CuttleGames

realized what a waste this was, i was never capable of actually doing much after all sorry for wasting your time

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Savage Skies the Video Game!

I drew these last year but just never posted them. Kinda lost motivation to post most of what I did in 2024 overall (so I kinda have a big backlog now) (I'll probably just queue some of it)

Anyway Savage Skies was one of my favorite video games as a kid, completed the entire thing (accidentally on hard mode whoops), easily spent hundreds of hours in it, and as silly and janky as it is I still adore the game and the really creative cast of playable dragons.

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An Ozzy's Black Skies fanart !!! Who don't know what's happening - Savage Skies is neutered version of the original game - Ozzy's Black Skies, Ozzy Osbourne's fantasy dogfight sim, which is still the lost media.

I wish I reblogged this early when I found the post.. They're so fucking gorgeous!! Alto Barg didn't match with his in-game design and refers to art from Manual (but that's mostly problem of artists of the manual)..

Barg and Kedle is so dinosaur-coded. And it's ironic that each faction have its own flying horse. We also lack of at least 6 scrapped creatures that were in the original game - two of them is Gillbourne and Rarg (I love this so fucking much).

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:O Wow all of this info!!!!

I was vaguely familiar with the history of it being originally an Ozzy Osbourne game, but had no idea any of this other stuff was even out there. I am so obsessed with Gillbourne like you can't believe.

Looking at these, I have to know more. Where would one go to find more development history and screenshots like the above? I'd love to dive in deeper.

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The curse of wanting to dig into every nook and cranny of a game to absorb all available crumbs of visuals, atmosphere and story, but just, ABSOLUTELY sucking at the base gameplay (I am very bad at roguelikes)

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Solution found: got my brother to help me

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The curse of wanting to dig into every nook and cranny of a game to absorb all available crumbs of visuals, atmosphere and story, but just, ABSOLUTELY sucking at the base gameplay (I am very bad at roguelikes)

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Took me so long to get to that the game is out but I tried the demo for Starless Abyss! Honestly a really cool game, I'm in love with the goofy combo of space military that is also using the occult to fight lovecraft space monsters. The tone is silly fun and the pixel art style really pleasant and easy to read.

The gameplay itself was really solid too, a tactical space fight deck builder sort that has room for a lot of different strategies to stack depending on your luck in a given run. Myself and a friend managed to make it to the end of the demo first try by the very skin of our teeth- that last boss battle saw us losing two of three ships right at the climax.

The game wasn't a cakewalk, we had to really plan out every move we made on most levels and the bosses would see us discussing the best line of action for up to a minute between each turn. As challenging as it can get, a careful setup can net some incredibly rewarding enemy wipeouts that legit make you feel awesome for pulling off.

(Not pictured: an epic boss battle)

Overall I think based on this and a few other demos, I'm not really into the deckbuilder genre all too much so I'll probably not try too many more going forward but this one was still very solid and led to some really exciting and memorable moments.

I'd highly recommend this game if you like deckbuilders, spaceship cults, and playing as a brain in a jar (always a big plus)!

Starless Abyss steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/Starless_Abyss/

Had to at least mention the MVP of the game, the Brawler, and an absolute unit. This ship type deals extra damage, + we found cards that give double damage for a turn, a draw 2 card that lowered use costs on whatever it drew, the magic ability to keep cards in hand after turns end, and a card that made all cards in hand on use inflict 0 heat costs, which turned this guy into an absolute powerhouse that could just -decimate- the entire map for free, saving all the energy for applying shield buffs to everyone. I miss him already. ;o;

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Yoooo

so brief update but like, to keep things simpler for myself I'm gonna be merging this account with my main art account @cuttledreams-bugs! Aka I'm just going to start posting all my work there from now on instead of dividing my art by subject. I believe most people here are mainly familiar with my dino bug post, so if you followed me for that and want to see more, I'd recommend moving to my other account. I know it's annoying, my apologies >.<

In the meantime I don't really know what I'm going to do with this blog but I'll probably just start posting videogame rambles here and stuff. So if you like niche and weird indie games, feel free to stick around? (I just played Navicula Meatus recently and may post about it)

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Yoooo

so brief update but like, to keep things simpler for myself I'm gonna be merging this account with my main art account @cuttledreams-bugs! Aka I'm just going to start posting all my work there from now on instead of dividing my art by subject. I believe most people here are mainly familiar with my dino bug post, so if you followed me for that and want to see more, I'd recommend moving to my other account. I know it's annoying, my apologies >.<

In the meantime I don't really know what I'm going to do with this blog but I'll probably just start posting videogame rambles here and stuff. So if you like niche and weird indie games, feel free to stick around? (I just played Navicula Meatus recently and may post about it)

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Artfight Week 5:

Benthic for MarshManta

Oberon for Erujayy

Alto Voltaje for DangerousColors

Molniya for Hobgobbin

Luna for Sinnyowo

and Arus for KrisC!

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Artfight Week 4:

Gullinbursti for Vampyrumm

Necromancer for @mikaorangeart

Zaun for AmeAndK

Ellyah for Anonyma

and Bog Strider for @deadlydaemondraws!

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revenge on @cuttle-creatures, Helena is really really pretty

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:O Look at what it drew!! Helenaa

Sooooo soo lovely, Helena looks so gorgeous how you rendered her! Thank you again so so much!!

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Artfight Week 3:

Talia W. Myzel for Electrixxstorm

Pie for Artifisoap

Nepheline for Nephlil

Lark for Kalublah

Ruth for Sparrrororow

Lemon for Lemonyolk

and Palata for Botankoh!

@electrixxstorm @yolkylemon @sparrrorow-art @neflil

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Artfight Week 2:

Firefly for TreesEatLeaves

Therm for AnnaLerahk

Pluto for Flame-Shadow

and Corrupted Sarvael for Tealx!

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Failed brush experiment but successful Esther

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Artfight Week 1:

Zid for Twarda

Sila for HydraArt

Lua for TheRealReid

Nurobi for BonedShmarrow

Levinom for IcySilvertail

Faye for tytoquestra

Carmen for Igloma

and BeeKeeper for Jormungandr!

My page: https://artfight.net/~CuttleDreams

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Thinking on it, I should have arranged my artfight posts to be grouped by week, much easier to track and compile.

(I'll probably repost to do just that)

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C Minus for @cuttledreams-bugs

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Love love!! Love this drawing, thank you so much!!

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Yaay got my profile ready just in time~

https://artfight.net/~CuttleDreams

Lets see how many characters I can draw this year. Revenges aren't promised but I do try 👏

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Artfight approaches!

Still mega busy but finally getting started on artfight OC updates! Goal is 14 characters- this chart will be a nice motivation visual as I make progress 💪

No idea how many I'll be able to do before July but I'll make my best effort.

(Account name is CuttleDreams!)

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I finished two more characters, but have decided to not really continue.

I just don't have time (2 days), and I've been told so many times that it doesn't really matter that much. So I'll just do the one character I know tends to be liked and leave it at that.

I'm really disappointed, but that's just life I guess. I'll feel better once the event starts and I can focus on other people's characters.