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i will be closing this blog on december 1st. i will change the blog's name and description and cease posting here in preparation for the game's release. while i will not softblock anybody, i urge you all to not discuss this blog with anyone unless i publicly reveal its existence. i leave this as a memorial. thank you for sticking around.

#i may still post in the two weeks in between. i'll see.

i have such a good post in mind but i can't actually post it since it'd be spoilers now. grrrr <- thats me

#draft it whateber

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WHAT WOULD EVERYONE GET ON PIZZA

i am too biased to participate in this

aparanoidelectrictoothbrush

Can I share a mushroom pizza with Gabe and maybe you

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he is too picky for that

WHAT WOULD EVERYONE GET ON PIZZA

i am too biased to participate in this

#someone else tell me

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current venture project is to make ever music loop at least 30 seconds long. half as irritating for an hour's work! yaaaaay

#i don't have that many funnee images on my laptop #nor do i have a third of my songs #but i'll try

can't wait to be accused of anachronisms. like 'oh that prayer wasnt actually in use until 1931' eat my socks

#i might already be. procrastinating reading a qa form #it's a real critical one and my monkey brain still cant take that.. halp

tryna 'rest' from official venture business, decided to redraw that old post you know the one (you might not)

#still not a canon interaction nor is it too good a pose in retrospect #but like. honor and tradition yada yada

realizing now that none of herman, clara, or daniel had a proper burial. wonder what that means.

#did i only ever explicitly say one of these before #ah well. whatever #i mean clara sorta counts but also no no it doesnt

legit wanna do a 'special thanks' in life'n'times to rusty lake for 'showing me what not to do' but like. nicer

#the rules of the genre and when to break them?#whatever i come up with. they're increasingly being an antisperation

it's a hell of a thing to see people's commentary on a game you overall disliked and see that it's almost all positive, like are people gonna love my work that much? will they care? will i ever get proper criticism so i can improve?

...i just hope i break even

#i mean surely i can crack 20+ copies right

is the town big enough for two blonde engineers with severe scarring and family issues

#not the greatest parallel #but i am dying slowly #tpw spoilers #i wish i could publicize pe:im after i publish life'n'times but i think that's illegal #if albert does Any More Shit i. well i dont know what im gonna do

in my mind's eye

#//jasper

since nobody came to me in a tizzy about the past within, i'm gonna assume that my fears about accidental plagiarism are unbased

#at least with concepts. i doubt i can overlap too much mechanically #...maybe a little bit (new fear gained)

here. take this.

#cant pose still

prokopetz

More favourite stupid video game tropes, Hallowe’en edition:

Games where you start out playing as a character who’s presented as a totally plausible protagonist, but then they’re horribly killed and the actual player character is someone different

Tutorials that describe the basic mechanics from an in-character perspective in a way that seems like a silly fourth-wall-breaking joke, then much later this casual blurring of the fourth wall is revealed to have horrifying narrative implications

Fakeouts where it looks like you messed up and died, but really it’s a puzzle and you have to do something during the fake gameover screen to “solve” it

Reality-warping powers being represented as the ability to fuck with the game-mechanical substrate; e.g., teleportation in a 2D action game being represented by letting the player screen-wrap

Brainfuck segments where you’re suddenly playing as the monster and you have to have a boss fight against your own player character or something

Puzzles where the obstacles are the appendages of some unfathomably huge unseen creature, and you have to, like, poke its tentacles in the correct order to get them to move out of the way

Subtly impossible level layouts, like a corridor that makes four or five left turns in a row without intersecting itself

When a game whose narrative has heretofore acknowledged no diegetic separation between the player and the player character suddenly breaks its own rules and addresses the player directly

When you’re in a suspiciously calm and peaceful area, then something happens to alter your perceptions and it’s revealed that it was all an illusion and the Happy Shiny People were secretly zombie demon ghosts all along, and they all turn to face the camera and go “EEEEEEEE”

When there’s a guy with a detachable head

prokopetz

“Well actually most of these aren’t common enough to be considered tropes” tell me you never play indie horror games without telling me you never play indie horror games.

#my fuckin god #i slowly scroll down this list with mild curiosity #maybe take notes for any future titles i cook up #Well I Guess I Can Cross One Of Those Off #got no plans for tentacles tho. maybe some other appendages

wild to be reading the rusty lake devlog btw and seeing them say they got hundreds of testers and fine-tuned each and every puzzle for difficulty and i'm like. i got a qa guy for each shoe on my feet

#i'm just starting so it's unfair to compare myself to the biggest fish #but it's hard not to!

still tryna animate. not every shot is flattering

#mans snug

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