#machineboy

[littlemissjellyfish1]

HEAVILY inspired by @meowbyacow60004 comic! Hope you don't mind my little rendition! (Lmk if you'd like me to take it down!)

The sound of heavy automaton footprints across the Parisian streets echoed against the buildings. Adrien continued towards Marinette's house, unwavering and never tiring. Asleep upon Adrien's cold, metal back; Marinette listened to the soft whirring of mechanical parts as she dreamt. Marinette jolted awake when an old lamp post flickered above her.

Noticing the change in her breathing, Adrien turned his head to look at her. "Oh, you're awake?"

Marinette rubbed her eyes and scanned the area as she spoke up. "Any reason for carrying me on your back?" She questioned.

"A few, princess," His calm and calculating voice answered. "It's midnight, no traffic, and I certainly can't let you go home alone."

Groaning, Marinette sunk her face into the nape of his neck. "You know what I meant, Adrien."

"Actually I don't, I'm just a machine," He feigned ignorance, walking along.

"Are you being satirical?"

"I wasn't designed to do this."

"So you are, then?"

"...Just a little. Maybe." Adrien smiled, a smile designed down to the last dimple on his cheek; that's what made it so uncanny and beautiful.

Letting out an exhausted sigh, Marinette felt the edges of her mouth curl up. "Good, it's like the old days."

Adrien cautiously walked across the old and fractured pavement as they inched closer to Marinette's house. "Are you being satirical, too?" He asked, breathlessly---inhuman.

Marinette shook her head into the fabric of his shirt. "Nope, I mean it." Marinette let the cool air surround her as she began to reminiscence. "I've been thinking these days...a lot." She paused, still for a moment before gripping the steel of Adrien's shoulder. "I'm sorry for avoiding you for so long."

It was funny: apologizing to a mechanical boy. Yet the ticking of his clockwork heart held enough emotion to burden Marinette with guilt, so she carried on. "I'm sorry I said those words to you. That wasn't your fault." Her grip tightened as tears welled up in her eyes. "I was the one who fell for you easily."

A short stop in the ticking, almost as if Adrien had paused his breath. Marinette spoke softly through her tears, "Your kindness...your little presents." She rubbed her eyes on his shirt, wrinkling and wetting it. "Your silly jokes, the murmur of gears in your body when I get close to you...everything..."

Not fully comprehending in the situation, Adrien began to set Marinette down. "Mari, we're here."

She let out a small "oh" and wiped the tears from her face. "Sorry...for ruining your shirt." Marinette let her hand linger over the wet spots on his back.

Cocking his head, Adrien smiled brightly. "Then what's my compensation?"

Marinette raised an eyebrow, face puffy. "Is this also a setting in advance?"

A small laugh escaped Adrien's mouth. "I guess not."

Pondering for a moment Marinette raised a question. "Okay---what do you want?"

"If it won't make you uncomfortable...how about an innocent kiss?" Adrien teased, causing Marinette to pout. "Just kidding! You don't have to; anything from you is fine!" He reassured her, waving his hands. "Even a smile can make me forgive-"

Adrien had tried to retract his statement, but he already felt small, calloused hands on his cheeks. It was a light kiss, just enough to make the pair ache for more, and yet still satisfy them for a time. Streetlights illuminated the scene like spotlights on a stage. Adrien felt a shiver run through every servo and circuit. For a moment--just a moment--Marinette swore his lips held warmth.

[dino--draws]

@moose-in-jeans hey machineboy look at this

Undersea cable cross-sections h/t Fipi Lele

[gmlocg]

2,613.) Milkmaid of the Milky Way

Release: January 5th, 2017 | GGF: Adventure, Point & Click, Story Rich | Developer(s): Mattis Folkestad, Machienboy AS | Publisher(s): Machineboy AS | Platform(s): Android (2017), iPad (2017), iPhone (2017), Linux (2017), Macintosh (2017), Windows (2017), Nintendo Switch (2019)

[machineboysdream]

[tiny-design]

The understated nature of Milkmaid of the Milky Way allows what is ultimately an incredibly robust and mind-boggling adventure to feel simple and familiar in all the best ways, and perhaps the biggest part of that is in its framing for each scene. The player typically has a very small area they can explore in each scene, with the entire visual landscape of that area working very hard to impart as much to the player as possible with as little spoken text as can be. The couplets that make up all the game’s dialogue and narration only serve to reinforce this, showcasing the core of a point of interest in a brief, highly focused poem about that single moment.

[geekcavepodcast]

Embracelet Release Date Trailer

Machineboy’s Embracelet is a puzzle / adventure game about love, loss, friendship, family, and a magical bracelet. The game is set in Northern Norway.

Embracelet will release to Nintendo Switch in September 2020.

[mummified-game-review]

#65 Milkmaid of the Milky Way

[cover of Milkmaid by The Longest Johns]

Welcome back to another review here on Mummified Games. I'm Tony and today we're going to be taking a look at the amazingly beautiful point and click adventure game, Milkmaid of the Milky Way, a game by Mattis Folkestad.

Milkmaid of the Milky Way is, as I said, a point and click adventure game where you go around picking up random items and solving puzzles about what items work.

The story for most of the first act is as such. In 1920s Norway, Ruth is a lovely Milkmaid who works and tends to her bovine in fields high above a fjord. There she milks the cows, turning the milk into butter and cheese to be sold back in town.

While you are getting the lay of the land you're able to take in these beautiful scenes around where Ruth lives. There's the farm she lives on, it comes with A small house, a barn, and a lemon tree. Outside her home is a path up to the fields, passing a log with a nail in it. A cool gateway where you find a missing bucket. Further up that hill you crest, lays the field where the cows grazed after being milked. A path to the north where you can find a weird panel that must have fallen from the sky or something. Looks like salt. To the east of the field there is a place to tie up a boat, then a memorial at the top of a great hill. Following the lake’s outlet you find a cliff where Ruth has been scared of falling off and dying her whole life.

You go around clicking on anything and everything that triggers your mouse to do a little pulse. And you get a quick little rhyme talking about whatever item it is or how you interact with it.

Oh and that's one of the most charming things about this game. All the dialogue and descriptions of the scenes are in cute little rhymes.

Being able to give a description

With a rhyming diction

Takes a lot of work

My lunch came with pork

Okay so not everyone can make it up on the spot like that.

But the charm and the cute nature of the rhyme scheme was so nice.

The art in this game as you could probably tell is all pixel art. Ruth goes running around and you can see here hair blowing in the wind with single pixels, items that you’re meant to interact with stick out better. Its hard to talk about anything in this game without defaulting to the word Charming.

Charm, charm, charm, charm.

This game is just lovely from the get go. I wanted to just jump in and live in this world where you can be a Milkmaid and live above a fjord working with cowes all day.

So I try to not give away most of the story when I do these reviews trying to keep it to just the story mostly up to the inciting action that causes the hero to move into the unknown. But I feel like to give a good idea as to what to expect from this game. Its important to tell you about the inciting action and what happens to Ruth. And since its on the front page of the game and in the thumbnail on most game pages.

SO! After a night were you rescue Ruths favorite cow from the lake, the next day you see a large ship in the sky. Following the ship you find it in the gracing filed obducting your cows and taking them into the ship.

Only now saying that outloud do I notice the weird trope that is aliens abducting cattle.

But the ship takes Ruth’s cows and starts heading out. After leaping from the clif she was scared to fall from. She lands on the wing of the ship. Uses melted butter to loosen a door on the ship and sneek her way inside. Getting almost immediately apprehended by some of the crew.

The crew are all aliens from another world, the captain of the ship uses her staff to allow Ruth to understand what they’re all saying. And then shown to where her cows are being kept.

That's all I feel like getting into because there are some serious things that start to kick off at this point. Definitely some OH NO moments.

Its a great game that honestly everyone should go play.

But there are some downsides and things that I need to point out.

If you’re playing this game on multiple monitors. You are going to need to be careful. The game is not “full screen” in the truest sense, its more like “Borderless fullscreen” were if you go too far off the edge of the game you will click another window and you’ll have to deal with the computer lagging out for a seconds. Like if you hit alt tab to go to another window awa from your game and then back in.

That was honestly the worst thing I ran into while playing the game since I kept this game on my Right monitor and there came a point where I had to quickly move and do something in the game on th3e left side of the screen i would travel too far and the game soul phase out and come back to the desktop for a second. And then go back into the game. It all really cuts the tension of the game and takes you out of the moment.

There once on the space ship there were a few locations wher I( would try to walk down a ramp or go to a spot and Ruth would walk back and forth rapidly in one spot not knowing how she was going to navigate down to the location I just asked.

A small issue that then is easily fixed by just picking another location for Ruth to move to. That's all.

And that's all the constructive criticism.

And that's saying something. That's all I had a problem with. The point and click adventure stuff all made sense. There was never a moment where I felt like UHG what do I do?

This game is great in almost every way. The only two things I have to complain about is some AI stiff and a 1st world problem of having more than one monitor. I'd certainly count that as a win. 

Running into a few locations where things can be interacted with and the few items you have can be used quickly to solve the “Puzzles” feels so good. 

The music isn't repetitive in areas where you might be stuck for a second.

The art gives you nice things to look at in almost every location.

Everything in this game is great. I'm not going to Fjorget about it any time soon.

What did you all think! I loved this game and it was my first point and click adventure game that i can remember ever playing. Are there things that veterans of Point and Click games noticed that I might not have? For those of you who haven’t played Milkmaid of the Milky Way are there any other great point and click adventure games out there that you think I should Try? Amazon Prime did give me a bunch of the Monkey Island games that I could roll through. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

IN THE MEANTIME! I am worried I'm slowly developing a lactose intolerant gut as I get older and older. I think I'm going to start developing an opinion on lactose free alternatives. Like soy and almond. Cause papa can't live without his Mac and Cheese!.

You all do the Youtube Dance, Like, Sub, Hit the bell, comment your thoughts, share and tell someone you know about these videos, It all helps out a lot.

And as always friends. Keep Digging, and we’ll make it out sometime.

See you in the next one.

[noritoy]

#machineboy #bootleg with the #combinerwars #powerglide. #transformers #toy #robot

[kniivila]

It’s Everyday Hero Machine Boy! Created by Tri Vuong and I, his first story is available in the RAID.ONE Anthology. Currently shipping in North America, with international shipping to come!

https://www.raid.world/product/raid-one/

[gabe-sapienza]

A #sketch of @trivuong and @ikniivila ‘s #character #machineboy - he’s an #everydayhero of course. This was mailed out in one of our #RAIDONE sketch editions! They’re flying out of @theraidstudio!! . . . #comic #graphicnovel #anthology #torontoartist

[jueperra]

Robotina - Rosie The Maid #rosie #robotina #jetsons #rubberstamping #printedbyhand #handmadestamp #handprinted #prints #print #reliefprinting #machineboy (en Bogotá Chapinero) https://www.instagram.com/machineboystudio/p/BwSQ8fIBqQ3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hst6kh1015c7

[jaredultimatum-blog]

Toy haul! #toycollector #toyhoarder #thehardcorecollectors #transformers #marsconverters #jaredultimatum #machineboy

[nzanap990]

https://tidal.com/album/207377476

MACHINEBOY EP

[noritoy]

Time to post the loot haul from the last month. Classes start today so I’ll be opening things and getting pics this week. #toy #lostplanet #bootleg #takara #diaclone #mecha. #mech #robot #laserwave #machineboy #megatron #powerglide #transformers