managed to clear up the issues I've been having with my dialogue editor extension, and updated Unity to the latest version while I was at it (I was using 2020.3.37f1 for years)

my project's still a hunk of junk but I should feel a bit more comfortable working on scripts again

I was drawing so many cards at the start of the turn that it was difficult to find room to play more Adrenalines sometimes. the Silent was *hyped up* during this run

Slay the Spire 2 results screen, for Silent on Ascension 6. It's a 64-card deck with 6 copies of Adrenaline+ (which have been imbued with the thing that makes them draw 2 extra cards), 6 copies of Serpent Form, two upgraded Bullet Times, and basically every relic you can think of that could help you win in the first two turns.

low Ascension I know but have you considered picking up the 3 pre-upgraded Adrenalines early in your run. maybe power each of them up so they draw you two additional cards, too. it'll help you play your 3 Serpent Forms.

and then you can just duplicate your entire deck right before the final boss

picture of the Yi Nine Sols plush from Fangamer.

Yi arrived today. look at him. he’s literally so awesome.

Something strangely wholesome and powerful how the most important thing that came out of the whole Moon Child rediscovery is the sentence "you've got the power to be his friend"

Main character design sketch for the 1990s Moon Child platform game.

Concept sketch for World 1 of the 1990s Moon Child platform game.

Concept sketch for World 3 of the 1990s Moon Child platform game.

Thanks a lot for all the follows, everyone! I'm having soo much fun reading and viewing all the Moon Child love. 😊🙏

I'm also forwarding stuff to the other guys, including Ramon, our music composer.

Here are some pencil-on-paper concept sketches I made around the start of Moon Child development. 🙂

Moon Ghost

just wish that attitude more easily extended to working on the script. don't really have an equivalent for opening up a sprite sheet and casually sketching some things

always takes like an hour and a half of feeling hopeless in the morning before I remember that making art is generally pretty chill and fun

gah... need to stop lingering on this and get back to work. this is time that could be spent drawing one of those marble towers with the slides and funnels where all the marbles race down. that's one of the few things that makes sense to me right now, in this twisted world...

I'm insecure about my art, too, but I'm definitely more comfortable with making assets than I am with writing scenes. feels way more immediate and I've got a better sense for what's "good enough"

I know I'll warm back up to writing eventually but I'm really not a fan of how often I have to do this

finding it tough to stay motivated to work on writing lately, even placeholder dialogue has been difficult for me... wish I could just get my act together and feel confident in making things for once

but at least some progress is being made with overworld sprites and stuff

A rug of the character BB from Anthology of the Killer

anthology of the killer has released on switch so i wanted to share that i have (probably) the first and only rug of famous serial killer victim BB. how new wave!

first couple hours of a pokemon game are the sweet spot cause all the unnamed npcs just say stuff like Oh, man! I can't get enough of changing my settings in the menu!

"Smithers, who is that delightful green gadabout?"

"That's Moon Child, sir. You, uh, recently acquired the power to be his friend."

Anthology of the Killer is OUT NOW on PS5 and Nintendo Switch!

The groundbreaking and dreamlike, IGF Nuovo-winning horror-comedy series from legendary auteur thecatamites, is finally on console!

Play once and remember forever.

Moon child fanart

it's a surprisingly breezy pick-up-and-play kind of adventure game though, so I'm going to stick with it and be patient. it's a pretty neat and stylish game, I'm just a bit disappointed I haven't been obsessed with it despite how much it intrigues me

it's like, the atmosphere is immaculate, and while some of the ways it's written have me rolling my eyes a bit, I think I find the story decently compelling so far. but the puzzles are kind of whatever to me. they're alright but it feels a bit like it's interrupting me with homework all the time

unsure if I'm interested in continuing with Lorelei and the Laser Eyes... I haven't run into an actual wall yet and I've been playing for over a dozen hours so far, but I still don't think it's completely hooked me.

i'll give it at least a few more sessions, every time I play I find a new lead

Picture of Neil the Rat sitting in front of a toy keyboard, traced over and redrawn to instead resemble the character John Egbert from Homestuck during a scene in which he completes his quest and plays a pipe organ. The Rat is wearing John's god tier outfit; there are pipes with oil leaking out of them.

world's most janky image redraw to celebrate the occasion

Parasect is like really really terrible but I got very attached to MA PIGNON anyway. having basically no way to deal damage doesn’t matter much when you easily can put the enemy to sleep and swap to someone else for free. what a little jerk.

ma pignon (little jerk) #cavestory

I fw the world and everything in it #zato

"-𝘩𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘨-" Experience a fraction of his fighting power when the middle third of Dudley drops on the Nintendo Switch System, later this year!

"-𝘩𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘨-"

Experience a fraction of his fighting power when the middle third of Dudley drops on the Nintendo Switch System, later this year!

This soundtrack should be illegal

the “abstract outline/trying to envision the ideal story” phase is always the one where I take the most psychic damage. gotta plan stuff out but you mostly need to be OK with staring directly at the thing you’re making

(sorry if I’m sharing too much, workflow stuff has just been on my mind lately)

there was a time where I got super anxious about keeping the facts straight with my story. but I accepted that having a true full picture is impossible and frankly not really necessary

if you get those details and events in game or in script, that can be enough of a reminder. it solidifies them

worries about the bigger picture tend to fade away when you’re just trying to get the thing in front of you to work out, even if the task seems trivial. you’ll get a clearer idea of what you’re making by seeing for yourself what you can make anyways.