#manifold garden

[bigfan1811]

seriously though what do you call this aesthetic/genre

[roychewtoy]

[jb2w2yloonaxezktor2xa2le]

[lesbianalanwake]

Manifold Garden ► [3/∞]

[the-redacted-of-all-time]

sobbing crying hysterical weeping

THIS TOOK ME WAY TOO LONG. AND I DIDNT EVEN DO THE BACKGROUND I JS DREW IN CABINET OF CURIOSITIES INTO IT

you might think, ‘oh, why is naib here, in this game that probably not a lot of people know about?’ and here is why.

i really like naib aubedar.

i really like manifold garden.

both their coulers are primarily white (cabinet of curiosities i mean).

so i did what i wanted to, and scridibbled him in. didnt include some details cause they were really small and my digital brushes could not handle details on such a scale

and some i really could not bother with, such as his manta rays (too translucent, didnt work with background image well), seaweed on his lamp (too late to be added in, i feel), and his other eye (tbh its something that defines my artstyle now)

please this took my ass WAY too long (over 5 hours, most of it taken up by experimenting with the colours and shading) and yet his shadow aint even right bro.

also i found higher resolution pics for the background after i finished drawing it (im twEAKING OUT)

but its aight ig, im pretty proud of the way he blends in with the atmosphere of the game. i was aiming for that too, so thats nice

here is the linkie for the original image i drew over

[pixevs]

so I bought manifold garden last week. It's pretty cool

[siberian-game-of-tag]

[charswithbatsmybeloved]

Today on drawing things nobody asks for:

Imagine: you're in manifold garden. And you're just a little beetle. Friend shaped

[bonjour-ho]

[in-perfect-health]

Played through Manifold Garden again and had a great time

[wombocombo4x3]

Games You Should Only Play Once

[bigfan1811]

I can’t be the only one who thinks that those weird surreal worlds like ENA, Manifold Garden, Viewfinder and Superliminal are kinda like, the modern-day equivalent of the Fae, right?

Strange, alien landscapes; arbitrary rules and mysterious internal logic; a general defiance of everyday laws of physics?

An additional point ENA is nostalgia: Just look at the aesthetics wiki for old-school internet cottagecore: nostalgia for the wild and unsanitized internet/forest, an era where people in the internet forest could just do shit without corporations cutting down every tree and blocking every swear word online

hell, the old internet kinda is like a wild, untamed forest, old web design being as hard to navigate as the untouched woods

If this were a video essay I’d call it something like “The Internet is a dying Fairy Forest” or something like that

[fragmented-ghost]

The game Manifold Garden is what I imagine Chell from Portal's dreams are like

[slowrotation]

Manifold Garden

[npfehr]

[photo credits: me]

Recently Completed: Manifold Garden (PC)

This is a first-person puzzle game set in a mysterious, infinitely looping realm. It owes a lot to Portal in that the basic gameplay mostly involves doing weird physics stuff to get cubes onto buttons.

In this case, instead of having a portal gun, you can face walls and shift gravity toward them. This effectively rotates the entire space that you're in and makes the walls the new floor. Do it again and you can be walking on the ceiling. It should be extremely disorienting, but the game does a fantastic job with colour and sound cues to help you out.

It also helps that none of the puzzles are too terribly taxing. I'm used to puzzle games introducing a new mechanic and then taking it to its furthest extremes, but this one was much gentler and tended to move on to the next new thing quite often. The endgame sections combined mechanics and did make me furrow my brow for a minute or two, but usually the solution presented itself before long.

This game has been on my radar for a while because I'm fascinated by physically impossible spaces. I devoured this game and loved just looking around in its world, being tickled by the fact that each structure I could see repeating all around me were also the same structure that I was standing on. Like I mentioned, the world loops in every direction, and the art takes advantage of that, presenting some remarkably beautiful and fascinating vistas. And often, the quickest way to the top of the structure you're standing on is to fall off the bottom.

Play this!! Unless you're easily disoriented and prone to motion sickness like my wife :(

[the-redacted-of-all-time]

IM DONE OH MY GOD

IM DONE!!!! IVE FINISHED IT!!

LOOK

DISSONANT MELODY IN MANIFOLD GARDEN!!!! WHOO

im actually really proud of the lighting in this one!! this one focuses more on naib himself, unlike the og one i made a couple months back.

extra details- like particular design notes, references, ect + extra for followers utc

in my last post, i spoke abt ‘slightly’ altering his design- basically i just decked his ass out with sierpinski triangles, because i can.

some of the redesigns, going into more depth:

his (button) eyes, in which is inspired by a sierpinski triangle in spherical geometry, projected stereographically.

here is the video link for the inspo of the idea.

his lace and symbols (?) on his hood and back. tbh the lace was more because i couldnt see shit on my ref so i just redesigned it altogether. the symbol on his hood simply js has a few extra add-ons, in which being a couple more squiggles and before mentioned triangles

symbol for the hood…

& the lace on his back.

if im not mistaken, his scars at the corners of his mouth were supposed to be hyperbolic geometry triangles instead of spherical geometry unlike his eye, but i didnt know how to make it work properly, so i… gave up…

anyways, ever since this skin came out, i had been meaning to redraw my MG (Manifold Garden) CoC but w/ DiMe (Dissonant Melody, not using DM as tht could be confused w/ jojo’s skin), and ive finally done it! hooray!!

here’s the original piece, the one with CoC instead, drawn Aug 31, 2024, cus i get it if you dont wanna scroll down for the next 15 business days js to find it in my posts.

once again, similarly to last time, i had drawn over an image and added naib inside. heres the linkie for the source of the og image:

——— > 4️⃣2️⃣ (oh my god??!! is that the answer to life, the universe, and everything?!/ref).

besides that, to my followers/friends, im gonna go on hiatus for a lil while. a week or so, nun to worry abt. maybe its even a partial hiatus, where i post silly doodles at times. who knows? im fr when i say i dont

truth be told, sometimes im scared that all i have to or can post is full masterpieces (or what id like to consider them as) of my art, or post only works of fandom such as idv. thus so, im practically limiting myself a lot. it doesnt help that i do in fact have sonas and ocs tht i love to draw, selfshipping art, and even detailed doodles of ‘something yet nothing at all’. im js not posting them, because i feel like they arent up to par with mine or other’s standards, or they js wont get traction, simple.

so im currently thinking… what if i did? what if i did post them?? im thinking tht i shld be able and want to draw and post things for my own sake, at my own time, instead of drawing for the sake of posting and fame instead. so i suppose from now on, youd still see naib, dw guys, but ill draw and talk abt other things as well. thats right fellas, a personality outside of “ooughhh naib…. oooo. lourve him smm.. mm,, naib ubedar,,,”/ gen, lh, encapsulating last 2 paragraphs