#scrapped bits

[robotdragonfanatic]

A few bits I scrapped from the ‘Samael Reads Fanfic’ fic

Art, especially paintings and digital art are worth a fortune 

Watcher did say Angels don’t paint in D3 so why not?

+ Samael commissioned a life sized human-made portrait of himself

Human tech that gets spread to other realms is strictly harmless stuff

So no documentaries or shows that give ideas on how humans and their world works. Even space documentaries don’t show the technology used to see all those far away stars/planets/etc.

The Internet has restricted access and is heavily censored/monitored

This means apps and programs that circumvent those censors get heavily bartered for (but no one ever gets them)

Both Demons and Angels have tried to kidnap a human and force them to give them uncensored access

This goes horribly wrong for them, because it results in heavy malware or just downright destroys their tablet/computor - Humans made contingency plans for situations like this.

I wanted to have a line or two in the fic that mentioned this and how Samael ‘isn’t foolish enough to attempt it’, but I scrapped it because it didn’t fit the flow and it would’ve made it too long

Vulgrim runs an online shop now

Because of course he does

[otusoats]

Simon’s uploaded several pieces of conceptual artwork for a few of the characters from Owlboy over the years. The first drawing is one of the first owls Simon designed for the game, which was then later reworked into Solus’ design. Geddy’s initial design is very similar to his finalized design, though Otus has gone through the most note worthy changes out of all of these characters. In a Session at GDC (Games Developers Conference), he showed off an entire tree chart worth of designs that Otus went through before making it to his final design.  Simon nearly stuck with a wolf for Otus’ design, but dropped the idea due to Okami’s release and popularity at the time. Also worth noting is that one of the many designs for Otus was later reused and reworked for Twig. (Closest to the middle on the right side)

[otusoats]

There aren’t many differences between the PC version and Switch port of the game, but one that caught Confetti and I’s attention is a change in dialogue for Kernelle, where what she says is changed to remove “bastards” from it. This was done possibly for censorship reasons with it being released on the Switch, but we’re not 100% certain at this point.

Needless to say I was personally disappointed to learn I missed out on this bit of text with how much I love Kernelle. Let Her Say “Bastards”!

[otusoats]

One concept among the many ones dropped for the final cut of Owlboy is that there were going to be dinosaur NPC’s throughout the city of Advent. Not all of them were cut, though. One of the designs kept for the final games was that for the Boguin. When the team needed a character to help teach the player how to do dodge rolls, Simon dug up the old design for the Boguins, and the rest is history.

Also, their names come from a combination of “bovine” and “penguin”!

[otusoats]

Whether or not this shows up in the actual background of the Floating Continent is still a mystery to me, but there exists this sprite of an unfortunate tiny viking among some rubble in the lava for the backgrounds of the level. This viking could possibly be a reference to the next title that DPAD Studio is working on, Vikings on Trampolines

[otusoats]

The four Boguins in Owlboy have names! Their names are Gubby, Yubby, Bubby and Knubby. Their names can be found in the instruction manual included in the Limited Edition of the game, as well as in some unused text for the game (Which includes a humorously alarming bit of text for Knubby)

[otusoats]

 In an interview, Simon talked about several scrapped bosses. One of the most note worthy among the bosses talked about was a fourth, unused Guardian that was planned to appear in the Owl Library that was based off of a gecko. It was supposed to climb up after Otus in a tower segment where he couldn’t fly, and would be able to attack with it’s tongue and lasers. The sprites to the boss are still in the games files, and this is what it looks like pieced together.

-(Edited)-

 While never posted separately, footage of this boss fight exists! The fight was specifically supposed to take place below the Owl Library in a garbage chute, and was meant to be fought with the fourth cut gunner, Kernelle. Due to Kernelle being cut, the Gecko was cut as well.

https://youtu.be/rOkq7fUdgYQ?t=1543 (The time stamp of the fight is 25:43 if the link doesn’t bring you to it.

[otusoats]

@ketrindarkdragon

(FIRST OFF I wanted to apologize for the delayed response to this! I saw this at first while I was in class and just forgot to respond afterwards hghgfD)

EITHER way, that’s all really interesting! Both of these dungeons might’ve been cut due to time since I know DPAD’s talked multiple times about how there were so many dungeons they wanted to add as well as bits of plot+lore, but didn’t due to how much they were already working on for the game (I mean, they worked on the game from literally scratch for 8 years so that’s understandable.)  Alot of remains of unused items and Dungeons seem to be tucked away out of bounds throughout this game. (And characters too every now and then?? Exploring out of bounds is always entertaining because you’ll just be looking for things and then suddenly it’s like. Oh hey Twig. Fancy meeting you here.)