Me Realising The Release Schedule I've Set For @inyourbenevolence Means I'll Be Publishing An Episode

Me realising the release schedule I've set for @inyourbenevolence means I'll be publishing an episode on October 3rd

All the humans in Dracula are in a survival horror but Drac himself is playing a Soulslike.

He did a first run into the London dungeon, got appreciably far but then got cornered by some enemies, dropped all his loot, lost all his safe return points and had to head back to the overworld to heal up and try again. Ok, each run at this dungeon takes months or years, but he's a vampire, that's the timeline he's on.

To me that's the attitude that makes most sense of him jumping ship back to Transylvania so seemingly abruptly. He's like "ok, decent run, pretty sure I know how to avoid that trap next time, better get out and plan the next try".

Also in the Dracula/Fullmetal Alchemist overlap section: setting things on fire, and leaving people with no home to return to

big day today

from the commission pileup i'm trying to speedrun before leaving for the states:

will update yall once i put it through a coffee wash to really get that riversilt/dredge from the primordial muck effect

Tabletop trick or treat! 🎃👻🍬🍭

Last one was a Treat so it's time for a Trick! Caro Asercion stole my heart with i'm sorry did you say street magic, and as a result every time they release something new I'm eyeballing it. Their work is varied but at the same time I feel like there's a thread of personality running through their entire ludography.

I think what sells me on a lot of their work is that they know how to package it so that you get a quick taste of what's inside the game just by reading the blurb or looking at the art on the cover.

Exquisite Biome uses an art style reminiscent of naturalist paintings to communicate the world you're building through its creatures.

The Long Shift uses its colors and iconography to communicate the mood; late nights at a truck stop (in space).

And Dwindle makes use of a mainframe icon to represent the feeling of a cyberpunk world while doubling as the grid by which you determine your stats.

All in all, I think Caro makes really smart, evocative design choices, and I often think of their work when I envision what I would like to do with mine.

(Confirmed in an email to the mailing list – can't find an online copy I can link to just now)

West End Hadestown cast recording confirmed coming soon (but which cast??)