#pinesquest

[pinesquest2d]

The first part of "PinesQuest 2D: The Gravity Falls Game That Almost Was," a massive video taking you through the whole game from start to finish, is now online! Part 2 will be coming tomorrow, Friday, August 9th! Thanks for watching and please look forward to it!

[feelingobtuse]

What is with this guy?

[pinesquest2d]

More fun facts about Nemm!

Neither of their parents were hexagrams! Instead, their father was a hexagon while their mother was a pentagon who married into the nobility. This was slightly uncommon, as it’s typically expected that one marries a shape with the same amount of points, but marriages between the high class and nobility or the high and middle classes did happen occasionally. However, marriages between shapes with a large gap in class, say for example a noble and a triangle, were forbidden outright.

They did NOT get along with either of their parents, to put it lightly, though they had a slightly better relationship with their father. Said father, meanwhile, also didn’t get along with his own parents due to the fact he married a pentagon, which Nemm’s paternal grandparents didn’t approve of.

Because it was frowned upon and sometimes even punishable by 2nd Dimension nobility to fraternize with peasants, Nemm would often sneak out to meet with Bill. They frequently communicated through letters written in secret codes they’d both created. Nemm would even sometimes hide the letters or other things they sent to Bill inside of puzzle boxes to keep them from being discovered by anyone else.

They personally witnessed the deaths of both their parents and Bill’s during the war. Their parents were captured and publicly executed by isosceles factory workers. However, if you ask them how Bill’s parents died, they’ll refuse to answer.

During the war, they only killed Circles and other nobles, though they were forced to kill a few squares and triangles in self defense. As for how they went about executing those Circles and nobles… You ever watch Saw? It was kind of like that.

There was one exception to the last fact… The only non-Circle/noble that Nemm ever willingly killed was a five-sided doctor who Bill’s family took him to in his youth. This doctor barely gave Bill and his family the time of day, since they could hardly afford him, however at the relentless insistence of Bill’s parents he prescribed their child a liquid “medicine”… which was actually poison to make his sight worse.

They were the last survivor to leave the 2nd Dimension after its destruction. They stayed until it was no longer possible to inhabit, in order to collect the celestial remnants they weaved into their scarf.

The most loyal friend and (2nd?) worst war criminal in the multiverse, meet @pinesquest2d ‘s main antagonist, Nemm Lustre!

Nemm is, obviously, based on me and my mascot/persona/avatar, to the point where they were actually originally just named Nova. However I wanted to give them more of their own identity, especially since while they are a character based on me, it’s similar to say, how Dipper is based on Alex Hirsch.

This hexagram is a fun-loving free spirit who loves to create, with a particular fondness for making riddles, puzzles and games. Having despised their rigid noble upbringing, it’s no wonder they found a kindred spirit in a commoner triangle who spoke of liberation through chaos…

Bill and Nemm have a lot in common, which contributed to them being such close companions, but Nemm balances Bill out in a way that he desperately needs by way of being the one to reassure him it’s alright to be flawed. While they both made mistakes and paid for them in the blood of their home world, Nemm understands the only way to move now is forward, as difficult and daunting as that can be. That’s why they don’t want to do it alone, and don’t want Bill to have to either.

Unfortunately for the Pines family and friends, none of this means they see “simpler lifeforms” like humans as anything but useful pawns at best or irritating pests at worst. Why not uproot them from their dimension and place them as pieces on what is, to Nemm, a far more important chessboard?

[nenoname]

being so jealous that su got a trilogy of cool rpg games..... gravity falls rpg is still living in my brain....

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

ok putting these under a readmore bc theyre old as hell and the art blog i posted them to is deeply cringe to me now but way back forever ago i used to make pixel art of random scenes in gravity falls as like a fake pinesquest screenshot thing which i dont think is a reference most people actually got tbh but anyway. i still think some of them were kind of cute lookit

like theyre a little rough obviously but i still think theyre fun. also heres 2 loose fiddleford sprites as a reward for clicking the readmore

[wellabridgemeprincess]

Dunno if someone asked you this, but what inspired you to create Well Abridge Me, Princess in the first place?

God okay, long answer

well my YouTube had started tanking

which was an emergency when I lived in the most expensive part of the US

but kind of a blessing in disguise when I moved to a developing country and didn't need to make nearly as much money

because if the algorithm wouldn't promote anything I do anyway, then I literally have to make whatever I want

but as a people-pleaser who spent a lot of time in the closet, I didn’t fucking know would be the most Me thing ever

and after using voice acting as a tool to help millions with issues processing reading with Lost Legends, and working directly with Strong Bad on the podcast, I didn’t have any career goals left

so I did A LOT of soul-searching

every time I worked on a project, I paid attention to when I was having the most fun

In the Pirates of the Caribbean Real-Time Fandubs, I loved making my aesthetic and queer identity the centerpiece that everything else fell around

on Mystery Shack Lookback, I loved making jokes like Dog With A Pod that were basically only funny to me and Ella, and yet surprisingly not getting complaints like I would have on YouTube

when I made a Doremi Abridged One Shot for my wife's birthday, I was shocked I didn't get as bored editing as I usually do

and it became clear that my ideal project would be an Abridged Series based on a swashbuckling property in which I voice a non-binary character and/or a woman

and remembering how excited I sounded infodumping about Legend of Zelda in the PinesQuest podcast episode, there was an obvious answer

[divorcedfiddleford]

you know in all the years i've loved this show, all the times i've seen people over-analyze every last detail in the background, one thing i've actually never seen discussed is mcgucket's car. it's first seen in that old (now defunct) season 1 flash game PinesQuest, and then later, in society of the blind eye, a similar car can be seen crashed through the side of mcgucket's shed

i mean don't get me wrong, i don't think there's much to discuss here. but i remember back in the day when fans all put their brains together to try to find out what kind of car ford was driving in One scene, and i dunno. i guess i miss stuff like that. so this is a public inquiry: what kind of car do you guys think this is?

(image IDs in alt text)

[bluejaymaze]

more pixels feat. beachy nostalgia 

[pigs-in-games]

Waddles - PinesQuest (2013)

[wmgdn]

Am I the only one who didn’t enjoy Pinesquest 2D at all?

I was interested when I heard it was being shown at a convention so I checked out and I feel, in the state the game is in it doesn’t earn the praise it gets. Please don’t feel offended as I’m simply trying to offer my opinion and critique to help improve the game in the following review. Mild spoilers for the plot... maybe... I guess??

(Hey Gobblewonker... Where are you looking? Is it interesting?)

The game uses the most basic assets like standard RPG-Maker Menu-systems and sound effects, screenshots and some music of the show, vectors of Gravity Falls characters/oddities and more premade assets for enemies. HP is just HP, MP is just MP, and even standard RPG-maker texts such as the ones at the start and end of an encounter weren’t creatively altered.

(Would be nice if the game explained this to new members of the community.)

During my playtime of about an hour I haven’t encountered one puzzle that’s fun. Either it’s nothing creative or clever and just feels thrown in there, but if you’re not familiar with deciphering ciphered text, there’s not even any clues on how to solve it near the start of the game where you’re immediately greeted by a box you have to use a ciphered text for. No clues, nothing. You’re just expected to know because it’s Gravity Falls, a game made for fans, and not people new to the show that notice the game and decide to check it out. 

(I was quite pleasantly surprised by the first areas of the game.)

The sprites that are done are impressive and the art style is nice, but there are also small issues such as the scale and some of the character sprites having ugly differences in pixels. I don’t know if every single element in tilesets and charactersets is original either.

(Notice Candy’s glasses and Fiddleford’s eyebrows. Also note that the table is HUMONGOUS and the computery-thingy looks like it doesn’t belong here.)

The plot seems pretty weird, too. Most of it is just “This doesn’t make sense, but it’s Gravity Falls so it doesn’t need to!” instead of coming up with something clever. The title seems to be based on the novel “Flatland: A Romance Of Two Dimensions” by A Square (Edwin Abbott).

With the weak writing so far my prediction is that the game focuses on Bill, and either an abusive sibling (Liam??) or obsessive girlfriend trying to get back at him, or forcing him back into his former life in Flatland. Involving  “lustreverence”, it’s likely(and hopefully!) the latter, but... “lustreverence”? “lustreverence”?? That sounds very, very stupid and out of place. Lust should have no place in a video game based on a show about two kids solving mysteries! They’re only teens!

The appearance of the Flatlanders as I’ve seen on the blog could be clever if there was a proper explanation for it, but from the clues I’ll assume that Flatland is in-tact in this game, which doesn’t make sense at all given Flatland was flattened by Bill and realistically, nobody should’ve survived. (This doesn’t mean that somebody could, with proper explanation as of why). Nullify my statement about Flatland if there is an explanation, I was too disappointed to play too far into the game to see if it improved. But the designs of the Flatlanders themselves and their custom battle stance is interesting, but I wasn’t bothered to actually make it to later parts to see if I could encounter or learn about them.

Again, I mean no offense by complaining about a lackluster experience. It is simply my opinion, free to be ignored, but I do hope that the creators will find this, and maybe consider my ‘review’ to maybe improve the game a little bit.

[jamesmcdproductions-blog]

Extremely late but here are my custom LEGO Bill Cipher and A. Tad Square figures.

[pinesquest2d]

Part 2 of the video is here! Be sure to check it out after watching part 1!

This project has truly been a labor of love and after 8 years, I'm so happy to finally see it "completed." Even if it wasn't in the way I originally envisioned, I hope you all enjoy it nonetheless.

Thank you and as always, stay weird!

[politicalwaterfall]

OK, so, after 3 years of questing, I have FINALLY LOCATED ALL BILL CIPHERS ON PINESQUEST

This is the first set of photos, with the Bills of subareas. The red circle is because I took it by mistake without taking the pic, it was a very limited space

Part 2 here.

@fuckyeahgravityfalls I trust y'all to spread it out and post it on wiki

[novastarlyght]

World's End Camaraderie

( CGs from the secret ending of @pinesquest2d )

[dragonxiii-gaming-blog]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWDzupw4O54)

@chibitabathasloves and I do a speed run of @pinesquest2dimensions and make pretty good time. Not sure what other play we can get out of the game before the full version is released, but you can be sure we’re gonna try.

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

does anyone remember pinesquest and/or know if theres anywhere u can still play it