#player concept

[cvbullshit]

I decided to make my own Player character for UTDR/UTMV just bc I was bored and thought it may be fun

I had no idea what I was doing and had no idea what to make this Player FOR, so it ended up looking like this

More Deltarune coded honestly

Inspired by @liliallowed and their Player character, Crimson

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[suiana]

imagine a yandere who's a player and a darling who appears to be a sweet, innocent thing. keyword, appears. because plot twist, darling actually used to be one of yan player's play things, devoting their hearts to him until... he broke it. duh.

he claimed that he was bored of darling, abandoning them onto the curb after having his fun with them. darling is of course shattered, broken beyond belief. how could he do such a thing? they had given everything up for yan player! but instead of being pathetic and depressed, darling decides that revenge is the better option.

it's not like he'll remember their face anyway. yan player plays with too many people for darling to stand out.

so darling comes back into yan player's life, planning on ruining his life and ditching him like he ditched them. but halfway through the plan, something seems to be horribly wrong. because why does yan player suddenly remember who they are? and why does darling suddenly get a really bad feeling?

[artificial-radiance]

a slay the princess au (path through the woods) in which you are a young woman escaping her cabin through the only way you know: the path through the woods, despite (or in spite of) the fact a monster is said to dwell among its trees.

[theslimeologist]

Its viscerally upsetting that our preferences are apparently respected but we’re all automatically opted in for tumblr’s AI 3rd party “partners” to supposedly scrape our posts and content? L O L

BLOG SETTINGS -> VISIBILITY -> ENABLE “PREVENT 3RD PARTY SHARING”

If you’re on mobile *you must first update the tumblr app*

THIS MUST BE DONE FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL PUBLIC BLOG YOU HAVE

[splatloafbud]

THANK YOU SPLATOON 1 FOR CHANGING MY LIFE ❤️

[bananafire11]

TW BUGGY STUFFS

Working on my own tadc horror au... with a side of experimentation stuff cuz i can never truely escape that trope

I need to come up with an actual name for this au

Feedback and/or ideas much appreciated :]

[cuterefaction]

Trektober Day 2 - Monsters & Magic. I think Worf would enjoy D&D but be a bit of a nightmare player.

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

Smthn about escapism and why someone (me) might choose to stay with Kinito even tho he was a bit mean and also didn’t like that u had freewill lol

Also a little bit of thinking abt how Kinito and the Player Who Stays (the Stayer???) share a lot of parallels (working hard to deserve nice things, crippling loneliness, selfish reasons for clinging to one another, self awareness, dissatisfaction/disappointment with their respective realities leading to them idealizing the concept of each other, etc etc)

(The song lyrics are from ‘Woof woof’ by ARTHUR. It took a few listens to rlly appreciate it, now it scratches my brain in v nice ways)

[astronomodome]

no this is how it went down, don't you remember

(inspired by some antics during @cherrifire's stream two days ago. im so sorry)

[cvbullshit]

I got back to thinking about Player stuff and my contributions to making Players

I love Lemon still, they will still be baby, so nothing will be directed at them and they will still exist even if they're still inspired by Crimson

But

Hm

When it comes to Players, I feel either unhappy over what I made(the deltarune player design) or was inspired by others

Which a part of me doesn't like because I want to be more original with my Players even if I will probably never do anything with them

And I actually think I might use a concept that I talked to Redwolf about for representation of viewers/players/creators

And I will ramble about the concept here but it may end up having something slightly done with it in the future, which I won't give anything away on

People, let me introduce my contribution to the Player concepts; The 4th Wall

The 4th Wall is the player but it's also the viewer and a creator.. But also not. 4th Wall is more of a representation of all of those, it may refer to itself as certain people if compared because they are a representation of those people. They could technically be considered the god of the multiverse but they won't really.. Do anything. Of course they'll take the role of the player when it's time to game(which has no limit, they can play as ANY person, not just the red soul) but other than that they're just there to chill and watch. I can see them getting up to actually talking to anyone in the multiverse if they wanted and getting into wacky adventures.. But not helping, it's not their job to help unless it's specifically a playable game.

Though I could see a neat gag in something, say Underverse, where someone asks "Are you actually going to do anything to help?" And 4th Wall is just like "Uh. Sure!" And proceeds to control their body to make them do or say something that that specific person needed to say or do then be like "Okay, done! Did that help?"(though a fight scene of 4th Wall helping someone fight would be dope)

I view them as being a goofball, pretty dorky, maybe a bit clumsy. Kinda more in tune with Ink. They're not taking themselves seriously and so they come off as not very serious. They would go by literally any gender because they literally are ALL OF THEM. They are a male, they are a female, they're trans, they're non-binary, they're an it, demiboy, demigirl, ect.

I'm currently not sure on their design bc when I think of them I think of that one artist's concept of the anomaly where it's the transparent background shaped as a person.. But I of course don't want to copy that artist even if I absolutely love that concept, so a design will have to be thought up later

But yeah, here's 4th Wall, my second(the Deltarune Player is dead to me) contribution to Player concepts. And unlike my Deltarune Player, I AM keeping this one along with Lemon. Lemon and 4th Wall can be cousins. Why cousins specifically and not siblings? Idfk, it feels right

[prokopetz]

Concept: one-shot oriented tabletop RPG which borrows Land of OG's gimmick whereby each player is only allowed to use a specific, randomly determined list of words when communicating with other players (i.e., all communication not involving these words must be carried out via grunts and gestures), except instead of dumb cave men fucking around it's about a group of dungeon-crawling adventurers ascending the Tower of Babel, or some other suitable framing device, and each player's list of permitted words is re-randomised each time the party ascends to a new floor. Certain types of "damage" might involve modifying the affected player's word list, and one of the game's principal advancement mechanisms would entail "locking in" specific words, rendering them immune to loss or randomisation.

[zegalba]

Sony: concepts for minidisc player and compact disc player, designed by Karim Rashid (1998)

[tiny-prom]

L-ater Losers! [Tries to make a dramatic escape but trips and falls on the way out]

[searchsystem]

Shreyansh Onial & Aditya Pandharpure / Nothing Npod (1) – White Edition / Audio Player (Concept) / 2023

[healdeals]

Sometimes I think about how much Mettaton (specifically in Undertale) and Spamton are foils to each other and it drives me perhaps a bit insane.

Like... Mettaton had the drive to go see the light of day on the surface, to be with humans and be a savior to monsterkind, and was willing to kill a kid to get there. He wanted to be more than a simple snail farmer and had Alphys there to help him build a new body. He, whether intended or not, abandoned family & friends to live out his dream.

Spamton is also more than willing to kill to get to see the light, he wants to be more than a darkner in a dark world, and abandons his friends to be [big] without them, relying only on the help of some strange benefactor until he also is abandoned.

They both can be self absorbed, their visages plastered around all the stuff they own (or owned). They can be inconsiderate of others. They have dreams of being big stars. There is no subtext with MTT figuring out his identity and his transitioning; its all plain to see. While it's more subtle for Spam, there are themes of self identity with him, too.

I think the biggest difference in their personalities is that Mettaton can be a lot more humble. Despite Burgerpants' treatment and taking Alphys for granted, a lot of the monsters in the MTT hotel do speak fondly of him, especially if he dies and you go back through the hotel afterward. He doesn't resist talking to Napstablook when they call in, even though he probably feels guilty for leaving them behind for whatever reason he did. He clearly still loves his cousin, and does appreciate his friendship with Alphys.

Meanwhile Spamton lies to himself about being better off without the Addisons. Deep down he doesn't mean it, but coming to terms with the reality of his feelings? Naw. He's probably had to use this tough guy persona to shield himself from criticism in his big shot days and now doesn't know how to take the mask off without it hurting. There's a lot of denial in his small body, not helped by the years of scraping by in back alleys after his fall.

Though, if the roles were reversed, would things have played out differently? Mettaton has the benefit of well-meaning people around him and luck. Its through shuffling around the trash zone that he met someone who could make his dream body come true, and who ALSO had ties to the king of the Underground. Spamton has... fairweather friends? We don't know for sure how close he was to the Addisons, or how much he thinks of his relationship with Swatch in his grander days, or how benevolent the person on the phone really was.

Yes, there was desperation to get to the surface for MTT, but he didn't have to deal with the mind-breaking information of how radically different and free the light world is when you live a deterministic existence. He didn't have to deal with seeing a soul as a blinding beacon within a kid's body. I doubt Metta wouldn't be overly obsessed with the light world, nor doubt Spamton wouldn't be content with his place in life, if they swapped shoes.

It's also so WILD that they don't know each other in the DR universe, but Mettaton had a profound impact on Spamton just by making his a little art file. He unknowingly is the one who gives this spam email a glimpse into world above, and possibly a piece of his own hopes and dreams as well. I wonder if later the DR Mettaton, too, will be affected in some way by Spamton.