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Epic boys (2/3 )✨️

Here is the second part of these drawings, I hope you like it!

(The original post is from @theearlegreshamjr ✨️)

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ive been thinking about this a lot

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YOU KNOW WHAT FUCK YOU IM GONNA BOYFRIENDS YOUR INFINIGHTS

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The Infinights

The pixelated RPG game Infinights, developed by Tales From the Stinky Dragon, garnered many positive reviews from fans of the developer’s past works and soon brought in new fans, many of whom had never played a game of such style. 

Infinights is a story-driven game where you play as four ‘Infinight Interns’ trying to find the Infinights (a group of notorious heroes), defeat a devious woman called Paralyte, and save the realm of Faeza. There are many loveable NPCs scattered throughout the five realms of Faeza, each unique to their homeland. And the music changes throughout the land, even during encounters! 

What many have found interesting about the game is that the player does not control a specific character. The four Interns move as a group and the walking order of the players changes according to their environment (for example, Mudd leads the group through his home city of the BuhBayou while Kyborg will lead when they’re in Evirwinter). In combat, each Intern and their enemies are given a specific order to which they can take a turn. This is one of the many cases where Infinights uses luck and randomization to achieve unique playthroughs. Often, conversations will have dialogue options that will either succeed or fail based on the program’s virtual ‘coin flip’ and the amount of damage any attack will do it based on a ‘dice roll’ of sorts. 

Infinights has been praised for its simple but beautiful graphics and its simple design. However, it has gained criticism as well. 

One main flaw many players see is how rigid the story is. There are not many chances for exploration and though conversations can change due to luck, things end up the same in the end. After some time, the developers released an update containing a second playing mode. This mode, entitled ‘The Past’ (changing the main story mode to ‘The Present’), lets the player play in a more open-world concept. And as the original Infinights. 

What’s loved about The Past is that it allows the player to see more into the life of the characters the game is entitled after. There were complaints that, for being titular characters and the game’s main quest, the Infinights did not have a strong role in the story, especially Grislee and Elleve. The Past changes this, giving each Infinight more lines and a more fleshed out character. 

Of course, the open-world style is appreciated as well. There’s a fully interactable map to navigate through and many new locations within each city to explore. New shops, new NPCs, new quests. And while The Past has a few scripted adventures and quests, the easiest way to explore the world is to travel to one city and simply walk around. More quests become available as the Infinights become more renowned throughout Faeza, with more people also willing to aid their adventures. 

The Past also created thought. As the main villain of the main story, Paralyte, is seen in this mode as just another Infinight. She is primarily called ‘Luce’, which is her real name, and is visually different. Many have joked that she looks ‘healthier’ in The Past as her skin is less pale. What many notice is that there’s no green infinity sign carved into her armor in The Past, but she instead wears an armband with the Infinight’s logo on it. (Just like Spectril!) 

Throughout the story, Luce and the others get along very well. Her voice is still ‘honeyed yet haunting’, but her interactions with the Infinights are full of smiles and jokes. Luce cracks a few herself, leaving the threats to the enemies encountered in combat. 

This mode, even when played to 100%, does not address exactly why Luce left the Infinights. Theories have been made through dialogue left throughout both modes of the game, but there has been no official response from the developers. Tales From the Stinky Dragon often prides itself on adding a bit of mystery to their games, with some questions getting answered while others are left up to the fans. 

The newest mystery they’ve unveiled is Grotethe, another RPG game in the works. Through released screenshots, it’s clear that the game uses the same base as Infinights. The combat and dialogue systems are the same, along with the game’s basic premise. However, one question that has been raised is how the story modes work. Will Grotethe have only a story-driven mode, only open-world, or will it include both? None of the released content points to any of these options. 

On a similar note, it is also clear that Grotethe takes is set in an entirely different place. The technology and locations (and even the appearance of one of the main characters!) that can be seen in different screenshots are causing speculation amongst fans. People wonder whether the two games are related or not and, if they are, how? No voice clips for any of the characters have been released yet, but fans hope that the voices of the main characters will aid them in this quest for answers. 

Until then, everyone continues to enjoy the stunning game that is Infinights. 

This project, with all visual details compiled on one Adobe Illustrator document entitled 'rot' because I failed to spell 'rpg' started on Tuesday, January 14th. Through various sessions of various lengths and occasional mouse usage, it has finally been completed. I now hate rectangles and squares. 

Various parts of the artwork should be recognizable to other games of a similar style. When I went looking for sprite bases when this project first started, I landed on a base sprite for Omori. I have never played Omori. Along with that, the way the combat screen looks is taken from Deltarune (which I have played) and the shop screen has influences from it. 

And it should be known that most things made in this work I had a trace (with pixels) from a random internet image. That dragon was NOT freehand, nor was that train, the map and pretty much everything from the shop screen (though, the shopkeeper whose name I cannot remember was drawn from a sketch I made). All text except title text (Infinights, Grotethe, Tales From the Stinky Dragon) is actual type, only the title text I drew (with a reference).

My school shouldn’t have allowed me to have an Adobe account or a teacher/class to teach me graphic design. I am using it for evil.

Sprite sheet:

The state my school computer's desktop was left in. Just because I think it's funny.

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Stinky Dragon plushies

As usual comments removed cause I'm not going around asking for permission or whatever when I could just do a blank space.

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Sorry I’ve been gone for so long but when I was going out with my friend to go soulmate hunting for them we ended up buying a rat because we thought it would be fun but we are both minors who live with our parents who made it very clear that we can’t have rats and since I have more room (I have my own bedroom and connecting bathroom (I’m not bragging this is just important later)) I’ve been hiding the rat and it’s my pet now and originally it was just hiding in my bathroom but that was hard becuase it would just poop anywhere so I had to buy it a cage but it was getting bored and I was worried since you’re supposed to have 2 rats because they’re social animals, and so my friend and I went to get another one and we were washing it in her sink in her house(becuase the place it came from wasn’t super clean(don’t worry it’s not the sewers or anything) and we were being super loud so her mom wouldn’t hear us but her mom came in becuase she was suspicious and it turns out she thought we were doing drugs so we had to tell her about the rat and when we told her she just let me keep hiding it in my room and now I have 2 pet rats that I’m hiding from my entire faimly and my dad keeps handing out on the balcony that’s next to my bedroom window while I’m handing out on my bed with the rats and I’m starting to suspect that he knows? (Don’t worry though they have food and water and a cage and stuff (and I’m going to try to get them a cage))

( i will go through the TFTSD tag but I might not get to all of it and and I probably won’t do as much as I usually do)

@pirateshippotato I’m tagging you becuase i want to

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Random idea. What if you drew the characters from campaign 1 merged with the characters of the same players in campaign 2?

tried my best??

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i lalalalofe parameld SAUR MUCH yiu guysss

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You know how modern au's make the fantastical pets and animal companions normal creatures like cats and dogs? Not here

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The Line.

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More of my Kydron au dawg

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we're gonna go with 2/10, cause i feel like i have that emotion a lot, but i am not yellow or an elf

(Edit: changed my pfp, now it’s like an 8/10 cuz its based on me but I’m not a solid color or a cartoon)

@drearygenie @gaypotatoman @imaginethisisagoodname @bexbashie

I did this really quickly so only a couple tags, sorry if any of you guys have already been tagged

If you have a real life person as your pfp, I don't care if it's Taylor Swift or something, my subconscious will assume you look like that irl. Sometimes my subconscious even assumes that I look like my pfp irl. And if your pfp is not a real life person... Tbh my subconscious still assumes you look like that irl.

You know what, tag yourself... How close in appearance do you think you are to your pfp? Interpret how you will

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Was listening to the Sweeney Todd revival album when I remembered Todd also calls Mrs. Lovett "my sweet"... so I had to quickly draw a Sweeney Todd AU for gelphie

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that was epic

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I've forgotten everything in my room i swear, when I'm back I'll add to this, in the meantime I'll take those tiny ducks

starting a new chain cause the old one was too long! tagged by @ethereal-bumble-bee <3

tagging @yourinfernaimajesty @annahanover @sweet-thangman @paranoid-radio @andieluvsduckie and @spectrophobiia but the more the merrier!!

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The Ship of Theseus