#penrose 512

[shinzenii]

Trying again to fullfil that promise

First try drawing Elster, more coming

[rotfront-cunt]

ACHTOBER DAY 11 I understand that this is late. But I think I did a good job :3 Below the read more u can find the original image and the various versions from the gif

Heres the original drawing btw before any compositing tricks were done to it.

And THEN some friends recommended I have each of the versions as separate images for folks to use as phone backgrounds if they want!! (theres 2 versions of the radiation one because maybe some folks want one with one of the lights out)

[frankensteinmutual]

god is a circle (perhaps, this is hell)

[ventxekart]

Poor Ariane's face after that kiss though.

she wants to help with repairs

[biruesque]

minor damages

[nightly-valkyrie]

Because the 'Falke Posting' brainrot is spreading, I want to suggest that when it comes to the Falke/Elster/Ariane relationship, we call them the 'Penrose Polycule'

They need a tag or something to identify them as a throuple outside of just putting slashes between their names, this is my suggestion...

[yeetthatkolibri]

Warm up drawing for today using some custom brushes I've been toying around with this past week.

[noctilia]

“Before I met Elster, I never believed I would find someone I could fall in love with like that.”

[operator-report]

signalis :)

incredible game!! one of the things i think it does really well is environmental storytelling, which is of course a huge element of all the survival horror it's in conversation with. the environmental storytelling in signalis goes beyond just the little notes and documents the player can find throughout the game. signalis is meant to be dream-like, and like in a dream, the psychology of its two main characters, elster and ariane, directly influence how the world is presented to the player. the whole nowhere section is probably the most obvious example of this, but we also see it in the way the red eye follows us around, the tumors blocking the way in rotfront, the way that rooms throughout sierpinski are arranged like the rooms in the penrose, etc.

and i think the strength of signalis' visuals and the way the setting is presented to the player does a couple of really important things for the game! first is that this environmental storytelling helps flesh (lol) out these characters - when we make our way through nowhere, for example, we're so immersed in ariane's sickness and despair and anger.

(actual unpopular opinion time - this is why i like that nowhere doesn't have a map. it's meant to feel confusing and frustrating and isolating, because that's what it feels like to be ariane, left stranded in that cryopod for centuries. same with the limited inventory - the arbitrary restriction is frustrating, but i do think that's part of the point. ymmv if that works for you, but i'm a sucker for The Narrative so it works for me.)

or: when we see the penrose in the memory flashback and it looks like so many rooms we've seen before, it feels like home. signalis is a love story with a huge emotional payoff, and i think the environmental storytelling is critical in making sure that payoff happens.

the other thing it does is it keeps the visuals fresh! signalis has a ton of references to silent hill 2, evangelion, 2001: a space odyssey and more, but it also employs its references in a really clear and deliberate way that aids its storytelling. the story has been told before! it's going to be told again. it's all about those cycles. and signalis is so tightly built around its love story and tragedy that the references aren't just a rehash, but serve a concrete vision.

i could go on and on because i love signalis a lot, but there's something that i think makes it really good!

[znarikia]

After it turned around, the Penrose-512 crashed on Kitezh in the sand, where two lovers embraced before the red sands took them.

After it turned around, the Penrose-512 crashed upon Leng in the snow, with its hole to Nowhere and the gate beyond.

After it turned around, the Penrose-512 crashed upon Rotfront in the snow, with the Red Eye in the sky, looking over it all.

Without turning around, the Penrose-512 crashed upon ░▒▓▒░▓▒ in the snow sand, where the two lovers embraced in the red sands beneath the Red Eye, beyond the gate and the hole to Nowhere.

[spoopy-moose]

I applaud people who can play horror games cause im literally crying and pissing every second I spend playing signalis

[ventxekart]

I wasn't expecting an interesting crossover like this from @papapandashipyards but I can dig it.

Atmospheric Operations

The Turanic Raiders are at it again, after their visit to Sierpinski-23

[infernalinsomnia]

they are ok, penrose 512 found a planet. everything is okay.

[arainydancer]

this really happened in the penrose-512 flight. i was there and i saw it

[spring-maidens]

“I’m trying to concentrate, Elster!”

“But you look so beautiful.”

Elster maintenance on the Penrose-512.

[nightly-valkyrie]

'In the Shadow of Sierpinski' Chapter 6: Drowning:Subsuming is now posted!

This is the first chapter of ACT-2: Animus

I apologize if the wait was long, but I sincerely hope you enjoy!

Thanks for reading!