Another round of potions on me
Minimalist/stylized pixel games are cool, but I have yet to see an indie game dev go as hard on their pixel art as Metal Slug did.
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retro game genres that don’t need any more indie loveletters: 2d pixel art platformers, quirky earthbound-like rpgs
retro game genre that DOES need an indie loveletter: point and click adventure games with live action actors superimposed over really bad prerendered cg backgrounds with really comically bad acting and effects and the story and puzzles seem like something written by a crazy person
My favorite story to come out of the internet lately: For those of you who don’t know, for April Fool’s Day, Reddit launched this massive collaborative art project where you can place one pixel every five minutes on this massive canvas, so in order to do anything meaningful you have to work together collectively to make pixel art.
/r/YumeNikki decided to put the sprite of Madotsuki onto the canvas. Because of a lack of space, they decided to put it on the yellow stripe of the Swedish flag.
/r/Sweden, despite having no idea who Madotsuki is, absolutely fell in love with her, and have taken it upon themselves to fiercely defend her from any vandals. They even drew Pippi Longstocking next to her holding her hand. They’ve also made several visits to Yume Nikki’s sub and left friendly posts.
So that’s how a small community for a relatively unknown Japanese video game became best friends with the entire country of Sweden.
New commissions available as of today (5 July 2017) Will be doing shaded lines for awhile to practice some things so hope you all don’t mind me taking a break from colors.
Icon commissions will still be available at the same price of $5 for one and 3 for $10 and will still be colored because they’re fun to make and lets me practice pixel art.
If you’re interested at anytime, feel free to message me through Inbox or the Messenger.
Caught in a rather good romance
It sounds like I’m playing a video game and someone is trying to sell me potions. :D
…that is exactly what it sounds like
players: oh boy, we’re out of healing potions, we hope that this dungeon soon ends
DM:
The Spellcasters: We’re almost out of spells! Hope we can find a safe place to sleep soon!
DM:
Only one thing in return…
Context: in the main town, three of our team members robbed the ‘survival shop’ threatening the shop owner Danson to give them healing potions for a massive ‘discount’. Fast forward to the next village, Ansin-on-Edin, where the three characters decide to assuage their guilt and chuck money around at all the locals, and our bard keeps casting disguise self on themselves to look like Danson (and have him do stuff like get a huge round in at the tavern).
So we get back to Ansin-on-Edin after saving a kid and killing a hag, and before we leave (without getting anything from these poor folk), the bard casts disguise self again, turns to the owner of the tavern and says:
B: We’ve done a lot for this village, and ask for only one thing in return. In my memory, I ask that you add a D to the-
DM: Yeah, I get it… the village is now Danson-on-Edin.
i want a setting that was once a high fantasy world but time has passed and the days of quests are over while the age of indoor plumbing has begun but the elves and stuff like still exist
like i want fuckin.. space operas where humans weren’t all that phased by aliens because there had always been other species, and our starfleet utilizing translation potions to help communicate
or a cyberpunk world with like digital magic and the hideous, deformed descendants of dragons creeping through the deepest darkest alleyways of the cities, devouring any fool who dares go down where the neon lights don’t reach
magic mecha to defend us from the giants awoken form their slumber by fucking dwarfs who couldn’t stop mining where they knew they shouldn’t, meanwhile rival mage factions are getting close to all out war to be fought with spellcasting pistols and rifles rather than wands or staffs
come on guys what the fuck happens 1500+ years after our young hero leaves his village to become a mighty warrior i gotta know y’all
snape could’ve been an awesome teacher if he wasn’t a disgusting waste of a human being. he knew from age 16 that the instuctions that the textbooks were giving weren’t as good as they could be. he improved the potions and recorded his methods at age 16. if he weren’t such a shitbag, he could’ve either written the damn textbooks himself, or taught his students his alternate methods. he could’ve revolutionized how potions were being brewed, teaching whole generations a superior method of potion brewing. instead, he spent his time bullying children.
He could have become rich and famous and been one of the most well regarded wizards of his age with his knowledge of spells and potions
But instead he decided “The girl i hurled racial slurs at put me in the Friend Zone so I’m gonna go become a Magic Nazi and then spend the remainder of my adult years emotionally abusing twelve year olds”
He could have become everything a Slytherin should have been instead of the epitome of what everyone else thinks they are.