#Burdock

[greymoggy]

Gifts for my partner of his fursonas. 🩷🩵💜 @creaturefromthedarkofthemoon

(outfit credit)

[thecrystallinecryptid]

As someone with my own disaster vampire, I thought it'd be fun to draw Burdock meeting Thaddeus, @nonetoon's vampire-who-doesn't-wanna-be-a-vampire.

[lake-lady]

More pictures from foraging by this magical waterfall (burdock and ramps/wild leeks) 🌿🏞️🧅🥬

[brightoakgame]

Burdock Available Now!

Stick closely to the path, my dear, don’t wander and don’t stray! The mists are full of secrets, the woods are full of fae; And many careless mortals they’ve spirited away— So do not go a-wandering, but on the path please stay!

Game Now Live!

When you've lost your way and nearly lost your life, will your name be enough to buy it all back?

Burdock is a dark and atmospheric fairytale with fae creatures, riddles, and danger abounding. Will you be able to navigate the perils you face and reclaim your life? Or will the mists swallow you up for good...?

Features:

Nameable Protagonist (gender left undefined)

24,000 words (roughly 2-3 hours playtime)

Four Full Endings—and multiple Bad Ones

Original Soundtrack

It's free!

Content Warnings: violence, blood, and potentially disturbing imagery and sound effects. There are no intended jump scares, and no animals are harmed—though the same cannot be promised of the protagonist!

Created for the 2023 Spooktober Visual Novel Jam by:

Character Art and Design: Remnantation

Original Soundtrack: John Åhlin

Coding: Windchimes

Logo and UI Design: ingthing

Direction, Sound Design, Backgrounds, and Writing: B.L. McDarragh

[julesofnature]

Burdock flower

Wee little hooks on each brown little bur, (Mind where you’re going, O Madam and Sir!) Hear How the Burdock is laughing and mocking; Try to get rid of me, try as you will, Shake me and scold me, I’ll stick to you still, I’ll stick to you still!

'The Song of the Burdock Fairy’, by Cicely Mary Barker, The complete Book of the Flower Fairies

[theenbyroiderer]

Some pics from the garden this evening.

[antimony-ore]

Pickled Burdock Root

I boiled the burdock root with turmeric powder in case it was there for flavor and used beets for color instead because fresh turmeric wasn't available around here.

Also used cooking sherry instead of sake for the same reason. They should be ready in 3-4 days

[patriciastrike]

[sluggoonthestreet]

Frances takes pride in being both flora and fauna.

[crisis-arts]

In between working on ArtFight attacks, I doodled a new mlp oc! She’s based off burdocks that grow around my area :]

[greymoggy]

Burdock, my boyfriends new wolverine fursona 🌈💜

[ravoress]

Bardock fans be like:

[tamashi-tai-tamashi]

I MISSED MASAKO NOZAWA'S (Gokū's voice actress) BIRTHDAY. I AM SO MAD DJDJDJ.

Happy birthday (a bit late) to the queen, the legend, the BEST seiyu (voice actress) ever! She is so, so, so talented and passionate, I can't believe she's now 88yo and still voices Gokū so well! What a goddess. This is insane!

Gokū's voice is so amazing, incredible, powerful and iconic. It can give you chills, makes you laugh as well as cry, and above all it is so special, unique and GREAT to hear. I love that voice so much, haha.

And it's all the work of that (now 88) lady. That's incredible! So incredible that she's became a legend in Japan, where everyone adores her and her amazing talent.

No other seiyu or voice actor/actress will ever compare to her, she's just the best. The passion she has is unique.

Nobody can voice Gokū the way she voices Gokū, all the dub Gokū voices are lame next to his og voice, and most importantly, her Gokū voice is the only one that fits the character.

Even Toriyama (who picked himself Masako Nozawa to be Gokū's seiyu) said that it was THE voice for Gokū and that since he'd heard it, he imagined Gokū speaking with that voice while writing Dragon Ball. She literally was born for this dhdjd. How perfect must your voice of a character be for his creator to say he now hears your voice when making that character speak ? It's amazing to me!

Also, I forgot to mention but she is as perfect as Gohan, Goten, Bardock or Black Gokū (omg her Black Gokū voice... give me chills) as she is for Gokū. All of her character voices are absolutely amazing!

Anyway, I love her, she's insanely talented and a legend!

Happy birthday Masako Nozawa !

[brightoakgame]

Irregular Monday Update, Edition 16 (new, improved--and soon to be voiced...!)

Good heavens, it's been...a minute since my last proper update, hasn't it? 😶‍🌫️ To start, I want to apologize for the prolonged delay and quiet! My family is in the midst of a long-process major move, uprooting from my beloved home state and preparing for new adventures elsewhere, with the big jump likely to occur sometime around the start of the new year. Most of the past year has been a series of small leaps from one lily-pad to the next in preparation for this, and it's only been within the last month or two that things have finally stabilized enough to allow for some progress on game development. ✨ (read on, MacDuff)

Which, of course, brings us to the first update: Tell It Slant!

An Old Friend trash-talking Edgar Allan Poe in Tell It Slant

Tell It Slant is the game I had the joy of writing (and horror of script-coding) for this Spooktober! 🎃 Participating in a short jam project felt like the ideal way to get a little exercise in before launching headfirst back into Bright Oak, and I had the pleasure of working with a phenomenal, phenomenal team (directed by the wonderful E.C., with art by Jessey N. Droz, music by Senaeris, and a gorgeous UI courtesy of Remnantation, Windchimes, and vronfrog). There are over 270 entries this year--all free!--so if you're looking for something ~spoooooky~ to read this October, this is a great place to start! I'll be posting my personal shortlist of favorites in a few days. ✨

There are few teachers better than experience, and this project was no exception. Amidst identifying places I can improve (and discovering I am nothing if not consistent: there is less than 300 words difference between Tell It Slant and Burdock), something I found particularly striking was working with our remarkable, phenomenally talented cast of voice actors: CobaltKobold, Vanessa Benoit, and the inimitable Chase Via. I never intended for there to be voice acting in my projects prior to this, but after Tell It Slant, my previous works feel so...quiet. Moreover, watching the streams of Tell It Slant, I have come to recognize that having voice acting also adds a layer of accessibility that I'd really like to embrace going forward. Thus, after some discussion with voice director EeeCee and my personal security blanket Remnantation, we come to the next update:

Burdock (revisited!)

Burdock was my first-ever jam project, made last Spooktober (alongside Butterfly Rocket Studios regulars Remnantation, John Åhlin, and Windchimes, as well as the talented ingthing). Rem has expressed interest in embellishing the art, and it feels like the best starting point for me on incorporating voice acting on a personal project. If you enjoy the work of our talented cast in Tell It Slant as much as I do, you'll be pleased to know that three of the Fair Folk in Burdock are likely to sound...rather familiar. For the rest of the troupe, I'll post a link to the casting call later this week. 💚 The re-release goal we're working on presently is this winter, ideally before the year end. ✨

(I spy with my little eye...a Forster sibling dialogue from Act II! Since code tends to run off the page, here's a snap of the raw script instead)

...but what about Bright Oak?!

Bright Oak remains the big constant in my heart, and it is not exempt from this shift in perspective: it is now my intention to have Bright Oak also be fully voiced, with the exception of the main player character and their internal narration. What does that look like as far as the release timeline? Frankly, I'm not entirely sure yet. Given that I'll be getting a major assist on this from the talented E.C., I do not anticipate it to be of as much impact as the impending out of state move, however, and--depending on what avenue I end up taking to secure funding for this addition, whether continuing to work out of pocket or if I need to court crowdfunding--I do think the full game should be complete and ready for release within the next year. Even with all these twists and turns, I'm confident that in the end, we're gonna have something well and truly special, and I cannot wait to share it with you all. ✨

And that...is more than enough from me for today! Thank you all for your unswerving patience and support; I appreciate you more than words can say. 💚 B.

[juridical-angel-blog]

Special Poster Kaarot & Burdock!

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]