#the tartarus key

[doradorabobora]

Hey folks! 👋I am open to part-time indie game consultation and producer work. I've got over eight years of experience in helping launch more than 30 titles across PC and console, including producing games like In Stars and Time, The Tartarus Key, Bear and Breakfast, and many more. I am so old and I have seen so much.

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[warammy]

[thejazzywaffles]

Video Game Poll VIII

As September begins, a looming shadow overtakes my gaming backlog... and the only light is the full moon. That's right, it's time for a SPOOKY game poll!

Unlike the previous polls, this poll will have multiple winners chosen. Lots of spookiness to go around!

After this poll, I will only be posting one more poll, which will be the poll for which game I play LAST this year. So leave your suggestions for what games you really really like that you want more people to play! I wanna end the year on a good note. To help folks narrow it down, I've also posted a sample from my backlog, which you can find here:

We're in the home stretch!

[kfcwipe]

My partner and I played The Tartarus Key together 10/10. If you need any reason to play it, then the hot older lady detective should be it (and the awesome puzzles...story etc.).

[quelanalalesbiana]

Character portraits of Gabriela Torres and Alex Young from The Tartarus Key, 2023

[ametriarch]

Recently finished the good and true ending of The Tartarus Key and really wanted to draw Torres because she's so pretty and cool😭❤️ (AND SUCH A SLAY OLDER LADY)

[demiel-kheiv]

She may even have smiled slightly

[indigozeal]

Somewhere, Scissorman is taking notes. From The Tartarus Key.

[kmaki]

Images too good to be stuck on Twitter, @leoparra delivered absolutely killer art for The Tartarus Key.

I particularly love that neon purple in an otherwise pitch black closet, one of my favourite rooms in the game!

[amygoldman90]

The Tartarus Key Complete Demo [HD]

[ofswordsandpens]

Just some tartarus memes inspired by my reread <3

[chaoticly-shy-dragon]

Whoever wrote that percy jackson au of the dead boy detectives, you live under my skin and I love you. So much so that my brain tried to think of a way to make it even more canon-accurate without making them dead. or reborn Hazel Levesque style.

What I have so far is playing on the whole West civilization bit and how it moved to the.. well west - but also that World War 2 was a big three kid conflict? So. I have sort of a time-table and I'm throwing it out of the window.

Edwin is a child of Athena - that much stays the same - who is very bookish and very studious but not in the way the rest of his siblings are. They are handy and crafty, strategic and interested in architecture or design. He.. is not. (I need a reason why his siblings didn't come to help him when the "death scene" happens.)

The whole boarding school is one of many spread across the London countryside - Chiron moves a lot. They teach both ancient and modern warfare because magic or not you can't escape the bloodshed forever - you either get drafted or you run and get blacklisted somewhere or another.

(St Hilarion was actually a son of Apollo that got really popular during the Crusades - Zeus didn't smite the school when it was established because times are different and Hera would be angry if there was another big fire with no explanation that put their soldiers'- eh-hem- kids' lives at risk.)

They still teach Latin alongside Greek because it was what all normal boarding schools did and that's what they were. Maths, English, and Sciences - were all taught to the boys. The girls went to another school - where they were taught the bare minimum to survive. Because sexism was rampant and if the Romans were on the wrong side of the civil war, that means no matter how progressive the gods could have been in certain areas, they aren't now/then–

Artemis really, really hated that time period. Zoë or this version of Zoë got a kick out of shooting so many assholes in the face. Or in their dicks. They also got way more recruits than in later years. Silver lining.

Anyways: Simon - son of Hecate - and the bunch of boys, one of which was a son of Hades, do the whole let's sacrifice Edwin. Only the book is a Christian book on witchcraft that Simon truly didn't think would work. He and the rest - Hades boy included - did the whole preparation of the sacrifice as it was absolutely terrifying for Edwin to experience on top of everything else. They didn't know it was a real thing - but is the only reason why Edwin stays alive.

It's essentially a stasis charm that lets the ritual run for as long as needed without the poor victim dying beforehand. It requires bloodletting and "runes" and such. The thing is scary, traumatizing stuff so it seemed like a fun thing for Simon and his buddies to do. So they did it.

They skimmed the reading. Blood with power is spilled, ritual that is very real gets haphazardly done and so monsters get involved.

Fun fact, that I'm really hoping is actually true - sometimes monsters with names similar to other religions' occult beings pick up the summoning calls. If the ritual is shoddy enough for them to hear, the participants all die either way, it's only important who gets there first.

So. The bullies get killed and a fury-type thing drags Edwin's whole being to the fields of punishment so it can feast on its offering. He gets dusted Sally Jackson style.

We enter his hell era. ( Part 2, Part 3, TBC )

[iruverse]

Kastor being catholic until learning magic is real and gets to level 95 of the mines, then goes “I’m done with this shit,” and becomes agnostic because WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE SHADOW GUYS WITH LAZERS AND PINK FIREBALL THINGS AND LAVA WATER???

The further down you go, the less probable it is that God made these things.

[moginrambles]

got to decide what to write next... i have a few fics drafted for four different fandoms and i should probably rotate which fandom i focus on as i go but we'll see