#need to also find a nice font for the website

[bf-rally]

Progress on the interaction page!

[insertdisc5]

📚 A List Of Useful Websites When Making An RPG 📚

My timeloop RPG In Stars and Time is done! Which means I can clear all my ISAT gamedev related bookmarks. But I figured I would show them here, in case they can be useful to someone. These range from "useful to write a story/characters/world" to "these are SUPER rpgmaker focused and will help with the terrible math that comes with making a game".

This is what I used to make my RPG game, but it could be useful for writers, game devs of all genres, DMs, artists, what have you. YIPPEE

Writing (Names)

Behind The Name - Why don't you have this bookmarked already. Search for names and their meanings from all over the world!

Medieval Names Archive - Medieval names. Useful. For ME

City and Town Name Generator - Create "fake" names for cities, generated from datasets from any country you desire! I used those for the couple city names in ISAT. I say "fake" in quotes because some of them do end up being actual city names, especially for french generated ones. Don't forget to double check you're not 1. just taking a real city name or 2. using a word that's like, Very Bad, especially if you don't know the country you're taking inspiration from! Don't want to end up with Poopaville, USA

Writing (Words)

Onym - A website full of websites that are full of words. And by that I mean dictionaries, thesauruses, translators, glossaries, ways to mix up words, and way more. HIGHLY recommend checking this website out!!!

Moby Thesaurus - My thesaurus of choice!

Rhyme Zone - Find words that rhyme with others. Perfect for poets, lyricists, punmasters.

In Different Languages - Search for a word, have it translated in MANY different languages in one page.

ASSETS

In general, I will say: just look up what you want on itch.io. There are SO MANY assets for you to buy on itch.io. You want a font? You want a background? You want a sound effect? You want a plugin? A pixel base? An attack animation? A cool UI?!?!?! JUST GO ON ITCH.IO!!!!!!

Visual Assets (General)

Creative Market - Shop for all kinds of assets, from fonts to mockups to templates to brushes to WHATEVER YOU WANT

Velvetyne - Cool and weird fonts

Chevy Ray's Pixel Fonts - They're good fonts.

Contrast Checker - Stop making your text white when your background is lime green no one can read that shit babe!!!!!!

Visual Assets (Game Focused)

Interface In Game - Screenshots of UI (User Interfaces) from SO MANY GAMES. Shows you everything and you can just look at what every single menu in a game looks like. You can also sort them by game genre! GREAT reference!

Game UI Database - Same as above!

Sound Assets

Zapsplat, Freesound - There are many sound effect websites out there but those are the ones I saved. Royalty free!

Shapeforms - Paid packs for music and sounds and stuff.

Other

CloudConvert - Convert files into other files. MAKE THAT .AVI A .MOV

EZGifs - Make those gifs bigger. Smaller. Optimize them. Take a video and make it a gif. The Sky Is The Limit

Marketing

Press Kitty - Did not end up needing this- this will help with creating a press kit! Useful for ANY indie dev. Yes, even if you're making a tiny game, you should have a press kit. You never know!!!

presskit() - Same as above, but a different one.

Itch.io Page Image Guide and Templates - Make your project pages on itch.io look nice.

MOOMANiBE's IGF post - If you're making indie games, you might wanna try and submit your game to the Independent Game Festival at some point. Here are some tips on how, and why you should.

Game Design (General)

An insightful thread where game developers discuss hidden mechanics designed to make games feel more interesting - Title says it all. Check those comments too.

Game Design (RPGs)

Yanfly "Let's Make a Game" Comics - INCREDIBLY useful tips on how to make RPGs, going from dungeons to towns to enemy stats!!!!

Attack Patterns - A nice post on enemy attack patterns, and what attacks you should give your enemies to make them challenging (but not TOO challenging!) A very good starting point.

How To Balance An RPG - Twitter thread on how to balance player stats VS enemy stats.

Nobody Cares About It But It’s The Only Thing That Matters: Pacing And Level Design In JRPGs - a Good Post.

Game Design (Visual Novels)

Feniks Renpy Tutorials - They're good tutorials.

I played over 100 visual novels in one month and here’s my advice to devs. - General VN advice. Also highly recommend this whole blog for help on marketing your games.

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

[notaorbital]

hi I really like your mb and I'm new here. Do u have any suggestions or tips to make mb? like where did u get the pics and the captions.

𝓜oodboards: a guide for beginner blogs!

I decided to bring here a small tutorial that can help other blogs that are starting out and still have questions that need clarification, with tips and links that you may need. I wrote this from my point of view of creating moodboards and I tried to be as brief as possible in my explanation, there may be errors in English as I'm not fluent in that language and everything here was translated using Google Translate, any questions you can contact me via asks or by message.

how do I find pics for moodboards?

Pinterest is where you will find most images for moodboards, so create a Pinterest board just for these images, separating them into subboards for each color or aesthetic to make it easier.

Some blogs leave the link to their Pinterest accounts in pinneds or in the carrd, you can follow them and save the pics they published on the app in your boards, this will influence the Pinterest algorithm so that they recommend more of the type of images you want.

You can also search on Pinterest for the aesthetic and color you want (coquette pink aesthetic, cottagecore aesthetic, y2k, etc.).

how to make moodboards + tips:

Well, it's not such a complicated thing for me. I generally make moodboards with 6 or 9 images, taking inspiration from the moodboards of other blogs that I admire, so I can get an idea of ​​how to make the captions and how to position the photos in a way that matches them.

To make it easier, first I create the moodboard and then I look for an icon of a kpop idol that can match the aesthetics and color of the moodboard. The reverse can also be done: first choose an icon and make a moodboard for that image, paying attention to the color palette and tonality (and for some reason, for me it's better to create moodboards in Tumblr's light mode instead of dark mode)

When I finish the moodboard, I add the caption, the hashtags (which will be very important for your post to reach other people) and maybe a divider. You can find these dividers on other blogs or by searching for "dividers" on Tumblr.

If you want to split a photo into two or more images, use this site.

how to create captions:

To make the captions, I use parts of songs that I like or that I found searching on Pinterest for "Spotify song lyrics", but they can also be album or song names, movie names, a phrase you thought, etc. The symbols you will put in the caption can be found on this website or just by searching for "symbols", "kpop symbols", "kaomojis" on tumblr.

If you want to use a different font for the letters, there are these two websites (01 and 02). And to change the color, there are also these two tutorials (01 and 02).

what to do to make your blog "popular":

Add popular hashtags that relate to the content you are posting. If you use almost the same tags as other big blogs, your posts will have more reach. Posting frequently and your account looking nice and organized helps too.

Ask several other popular blogs to promote your account. This was very important for my profile to grow in the number of followers and engagement.

Join the events that some blogs do, as they offer good prizes like reblogs if you win. And remember to have patience, as it often takes a while to get good engagement on Tumblr.

[nnnyxie]

may I request headcanons for the turtles w/ a younger sib (same age as mikey) who’s a jeweler? like they’ve got their own little workshop in the lair to make really nice stuff from old silverware scrap metal and glass, clean up old jewelry they find in the trash, and sell most of it online 💍

please, and thank you

ahhh!!!!! yes yes yes!!!

you didn’t specify which version, so i went w/ the rise!boys since that’s what i’m ‘known’ for (i think?)

your workshop, the boys— they but it all themselves!! they heard you talking about jewelry making with april and was like ‘ayo what if we just…’ and BOOM. built.

it was SO HARD to keep it a secret!!! especially since raph and mikey are AWFUL at keeping secrets. AND!!! the process wasn’t exactly quiet— it took forever cause they had to work on it when you were out.

but hey! they got it done!!!

donnie gets you the metal and glass. he lets you use some of his equipment too. he also uhm… ‘bought’ the packaging used for shipping… iykwim

sometimes you go to the repo place w/ mikey and donnie!! and people tend to leave jewelry in their cars (which is lowkey upsetting!! like why are you leaving beautiful rings, bracelets, and necklaces lying in your car!?)

and and and mikey will help you with blue print designs!! (i have no clue how jewelry making works)

if you engrave your jewelry, he’ll design the font for it!! which he absolutely loves doing because it’s bonding time and we all know he loves bonding time!!!

leo would definitely model your jewelry for you. give him some bracelets and necklaces— that mf will already have a whole ass outfit ready!!! we love him for that!!! (and we love that he’s canonically into the glam rock look!! ie; david bowie, elton john, queen, duran duran, etc)

he’s always leaving reviews on your websites and telling people which items go with what kind of outfits!! (i just think he loves fashion)

now when it comes to raph— he’s the one that breaks apart the metal for you. sure donnie’s machines can do it but, you know he wants to be a part of this somehow!!

he feels so useful when he does it— he feels like it’s a very important part of the process in jewelry making!! which it is cause like— you need metal!! and he’ll sometimes go on little walks with todd and find small gems for your jewelry too!!!

ahhh i hope this is what you were hoping for!!

[carelessflower]

sunday recap 🥓😽

so many things today but more importantly SO MANY CATS LET GET THIS THROUGH SO WE GET TO CATS

fit check, i changed like 5-6 times wanna lean into a coquette style but sadly this the shirt with the closest match I could find

seafood buffet because we didnt have any breakfast so this kinda our brunch. this just opened in the mall near where I lived lmaoo, basically they served seafood in any kind, and also there bbq and hotpot too but we didn't take the hotpot. all seafoods are very fresh (look at that tank!!!) again ranking

grilled shrimp and oyster with cheese: 8/10, the cheese is like too sweet and fatty

grilled snail with scallion: 8/10, good but nothing special

sashimi: 9.2/10, very solid!!! and u can get as many as u want

sushi: 7.8/10, idk I dont grab those much there not much variation also it can make u full quick

grilled abalone (not pictured): 9/10, for the price we can get as much as we want and I think its neat! also it got run out so quick lmaoo

seafood soup: 9/10, phenomenal, like I had two bowl of these

grilled everything (had pork chest, pork, beef, octopus, grouper fish, okra, eggplant and cheese fish ball): 9.5/10, I love the way they marinated the meat!!

durian ice cream: 7.5/10, nothing special also it all durian which I dont like and they run out of chocolate ice cream :((

flan with coffee sauce: 9.2/10, smooth, creamy with that bitter sauce like it just top notch flan, literally one of the best I've ever eat

also on the way down i saw they're having this cat contest thing like there so many booths it looked so fun (pictures later cuz I took like A LOT)

first tried a bunch of stuff at uniqlo, obsessed with these snoopy shirts and these cutest zip up, like the zip up are clothes for children but there big size and I can fit in there too

trying on, the shirts is from the male section and the zip up and hoddies are from children section biggest size they look so cute tho icant think of the way I would wear the white zip up a lot and the green shirt is xs so I def need a size bigger

next is cotton-on, they're having this collab with polly pocket which is sawr cute if only they're not like fucking expensive, like why is that shirt 30$ and that tiny MICRO purse 28$ like I dont get it, it not even real leather! also oversea website having XL size but vietnamese store doesn't is criminal

tried on a bunch of stuff the sale associate was looking at me like crazy also the price there has only gotten more ridiculous with time. the black shirt was giving sabrina carpenter and there another one with blue background and red font just like short n sweet aesthetic lmeow. the cardigan looked so close like that coloring the cutest but it looked wear on my body. the mentioned polly pocket shirt, I mean idk it fit but it expensive and also I dont like too much figure hugging in my clothes. same with the other shirt who I think the color pretty nice

can you guess which one i got hehe

[honeybyte]

Wait how do you make a font of your handwriting???? I've been wanting to do that for so LONG but i could only ever find weird sketchy websites and apps that didn't work :(

i think i used calligraphr! its been a while since i actually made my font, but the basic steps of it is

》 find a typeface grid where you can write out your alphabet

》 fill in all the letters

》 scan it into a font maker

》 dowload the svg or ttf file

》 i had to look up how to do this but you can upload it to your comp's default fonts! and it should come up in clip studio from there

calligraphr is free to use, there's an option to upgrade but it provides a template and creates the file for you. there's also a Microsoft Font Maker! i havent used it but i found out abt it thru this post that gives you a quick playthru on how to make your font!

for reference, this is how the original font came out thru calligraphr

it's a nice personal touch, and makes it blend into my art more than a serif or sans serif font. it looks like Mine and i didnt need to write it out by hand :>

[pronglesart]

This is a pretty random one, but how did you design the logo for Ingress?

Little did you know, I love to answer questions about ~design~.

The Ingress logo has gone through about 3 different official versions, but at least 50 different conceptual iterations. I'm a graphic designer by trade and profession, so I approached it any other way I would approach making a logo.

The first iteration of the logo I have less information on the development of, but I was looking at a lot of advertising from the late 1800s to early 1900s. For example, these advertisements have a lot flourishes on the text and warping letters, as was common in that era.

I took that concept and made the first iteration of the ingress logo at the comic's inception in 2017. My graphic design skills weren't as strong then, and I mostly just took a font I thought fit and slapped it around a little bit to try and get the look I wanted.

I wasn't particularly happy with how this one turned out, and it only ended up being used for a few months on the first version of the website and on a single printing of the first chapter of the comic, but I also didn't put a ton of time and energy into making this one. So, I went back to the drawing board soon after I made this first one.

The second iteration of the logo took a lot of inspiration from the same sources, but I first took a lot of time drawing out concepts in my sketchbook to try and get the right visual look for how the logo should be.

At first I played with the idea of including a little picture along with the logo. I thought maybe Toivo's glasses would be a good thing to try to include in the 'g' in Ingress, or that Rocky or Toivo's hat should appear in the logo. These were all discarded for cluttering up the logo, because the words themselves are all pretty long. Eventually, I started playing with the shape of the word itself, which very quickly lead to the last S becoming the signature swirl.

Next was iterating on this concept with fonts.

That lead to the second iteration of the logo, and the longest running version of it.

I chose a textured font to give it that "worn" feeling that was so popular in the design world in 2018. There were a ton of brands doing textured stuff to give their brand an edgy feel, but I did it to make it feel old and like it was from the late 1800s.

This would still be the logo today, but I ran into a problem: the font I used, Goldsmith Vintage, had a limitation on how long you could use their font for free and for printing. Fonts aren't particularly expensive, but if you want to use a font for publishing, you need a special license and those fees can rack up in price pretty quickly. It was unlikely that the people who made the font would come after me for using it, but I decided to not take that chance and instead refresh the logo one more time, this time putting more of my own hand in it.

This time, I took a different approach. I liked the old logo, but I was having a hard time finding a font that I really liked and would get the same feeling as the old logo... So instead, I decided to use calligraphy to draw it myself.

I rewrote the word Ingress Over and Over and Over, and specifically I rewrote the S's to try and get the perfect shape of it. Then, I picked out specific letters that I liked.

From those letters, I picked the ones I thought looked best, and smashed them together into one rough version of the logo that I liked.

And then from here, I made a digital version of the logo in Adobe Illustrator so I could get a nice crisp vector version. Also, I made rough versions of it, so I could keep doing the same 'old' look.

And... that's about it!

Ultimately, I think the new one is really fun, and I really like the fact that the latest one was made with my hand directly. Those aren't letters you can find in any font, they're my letters.

Maybe you can tell but, I have a lot of opinions on letter shapes.

Anyway, thanks for asking, and I hope this was as entertaining for you to read as it was for me to blather on about.

[sonicenvy]

To new tumblr users:

please turn on custom blog theme in your settings. custom blog theme is something that is actually so wonderful about having a tumblr, and we need to show @staff how important of a feature this is to this site.

Propaganda:

Having a custom blog theme gives you a yourURL dot tumblr dot com site. Having your very own website is cool as fuck.

Having your own site makes it much easier to search and view your blog, and use tags to sort posts.

Another fun thing that you can do is create custom side pages for your blog with useful static information, like an about page or a tags page.

show off your personality and interests with a cool site. organise your posts to find them later, and to give your followers the ability to view all the posts on your blog with a specific tag, like a tag for your writing or your art. This can be done by providing a link to a specific tag that looks like this: yourURL dot tumblr dot com/tagged/myCoolTag

You can have a cool site, even if you don't know how to do web code, I promise. Here's how your turn this feature on:

go to the little person icon in your top ribbon (circled in red):

2. in the resulting pop up, scroll down to "blogs" < yourBlog (highlighted in red):

3. click on "blog settings". This will take you to a new page. (highlighted in red)

4. on this new page, scroll down to "custom theme" and flip the toggle switch to on. (circled in red)

5. now click that "edit theme" button. This will take you to a new page that will look something like this:

depending on what theme you end up using, the options in the white sidebar will be different. For now, that's not what we're actually interested in though!

6. to get started with your theme, click the edit HTML button.

7. This pops open a thing with the code from your blog. This is where you can edit or paste code into to customize your blog. This is where the fun starts!

If you know code, you can write code yourself, but I'm going to just assume that you don't know enough code to write a tumblr theme. Fortunately for you, there are lots of people out here on tumblr dot com that do know how to write code and make tumblr themes and do this AND make these themes publicly available for anyone to use.

8. Where do I find this, you might ask? Great question! A good place to start is Theme Hunter, which is a blog where they share lots of independent theme creators themes. Typically when you use someone's theme, you should reblog their post about it, as this is often a term of use. Theme hunter is nice because they are really organized so you can find some nice categories to start you theme hunt in their "more" drop down:

you'll notice that they also have pages about how to install tumblr themes. The "page themes" section is for side page themes. We'll get to that in little bit, but for now what you want is the "Tumblr themes" Most themes will have a set of easy to use customization options for stuff like background colors, font sizes, sidebar images, links, accent colors, etc. Most theme posts will have an example or "live preview" of the theme in question so you can play around with it and see if you like all of the features. Remember that you can change all of the colors and the font sizes if you like.

9. Once you find a theme you like, click on the "code" link in the post which typically takes you to a pastebin page with the code of the theme.

10. click "raw" in the top ribbon, which takes you to a new page that has nothing but the code on it. (highlighted in red)

the new page will look something like this:

11. click anywhere in this page, and hit ctrl + a (on windows) or command + a (on mac) this selects all of the code. Now hit ctrl + c (windows) or command + c (mac). This copies all of the code to your clipboard.

12. Now go back to the theme editing page for you blog and click anywhere in the code box. hit ctrl + a (windows) or command + a (mac) to select all of the text in the code window. hit backspace (windows) or delete (mac) to erase the text.

13. now that your code window is empty, click in it again. Hit ctrl + v (windows) or command + v (mac), which should paste all of that code that you copied before into the code window.

14. Now hit "update preview" (highlighted in red)

this will update the preview of your blog so that you can now see it with the theme! It may not look quite right yet, but that's because you haven't set up all the customization options yet! Note that until you hit "save" the theme does not become live on your site.

15. hit "save" then hit the back arrow on the code window next to the gear symbol.

16. Now for the fun part! Customizing! Scroll down In the little sidebar to the section called "theme options." This is where you'll get to select stuff like colors, sidebar images and fonts. Sometimes, things still won't look right in the preview, but once you go to your page, you can see what it actually looks like. I recommend having a copy of your blog page open in another tab that you can refresh every time you hit "save" while customizing your theme, to make sure that things look right.

Tadah! you have a new cool website. share the news with your followers.

If you want to get into learning how to make your own themes, check out buildthemes or buildatheme or theme-hunter's tuts page. To learn about web code in general you can sign up for an account through codeacademy or dash general assembly or W3Schools or html dog

[jcmarchi]

20+ Free Pixel Fonts for Creatives – Speckyboy

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20+ Free Pixel Fonts for Creatives – Speckyboy

Everyone loves a retro aesthetic. Pixel fonts offer a great way to add this old-school techno look to your projects. They prompt memories of classic video games, computer systems, and plenty of pop culture references.

They’re also more flexible than you might imagine. App development is a natural fit. Or use them as a headline font for your gaming blog. They also add a touch of fun to print materials, digital artwork, and video presentations.

Pixel fonts also feature a wide range of styles. Like other fonts, you’ll find both serif and sans-serif options. However, there are also different levels of thickness and character spacing. Each brings a unique personality to the table.

In this article, we’ve rounded up over twenty free pixel fonts available for download. Find your favorites, add them to your collection, and bring on the retro vibes!

Enjoy the fun look of this video game-inspired pixel font. Look closely, and you’ll find a delightful mix of squares and rectangles – just like the arcades and consoles of old. The relatively thin weight also keeps things legible.

Here’s a familiar font for fans of a certain classic game series. The package includes a full slate of characters, including punctuation. It’s an excellent choice for adding a bit of nostalgia to your project.

Inspired by old-school fighting games, this typeface features an action-packed look. Its bold and italicized text would be great for headlines and banners. Just don’t get too carried away with your street-fighting and knock over a lamp!

Bitroad is a mashup of styles representing the 1980s and 2000s. The font makes a bold statement while staying easy to read. It includes multiple typestyles and is available in several popular file formats.

Bold retro stylings are a hallmark of Sheko. Use it in places where you want to make the most impact. It features tight kerning that’s perfect for headlines and titles.

This all-caps pixel font will do wonders for your retro-themed designs. Each character features a variable outline that adds authenticity. It looks great in any size, and its low-contrast style offers a unique touch.

Add some slanted perspective to your project with this 8-bit typeface. Dotemp is a serif font that faithfully recreates the look of classic computing apps. It’s a variable font with regular and pixel styles.

Here’s a font that mixes elements of the old and new. It’s a pixelated font, for sure. However, it’s highly legible and includes some anti-aliasing. This one is a great fit when a more subtle approach to retro is in order.

Talk about unique, here’s a hand-drawn pixel font. The result is a fun typeface with classic looks and a decidedly modern charm. It also includes plenty of special characters to make it a versatile pick.

Travel back to the days when arcades ruled with this classic typeface. You won’t find any fancy effects here. The look is simple – a good representation of what once was. Sometimes, that’s all you need to make a statement.

Here’s a font with a twist on the pixelated style. It features a rounded look to soften those sharp edges. It’s a nice alternative to the more brutalist options on this list.

Tiny5 goes all out when it comes to pixelation. The characters are chunky, and the shapes are free of anti-aliasing. There’s simply no compromise. Therefore, reserve this one for use on headlines and banners.

Silver was built with game developers (and gamers) in mind. The multi-language font includes gamepad buttons with full keyboard and mouse prompts. Use it in your apps to give users an authentic experience.

Be bold and tell a story with this thick pixel font. It’s aimed at game developers but is also a natural fit for website hero areas. It’s another handy choice for your typography toolbox.

Pixelify Sans is a no-nonsense typeface that comes in four distinct font weights. That provides more flexibility than your average pixel font. It can be used in both large and small sizes and maintain readability.

You may notice that Dogica is easier on the eyes than most pixel fonts. It offers monospaced and kerned versions. Either way, you’re getting a legible font that can be used at the tiniest sizes. That makes it an all-purpose winner.

Silkscreen is a cross-platform pixel font built for websites and online apps. It’s an all-caps font with extra spacing between characters. It would work beautifully for the text headers on your tech blog.

Need a pixel font fit for smaller sizes? This one fits the bill with the ability to stay legible no matter how low you go. You might use it for those little design accents on websites and print documents.

Give your projects a subtly pixelated look with this display font. It features a distorted style that will help your designs stand out. It’s proof that pixel fonts don’t have to be harsh.

Here’s a style that looks like it comes from another galaxy. Pigxel brings a lot of curves to the pixel font playbook. Use it to create titles meant to send users far, far away.

This minimalistic font’s origins can be traced to an iOS pixel art app. Thus, you can be confident in displaying it on any screen. It also includes plenty of symbols for added flexibility.

PICO-8 is available in several flavors, including monospaced, all-caps, and wide. That makes it a good option for niche use cases. Beyond that, this True-Type font is a fun way to spice up your designs.

This pixel font adds extra pizzaz with blocky glyphs and thick sizing. It’s reminiscent of the systems we saw in sci-fi movies from the 1970s and 80s. Perfect for transporting your designs into hyperspace.

Write code the way our ancestors did – with a pixel font! Pixel Code is a monospaced font designed for use in code editors. It aims to maximize readability and includes a complete set of programming ligatures.

Here’s a collection of 20 pixel fonts – all with a public domain license. You’ll find a variety of styles to choose from. There are great options for fantasy gamers, along with more conventional typefaces.

The Power of Pixelation

Pixel fonts are one of the more fun typographic categories. You’ll find basic similarities. But the details are often what separates them. The font’s weight, shape, and letter spacing are defining factors. You can use them to create different moods and aesthetics.

So, choose your favorites and create something awesome!

More Free Fonts

From clean sans-serifs to elegant serifs and everything in between, there’s something here for every project type. Whether you need something simple and minimal or more striking, like bold or stencil fonts, you’ll find fonts ready to improve your typography.

More Free Fonts

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[gotchi-blog]

Tamagotchi Pix review!

Yes, finally! Not only did I get the model I wanted for over a year, but also I've finished taking care of the first generation and discovering all the functions. That's why I've decided to make this review post, where I explain what I like and dislike about it.

General score: 9/10

Design

I really like the shell design. At first, I was a bit disappointed with the simple faceplates (I still think they could've gone with something more complex), but now I see that this design matches the rest well.

I got the Nature shell and I must admit, this might be my favourite one. They all look nice, but there is something special to me about green Tamas. The thick plastic of the faceplate gives a bit of depth to the pattern and the gradient is nice. I also love the eggshell-shaped cap used for taking photos. Top 10 designs - super cute. I slightly miss the old Tamagotchi logo (the connection one), but here the simple font matches the rest better than the Connection one would.

The touch buttons look very nice. I got the second wave Pix, which means improved reactivity. I don't have problems with the buttons at all. However, my fingers are quite small, and I'm used to being precise (I work with electronics.) I'm not sure if this is the best design for children - I have no idea if it's possible to break the buttons by pressing on them too hard. Generally, I love the change. The buttons are fast and I have no issues with the swiping motion, another cool feature.

The screen is set quite shallow in the shell, so there might be problems with it getting easily scratched.

The most characteristic element of the Pix model is the ability to take photos. At the same time, it's probably the most questionable one to me.

2. Unique mechanics

The camera works fast, however the colour recognition (needed for cooking) is pretty poor. It has problems especially with warm colours. Its favourite shade to see is grey lol. That might be annoying when you're trying to cook, aka make new food from the colours you collect from the photos. Also, you can use colours to make new items and furniture - this is an amazing feature and I'm all for being able to customise my stuff.

Activating the toy by clicking the top shell is super cool, however there is one problem - it makes travelling with Pix quite difficult. I see many possibilities for the toy to get damaged. Also, the top shell might be accidentally pressed while in the pocket/bag - then the touch buttons will pick up on even slight presses. I was travelling with my Pix on the very day I activated it, and let me tell you what - you need to be careful with it. I highly recommend getting some sort of cover for it, either silicone or knitted one.

The swiping motion on the touch buttons is used quite a lot. In my version, there are no problems with the sensitivity, however I see how troublesome it can be in the first wave, where the buttons didn't function that well.

The last feature worth mentioning is the QR code system. It allows you to download additional food, accessories, wallpapers and furniture. It's a quick and amazing system. Mr. Blinky made a whole website where you can find all the stuff you want. Make sure to give it a try!

3. Characters and growth cycle

The QR codes are also used for connection with other Tamas. To be fair, Pix is a self-sufficient toy. You don't need two of them to have fun and connect - the QR codes can be photographed and posted online, so everyone can meet your pet. I love this feature - it allows you to briefly meet people from all of around the world. My pet once played with a Tama from Italy!

I like the characters available. There are quite a lot of them. I think that the new characters are sweet. Pix introduced Weeptchi (in Japan he was introduced in Smart) and gave a global debut to Himetchi (she was available on iD L 15th anniversary edition in Japan.) There are a few others, and they all look sweet.

An interesting thing is that with every next generation, you can obtain one of 3 eggs (blue, pink and green.) The evolution of your character is dependent on it - Pix brings back the "families", grouping characters by their personalities. Blue is Smart, pink is Charming and green is Creative. In my first generation, I got a green egg (it's based on the quiz you answer at the beginning, while setting your name etc.) However, the egg colour is not the final decisive variable in your pet's development. Despite having a Creative egg, I ended up with Mametchi, a Smart character. It's probably because I would give him the Science Project item many times.

Pix has an additional life stage connected to jobs. Each character can obtain one of 3 jobs. They can train for them as adults, in a special room. The room you get is dependent on how you raise your character - how you play with it, how much you explore the world using the camera and how much you cook. I like this idea, though I slightly miss the regular secret characters from the older models. It's a feature that's always been present in Tamagotchi and I hope it will make a comeback soon. Jobs are cute and personalised, the games are fun and give you Gotchi Points as well.

My biggest problem with the growth cycle is how fast it is. I have this problem with all new models - I wish the stages lasted longer than only one day. To me, it's not enough to enjoy the younger characters, which I often like a lot.

4. Games

There are a lot of games on Pix. And I love it. The previous models were disappointing due to very few games, even though they certainly would be able to support more. I think that Bandai took note from complaints about slightly boring gameplay and decided to make a model, with which you can't get bored. There is always something to do. Some games give you Gotchi Points, some simply raise the Friendship Meter.

The arcade games change every day. It's cool, like a fresh breeze. But worry not, the choice isn't enormous (since many other games are either in the room or the jobs), so your favourite themed games will be back soon.

5. Aesthetics

Pix looks cool on the outside, but the real beauty in on the screen. This model introduced the new, super-smooth animations. The character moves on the screen so smoothly, that sometimes it might be hard to take good photos lol.

The colours are vivid, the rooms are super detailed and there are many wallpapers to choose from (and download.) You can put 2 pieces of furniture in the room as well. This simple customisation adds a lot to the aesthetics.

You can give your Tama accessories, some of which you can colour yourself.

There is a garden. Every 3 days, I believe, you can obtain fruit from the tree there. You just need to go outside at least once a day to water it.

From time to time, some characters will come to visit your pet. However, I haven't encountered the annoying animations from Meets (they were one of my least elements of that model.) The walking animations are quick and can be easily skipped, the same goes for dialogues.

6. Battery life

The first wave Pix had a big problem with poor battery life. The second wave improved it greatly - I've been running my Pix for a while on pretty cheap batteries and it's still doing well.

My honest recommendation is investing in AAA rechargeable batteries. They last longer and are environmental-friendly. And they will save you up a lot of money.

7. Conclusion

All in all, I'm loving Pix and I recommend it to everyone, no matter if you're an old collector or if it's your first contact with the Tamagotchi franchise. It's a great gift for someone you want to introduce to the world of Tamagotchi. However, I highly recommend getting the second wave Pix due to the improved buttons and battery life.

[ja-gul-writes]

This is the cover for the first book in my series. The little guy is actually just a normal guy, and his name is Leon. He's from our world, and is a tired, overworked and underpaid janitor who's boss was being a total jerk (and should have totally been sued for sexual harassment). Leon's secret kink has always been size difference, and he just wanted to take a giant dick, ya know? Totally reasonable!

Well, then he suddenly gets transported to another world (yes this is an isekai) right in front of a horny, lonely giant named Zayan who thinks humans are just the cutest fucking things on the planet, who also thinks that this human in specific is offering himself to the giant.

I dunno why but Tumblr has made the image look a little blurry to me.

Anyways, making this cover was really hard because I was using vector graphics and it DID NOT scale properly and I had to export every single colour and shadow layer as a separate image so that I could do colour adjusting in a different program. It's the same method for the other covers in this series, but once this series is done I am totally going to find a different art style.

... Does anyone want to hear me rant about book covers? No? Okay, I'll go on then.

Did you know that if you were to use stock photos to make covers, depending on where you get it from you need special permission to use a person's face on the cover of a book that has queer content? Yeah, that's stupid, because the same rules do not apply to straight content. Got a straight couple on your book, no big deal. Got a gay couple, well make sure you have special permission. Oh and sometimes you can't even put anyone's face on the cover of a book at all. And you probably have to pay the licensing fees to get that stock photo. And there's a chance someone else has used it on their book cover too.

It's in some ways a lot easier to have a drawn cover. Because even if you visually used a reference image for a character's pose or proportions, reference images do not need to be licensed. And if you've drawn it all yourself, then you own the art and can do whatever you want with it, whereas if you've paid an artist you might be limited to what you can do with it.

The one thing to look out for too is fonts. If you download fonts from a website, make sure to filter by fonts that are 100% free for full commercial use, meaning you can use the font on the cover of a book you are profiting from and don't need to pay anyone for it. Because some fonts are free ONLY to use for things that won't make you money, or if you do make money you owe the font-maker royalties. And when you're writing books and making very little money, paying anyone a royalty from your earnings could be a deal-breaker. Avoid the pitfalls of this by only ever downloading 100% free fonts. Doesn't matter how nice the licensed fonts are, just don't download them, that way you don't have to remember which ones you have are free and which ones are licensed.

BTW, here's the programs I used to make cover art, write book, and format it. The programs are free and open-sourced.

Inkscape for vector art: https://inkscape.org/

GIMP for colours (it's a photoshop type software): https://www.gimp.org/

LibreOffice for writing (and they also have spreadsheets): https://www.libreoffice.org/

And for formatting, because I publish on amazon I used amazon's Kindle Create which helped format the book.

[ghostoftheyear]

I just read a comment on a post that made me very concerned, so I wanted to put out a PSA.

Someone was panicking during the recent AO3 outage, where the DDoS was trying very hard to put the site under for good, because they didn't have any way to recover their fics. Which is terrifying, sure... if all you ever do is write directly into the draft page on AO3.

But. Why would you do that?

Like. OK. I know I'm old, and I'm also privileged to have a desktop PC that I use for the majority of everything online. I understand this is not as common a circumstance as it used to be. But if you're using a laptop or PC, you should REALLY be writing somewhere else first. Even if it's just the native notepad program. Anything that allows you to save the file. You don't need something expensive like Scrivener. I personally use a text-based program called NoteTab, which is inexpensive, reliable, and has lots of nice little extras. Of course there's Word and OpenLibre and things like that. Even Google Docs if you're in a pinch (though I can't recommend it given that they're now starting their own AI-theft program).

I'm not as well versed in apps for phones and tablets. But even so, I beg you to find something to write on that isn't directly into AO3. The notes program? Email yourself? A physical notebook?

And there is a reason for this. Purely aside from the fact that the draft will only save your text for 30 days -- and was NEVER meant to be used as a word processor to begin with! -- you should always have a backup of your work somewhere, in the exact case of circumstances like this.

Many moons ago, I used a free site called Crosswinds to host my website. (There were a lot of these, like geocities, tripod, & so on.) One day, there was a server glitch and lots of my files were wiped from creation. I didn't keep copies of them anywhere else, and so they were just gone. I was able to recover some of it, but most of it was just. Gone. Forever.

These days, I edit my stuff on my PC first, and then upload it. I should also probably have another backup of some kind, because I have had catastrophic hard drive failures and lost everything. You think it won't happen to you. Then it does, and your stuff that you've labored on is just gone.

Plus, it's just good to be able to have the text in a location where you can easily read and edit; on top of that, you know that trick of putting it in another font so you can catch mistakes? That is exactly what happens when I get the fic into the preview page on AO3 and I'm able to see all those goddamn typos and missed italics tags and so on.

For the love of whatever you love, friends, you must keep your own backups. You will lose your data at some point. It's going to happen. Or a site will go down. Or something crashes. And it'll all be gone. You really can make sure that doesn't happen, and it'll take less time than you think.

But I will be over here begging on my arthritic, ruined knees for the rest of time: NEVER WRITE DIRECTLY INTO THE AO3 PAGE. EVER. DON'T FUCKIN DO IT.

[midnightpink]

in the ether, there is a website

read it here on ao3

in the afterlife, regulus finds a website.

by:  inthesquare

Words: 2,393, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Regulus Black, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Mary Macdonald (Harry Potter), Lily Evans, Dorcas Meadowes, Marlene McKinnon, Pandora Lovegood, Evan Rosier, Barty Crouch Jr., God

Relationship: Regulus Black/James Potter

Additional Tags: regulus is dead, this is always a nice way of starting this, but Regulus in the afterlife, finds a website, yep that’s the whole plot, don’t know how to explain this except I could not sleep and wrote this between midnight and two am, James and regulus are very in love, Regulus is tired, Mr. James Fleamont Potter has loved Mr. Regulus Arcturus Black in every lifetime, mentions of God - Freeform, or a website “lady”, that might be God, or it might not, references to other jegulus fanfics, such as just lovers by zeppazariel, this was very self indulgent tm of me, very short nostalgic and slightly sad story, Light Angst, Reference to Death?, as a question because honestly I don’t even know, Regulus is talking to a website in the afterlife so yes, it might have references to death, etc - Freeform, If you squint it enough you will see James and Regulus owned a cat, If you squint it even more you will see wolfstar taking care James after Regulus passes, but it’s so brief I didn’t even put them as a tag, but knows that Sirius and Remus also found each other in every lifetime, mentions of the other characters, Angry Regulus Black, you need to read in between the lines, written in folklore’s font because at this point is basically a tradition, Read my notes, it’s important, I love to think of fanfics as all the lifetimes this couple got to love each other in the multiverse, LOVE AS DEVOTION, The ways Mr. James Potter loved Mr. Regulus Arcturus Black

[bearclubbooks]

hey! your books are beautiful! could you share a bit of your process on binding? how do you decide which fic to bind? how do you plan your cover and typeset design etc. thank you

heck yeah i can!! i'm putting this under a readmore because it's so long haha

**this may go without saying but this is just how i personally choose works to bind - i'm sure everyone's process is different.

I only bind fics that like. REALLY stand out to me. I have read an uncountable number of works in my life but my to-bind list only has 5 things on it. It's a combination of: 1) It has to be a really good quality work - characterization I agree with, an interesting plot or insightful observations of character, and I love most of all when I haven't read anything like it before. 2) If it hits all those criteria AND I have a strong idea for a book design while I'm reading it or thinking about it later then it's a good candidate for binding!

For me, the choosing of a fic and the design of the finished book (90% of the time) go completely hand-in-hand - I'll be reading a fic and imagining it as a book at the same time. What design motifs occur through the story that could translate to a physical object? What's the vibe of the work? Is it a dark brooding emotional story or is it a fun happy rock climbing AU? Even before you start typesetting or designing the cover, these questions will inform the final design.

To give you a more specific example, I'll step through the design of one of my books so the whole process is outlined!

Even though No Fixed Ropes was only the second book I ever bound, the design is still one of my favorites! It's a rock climbing AU set in Yosemite in the 1970s... and already you can see that summary could inform a host of design decisions!

The vibe of the story is pretty fun - a little sad (times and people change over the years) but mostly happy (sometimes that's a good thing). The vibe of the story is the thing that informs my typesetting the most!! I set this work in Crimson Text, which to me is a font that has the same vibe as the story. It's a really nice serif font so you can take it seriously (because the POV character is very serious) but it's also a little round and soft and cute (because this story is about finding new friends and coming to terms with change in a soft and understanding way.)

This way of choosing a font will almost certainly be different for everyone! Some people might only use their favorite single font for every work they typeset; some people might say Crimson Text is inappropriate for use in a printed book since it was designed for the web - everyone has a different way of approaching typesetting, and this is mine! But every way is valid, especially if you're the only one reading your books.

For No Fixed Ropes, I wanted the book to have some 70s flair! I spent a lot of time on the website fontsinuse.com looking at book covers printed in the 70s. That's how I landed on Monoton as a secondary font, which I use for chapter headings and the title page. I found an old picture online of rocks in Yosemite, and that became my title page!

I also choose the cover paper based on the story! For No Fixed Ropes, I chose a paper that reminded me of the rocks in national parks. The paper is also made from recycled ropes, which was too perfect to pass up! The spine is covered in leather paper - this wasn't based on the story necessarily, but I needed a spine reinforcement and the black paper brought out the black lines in the cover paper and had a nice feel to it.

Another aspect to ficbinding is deciding what information you want to include in your bind. Since the works exist originally on the internet, there's a lot of info you can choose to include or not - there's the AO3 metadata (publication date, URL, ratings, warnings, etc); there's any information the author might have shared on social media (epilogues written as threadfics, a playlist they made for the character, etc); there's any number of things that are very easy to include on the internet that may not translate so well to a physical book.

Personally I don't find it necessary to include most of this stuff - I'm printing the work for myself and maybe the author and I don't like to clutter it with info I don't need. That being said, the one exception I will always make is for a playlist - I love to include the playlist link in a fun and thematic way!! For No Fixed Ropes, I put the Spotify link on a vintage Yosemite postcard, imagining an ending where the characters stay in touch with each other even though they're not together anymore.

From there it's just a matter of proofreading your text and putting it all together!

Hopefully that answers your questions! If you want more info or you have more questions, definitely ask me more!! I love to talk about this stuff haha

[pranilozabcufashion]

Lookbook - Front and Back Page

To start off creating this lookbook, I remember being told that we were allowed to rename the trend so after a bit of brainstorming I had decided to rename ”Grunge Romance” to “ Blood is a new Black” shortened to BITNB, as it is a spin-off of the phrase “____  is the New Black” meaning whatever word somebody starts off the phrase with it means it is the new chic or it is currently fashionable. I like this new name as it is memorable catchy and rolls off the tongue. 

I had also decided I had needed to find a font that appropriately represent this trend, so after looking online I had found a serif font called “Gothicus” In Adobe's own font library.  I like this font as it is obviously quite representative of the gothic subculture that is known for using Blackletter style/Old English script in calligraphy, and as Grunge Romance/ Blood is the New Black does take inspiration from the gothic subculture I thought this font would be great for this trend. 

After using the text tool on Photoshop  and selecting the gothicus font I had dragged out where I wanted my text to be and type out the trend name. I had also wanted an appropriate background As the front page of the lookbook would set the tone for the rest of the other pages, the front page of the lookbook should show the reader exactly what the trend is visually before they even start reading. I had gone online and found this fabric image, coincedentelly also called Grunge romance And how to use this as the background for my front and back page .

I had gone online and tried to find noise / grain details That would make the background more rugged and messy, as if it was quite old, As well as using the levels tool to change the darkness and lightness of the background enhancing certain details.  

Next, as the name of the trend is “Blood is a new Black” I had an idea where I wanted to add a blood-dripping effect to the text, this had taken quite a while as I had not found any short solution to this and had involved me turning the text into a PNG image, although eventually I had figured out and had achieved the result I was looking for. I had decided I had only wanted the blood dripping effect to be only on the word ”blood”  as it seemed right and it'd be more impactful and eye-catching for the front page of the lookbook. Next, I had wanted the rest of the text to stand out from the background so I had gone into the effects section of the text and added a drop shadow to the text so that the title doesn't seem flat against the background.

Going back to the blood dripping effect I had gone into the effects section,  and added a pattern overlay of water,  to make the blood seem more realistic in a way, I'd wanted this to be a subtle detail as if I had decreased the opacity the effect would show too much and the attention would be brought solely towards the word blood and ruin the rest of the page in my opinion.

My next step was to add some images of models that would represent the trend appropriately I'd found some on the WGSN website, under the Grunge Romance trend, as well as other sites. I had used the selection tool to highlight the model and use the vector mask tool to get rid of the background therefore only showing what I had selected with the selection tool, cleaned up any parts of the background that would shown by selecting the paintbrush, selecting the black colour, and selecting the vector mask and going over what parts I had wanted to be hidden. I plan to do this for all images and models that I want to use for the rest of this lookbook as it makes it easier to show/hide any parts of an image instead of selecting parts and deleting it, because if I had made a mistake and spotted it later, I would have to go back using the history section, therefore getting rid of any work I might have done after. After removing the background I had moved about and placed the images that I thought looked nice.

I had also used the Levels adjustment tool to change the mid-tones and undertones of the models as well to fit the theme of the trend which would be darker and sort of grittier as the original images were quite bright.

Before adding more images of models I had wanted to add something in the background so that it wasn't just a shade of red, so I had gone online and found a low-angle image of a church which I'd looked quite ominous and thought this would be perfect, so I had again used the vector mask tool and hid in the background of the image, lowered the opacity as to still show the details of the red fabric and placed it on one half of the double page spread, duplicated it and put it on the other side of the DPS so that it has a mirroring effect. I also decided to organise all my images into folders as to make finding certain images so that if I'd want to change anything in the future it wou;d be much easier and I'm not having to move about layers and getting confused about what goes where.

I found more images of models and clothing that I thought reflected the trend quite well, I used the levels tool for each image and made them each slightly darker but still made them stand out. I had again moved about and experimented with where I had wanted each image. Something that I had found quite useful while manipulating these images was while having the levels layer above an image that I'd wanted to change the brightness of, and selecting the Levels adjustment layer and pushing ALT In-between the levels and the image it would make it so that adjustment tool only affects that specific image, this would allow me to independently change the brightness of each image freely, which was extremely useful.

[webbloggerz]

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