:
To make RPGs! LIKE ME!!!!!
NOTE: I recommend getting the latest version if you can, but all have their pros and cons. You can get a better idea by looking at this post.
✨Pros: Literally everything you need to make an RPG. Has a tutorial inside the software itself that will teach you the basics. Pretty simple to understand, even if you have no coding experience! Also I made a post helping you out with RPGMaker right here!
✨Cons: Some stuff can be hard to figure out. Also, the latest version is expensive. Get it on sale!
Some games to look at: Yume Nikki, Hylics, In Stars and Time (hehe. I made it)
engine.lol:
collage worlds! it is relatively new so I don't know much about it, but it seems fascinating. picture is from Garden!
NOTE: There's a bunch of smaller engines to find out there. Just yesterday I found out there's an Idle Game Maker made by the Cookie Clicker creator. Isn't life wonderful?
✨more advice under the cut. this is Long ok✨
ENGINES I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND THEY SEEM HARD BUT ALSO GIVE IT A TRY I GUESS!!!! :
Unity and Unreal: I don't know anything about those! That looks hard to learn! But indie devs use them! It seems expensive! Follow your dreams though! Don't ask me how!
GameMaker: Wuh I just don't know anything about it either! I just know it's now free if your game is non-commercial (aka, you're not selling it), and Undertale was made on it! It seems good! You probably need some coding experience though!!!
Godot: Man I know even less about this one. Heard good things though!
BUNCHA RANDOM ADVICE!!!!
-Make something small first! Try making simple: a character is in a room, and exits the room. The character can look around, decide to take an item with them, can leave, and maybe the door is locked and you have to find the key. Figuring out how to code something like that, whether it is as a fully text-based game or as an RPGMaker map, should be a good start to figure out how your software of choice works!
-After that, if you have an idea, try first to make the simplest version of that idea. For my timeloop RPG, my simplest version was two rooms: first room you can walk in, second room with the King, where a cutscene automatically plays and the battle starts, you immediately die, and loop back to the first room, with the text from this point on reflecting this change. I think I also added a loop counter. This helped me figure out the most important thing: Can This Game Be Made? After that, the rest is just fun stuff.
So if you want to make a dating sim, try and figure out how to add choices, and how to have affection points go up and down depending on your choices! If you want to make a platformer, figure out how to make your character move and jump and how to create a simple level! If you just want to make a kinetic visual novel with no choices, figure out how to add text, and how to add portraits! You'll be surprised at how powerful you'll feel after having figured even those simple things out.
-If you have a programming problem or just get confused, never underestimate the power of asking Google! You most likely won't be the only person asking this question, and you will learn some useful tips! If you are powerful enough, you can even… Ask people??? On forums??? Not me though.
-Yeah I know you probably want to make Your Big Idea RIGHT NOW but please. Make a smaller prototype first. You need to get that experience. Trust me.
-If you are not a womanthing of many skills like me, you might realize you need help. Maybe you need an artist, or a programmer. So! Game jams on itch.io are a great way to get to work and meet other game devs that have different strengths! Or ask around! Maybe your artist friend secretly always wanted to draw for a game. Ask! Collaborate! Have fun!!!
I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye
Something great about Worm is its deconstruction of the superhero genre has nothing to do with the idea that superheroes would be bad or even worse people then they're portrayed as. It's based around the much more nuanced and truer take that being a good person, even with superpowers, doesn't free you from the larger systemic issues of the society that you're in. The capes are Earth Bet don't stand above their societies as neutral judges, they can't, every team is either deeply ingrained in their society or actively going against it.
Legend is a far better deconstruction of superman then Omniman or Homerlander, because Legend is as morally upstanding a person as Superman as a vacuum. He probably would be a good person if his universe was as simple as Superman's. What makes Legend a complex character, and someone whose definitely far from pure good, is that he still lives in a society, and chooses to be part of some of the morally worst institutions in that society. Choosing to be the nicest cop imaginable doesn't change the fact that he's a cop. The fact that he's legitimately a kind person who wants what's best for people in a vacuum doesn't change the fact that being part of the institutions he's part of causes harm and limits his ability to do good. You can be someone who genuinely wants to do good and who still does harm because of the system you're trying to do good in.
Superman isn't impossible because nobody so powerful could be so good. He's impossible because nobody can be so powerful, even with those physical powers, they cannot stand apart from society.
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