#Gunmate

[productworldusa]

Gunmate Range Bag http://dlvr.it/THTZTR

[radiomogai]

QUALITIES

[PT: Qualities. End PT]

- guns, firearms, artillery

- the concept of being used as/wielded as a weapon

- guard dogs, hunting dogs, K9s

- dogtags, barbed wire, chains, spiked cuffs and collars

- camo patterns

- face masks, gas masks and face coverings

- combat knives, bowie knives, swiss army knives

GENERAL TERMINOLOGY

[PT: General Terminology. End PT]

tactikine: masculine/feminine equivalent

tactikinity: masculinity/femininity equivalent

tactix: masc/fem equivalent

TACiN: tactikal in nature

as an equivalent to man/woman/person, a tactikine person is typically either called a weapon or a wielder. when one is both a weapon and a wielder, they are a crosshair. when one is neither weapon nor wielder, they are a target

this is not based on appearance or any kind of hierarchy. it’s mainly based on ones perception of themself, and is a subjective experience

ATTRACTION TERMINOLOGY

[PT: Attraction Terminology. End PT]

scopeship: tactikal relationship

trigger: tactikal crush

gunmate: tactikal partner

Pasted from under the cut for archival purposes, PT by us.

🧼 — THE FIRST RULE OF MOGAI CLUB IS:

TACTIKAL: a neogender umbrella that encompasses/connects to firearms, canines, camo and masks, among others, and how these qualities interact with ones gender. this can exist alongside or instead of other gender identities

(sidenote: this term is not about nor does it serve to romanticise war, genocide or school shooters. I do not care who uses my flags but I really hate the TCC/columbine dickriders. and, as always, free palestine)

QUALITIES

- guns, firearms, artillery

- the concept of being used as/wielded as a weapon

- guard dogs, hunting dogs, K9s

- dogtags, barbed wire, chains, spiked cuffs and collars

- camo patterns

- face masks, gas masks and face coverings

- combat knives, bowie knives, swiss army knives

GENERAL TERMINOLOGY

tactikine: masculine/feminine equivalent

tactikinity: masculinity/femininity equivalent

tactix: masc/fem equivalent

TACiN: tactikal in nature

as an equivalent to man/woman/person, a tactikine person is typically either called a weapon or a wielder. when one is both a weapon and a wielder, they are a crosshair. when one is neither weapon nor wielder, they are a target

this is not based on appearance or any kind of hierarchy. it’s mainly based on ones perception of themself, and is a subjective experience

ATTRACTION TERMINOLOGY

scopeship: tactikal relationship

trigger: tactikal crush

gunmate: tactikal partner

TAGGING: @radiomogai @obscurian @rwuffles @cloverpilled @love-letterworm @fangpunk @floraeth @boingogender @pupcoins @vndead-pvppy

YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT MOGAI CLUB — 🫧

[smartguy12-blog]

Look for a gunmate

[resharc]

Well.

Well, well, well.

Instead of working on my actual game, I took a break (read: procrastinate) to work on a game-jam game.

This is Gunmatic Aberration - a small roguelite game made for the Acerola Jam 0! There's a ton of cool projects there, so I heavily recommend you check it out.

This was a cool little thing to do. It allowed me to play around with some systems I've, up to this point, ignored (mostly particles) in the other project. It's also kinda given me a chance to play around with other ideas I've had rattling in my head.

I might make a quick write-up of the dev process (spoiler alert: never do a game jam when life decides to shove a fuckton of stuff down your throat) at some point, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

[gunzlotzofgunz]

HI POINT FIREARMS MODEL CF380

380 ACP; , 3.5'' barrel. 8-shot capacity. Includes a UTG nylon web holster with an extra 10 round capacity magazine and Gunmate nylon web clip on holster.

[grimm-reaper]

2 knives I picked up Friday… I think they fit my personality. 😎 #GrimReapers #GrimmReapers #GrimReaper #GrimmReaper #knife #knives #CerusGear #GunCleaningMat #GunMat #PistolMat #Punisher #PatrioticSkull #skull https://www.instagram.com/p/CFV981mls_t/?igshid=1p4j7kjnohiki

[itssplatmat-blog]

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[milspecmonkey]

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[251wpnwrx]

The Resurrection, how fitting, Easter weekend and all. The 251WPNWRX AR 9 in it's freshly revised camo colors is about to be re-born anew 😎 #251WpnWrx #MarksmenPrecision #Cerakote #CerakoteEverything #Dazzle #Camo #FDE #Blackout #Gunmatal #SpikesTactical #BallisticAdvantage #SBtactical #KAK #Magpul #CMC #TruGlo #ArisakaDefense #GunTec #StrikeIndustries #AR9GL #ARlife #IGmilitia #GunstaGram (at Foley, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwczjuPHD9j/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=88fn9uqjvxjg

[gunmatic]

تم بفضل الله فتح قناة GUNMATIC و نتمنى ان ينال اعجابكم. نشركم للقناة و اعجابكم و تعليقكم يساهمنا بنجاح القناة GUNMATIC channel now is online and we hope you like it. Your share, like & comments will support us to the better. #GUNMATIC https://www.instagram.com/p/BxUW447BflH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18lamcjg8tsg0

[rabidbatboy]

🧼 — THE FIRST RULE OF MOGAI CLUB IS:

TACTIKAL: a neogender umbrella that encompasses/connects to firearms, canines, camo and masks, among others, and how these qualities interact with ones gender. this can exist alongside or instead of other gender identities

(sidenote: this term is not about nor does it serve to romanticise war, genocide or school shooters. I do not care who uses my flags but I really hate the TCC/columbine dickriders. and, as always, free palestine)

QUALITIES

- guns, firearms, artillery

- the concept of being used as/wielded as a weapon

- guard dogs, hunting dogs, K9s

- dogtags, barbed wire, chains, spiked cuffs and collars

- camo patterns

- face masks, gas masks and face coverings

- combat knives, bowie knives, swiss army knives

GENERAL TERMINOLOGY

tactikine: masculine/feminine equivalent

tactikinity: masculinity/femininity equivalent

tactix: masc/fem equivalent

TACiN: tactikal in nature

as an equivalent to man/woman/person, a tactikine person is typically either called a weapon or a wielder. when one is both a weapon and a wielder, they are a crosshair. when one is neither weapon nor wielder, they are a target

this is not based on appearance or any kind of hierarchy. it’s mainly based on ones perception of themself, and is a subjective experience

ATTRACTION TERMINOLOGY

scopeship: tactikal relationship

trigger: tactikal crush

gunmate: tactikal partner

TAGGING: @radiomogai @obscurian @rwuffles @cloverpilled @love-letterworm @fangpunk @floraeth @boingogender @pupcoins @vndead-pvppy

YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT MOGAI CLUB — 🫧

[cactustactical-blog]

https://www.cactustactical.com/Uncle-Mikes_bymfg_86-0-1.html

[resharc]

a recap on jam

It's been a few weeks since I finished the Acerola Jam 0 (check out the jam if you haven't, there's a lot of cool games!) and I've had a bit of time to decompress and think about my experience. I also was literally unable to do this until this week so hahaaaaa.

If you haven't already, please check out my game jam game, Gunmatic Aberration. Some of what I'm gonna go over will make more sense if you've played it.

but maybe you like having no clue what I'm talking about, in which case, read on

A Summary

This was a good experience and has given me a good bit to think on for the other game. Which is both good and bad: part of the reason why progress has seemingly stopped is because of this. I've been working on stuff behind the scenes and polishing up bits (and rethinking others) to show off later.

I'm happy I was able to release a project that people could, you know, play. From start to finish, with very few bugs that soft-locked or broke the game. People found it fun too, which was a plus.

However, there's a few things that were problems and I'm unhappy with:

The game is confusing to play without any guidance; there wasn't obvious enough signposting or tutorials, which meant I had to tell people how to play (this is not a good sign).

The balance isn't great: some rooms are too hard. Others are too easy. Some powerups just suck, others are too good.

The boss doesn't take advantage of the core gimmick.

The presentation is lacking.

The last one is the thing that stings the most.

The Problem Of Visibility

In the three weeks the game has been around in the jam, my game was viewed 52 times, downloaded 19 times and rated 4 times. I posted it a few times and passed it around my friends. Around 6 of those downloads were from my friends. These are, by all means, not bad numbers. Someone on the Acerola discord found that the mean number of ratings is around 4 - so I'm perfectly average.

Part of this is just due to there being over 900 entries. Part of it is luck. A lot of it is because the game fundamentally doesn't catch your eye. My visual competency is, well

The biggest problem, I feel, boils down to marketing. Let's list a few problems with Gunmatic.

The game looks like a flash game made in 2008. This isn't bad but there's a stigma against those games.

The thumbnail does an awful job at describing the game and getting people to click.

The screenshots are confusing without context and frankly, suck.

The title sucks.

Part of this is just my own general competency. I am not a good artist by any means. This is something I struggle with constantly - I can, at best, make nice-ish looking animations and use some basic tricks to make it look a bit smoother. You can see this in a lot of my other clips. I also suck at names (honestly, my other game has some awful names...).

Focusing on GA, I could've done a few things better here. The easiest ones here are, add a gif to the screenshots and make a better thumbnail. I've done a quick mockup below of what that could look like (note i spent like 5 minutes on this). I could've used the gif in this very post on my screenshots screen too.

Getting People To Play

The second hurdle was actually getting people to play the game. It's one thing to get people to click, but how do you get people to actually play it?

I had a click-to-download ratio of about 3:1. That's, all things considered, not that bad! However, getting people to actually download your game, in a game jam with 958 entries, is difficult. Why play this flash game you need to download when you can play MEGA CHESS, which looks like a Real Game that you can play in your browser?

It probably would've been smarter if I'd just exported this to HTML5 and embedded it into the browser. This would've reduced the hurdle to play significantly: a lot of the most popular games in the game jam were, expectedly, browser games. And games Acerola had boosted (hint hint haha jk unless..........?).

Playtesting

This relates to my other issue: a lack of playtesting. by people who weren't me, i mean.

This is probably one of the hardest problems I've faced - both here and in my actual game. Unless you have friends who are into game development, it's hard to get someone to sit down, play your game, and give you their thoughts on what works and what doesn't. It's a fairly significant ask of someone! They have to play it for a bit, understand how it works, suffer through any problems, and then formulate their thoughts.

I developed Gunmatic Aberration over 2 weeks while working full time. I had a lot of dead time to fill in those two weeks - I should have been bugging my friends for their opinions and telling me what sucked and what didn't.

I didn't do that often.

This, above everything else, is what hurt the game the most. The game is fun, but it's incredibly unpolished and has more potential than anything else. The randomness of the game hurts it (it's a roguelite, after all): you can effectively just Die if you get a difficult room without the right powerups. It's difficult to figure out how to play without explicit instruction. These are all problems born from the developer being the only person to play it.

This is slightly just anecdotal, but I believe the top games in the Game Jam are both made by exceptionally talented people who also had some people giving them feedback. Maybe some more than others - but there was a conversation that I didn't have until the last few days.

i guess thats it?

So! That's what I did for about half a month in March. Then I went on a holiday and have been ruminating on this since.

You might be asking, "wait a fucking minute, you haven't posted anything since... November! What the hell! What have you been doing for the 4 months prior!"

That's cause, uh

um

woah check this out

[moonfrost-614-queen-of-darkness]

.... Dude.... That is the purpose.....

Dude you got Morgana pregnant? Stop sleeping with people that can kill you!

“How was I to know that rutting could produce children!?”

[gunzlotzofgunz]

ANSCHUTZ MOD 17P

17 HMR; 12'' barrel, Left hand, . Detachable 5-shot magazine. Scope bases installed with a Burris 3-12x32 scope mounted. Includes a camo GunMate nyloin web holster with shoulder strap

[itssplatmat-blog]

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