came for the puzzles stayed for the angst

he/him — currently more active on alt

[enigmachine]

introductiooooon

hi i’m (eni)gma or squiffy

i post about ds games/mystery visual novels/rpgmaker games here. @squiffied is my alt blog for roblox sutff

my friends @mangomoths and @b1tstar are cool go follow them (rose you are too but you don’t post)

currently fixated on; studio investigrave, 8:11, OFF (sorry might not laytonpost now)

[professorlaytonarchive]

THE ORIGINAL DEATHLY MIRROR HAS BEEN FOUND.

This is not a drill. All 6 chapters of MotDM's original version are found and playable through emulation right now, thanks to the brilliant folks over at KeitaiWiki!

Now, remember this is the original version, not the ReMix, and the whole thing is in Japanese (yes, we're working on a translation) - but this is an amazing find for several reasons.

One, of course, is preservation. Having this game accessible and available is a fantastic thing for a multitude of reasons I don't feel the need to explain here.

Two, it's amazing news for our remake, too. There were a few missing pieces that we were not sure what to do about. That worry has been solved entirely, and all of these things can now be incorporated into the remake. Like what, you may ask?

For starters, there's 15 new puzzles that we can now localise and incorporate. Some are a bit more difficult to work with (there's a few based on specific uses of Japanese grammar), but we feel confident we'll be able to deliver fun and interesting interpretations of these new puzzles. For those of you keeping count, yes, that ups the minimum total of new puzzles in our remake to 60.

Another thing we're very happy to have recovered is the minigames, and the diary entries they reward you. There's one minigame in Chapters 1-3, and another in Chapters 4-6, for which we did not have any gameplay, assets, or even rules. While the loss of the second mingame could have been overcome by simply giving the first minigame more levels, the diary entries they reward you would have needed a lot more work and imagination, with our writers having to try to create new entries that would follow the original vision. This is now no longer an issue, and we can bring the original vision for these diary entries into the remake as they are.

On top of that, there were a few characterisations and storylines that were different between the original and the remix, where we would have had to pick the remix version by default, because the back half of the original was missing - this recovery gives us far more wiggle room to combine and reconcile these versions and make this game the most interesting version of itself. (Also, at the back end, having access to the original assets makes our recreation department very, very happy.)

So, all in all, a fantastic morning for the Layton fandom!

And then, what? Well, it might be a bit quiet on the update side of things for the time being, given that our job right now is to translate and localise about a million different things - and that just isn't a super interesting process to be sharing. We may have more to tell you once we've unpacked and analysed the files (we've only just got our hands on them, that's how fast this whole thing has gone), and we definitely have some other fun stuff we're working on that we can't wait to share, but after this massive update (maybe the biggest we'll ever do, because, wow), we'll need some time to work.

So for now, keep on keeping on, keep an eye on this subreddit and our youtube channel, and go check out the incredible work KeitaiWiki is doing. This whole thing, from the beginning, would not have been possible without them. (Seriously - they've been with us since the start of it all.)

Thank you.

-Nordic

from Team Enigma and Team Professor Layton Archive

[b1tstar]

@enigmachine (足立レイ) + @b1tstar (重音テト)

★ guys i wish i wish on a star for interactions to anything i post even if its not mo4!!!!

[sacriou]

Those ghosts got mad tricks

[inkxolotl]

[enigmachine]

being in the roblox fandom is so funny because you can draw the most sculpted body dynamic poses or heart-wrenching situation depending on what game it is and then for the head it’s just a 🟨

[brambletakatoil]

my favorite hamster

[brambletakatoil]

also if you guys were curious about the size difference, if you import both of his models in blender then his regular one is the same size- though if you scale it so that the heads (sort of) match then

[puzzlefaggot]

why doesn't the big descole eat the little descole

[brambletakatoil]

this comment has been put in the mental starboard i genuinely dont think i can beat this ever

[futurebritishgentleman]

don’t talk to me or my son ever again

[enigmachine]

never assume in life.. dont think that descole big because descole big cape because small cape descole big not cape big size ☺️

[nameimpending]

the batter

[enigmachine]

someoneee gimme a character to draw. for art style exploration

[bozowha]

Sugar!

[enigmachine]

i often see people on social media discussing art styles and how there are people that think “more detail/more realistic = better” but as someone who strived for realism/3d and had a detailed anime art style up until a couple years ago i ENVY those with distinct flat 2d cartoonish simple art styles…

idk how y’all do it. to me it feels HARDER trying to draw more simple than detailed let alone have my own distinct art style

[enigmachine]

every shameless hamilton fan who’s an american history nerd needs their shameless hetalia fan friend who’s a world history nerd (this one goes out to you @b1tstar)

[enigmachine]

it’s so over they managed to get me to watch hetalia.

[enigmachine]

these recent weeks i’ve just been a sweat on blender 24/7… i’ve been modeling various things like ocs and characters for a game idea some of my friends and i are making (nothing serious just for fun) but here’s one of the projects that’s on-topic with my blog!! yaaaay

if i do ever happen to finish her i’m definitely putting her up for download because the yttd fandom is MALNOURISHED in mmd models

[luna-desert]

Do you want numas on your goddamn device? DOWNLOAD MY FILES!!!!!!!

using desktoptale you can have any numas you want wandering around like ANIMALLS ... on yourscreen. (except for mdcr)

click big big box link below download the zip file unzip it and then put it in the Custom folder of desktoptale then run your thing. im a master of crafts.

[germpills]

why does he look like this

[elluciel]

O Rosto De Um Assassino

[radrust]

worm Batar