#mobile gaming companies

[melonisopod]

Lifetime Stew is so much darker in hindsight.

Sinclair and Don Quixote both get it, and it’s specifically *Lust*, not *Gluttony*, despite being food-themed. (Although Gluttony in Limbus terms is basically Greed, and Lust very broadly refers to “desire” for things that aren’t material).

So, Lifetime Stew is based on the fable of Stone Soup, wherein a man managed to feed his whole village by bringing each together with a different ingredient, to make a soup that would last forever. He just kept telling each person in the town square, “All it needs is one more ingredient,” and everyone just kept adding to it. Is the gist of it.

Sinclair and Don have voice lines that more or less imply the same thing - the Abnormality (Basilisoup) just wants everyone to try its delicious soup! Cute, silly concept, right?

So what do Sinclair and Don Quixote have in common?

(SPOILERS beyond this point! You’ve been warned)

In Canto 3, Sinclair recalls that once his mother, father, and sister all received full-body prosthetics, they no longer had a need to eat. The table was set and food was placed only for him. It’s one of the things he found so especially heartbreaking, that he was the only one left in his family who could still eat food. It’s such a core memory that it’s plastered on the window-wall of his cell for his base E.G.O., four roboticized humans sitting at the table, with no food present.

He desperately misses getting to share meals with his family.

And in La ManchaLand, the Bloodfiends have been starved of blood for the past 200 years, barely sustaining themselves on hemobars that don’t satisfy them. They can *live* without subsisting on human blood, but they’re utterly miserable doing so. The only one of the First Kindred’s clan who escaped such a fate was of course, Sancho, though she’d long forgotten she is a Bloodfiend, Faust says she still craves blood. She’d been in effect, the only Bloodfiend allowed to sate her cravings, while the rest of her kin starved. Being the only Bloodfiend able to escape their fate was so traumatic for Sancho that she wanted to forget everything about herself.

In other words, Basilisoup/Lifetime Stew is about “the joy of sharing a meal with family,” something both Sinclair and Don Quixote desperately wish for.

KIM JIHOON WHEN I FUCKING GET YOU

[illiaccrest]

I was thinking about "real head" Dante yesterday and about the fact that we don't know basically anything about them...

When I first started Limbus I thought it was odd to keep Dante's gender hidden. Look at him! He's obviously a guy right? 🤔

But actually PM is really respectful in how they draw their female characters. In their uniforms especially they don't show off their "feminine curves" nearly at all. Even beautiful Rodion isn't showing anything off and Outis looks the same as the men if you hide her face.

So yeah, I reconsidered!! Dante could totally turn out to be a woman if they wanted!!! Here's a self indulgent fem presenting Dante design!

[thefigureresource]

Owari : Light Equipment ver [Azur Lane] 1/7 scale from Good Smile Arts Shanghai coming July 2025.

[caterpillarinacave]

They're all on a family plan

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[nickpeppermint]

Happy five year anniversary to Sky: Children Of Light! 🎆✨

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Hong Lu - Limbus Company

[cherryblossomssmash]

A3: MANKAI COMPANY DORM: BEDROOMS

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TipBox 🩷

[blimbo-buddy]

the whole thing with captain crashing the ship to stay with his “family” reminds me of towards the end of the game with curly on fire and he says “i want to go home” to which jimmy replies “we are home.” it’s a neat parrelel. paralel. parelleel. captain is home because he’s with his “family” and that is all that matters. do you see the vision

Oh absolutely and I fuck with it so much. I'd really like to have the Mobilewashing rewrite characters (the main crew) be sort of narrative foils to the original Mouthwashing characters while also doing a bit more with 'em, their characters, and suggested backgrounds

A recent video I saw rightfully dunking on the mobile game is that it actually shows the ending where Jim Co-Pilot sends Captain off into an emergency escape pod to Earth, but not before having an entire monologue about how Captain was far too good "For this miserable crew". I may figure out a way to incorporate that into the rewrite because I had ideas before seeing the ending (At the time nobody who played the mobile game made it to the end because it's a broken piece of shit) but we'll see.

It'd be interesting if I go this route though because it'd also parallel the ending to the original game.

Curly wanted to go home to Earth but Jimmy damned him to stay frozen in that cryo-pod on the ship for who knows how long.

Captain wants to stay on the ship with his "family" and never return to Earth but Jim Co-Pilot sends him into an emergency escape pod back to Earth and away from the crew

Much to think about here. But again I'l need to put down some more proper rough drafts on paper and figure things out

[hjeojeo]

it's...missing smackjeeves hours..

telling myself if no one makes a good alternative for smackjeeves in the next like five years, im gonna start making one myself (only 10% serious)

i just miss like that atmosphere of 100% unmarketable, just comic sharing/making space.

where we all knew that 99% of the time the comics we see will never get finished bc ppl get busy, kids grow up and change interests ,etc. (i mention kids bc most of my memories of smackjeeves was when i was a teen, so it was a significant like developmental years as an artist kind experience for me)

like i remember most of the comics were like

barely legible sketch pages with like text written in mspaint.

there was absolutely no quality standard. and that's why it was so good

it made me as a kid feel like oh i can do comics! cause it can be WHATEVER YOU WANTED IT TO BE AND LOOK HOWEVER WAY.

and the collaborative ones on smackjeeves were so fun to look at

just overall.

having that. rough, crude, unmarketable space for art/comics was significant.

[goldensunset]

KHML BETA DELAYED 👊🔥💯‼️💪💥

[wizard-t-harrisburg]

Assorted Thoughts #2

Am I using assorted wrong

I hope I get the new rodya ID

The great Gatsby's pretty good so far

I have very mixed opinions on LOR and I am scared to share them

Limbus company is fun

I fucking love shitty mobile games

Why is Gwenpool the most unique take on a meta character

What's the best kinda magic for like a company CEO I think it would be necromancy but what are your guys opinions

I wanna run monster of the week but no one I know really wants to play it

I am so behind on The Adventure Zone like I just finished ethersea

[thefigureresource]

Nendoroid Aventurine [Honkai: Star Rail] from Good Smile Company coming February 2025.

[emptyheadgamer]

downloaded pokemon pocket tcg today and its one of the most blatantly cynical money grubbing apps out there. The first thing you do is open a pack. then you get told to log in every day to open more packs, then you get shown how to use premium currency to open more packs. After that you have to level up twice by opening packs and collecting cards, which they give you just enough premium currency to do (like with drugs, first hit's free to get em hooked)

Only after you hit level 3 does the ability to play the card game start being tutorialized. In video game design you tutorialize the most important mechanics first. In a platformer, first they teach you to run and jump before getting to triple backflip wall kicks. In a racing games, accelerate and steering come before drifting and boosting. Shooters teach you to weapon switch and reload before getting into bullet time or alternate fire modes. And what does pocket tcg teach you first. Premium currency and daily login to open more packs.

And further emphasizing that the lootboxes (cause that's what cardpacks are) are the core mechanic, there's an auto battle option. you can let the game play itself and just take the rewards, so you can open more card packs. I repeat, YOU CAN SKIP THE CARD BATTLING SO YOU CAN SPEND MORE TIME WITH THE LOOTBOXES.

Given the primary demographic for pokemon products is still small children, it's always been especially galling to see this kinda stuff under the pokemon brand. No game that's using psychological manipulation to induce addiction should even be available to kids, never mind directly marketed at them, for the same reasons we don't let kids do actual drugs. For all it tries to put itself forward as a family friendly face, pokemon company is honestly one of the worst in the videogame sphere. They do the same shit as everyone else, but they almost exclusively target the most vulnerable audiences.

[nor3gertz]

WHAT GAME DID YOU MADE IN FLASH.

just sum stupid ass game for my final year project, although i wouldnt say its flash bc flash is outdated... used Adobe Animate and boy do i HATE ActionScript. its buggy as hell i wouldnt want to show this stuff here its embarrassing 💔💔💔its a one man project, i did all the storyboards, character designs, animations, music & sfx. Even a "poster" for it. shouldve done it on Unity just like the rest of the FYP students in my category. could rly learn C++ and C#

heres a snippet from one of the game screenies idk what its called but its when the player dies in one of the levels and its supposed to show Game Over on the empty space there.... yep

[thelooniemoonie]

A bit out nowhere but I remember you mentioning Lobotomy Corporation in the tags on a post a while back and I was quite surprised you knew about it. (Meant to comment on it but. Forgot)

I was not, however, surprised to see it was about Whitenight. That one tracks. Verily.

I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THAT POST UNTIL I LOOKED IT UP AND REALIZED WHAT I SAID AKDJHGKAJDGH- can you blame me though

but yeah I know a little about it! mostly lobotomy corp and library of ruina, i kinda fell into a rabbit hole of lore videos on youtube one day and fell in love with the dystopian horror concept of it! (although for my own sanity it's likely best i don't play these games since i've heard of their....infamous difficulty spikes)