#OR just make do with idle animations

[seaside-lovers-archive]

absolutely losing it over photo mode so have a shocked brynjolf + brynjolf booty

[animatedjen]

Hi! So I am relatively new to the Jedi games but became so quickly and deeply obsessed, and seeing another user send you a headcanon has inspired me to share one too, because I have no one I can talk about this stuff with IRL, haha. I guess a warning that it's kinda nsfw (like, VERY mildly), so it's TOTALLY okay if you don't want to post this.

Ever since finishing the game I've been thinking so much about Merrin and Cal and how their relationship will change now that they've admitted and embraced the fact that they have feelings for each other. Part of me for a while was thinking maybe Cal had his "first time" with someone he met through the Rebellion in the five-ish years between Fallen Order and Survivor, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it would be more in character for him to uphold the part of the Jedi code that forbids romantic attachments. Like, he was just so focused on fighting the Empire that even when a slight interest in a person did arise within him, he convinced himself that it was not only against the code, but a distraction from the fight. So, he pushed all those feelings away.

This leads me to my headcanon that Cal's first time is with Merrin after the events of Survivor. While I don't have lots of specifics in mind as to when or how it comes about, I imagine that when it does happen, it is the softest, slowest, sweetest first time in the history of first times. I like the idea of Cal, this person who dives headfirst into everything and (as Cameron once said himself) "kind of likes to fight," just being incredibly thoughtful and deliberate and maybe even nervous about allowing himself to be that vulnerable with another person. Like, all these powerful emotions and powerful physical feelings would be overcoming him, and the sheer magnitude of it all would cause him to slow down and ask Merrin to lead the way, and he'll follow, so that he knows he's not hurting her or taking things too fast.

And Merrin, who is always ribbing him and teasing him and having silly banter about who's stronger, who's faster, etc., abandons all of that during their first time and is just purely kind, patient, attentive, and present with him, taking pleasure in taking the lead and cherishing the trust that he's put in her. And when it's over, I like to think they just lay together talking quietly for who knows how long, with Cal holding Merrin tight against him and Merrin tracing her fingers along his skin, maybe along his tattoo or his scars, while they tell each other stories and pretend like they'll never have to get up and leave this wondrous place <3

My offline Star Wars community is pretty small, so it's nice to have people on here to share ideas with :) So glad you enjoy the Jedi games!!

There's a lot of narrative weight to Cal and Merrin: the Nightsister massacre being led by a lightsaber (Grievous), the manipulation from Malicos, the Jedi views of attachment and dark magick. They're both survivors of a war that destroyed their families, and they take turns helping each other heal and grow.

Almost every main character in FO/Survivor is a foil to Cal in some way - but unlike all these fallen Jedi, Merrin looks to the future and finds new purpose while still honoring her past. I think that's something Cal really admires in her.

I love the trust and steadiness that they have together regardless of romantic attraction. Admittedly I haven't read Battle Scars and didn't go into Survivor wanting a relationship for Cal, so I may not be the best person to share intimacy headcanons with?? But I'm supportive of the story Respawn wants to tell, and recognize the weight/importance of their connection when it comes to Jedi 3. These tags on my recent post are kind of where I'm at:

Also Star Wars is very much lacking in the "healthy relationship that LASTS and no one DIES" department so if these two can break the trend, that'd be great 🙌

[ddddd-pixels]

It is Saturday, which means that I have nothing to do again. 👍

Here's a bit of a sprite dump, where I animate static sprites that other people have made:

(Some of these are really old, btw, so the quality might vary)

Chun-Li (Alpha design), Sokaku Mochizuki, Jin Chonrei and Rimururu – originally by LuisChamat on DeviantArt:

Leona Heidern (XIII design) – originally by P-O-K-E-T on DeviantArt:

Raiden/Big Bear, Gen and Poison – originally by OmegaFeX on Deviantart:

[aromanticasterisms]

this whole epilogue is just a little treat for me oh my god. "familiar faces arrive in simulanka" does not even begin to cover it

[stardestroyer81]

What about more Brat the Rat? I liked that bad rat very much:) I wish to know more about him

- 🌻 anon

Oh, of course! I've been wanting to draw my beloved big Bad Rat for a little while now, and this is the perfect excuse to do just that! I'd be willing to answer any questions you or anybody else might have about him, Sunflower Anon, though for the sake of this ask I have a few doodles I drew specifically for you!

In Brat's introductory post, I mention that he serves as both the head honcho of every rat in the Pizza Tower as well as a rival to Brick the Rat. While the former is still very much true, the latter has since been changed since my sister @stephysalcido opened my third eye with a headcanon she proposed while I was partaking in a doodle session.

"What if Brat and Brick had an older brother/younger sister dynamic?"

It was a headcanon perfect enough for me to consider canon!

The above two doodles were drawn as a result of Stephanie's suggestion, the second one in particular showing how supportive Brat is of Brick in just about everything she does. Perhaps now the reason Brat goes after Peppino (And Gustavo to an extent) could be because he doesn't want anyone harming his little sister.

The former doodle is one I find to be particularly important because it's my personal headcanon regarding the size difference between Brick and Brat... and given the fact that I see Brick to be about this big, imagine how big that must make Brat!

I also wanted to include a doodle of what Brat would look like without his trademark deep grey beanie for this ask, and drew just that— with Brick wearing it instead! Seems as though it's ever so slightly too big on her, wouldn't you agree?

On the topic of Brat's the Rat's hat, you might notice that I draw his head slightly differently than how I used to; now, instead of his ears protruding out of his beanie, they fold out from underneath it. I find that this looks a lot more natural and a good deal cuter too!

And since I did a doodle of Brat without his hat, I figured I could also tackle another angle not yet seen of him— specifically, his mouth, and his incisors that are a good deal larger than Brick's own.

I had a lot of fun drawing these and am totally open to drawing more of the beeg rat if anyone would love to see more of him! 🍕🐀✨

[softness-and-shattering]

Im 20something hours into bg3 but I might need to restart. I didnt realise there was a toggleable option to allow multiclassing so I cannot multiclass myself or anyone else. In dnd I tend to multiclass a lot. And im really struggling w party composition only being four, everyone only really has one specialty and I never know am I going into combat or somewhere trapped do I need arcana or beast speech. Level four and no multiclassing, Im getting the itch.

Im inexperienced in this size of game, Ive never put 20+ hours into something and then restarted completely. So its intimidating. But Im also playing warlock which I chose because Im not super familiar with it, but I am struggling with how to play it. Picked up a decent sword and make it my pact weapon but dont have hp to tank, dont have enough spells to do big damage or good support. I like a charisma/dex build but maybe I go rogue or paladin (idk if dex paladin works in the game) or Ive never played a bard, they have a lot more spells.

Also not that many subclass options but I get it the games already huge. (Like I wanted to diguise self as thr goblin prisoner and waltz into the goblin camp but nope cant be a specific person, only a "masc or femme" of a race. Like thats still a binary. I guess they could be trans and we'd never know but like. Its like how some games (this one?) just swaps the word gender for style) (also let me play a fat character boo)..

I think thats the extent of ny ramble/infodump atm

[nonbinaryvulcan]

Armitage Hux stimboard

(pt 2 electric boogaloo)

🌑 💫 🌑 | 🐈 ❤️ 🐈 | 🌑 💫 🌑

[pinkseas]

i love gaming so fucking much he's so cute WTF

[seafoam-taide]

realized anincredible life hack. Pacing is my number one writing issue in my opinion, bc I don't write as many details to space out the important beats, I think. But I've discovered. If you just describe the pov character stimming, it naturally drags out the time while also grounding the reader in the moment and the particularly rhythmic ones can lend a feeling of seconds passing, or lead tension, or even foreshadow. I am a genius. This is genius.

[penisbutterjellytime]

ngl kitten, daddy's going to kill himself bc he's been rigging this character for 4 weeks straight and now has to start over completely from scratch.

[ruinlost]

>Thinking about how farrow makes lil snowflakes or even lil ice figures from his hand cause much as he swears he doesn’t care for his vision or the abilities that may come with it he still finds it a bit fascinating at times least to himself

[zenmai--jikake--no--komoriuta]

playing through The Answer in P3R and Oh No!™ my Akihiko fixation is back with a vengeance! The One True Blorbo fever has returned to us! it doesn't help that it's so easy to multitask while level grinding that I have gone on a bender and ended up reading about a dozen AkiMitsu fics (that were strangely all based around the ''fake dating'' trope?? happy coincidences) so now I'm back with this game consuming my every waking thought again haha

[insertdisc5]

🎮 HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 🎮

Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?

To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:

SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!

Ren'py (and also a link to it if you click here do it): THE visual novel software. Comic artists, look no further ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It has great documentation! It has a bunch of plugins and UI stuff and assets for you to buy! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) You can also port your game to a BUNCH of consoles! ✨Cons: None really <3 Some games to look at: Doki Doki Literature Club, Bad End Theater, Butterfly Soup

Twine: Great for text-based games! GREAT FOR WRITERS WHO DONT WANNA DRAW!!!!!!!!! (but you can draw if you want) ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's versatile! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) ✨Cons: You can add pictures, but it's a pain. Some games to look at: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, Queers In love At The End of The World, Escape Velocity

Bitsy: Little topdown games! ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's (somewhat) intuitive! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! You can make everything in it, from text to sprites to code! Those games sure are small! ✨Cons: Those games sure are small. This is to make THE simplest game. Barely any animation for your sprites, can barely fit a line of text in there. But honestly, the restrictions are refreshing! Some games to look at: honestly I haven't played that many bitsy games because i am a fake gamer. The picture above is from Under A Star Called Sun though and that looks so pretty

RPGMaker: To make RPGs! LIKE ME!!!!! NOTE: I recommend getting the latest version if you can, but all have their pros and cons. You can get a better idea by looking at this post. ✨Pros: Literally everything you need to make an RPG. Has a tutorial inside the software itself that will teach you the basics. Pretty simple to understand, even if you have no coding experience! Also I made a post helping you out with RPGMaker right here! ✨Cons: Some stuff can be hard to figure out. Also, the latest version is expensive. Get it on sale! Some games to look at: Yume Nikki, Hylics, In Stars and Time (hehe. I made it)

engine.lol: collage worlds! it is relatively new so I don't know much about it, but it seems fascinating. picture is from Garden! NOTE: There's a bunch of smaller engines to find out there. Just yesterday I found out there's an Idle Game Maker made by the Cookie Clicker creator. Isn't life wonderful?

✨more advice under the cut. this is Long ok✨

ENGINES I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND THEY SEEM HARD BUT ALSO GIVE IT A TRY I GUESS!!!! :

Unity and Unreal: I don't know anything about those! That looks hard to learn! But indie devs use them! It seems expensive! Follow your dreams though! Don't ask me how!

GameMaker: Wuh I just don't know anything about it either! I just know it's now free if your game is non-commercial (aka, you're not selling it), and Undertale was made on it! It seems good! You probably need some coding experience though!!!

Godot: Man I know even less about this one. Heard good things though!

BUNCHA RANDOM ADVICE!!!!

-Make something small first! Try making simple: a character is in a room, and exits the room. The character can look around, decide to take an item with them, can leave, and maybe the door is locked and you have to find the key. Figuring out how to code something like that, whether it is as a fully text-based game or as an RPGMaker map, should be a good start to figure out how your software of choice works!

-After that, if you have an idea, try first to make the simplest version of that idea. For my timeloop RPG, my simplest version was two rooms: first room you can walk in, second room with the King, where a cutscene automatically plays and the battle starts, you immediately die, and loop back to the first room, with the text from this point on reflecting this change. I think I also added a loop counter. This helped me figure out the most important thing: Can This Game Be Made? After that, the rest is just fun stuff. So if you want to make a dating sim, try and figure out how to add choices, and how to have affection points go up and down depending on your choices! If you want to make a platformer, figure out how to make your character move and jump and how to create a simple level! If you just want to make a kinetic visual novel with no choices, figure out how to add text, and how to add portraits! You'll be surprised at how powerful you'll feel after having figured even those simple things out.

-If you have a programming problem or just get confused, never underestimate the power of asking Google! You most likely won't be the only person asking this question, and you will learn some useful tips! If you are powerful enough, you can even… Ask people??? On forums??? Not me though.

-Yeah I know you probably want to make Your Big Idea RIGHT NOW but please. Make a smaller prototype first. You need to get that experience. Trust me.

-If you are not a womanthing of many skills like me, you might realize you need help. Maybe you need an artist, or a programmer. So! Game jams on itch.io are a great way to get to work and meet other game devs that have different strengths! Or ask around! Maybe your artist friend secretly always wanted to draw for a game. Ask! Collaborate! Have fun!!!

I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye

[ratspider]

i have literally never been a dog person but lately i've been hit with What If I Got A Dog and it's rockin my world to be quite frank with you

[egophiliac]

doylist explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: probably something about space constraints and making sure two sprites in one seat aren't covering anyone else when they're not in focus

watsonian explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: he snuck in and is hiding from the teachers, don't give him away 🤫

(I've reached my limit of unsuccessful attempts at pulling them before I need to save keys for Halloween, so I've been living vicariously through youtube videos...but the fact that Gidel just pops up from under the desk to wave his arms around happily is really testing my resolve. D: I'm gonna die when they finally get to do alchemy...)

[alchemiclee]

why doesn't dan heng IL have a tail? why do I feel Iike it's because the animation team was just too lazy to animate one 😂 bailu was easy because small. grown dragon man is more work probably