#remembered wolfquest exists so

[mezzmerizd]

Wolf Quest ZITS!! :D

and a version where u can see them a little betterrr :3c

[itsadragonaesthetic]

Just a little vent post about School of Dragons.

I have 345+ hours in this game. That is more than WolfQuest. That's almost as much as Jurassic World Evolution. Those kinds of hours are earned when you feel like you've lived a portion of your life in this game. Entire sections of my life were dedicated to it. I feel like a part of me lives in it. With the loss of the game, I'm scared I'm going to lose that part. Even if I don't open the game up every single day sometimes, it's like it's been stitched into the fabric of my being. I'm unsure what to do without it. Without this game, I just feel like another guy with a bunch of HTTYD OCs.

I've really given the developers a lot of shit over the years and honestly, for good reason. I think the game was run pretty bad. I think time and effort were put into things that they shouldn't have put in. Regardless, I think there were people who really cared about that game and tried their hardest to make it a great game. I'm eternally grateful for everyone who made the game as great as it could be.

I wish they would have given me more time to prepare. I wish this wasn't so sudden. I wish they would just put all their funds into keeping their copyright agreement and just quit most development. Keep their game, quit making new stuff, and just update it with things that keep the game running smoothly. I don't know the gravity of their situation though.

I know it sounds so stupid to be so heartbroken over a kid's game that people seem to think sucks. I don't really care. This game was my life, and it still kind of is. It's a part of me that I don't want to lose. I have so many memories and now I'm left with the mortifying ordeal of trying to archive everything I remember from every single adventure I went on. I never had to care about this in the past. It was always right there in the game for me to visit again. And now it won't be. My characters will not just be in their own world in my computer anymore. Now it's like they won't exist without my prompting through art or roleplaying.

I guess that's a comfort though. Lots of people are probably losing their dragons and characters like... for good. They don't have the resources and skill that I have to keep their characters alive. At least I'm an artist and a writer with friends I can roleplay my characters with so I can go on new adventures without School of Dragons. I'll never see my little friends in my game again. I'll never feel the thrill of accomplishment when I race my dragons again. That sense of pride I felt when I beat people with Virgilio, my monstrous nightmare, a dragon no one expects to win any race. All because I was so good at the game and I prided myself in my ability to fly any dragon. This is the death of... a lot of that for me. But they're not gone. I'll see them again in my games and my art. Just like my other characters, they'll always be alive as long as I remember them.

I'll be working on this Discord server for School of Dragons players as well as HTTYD fans. If I have to be upset about this, I at least don't want to do it alone. Please message me if you would like an invite. I won't post the link publically simply because I don't want any randos who hate me for my light fury opinions or something. If I can even get 5 people on this server, I'll call it an accomplishment.

[absul]

do kids these days still know about the moon tree

[tratserenoyreve]

in reference to the Path of Titans game, you guys have seen some of my screenshots from The Isle yeah? another pretty dino game, tho it is absolutely geared towards combat and pvp horror survival. well, The Isle has an extremely rough reputation on steam, namely for admin abuse.

The Isle has two distinct classes of servers. Official and Unofficial. official servers are ran by the developers and have rules geared towards intended gameplay, as best they can given how unfinished the game is right now. these rules exist for many reasons, mostly thanks to how the current game framework doesn’t have anything built in to prevent people teaming up and making things hell otherwise. official servers are staffed by selected admin and some devs who keep an eye on things and sometimes throw in fun events, like mutant dino strains.

unofficial servers are ran by other players who act as their own admin and set their own rules, or none at all. you see most ���admin abuse” comes from these areas, as the devs have no control over how micromanaged they can get. think Wolfquest, only dinosaurs.

well, thing is, part of the “admin abuse” reputation also stems from one of the ex-devs of the isle. the coder known as DeathlyRage has a... reputation. while the head developer of The Isle, Dondi, is notorious for being a bit sharp, he at least does not have the title of being responsible for causing a coworker to quit only after a single week of being exposed to him. That title goes to DeathlyRage, noted by past coworkers as being “hard to work with” “taking his frustration out on anyone available”, with one even sadly noting that while they would “try to think the best of (Deathly)” he regularly made it hard to do so.

on top of being rough with his own coworkers, many members of the playerbase still remember him being openly hostile to them. he started targeted raids on unofficial servers and would ignore their posted rules, wiping folks hard grown dinos out. on their discord chat, folks reminisce about how Deathly would dm them and be incredibly abrasive.

for The Isle, the final staple to Deathly’s termination paper was in him deciding to harass a well respected member of the team, Kissen (an animator and group organizer), reportedly saying her grandparents should kill themselves, on top of many other hurtful statements. this led to him being fired, which he interestingly only refers to having been over a dispute of “Creative Differences”.

to rub salt into the wounds he’d already inflicted over the years, Deathly took the devkit for The Isle, a tool used by users to create mods, and left no notation for it or his code. He states this was accidental, he coincidentally had left no copy in the groupshare for the other developers.

Now, The Isle is in a stagnant state as its coders attempt to rebuild its base from scratch. For years, it has been unable to effectively update, any attempt to integrate new mechanics was met with heavy breaks in the foundation of the code, so often patches were released with new material only to then have to remove it. Thankfully, The Isle’s development team, including artists and animators who have worked on remarkable paleoart and other dinosaur projects like Saurian, are dedicated to making it through, and evading the fate of projects like smallands and archotek, who were not so lucky when they removed Deathly from their teams.

Now Deathly has moved on to work as lead coder, as he often does, for Path of Titans, coincidentally headed by Jiggy who was famous for making aesthetic mods for The Isle.

[twracehorse]

Cringing at my own videos

Training Videos Edition!

I got bored, needed motivation to start editing, went back to take a look at my older videos, and now I judge and cringe at them because that’s a given at this stage

Under the cut to keep your dash shorter :3

Determined Horse Training, the title I came up with to be a little unique. I obviously couldn’t use something akin to Northena’s “Training Is Fun...Right?” and I wanted to give it a proper title knowing this would be a series of videos. I thought, and thought, and came up with the title after thinking of Undertale and how you are filled with determination in the game. “I am filled with determination to train these horses!” is what I thought and so the title of the series became that!

I use // as a way to separate different topics I’m talking about

Brave Rebel- First off...the thumbnail. He was originally themed sort of after Nathan Drake from Uncharted, since I was into that series at the time. So the map was, you know, for the treasure hunting. But I didn’t want to stretch the map to fit and somehow decided that a brown background was a good idea?? // AH THE CLOTHES! THE NECK!! AHHH GATORADE OCEAN BLEHH. // Oh yeah I have a spelling error in the video “Let’s go defeat this traning day!”. // Been training with Sage from the start of the series. I wonder how many fails of their’s I’ve caught XD // Ah the rocks, the rocks that I caught Sage stumbling out of in a later training video. // Let’s not forget the double mouse thing going on that makes its appearance in many videos before I figured out to click off of the web pages (which had a music playlist going while training). // Omg there’s someone with the club name The Babies standing nearby when I turn in the final race. // Low-key still love this horse. He was my first true Soul Steed before we were designated to our starter. I don’t take him out much, the difference in horse animations from new to old is getting bigger and for dynamic photos, it just doesn’t look good ( @~@)

Cool Hero- The horse based off of Markiplier back when he had red hair. I also uploaded the video on his birthday! // The song choice....I mean it fits the theme, otherwise I’d pick a better song. // The mini references I’m still low-key proud of. // There’s quite the amount of gliding pons in this video and some horror texture pons. // I obviously had to max Markimoo at the observatory! // I also mimicked Mark’s outros where an image is boomeranging. It took a couple tries with my friend in the background, but it was worth it!

Violet Mystery- I hope when I introduced her as “The winner of the Jorvik Wild horse competition” I mean, she was the first coat to be picked. Back when it was only one horse coat is being made. They added the top two coats afterwards. // Oh yeah the character’s whole head would move to the side to keep eye contact with the camera. // It’s so weird to think that I caught a bit of footage of Swifty just before meeting her. Then again I remember NOT editing this training video until months later and uploaded it in September. Mind you that I got Cool Hero and Violet Mystery at the same time and Cool Hero’s video was out in June...oops. // Ironic that I have the pandoric cracks around when the horse is based off them. // People running up from the riding arena, ah the fog glitch that would happen when you left your horse in the riding area, ran all the way to the dino valley elevator, took it, and there was no fog in the valley! 

Megalove- Ah the first Undertale horse! I mean technically still the only Undertale themed horse I have, but I do have others planned. Haven’t gotten them yet and some plans changed. // The thumbnail....why did I make the stickers super tiny?? // Finally changed Elsa’s hairstyle to the ponytail I still wear to this day. We need updated ponytails with side bangs! I know we have the awesome braided ponytail in Mistfall, but there’s too much forehead! // Also the first training footage with the meet up....was 4 hours long. This was back when I recorded all stages of training and went through the footage in real time....I’m glad I changed strategy. // Can’t remember if crashing into a jump and the jump of the music timed at the same point was on purpose or if it was editing magic. // Oof cringing that I put comic sans as Sans “talking” in the video nnngghhhhh! // Ah my old club name Royal Ambassadors. I gave that club over to my side account Chiara Monsterhope for obvious reasons. // Annoying Dog in the credits, I still love that

Lucky Hero- I’m still proud that I came up with his nickname Vien short of Vienna where the famous riding school is. He, along with Brave Rebel, are my top horses. Please get an update eventually boys! // Finally Mac users had clear water! I was so happy over this you do not understand XD // Warriors by Imagine Dragons fits this horse, but quite a pain when I got Dark Warrior and didn’t want repeating songs. // Oh yeah early on, the Lipizzaners had a weird reflective tail glitch going on. // Vien was the first horse of mine that I got the day of release, bright and early in the morning! // I love how in the face of danger, an approaching bull dozer, I just stare at it. It wasn’t even a “oh no I should get out of the way” and instead was “huh that’s a thing”. // ALLY CHUM! I forgot that was a nickname to good friend!

Grey Ghost- OH BOY HERE WE GO!! Honestly my favorite training video. It was so much fun to edit with the music and the Halloween stickers hidden around the screen! Despite waking up at 5am to train for that aesthetic™. // Okay but that mushroom with the dark green sign did legit give me a spook. My body froze for a second and then I remembered that Slenderman doesn’t exist in Star Stable XD. // Ngl two of the stickers are hard to see cause of their surroundings. // GALLOPER THOMPSON MY MAN! Honestly I waited till midnight for him to be in Goldenleaf forest, just to see what would happen if you were racing and he caught you. By the gods of editing magic, the song was at a good point that fits perfectly with that scene. // For the scarecrow race I did actually take two different takes. I failed the first one and when I was editing I noticed that the two runs looked similar. So I put the first part of run 1 and cut before I failed and then put the remaining of the race with run 2. Looks almost seamless! 

Silent Promise- My favorite mare in my stable! She ends up being my AoT cosplay photo horse...until I get the actual themed horse XP. // Shadows were a little glitchy at first. // Why am I using Rud instead of Rude. Like I know why cause that’s how we got around the filter, but I didn’t need to put it like that in the video. It’s like back in my WolfQuest days where I learned to use Cuz as a short version of Cause and it bled into my text vocab. // The witch bombs...I wanted to make it dramatic, but in hindsight it’s just tasteless really. Also to note that the sound which was fine before uploading, got more rough once it was on YouTube

Small Potential- Real cringe theme here, Hetalia. It was fun while watching and all that, but since then I’ve seen some well done anime! Growth! // I love the nickname Finny. Not too sure if I want to keep this pony or not, sadly. // The Christmas remix song is because I had no other ideas XD

Brave Eagle- Oh this is another slight cringe theme. Even more cringe is the fact that I had to re-upload this training video since it got blocked all over the world! due to the Hamilton musical songs. So I....had to layer over the songs with other songs....it’s a whole mess and was a whole pain since I had to re-edit the sound effects. // I’m proud of the thumbnail though....that’s it

Winter Dust- Why did I make the “there’s a new app with these foals you can train” with the dramatic music? // I think because I had less levels to train, I tried filling that space with “cool looking shots”. // Ah, yes, my How To Get Over A Jump wikipedia step by step

Hollow Phantom- Had to bring a creepy vibe even though it was February. So he’s like a Halloween not Halloween horse. // Can you believe that I found the main song from a Haikyuu!! crack video? XD. // That zoom on the pony surrounded by magic shires was weird. We’re saying “SO TINY” but the clip was so short it was done and over without much sense. // Mmm that slight irritation that the music and clip didn’t match with the drop. // Tried to blend the music together with itself....it’s obvious. // Of course had to max the Galloper horse where I first met the phantom himself

North Guardian- I wanna talk about the thumbnail....that background...is literally just the horse’s hindquarters. I wanted something mossy since the horse is sort of based off of Pelagia from Shadow of the Colossus. I couldn’t find good enough backgrounds, so I used the horse itself. // Again that urge to want to make the clip and music match but ahhh

Lucky Lucky- Still wish I could name this horse Gold Luck or something. // I think one of the camera turns during a race was just to show off the rainbow nearby. // Ahh! back when we could say “demon” in the chat. // Hmm instead of letting the clip run, I could’ve just cut to Reed calling the askew fence “a disgrace”. // Text was onscreen for just too long. // Trying to do the riding arena jumps with a good camera angle. But at that point, the camera kept moving and wouldn’t hold still. I’m glad it’s better now. Maybe I’ll try it again with a future horse. // Huh, forgot to add sound effects when I hit something on the last race

Silent Surprise- Cause I had to let the people know that I bought the horse after watching the Belmont. // AH STILL THE NECK! // 2 minutes in and we haven’t even gotten to the actual training yet. // Another day, another SSO glitch, this time it’s shadow rocks. // Oop missed a sound effect

Hot Spot- THE MUSTACHE! // I forgot I put a filter over the video to give it an old timey look. I should do more like that if it’s in theme. // Of course I had to have The Wanted be playing with this song since it’s old west sounding. // What was the purpose of editing the scarecrow race like that? XD. // Random running clip. // Walking the whole bobcat race would be nice if I didn’t keep moving the camera

Pumpkin Candy- As much as I love my Halloween horses, this training video isn’t up to the standards that the first Halloween training video set up. It’s still got Halloween themed music, it’s still got stickers hidden in the video, but it doesn’t feel the same. // Having text be their default instead of making them the same agh. // The spooky filter I overlayed the clips with changes at times. Would be nice if it stayed consistent

Dragon Dawn- Hmm now that I have more songs to choose from (getting into another artist as much as I did with The Wanted), I would have another song playing to fit the horse better. Maybe Euphoria or Mikrokosmos. Oh well those will be for future horses eventually! // Didn’t drop with the music...disappointed

Thunder Spirit- The horse that trains through three months. You can easily tell by the Valentine race, the rainbows of March, and April Fools. // Man I really need to work on making the text not be so BIG. // The first rainbow race had lots of sound effects. After that one I was just like “yeah not doing that again”

Sun Chaser- Eh the slowed down music is not the best idea. But I think it was also an intro to a remix of the song. So it was only so long and I had a bit to say for the intro of the horse. // The second clip of the mysterious Icelandic cryptid you can’t see them once it zooms in....annoying. // Too much of a slow build up with another cryptid spotting. // Also using the same sound but slower after just using it...smooth (not). // You know the very last clip of the horse as he’s turning around on the beach? Yeah that’s the exact moment I did the intro for the horse XD

Dragon Warrior- The contrast between me and Sage’s bantering vs the sadder song (I found the song because of a Zeno AMV) well it’s kinda weird having laughs and then sad melody. // YouTube again ruins the quality of the mic as it sounds fuzzier than it was pre-uploaded. // Low-key recording voices was fun aside from having to make sure the clips matched the voices and clicking of the mouse. // I’m still annoyed I couldn’t find the perfect snoring sound effect when Sage’s Connemara is sleeping and starts gliding away

Smoke Mirror- A little too much of a pause between text in the intro. // I love how I’m wearing a Halloween shirt because no other shirt matched with the blue of the hat except for the dress it came with THAT I GOT RID OF! 

Obsidian Mystery- I love the thumbnail for her training video. It’s so spooky and cool! Favorite thumbnail of the entire series right there. // Ironic that with the three Halloween horses I’ve had. The two with the upbeat music are the ones where Galloper was present that year. The one where Galloper was missing that October, the music was softer, generic Halloween music. Not intentional, but it works. Though the first Halloween training video still gets the trick-or-treats because it has nostalgic music. // Some text isn’t easily visible

Dark Warrior- The horse I wish I could name Secret Warrior cause that would make SO MUCH MORE SENSE than Dark Warrior, but here we are. // Since Warriors by Imagine Dragons was in a previous training video, I had to search for another song to fit the horse. I literally went through those anime character theme song videos to find one! That was a terrible jump cut of the song

Ember Flame- Coming Soon