echo

23 | ASD/ADHD | she/they | Banner: @boreniii icon: @/blackberritea on twt | hyperfixation overload | Radioactive Ghoul

[shyhorrors]

Welcome!

I’m Echo! An artist personified as a Radioactive Ghoul.

Links

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Special Interests ✨

Monster Prom ♥♥♥♥

Eddsworld ♥♥♥♥

Shiki ♥♥♥

Pokemon ♥

Cookie Run  ♥♥

Slimecicle  ♥♥♥

Soul Eater ♥♥

TF2 ♥

Submas ♥♥♥

Hamtaro ♥♥♥

DHMIS ♥♥♥♥

Smiling Friends ♥♥

iZombie ♥♥♥

DNI ❌

Fursuits/Character Costumes

Insect posting

NFT/AI

Kinning/head-canoning my ocs.

Thanks for coming by!

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DITTO POKOPIA !!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

this was such a delight to see !!!! i love them so muchhhh !!

Pre-Order Sticker Sheet or Charms of it here!

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me when i'm a squirrel but i'm also a girl 🐿️🥜

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🎮 HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 🎮

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

[hotvampireadjacent]

Hahaha

[mzulftoculory]

Every time I drink out of my big water bottle with two hands I think of this jerma image and it keeps me hydrated

[fallout-lou-begas]

[submasrot]

"Can you teach me how to feel good, I just wanna feel good."

[jumpingjoltiks]

[worthikids]

Witches On Tinder

[bogleech]

Just the vocal delivery on its own is funny every time

[madaman0]

idk if anybody else did this yet but

[dentdechien]

My son . minecraft

[glutko]

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Commission for junigutz

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OFF AU

silly lil sketch of the sillies

[submasrot]

You're a night shift guard at the local railway station...

You've been assigned to scan and report strange occurrences, you needed the pay and just assumed it'd be about people sleeping on the benches or unwanted drug deals. You were wrong.

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Anomaly AU

You find a job listing for a security watch, the pay is good and the entry-level requirements are bare minimum. When you meet for your interview, you are given a quick run-down of your job and what to do during the night. Safety checks are a must. Your shift ends at 5am, not bad.

The first nights are well off, with no issues other than scaring off kids who intend to do basic property damage. You hear them joke about daring each other into the tunnel ways, but you think nothing of it. Your nightly routine continues, yet, there's a small updraft from the tunnels but as you recalled it wasn't windy out. Then there's small scuttling as if the kids were back and messing about.

Your curiosity takes hold of you but deep down you feel this isn't the right course of action and to ignore it. As you make your way, the fluorescent lights flicker above you. Fantastic. Yet your attention quickly shifts as the sound of the footsteps stop suddenly. You shine your flashlight down the tunnel but there's nothing, you swore you thought you had seen movement in the darkness. You shake your head to dismiss the creeping fear down your spine, it was nothing. As you head back the sounds start up again but they sound heavy and fast... As if it was running straight towards you. You make a run for it, back to the safety of your office. It's quiet again.

You distract yourself from the fear with the radio that you brought with you. It helps, soothes you and eventually your thoughts are rational again. The anxiety has been sedated, and you believe the kid's comments were just messing with your head. After laughing to yourself for your stupid fear, is when you see something in the corner of your eye. As you turn, there is a figure in the station; it's staring back at you. Its face is featureless except for a toothy grin and soul-piercing eyes, it looks to be wearing a conductor's uniform.

You understand what they meant by strange occurrences now.

[waywardstation]

Look for anything (or anyone) that could be familiar

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🔼 for Ingo to find Emmet

🔽 for Emmet to find Ingo

[waywardstation]

Determine what Emmet sees in front of him

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💭 This is a dream

🗯️ This is real

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Ingo tries to see if going through space-time again damaged memories of Hisui

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❤️ Ingo remembers everything

❤️‍🩹 Ingo remembers only fragments

💔 Ingo remembers nothing

[waywardstation]

Determine what is best for this situation

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🏥 Put concerns first, take Ingo to the hospital

🏠 Trust what Ingo is saying, take him back home

📱Compromise, call Elesa back to help watch him at home