Still Wakes the Deep is a horror video game developed by The Chinese Room and published by Secret Mode.
You are an offshore oil rig worker, Cameron "Caz" McLeary, fighting for your life through a vicious storm, perilous surroundings, and the dark, freezing North Sea waters.
All lines of communication have been severed. All exits are gone. All that remains is to face the unknowable horror that’s come aboard.
playing elden ring. my pc is so hot and this is so intense. im sweating. also learned that the demi-human ash summon goes berserk at night so i kept setting the time for the castle morne fight
in ror2 i got a couple of plasma shrimp, a disposable missile launcher, and a pocket icbm, which let me one shot basically anything by pressing Q. it was firing so many missiles, and i also had a ton of bleed, gas, and ignition so it was stacking like crazy AND i had backup mags so i could use it multiple times before cooldown
and then in the next run i wanted to do the same thing again, and i found three legendary items in one stage, one being the pocket icbm as a PRINTER item so i sacrificed one of my other legendaries for it
HEY !!! you can play the demo for another crab's treasure RIGHT NOW for steam nextfest. it is a soulslike but you are a crab. it is made by AGGRO CRAB the devs behind going under!! they are a fantastic studio and their games are filled with so much charm and REALLY fun and i cannot recommend them enough . 🦀🦀🦀🦀
since cloutchase is a visual novel, i will probably not make many of these. this also isn't a traditional devlog, its just a story i thought was interesting.
while making amino’s barricade section in renpy, i encountered an issue where the green glow that appears when hovering over objects would not show up on my laptop, which has weaker specs than the pc i usually use.
it had to be some issue with the timer, but i wasn’t sure what was wrong. i was concerned because this meant adding certain mechanics might make the game less accessible for lower end systems. i thought about this for days, but i just didn't know what was causing it. one day, as i was absent mindedly testing it on my main pc, i noticed something.
i had the game running on my nicer monitor, as i usually do, but i had to move it to my second screen to do something else. at some point i went back to playtesting, and while it was on the older monitor, i tried the barricade section. the green glow did not appear.
realization started to dawn on me. i switched it back and forth a few times. sure enough, it consistently worked on the nicer monitor and didn’t on the older one. it was the refresh rate.
my main monitor is 1080p 144hz and the older one is like 1600x900 pixels with a 75hz refresh rate.
the timer was updating at a rate faster than my 75hz monitor could display at the same time as the hovering!!! If i didnt have that monitor i probably never would’ve figured it out and just had to let it go. so the lesson is if u get two monitors, make sure one is shittier. or just playtest on lower end system as a benchmark. even though that didnt even help me. whatever the end.
It's been a lot of work over a lot of time but I think I can finally share this...
PMD:EoS, but with all of the starters!
...except grookey for now, sorry about that 😭
Introducing PMD: Expanded Sky!
This is a public mod available to download now! It adds in all starters (except the aforementioned one) from unova all the way to paldea, as well as zorua and rockruff, and allows evolving eevee into sylveon.
Speaking of which, fairy type has been patched into the game! Disarming voice replaces milk drink and moonblast replaces judgement, which was unused.
Some non-traditional starters are no longer available as hero options in this due to lack of space, but are still available as partners. Pikachu, Riolu, Eevee and Shinx are the only ones I had space to keep heroes. (Skitty can be chosen as a hero in version 1.0.0 only, so download that version instead of the latest if you wanna use her!)
If one of your faves was taken off the hero roster (eg vulpix, skitty, munchlax, etc), I have a tutorial here on how to quickly edit the patched file to put them back in :)
Partners across both rescue team and all three versions of explorers are available too, including Cubone, Munchlax, Machop, Vulpix, Riolu, etc
Sprites and portraits are courtesy of the brilliant PMD Sprite Repository and the many incredible artists who contribute to it!
Credits for all improvement patches, sprites and portraits are included in the download, as well as an explanation on how to patch the game and the full starter list.
The mod is split in two versions to accommodate all the partners - MIDDAY version and MIDNIGHT version. The download includes both, as well as the tool required to patch your game! You'll need a clean US copy of pmd eos at hand.
A full list of moves learned by newly added pokemon can be found here (undescribed save for species and portrait credits for now, sorry!).
If you run into any issues, feel free to drop me an ask or DM and I'll see how I can help/what I need to fix!
You can find the download for this rom hack here!
Edits/updates noted under the cut:
(27/04/23)
The overall mod now has a name - expanded sky! Reflected earlier on in the post.
I've been informed that the included patching tool (XDelta) doesn't work on mac, and after some digging around and discussions in dms we found this tool works for Mac instead.
Added graphics to the post displaying which heroes and partners are part of the hack.
(11/05/23)
Added link to learnset compilation for all new pokémon.
(17/05/23) Version 1.1.0 has been released!
Sobble is now a starter, replacing Skitty (Skitty is still accessible by downloading v1.0.0 on the download page). Sobble is also now a partner in MIDNIGHT.
Zorua/Zoroark's moveset has been tweaked slightly
Base forms of all new starters can now be found in Oran Forest, and can be recruitable in the post-game. The new fire starters can also be found in Giant Volcano.
Extra portraits and sprites were added for Cubone, Psyduck and Machop. Like the rest of the new assets in this mod, these were imported from the PMD Sprite Repository, and credits are on the title screen and in the readme.txt.
Extra credits + more in-depth instructions for patching the game included in the readme.txt.
(18/05/23)
Added a link to a tutorial on swapping out heroes for others already existing in the game.
(22/05/23) - Version 1.1.1 has been released!
Fixed genders for female starter options on the quiz.
Updated Fuecoco to use new portraits and sprites. (Credits to Garbage)
(23/05/23) - Version 1.1.2 has been released!
Female starters from gens 5-9 can now evolve correctly (save for starters who don't have evolutions in the game yet - these are listed in the text file in the download)
Rockruff can now evolve, and Midnight Lycanroc's evolution method has been fixed to use the Lunar Ribbon as intended.
🆕 (15/06/23) - Version 1.2.1 has been released!
In 1.2.0, a second version of the mod was included in the zip compatible with melon emulator, and potentially others that were having issues with saving.
Fairy gummis were also made available as mission rewards and shop items.
There's a couple more things that can be seen in the changelog including bugfixes, but the main other thing promised was that Froakie and Litten can now evolve directly into Greninja and Incineroar. Due to an evolution flag not being set this ended up untrue, but has been fixed in 1.2.1.
This post claimed dazzling gleam is in the game, but it should've said disarming voice.
this is a blaze post. but please look at it though
"urgh, a tumblr blaze post, GROSS!!!" yeah. but this one is about timeloops. and this is the timeloop afficionado website ✨✨✨
so please sit back and listen, timeloop afficionado website. would you be interested in In Stars and Time, a timeloop rpg all about a depressed white haired prettyperson being stuck in a timeloop, against their will, while all their friends are unaware. would that perhaps strike your fancy.
if yes mayhaps you could wishlist it on steam. the game will come out on November 20th 2023 on Switch and PS4/5 as well but steam wishlists really help so. please. wishlist. if you want. but only if you want ok!!!!!!! thank you for reading this blaze post