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Okay so i see a lot of speculation on the identity of the second voice during the goner maker sequence....so hear me out.... another him...
Okay so i see a lot of speculation on the identity of the second voice during the goner maker sequence....so hear me out.... another him...
*Saw Theme Song Plot Twist Reveal*
NYPD chase a man for fare evasion, tase him, become “aware of a knife” and then started blasting, hitting a cop, and two bystanders (one in the head) before getting this guy. Backtracking with “well this guy has done xyz before”, the cops didn’t know that. They frantically looked him up so they could justify a mass shooting of New Yorkers.
They drew guns over skipping the fare. They fired at anything that moved when they thought he had a knife. No confirmation that he even did have a knife.
Appalling.
🚨Now it is documented🚨
Please help my family to leave the Gaza Strip safely
Stop procrastinating and play the game you fools. We all know nobody actually plays through their backlogs. They just look at it for 2 minutes then get discouraged and spend the evening watching cat videos on youtube.
Anything to say about your experience? Any moment you found particularly memorable?
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Anything to say about your experience? Any moment you found particularly memorable?
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Anything to say about your experience? Any moment you found particularly memorable?
Anything to say about your experience? Any moment you found particularly memorable?
The chieftain of a small nameless village and first boss of the game. She originates from the wind korugues, a race of nomadic giants, now rare and dispersed across the fyreland. Like many of her kind, she despises flamebearers and would rather die than concede to their whims. Neither her wits nor formidable strength should be underestimated.
Notes: Wind korugues will incorporate the clothes of the culture they meet amongst their own. The chieftain herself can be seen wearing clothes and jewels referencing hill, river, forest, plain, and some yet unnamed korugues cultures.
Continuing to work on my game
The second boss in process
I made myself a bluesky account to be trendy, follow me there if twitter or tumble ain't quite to your tastes https://bsky.app/profile/blackblooms.bsky.social
Aerostrike Progress Report - September 11th, 2024
Today's Aerostrike progress report:
1) Almost done updating the wall sprites of Rebel Ops. Only Sectors 1 and 8 are pending.
2) All walls have been updated, other improvements will be worked on. One of them is reworking the key binding system.
Hello Tumblr Community!
We’re Clumsy Bear Studio, a tiny indie team, and we’re so excited to share the first trailer for our debut game, Hungry Horrors! 🐻🍽️
Hungry Horrors is a roguelike deck-building adventure set in a magical world inspired by British and Irish folklore. But here’s the twist — instead of fighting monsters, you must cook for them! As a princess, your survival depends on preparing traditional dishes that either satisfy these legendary creatures or… well, let’s just say the consequences aren’t pretty! 😅
You’ll come across iconic figures from folklore like the Glaistig, Jenny Greenteeth, and Fear Gorta, all while mastering authentic recipes like Champ, Stargazy Pie, and Cranachan. It’s a game full of charm, humour, and strategy, where every dish and encounter is steeped in tradition and myth.
Check out the trailer below, and let us know what you think! We’d love to hear from you as we continue to bring this world to life.
🎮 If you’re excited about Hungry Horrors, please wishlist us on Steam! It helps us out a ton and keeps you updated on all the latest news. 🙌
Hi everyone! Here's your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine! 🩷🩵🩷🩵
And if you can spare a dollar, donate to ANERA!
Irredeamable was pretty lacking when it came to Narkaas wildlife, so for this next game, i wanted to add some beasties to the roster. To fit the fiery aesthetic of the world, the fyrelands are populated by large scaly beasts such as drakes, wyrms, and mighty wyverns. These fearsome beasts pose a much bigger threat than the korugues thanks to their crushing strength and a tough hide that can protect them from a flamebearers flames.
Here we have the bearded drake. Their design takes a bit of inspiration from both bullfrogs and bearded dragons. These stout and hungry beasts serve as an early-game mid-boss. They are by far the least dangerous of their kind, but one should not underestimate them. The weakest drake is still a drake.
Just submitted little game for Mashup Game Jam with a team of 5. I worked as a programmer for this one, and worked on the patients/npc systems for the game. Including the object pool for all the patients that randomized the sicknesses of each patient had and I worked on navigation for the patients, using a state machine.
This was first time doing a full on object pool, and weighted randoms, but it was a lot of fun(and a little frustrating lol) trying to figure it out.
I deleted the ask, but someone wrote one basically saying "why do you post reaction videos to Helluva Boss? Don't you know the show exploits its workers and they're overworked and get burned out?"
And, I mean, I love your energy, person who asked, definitely hold on to those values and speak up about this. But also, I am afraid I might have some bad news for you about literally the whole entire animation industry.
As near as I can make out from the sparse journalistic reporting that's been done on SpindleHorse -- and as a sidebar, please for the love of god read actual reporting about these things and not just callout posts and fandom discourse -- as near as I can make out, SpindleHorse as a studio is neither all that much better nor all that much worse than basically anywhere else in the industry on their level. It seems like it is (or was? Hazbin Hotel seems to be run differently) a studio mostly run by contracting people on a project-by-project basis, which leads to a crapton of turnover, and a huge need for organizing and onboarding, which according to the reporting I have read, the producers and freelancers have struggled to balance and manage properly, which has negatively impacted a number of the workers.
Top that with the usual catty, clique-based backbiting, sniping and poorly managed conflict resolution that's just kinda endemic in creative environments mostly staffed by twentysomethings and stressed out freelancers, and you have the recipe for a workplace where a lot of people are going to have a great time and feel creatively fulfilled, and a lot of people are going to come away feeling justifiably burnt the fuck out and exploited.
All of this is... not especially unusual for the animation industry, or indeed for any creative industry. Which is not to say that it is good, or that it should be allowed to be normal, or that it shouldn't be reported on and criticized (and please for the love of god support unionization efforts because that's the only thing that will actually address these kinds of systemic problems). It's just to say that if those kinds of issues are the line in the sand you draw where you refuse to engage with a studio's output...
Then, for starters, say goodbye to basically all of anime, because the Japanese animation industry is actively in a state of crisis trying to recruit new talent because its working conditions and pay are so astonishingly abysmal. And the horror stories that escape from that industry make the issues at SpindleHorse look like summer camp at times.
But you also have to say goodbye to a lot of American and European animation. Please do not imagine that Disney and its subcontractors, or that Nickelodeon or Warner Bros, are benevolent employers. They exploit their staff brutally and are currently trying to crush the labor value of animation with threats of generative AI being used to replace jobs. But those corporations also have extremely well-funded PR departments and the ability to silence employees with NDAs and threats of blackballing, so you don't get to hear as many of the horror stories as you might from a smaller independent studio that's less able to silence criticism by holding people's careers hostage.
All of this is to say that 1) it's valid and important to have criticism of both large and small-scale animation studios, and to keep the well-being and happiness of the workers higher in your priorities than the output of Products™.
And 2) if you're going to have a principle for what kinds of problems make a studio's output morally untouchable for you, and what kinds of problems you think should make a studio's output untouchable to other people, you do need to apply that principle consistently to the entire industry, and not just to the independent animation studio that happens to be surrounded by the internet's most inflammatory fandom discourse.
If you don't apply that principle consistently, maybe don't send reproachful messages to strangers scolding them for not living up to your standards, and even if you do apply that principle consistently, maybe still don't do that, because it's mostly quite annoying, and doesn't really do anything to support animation workers struggling for better working conditions.
The Animation Guild in the US is currently in the middle of a bargaining process with their industry, and they have a social media press kit as well as relevant talking points on their website which you can use to post in solidarity with the workers. If it comes to a full industry strike, consider donating to their strike funds to help them maintain pressure. Outside of the US, try and find out what (if any) local unions exist for animation workers, and maybe sign up to their mailing lists. They will let you know what kind of support they need from you.
Here is some of the early work on the great caldera tileset, the nearly impregnable heart of the flamebearer empire. The area is a deadly gauntlet of smoke and flames, at least for those lacking the ability to resist the scorching heat. To the tempered body of a flamebearer, the fire is merely an inconvenience, and in some cases, something to take advantage of. ------ By the way, this project will be known as Blood&Flames, at least for now. Follow the tag if you want to follow this game in particular.
So, didnt have a lot of progress to talk about on my new game since i had taken about 2-3 weeks to work on other things, but heres some of the work i`ve been putting into the world map and struckture.
So here we have what i call "zone maps" which consist of rough drawings of what areas are planned and how they are placed and connected. Since the game is themed around fire and wilderness, most areas are fiery twists on common fantasy environments and explore the many forms that heat and fire can take.
Some notable areas are:
Great caldera/Caldera outskirts: (dark red) Since flamebearers are highly resistant to heat and fire, it was an interesting subversion for the first area of the game to be a volcano. Boiling ridge/Boiling caverns: (cyan) The water area of the game, featuring harsh cliffside battered by a raging sea and plenty of geysers and thermal vents.
Pyrewoods: (bright red) A perpetually burning forest. The trees have adapted a thick insulating bark to protect themselves from the flame. Ashen highlands: (pale grey) An expansive plateau, located above the smoke of the forest. Deposits of ashes from the forest and caldera, fertilize the ground, making it a suitable place to build fields and villages. Sundered plains: (bright orange) A deadly desert, with plenty of glass structures formed from the scorching heat battering the sand.
City of cynders/Charred city (brown) The capital of an ancient civilization, burnt to the ground in times long past. Now only rubbles of sandstone and glass remains, and many myths of how exactly this city may have fell...
Frostburn pass: A gnarly canyon where frost and flame meet. Located between the great caldera and the ashen highlands. Brimstone bogs (dark green) ADark, smouldering swamps, where monstrous creatures lurk. A place long abandoned by the flamebearers and left to rot. Fuming crags (purple) Toxic fumes emanate from ancient fissures in the ground, rendering this region extremely dangerous to korugues and flamebearers alike. In the distance, an old castle lurk, long abandoned by those who used to call it home.
The melting pot: A loathsome pit of molten sludge, the heart of a twisted curse that cannot be destroyed or contained...
- Since were giving some building here, lets also describes some faraway lands that exist i nthe lore, but wont be seen in the game. South west: Nameless islands The great sea house many archipelago, conquered by the descendent of the flamebearer of the sea. South east: The frozen continent A distant landmass, overtaken by the ruthless cold. Ruled by the descendent of the frostbearer who could channel its power into cold instead of flames. North west: The endless peaks Towering mountains, reaching higher than the eye can see. Conquered long ago by the flamebearer of the sky and her children. North: Desolated expanse The sundered plains make way for a great wasteland. Long ago, the flamebearer of earth crossed through the desert and was rumored to have found habitable land on the other side, but very few dared cross the waste to verify those claims. East: The dark lands Lush forests cover the landscape, but those lands have long been forbidden. It is said that none of those who ventured to the east, not even the eldest and strongest son of the original flamebearer, was ever heard from again. My goal with these was that i wanted to imply a much bigger world beyond what is seen in the game (compared to irredeamable, almost claustrophobic worldbuilding) This next game will have plenty of distant lands and families to speculate on. I probably just wont do much with them myself. Anyway, all that stuff is subject to change as i work on it. The maps i provided are already pretty inaccurate, but that just means there will be much to discover when the actual game comes out.
Hello everyone, I am Ezz El-Din Salem from the northern Gaza Strip, displaced in Deir Al-Balah, and living in a tent with my family.😢🥺
My family members number is 7 persons living a very hard life in a small tent.😢😓💔
We lost our home in Gaza and my father and I lost our source of income and now we live on aids.
So I decided to run a gofundme link to help my family to be able to live abetter life a way from war and evacuate when the chance come.
I ASK ALL OF YOU TO HELP MY FAMILY AND DONATE IN THE LINK PLEASE🍉
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Hello to the 50-ish players of irredeamable. Just wanted to say that there a community on gamejolt for anyone who wants to share their fan content or talk about the game.
Come and watch Lady face her most harrowing challenge yet in this new Irredeamable Spin-offTv show
Lady bakes a cake!
Never mind, the show was canceled due to an unforeseen loss of the set, but you can still play the original game Here: https://gamejolt.com/games/irredeamable/879931
and here: https://blackblooms.itch.io/irredeamable