(Hijacking my pinned post to say I need as much feedback as possible from Splatoon fans. Feedback on anything. Please)
The current Syllabary. I’m happy with it but it’s clearly not its final form to me.
INFO: This is what’s known as a Syllabary. That means each symbol represents a syllable. It’s very intentionally designed to be ‘rotationally unique’ as I call it; no symbol is an exact copy of another if rotated or inverted.
Vowel-less consonants all have a complete circle.
The letter sets have clear themes to them for easy identification.
A = Ah
E = Eh
I = Ee
O = Oh
U = Ooh
There are several kinds of symbols that can be seen all throughout the world of Splatoon. At least like five or more different sets that all look different from each other. I wanted to create my own set that takes a bit from each and looks accurate to the Splatoon universe without being a complete copy of any, which took a while, and I’m proud of what I made.
Examples of writing:
The lyrics to Calamari Inkantation 👆
Actual words I’ve made which will get their own posts
HEY GUYS!!! for a lil bit ive been working to translate the Return Of The Mammalians sunken scrolls! itttt takes quite a bit im gonna be honest, and im not even sure if im doing this right,,
BUT if anyones interested in this, i may pick up the pace and try to push the rest of them out sooner rather than later!
spent all day making a logo + fake album covers for my inkling's metal band, hadalpelagia! i think they're going to be an experimental black metal band, but i change my mind about their subgenre a lot. the logo text is based off the splatoon square script.
progression under the cut!
first i wrote the name "hadalpelagia" (derived from the hadalpelagic zone of the ocean) in the splatoon square font. i wrote it once in my own handwriting.
the second row i enlargened the first and last letters. the third row, i settled on a runic effect and started enclosing the rest of the text with the first and last letters. i wrote it one last time to clean up the letter designs.
i added some flavor to the bits sticking out and then enlargened the letters in the middle to give it some more variation. next i messed with the line weights and cleaned up the edges.
i knew i wanted the logo to look a lot gnarlier and less legible than this, but a lot of the band logos that do that incorporate symbolism that's either too much effort for me to draw (and doesn't fit their band anyways), like trees or veins; or they incorporate more mythical elements that wouldn't have had the same meaning to my inklings, like crosses, pentagrams, and celtic knots. i wanted the logo to give the same feeling to a human viewer as looking at a band logo with a pentacle/pentagram on it, but i couldn't include satanic imagery because it felt strange to say my inklings knew what that is. (i already had rune-based text, which is already a stretch, but i didn't want to include two stretches LOL).
i settled on basing the logo off a giant squid, but heavily stylized, with the shape of the tentacles and head forming a pentacle. the pentacle didn't really come through, but i'm happy with the design i ended up with. it has the two tentacles and eight arms of a great squid... kind of lol.
the last step was to recreate the drippy graphic style a lot of these illegible metal logos had. and that's where we get the final result!
i haven't even drawn all the oc's for this band yet. but they're all named partly after protagonists from other, older, shooter games.
the lead singer and guitarist, dynamo dacote, is named for buddy dacote, a cut character from doom. the bassist, jethro siemens, is named for jethro "jet" bradley from tron 2.0. (jet's father, alan bradley, was likely named for the allen-bradley electronics company. siemens is the name of a competitor.) lastly, b.j. thresher, the drummer, is named for b.j. blazcowicz from wolfenstein.
hey do you think salmonids could learn how to speak inkling?
they probably know how to speak octarian because of the trade deal. (although the octarians might’ve just learned how to speak salmonid, the details are fuzzy)
how do you think a salmonid speaking inkling would sound like?
Just found this on twitter -- does anyone know if there are other scripts in the game? i feel like i’ve seen MUCH more script in game and i wanna know more about it
The word for good is Wei, and I’m looking for a phrase that formed naturally (retroactively). When ordering food in Splatoon 3 your character can say something that sounds like “Thank you!” but it can also sound like “Wei kyu!” So what’s the phrase mean literally? Good (kyu)
The more common form of thank you is Juste, the shortened version of Justenifa, which means special, similar to how Arigato comes from another word meaning rare.
It should be a thanks specifically for thanking service. Now’s your chance to help define kyu!
