#grem rambles

[gremnda]

everyday i think about pangili and

[cowgremlin11]

various erik doodles cus i wanna get the hang of his many masks (these are just the ones i like lol)

also i never connected the dots that a monster in paris is poto cus i watched it religiously as a child but it makes so much sense now

[gremlin-girly]

The WIP poll

I've seen a few floating about and it seemed like fun so here we are 💜 I am SO SORRY for the amount of WIPs that are here (I've not included fluffcember or some other odds and ends either)

Rules: Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, still make a poll for the vote count). Whichever WIP title gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote received.

I'm tagging anyone who wants to be tagged and take part. This will be exciting!

[gremlingirlsmell]

bocchi the real ?!!!!!

[gremnda]

the few days we spent together you were my absolute everything......

[cowgremlin11]

i feel emotions

[gremlin-girly]

Idc if I just finished the last fic that took me WEEKS to finish. And Idc I have 15 fics to post tomorrow...

The collection is here

[cowgremlin]

me and tumblr mobile are in a loveless marriage but we stay together for the kids (my alts)

[gremlingirlsmell]

extremely confused by that poll. doesn't everyone have things happen constantly that fundamentally change who they are as a person??? also I can't even remember what it was like to be a kid?? I can't even manage to remember or imagine how my inner workings were like 5 years ago?

[gremnda]

JHHSAAHG omg actually i lied to the teachers the other day, it was a part of the english exam and we had to write a 200 word minimum essay and there was some requirements on it but honest opinion was not one of them. so i simply lied my ass off. for 250 words. it was so funny, i was actually giggling to myself the whole exam. and THEN we had a speaking exam, and the teacher started asking more personal questions so i also lied my ass off there, it was actually so much fun. i had the best time ever <3 10/10 would trick these fools again

[gremnda]

pili ”pangi's safer without me” dtowncat vs pangi ”i'll become a bigger villain so people leave pili alone” live

[cowgremlin11]

its all about the yankees, mordecai

(he wants me dead)

[gremlin-girly]

LOVELIES

I opened my emails and found I've been invited to interview for the masters I applied for???

I'm just so excited I want to share the news with you all 💖 I have a lot to practice beforehand (until the end of April) but I never thought I'd get this far 🥲

I've got a 4 hour train to Vienna tomorrow so I may get some more editing and writing down while looking at the views 🥰

Also, I've almost reached a milestone and I'm thinking of doing some sort of challenge. What do we think? 🤔

[gremnda]

girls be like ”i'm not in the fandom anymore!” then see a post about the duo they used to be obsessed with and lose their mind. yeajg

[cowgremlin11]

i need this man on all fours stat

[gremlingirlsmell]

Adding some on, hope is okay!

Cadence Hira - makes video game music theory analysis videos, very in depth and can get complicated like 8-Bit-Music-Theory

pannenkoek2012 - specifically focused on Super Mario 64. Goes extremely in depth how various mechanics and code works and glitches emerging from these mechanics/glitches work.

Retro Game Mechanics Explained - goes more in depth like pannenkoek, but more broadly for retro games. Analyses and explains specifically the hardware and the assembly game code directly. Can sometimes be a bit tough to follow, but extremely fascinating.

Do you have any youtube recs for video game analysis/critique in the vein of gmtk?

I do! Well, maybe not 100% in the same vein as the very focused design analysis that GMTK does, but I follow a lot of YouTubers who do thoughtful video game analysis from various angles.

Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games - An obligatory rec if you haven't already watched Sakurai's videos.

Errant Signal - A longtime pillar of video game video essays, Chris Franklin focuses on interpreting video games as art and critiquing how design decisions contribute to (or detract from) a game's themes and artistic goals.

Matthew Matosis - Less active these days, but he's another legend of longform, in-depth video game analysis on YouTube.

New Frame Plus - A channel about studying and appreciating video game animation from professional animator (and former host of Extra Credits) Dan Floyd. I love all of his videos, but in particular I love his series about the evolution of Final Fantasy's animation.

Video Game Animation Study - And if that's not enough video essays about game animation for you, here's another channel! I enjoyed his recent video about the animations in the Sonic Advance series, which have always been favorites of mine.

Jeremy Parish (Video Works) - I absolutely love Jeremy's chronological retrospectives on classic game console libraries that put them in their historical perspective, explaining how games of the '80s built on the design ideas of previous works and set the stage for future successors. His main focus is his ongoing retrospective on every game in the North American NES library, but he also talks about Sega and Atari releases from the same era, as well as some extremely obscure old Japanese consoles I'd never even heard of.

hotcyder - A fan of weird and quirky games, with a particular interest in exploring the burgeoning "Wario-like" scene.

8-Bit Music Theory - I will admit that half of what this guy says goes over my head as a musical plebeian, but it's still really cool to see formal music theory analysis of video game music.

Scruffy - And for something perhaps a little more digestible for a general audience, there's Scruffy's similarly good videos about video game music theory.

And that should be enough for now!