#which is to say it doesnt SEEM like that would be a viable strategy but in fact it is a gamebreakingly effective one

[transmandrake]

Concept that will never ever happen but man, 3d renders for a petsite with dress-up ala neopets or flight rising would be a great like, time-saving strategy. Like it is mindboggling the amount of effort that goes into a single item in FR... but 3d would make the possibility of fully dress-upable pet sites way more viable (i mean. Im sure theres more but I can only think of those two. And thats fair! Flight rising is petsites georg in terms of, whatd you call it, production level)

Like, instead of redrawing a hat 30 times, model it once, and then slap it on with minor adjustments for them all, and theoretically once you have a system of what fits what, adding on another beastie wont keep exponentially increasing the work of adding new clothes.

Then, render the creature and the clothes as spearate images, and have the site layer them as appropriate and compress into a final single image. That would mean no shadows and stuff, but thats already something you cant really do in 2d, but it would be a lot more noticeable.

Also wayyyy wayyy easier to do multiple poses.

That's also making me imagine the possibility of animated petsites... prerendered probably but man, imagine like, pokemon amie but on your computer or phone with your lil dressupable creatures. As much as I hold petsites dear to my heart, I do think they're on their last limb simply because most people don't go on their computer to goof around. Like technically you can play FR on your phone but its just not the same. (Side note but um. Anybody want a nature/water sprite? I feel a lil bad theyre rotting on my account considering they must be pretty rare at this point)

The idea of a petsite as an app causes me some form of revulsion, but I'm not sure why. If anything thats what I always wanted as a kid, but most games like that are... well. Shit. But I'm also not 12 anymore so maybe 'mobile games where you have some dudes to take care of' has expanded as a genre.

But in theory it would be cool. In general I think petsites came up with a lot of fun ways to interact digitally that arent anywhere else, that would make some unique videogames.

Went on tangent below lol

Also same with those dragon breeding mobile games that you really shouldnt play but are a guilty pleasure of mine... I'd love to make a whole game based around completing a compendium of dragons by collecting different ones and combining them.

As much as I hate to say it though they fundamentally revolve around waiting a lot of time between attempts, that I cant think of a way to keep the excitement of getting something different without being the shitty mobile game style ohhh you can wait 4 hours... orrr pay usss... like, just removing the paying would just make the game annoying.

they are genuinely fun if you have no money and are resistant to addiction... which is sad, I wish I could translate the gameplay loop in an equally fun but non-exploitative way.

But i guess animal crossing does real time stuff and people love it, but it also doesnt seem the sort of idea to make a good chill out game... the only way i can think of is to just make it so on average by the time you come back from playing the 'find more dargons' part of the game, that your combinings should be ready. But making that into a factory sort of advancement would be... kinda fucked up lmao.

You obviously want to make the dragons feel like pets or companions and not breeding stock. But also the angle of 'you are a dragon conservationist and you must convince as many dragons as possible to Fuck' sounds kinda funny... like how in FR obliterating dragons for money is well-rationaled as sending them off to serve their deity, but in reverse.

[windmill-ghost]

The world is the Flight Rising Coliseum and Raiden is a level 25 dragon that only knows Scratch and Eliminate.

[blookmallow]

hi i havent yet finished the level im on but idk when im gonna have time for it again and im tired of these screenshots being all over my desktop so heres some Bloods

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ok u cant really see this at all but 

im gonna take on the zero-gravity station

HOLY shit, 

are those just. entire globs of blood floating around

how do i even clean up blood in midair im crying 

my furnace is oN THE CEIL IN G 

WOAH thats space. okay

this is very cool but im not sure why its here bc i dont seem to be able to jump out of it or dispose of things through it either (yes i did try to jump out into the unending void of space, why do u ask) 

why would someone have taken the time to write out DESPAIR in (presumably) their own blood 

how the FUCK am i going to do this 

:’) WELL I FOUND THE GRAVITY SWITCH

a screenshot does not remotely capture. the experience of all that shit crashing to the floor at once, but 

however: my furnace CONTINUES TO BE ON THE CEILING so uh,

if i turn the gravity back off only a few things float away, it doesnt seem to affect every single object again after the first time (probably too much to load at once or something) 

:’) at least this dealt with the “floating blood piles” problem i guess 

ok so: in order to dispose of things, i cannot throw them into space, there is no laser gun that ive been able to find, so the only method seems to be the Ceiling Furnace

i COULD individually carry every single object in the room up to the furnace but that would take. 30 billion years. theres a lot of shit in here and some of it is like. piles of tiny bullets and shit 

strategy #1: fill up a box and float the whole thing up to the ceiling 

however, the second i picked it up, everything floated out of it and away :’  )

after a few more attempts i dont think thats gonna be a viable option

throwing a buncha shit up in the air and catching it with the box/just sorta herding it around with the box doesnt really work either

wait why is there an Orb Of Light here 

??????

im guessing its. just a lighting effect that loaded very, very strangely but 

other attempted strategies: hit stuff with a broom to shove it in the general direction of the furnace (did not work Whatsovever), put things in a bucket and carry them up to the furnace (same problem as the disposal bin), pile stuff on the floor under the furnace and then turn the gravity back off so it’ll float up to the furnace (doesn’t work, everything just floats off in whatever direction it feels like/still leaves the same ‘i have to somehow move all this /into/ the furnace’ problem as before just with stuff being slightly closer) 

i. have no IDEA how to do this apart from just carrying things up individually and i have a lotta patience but not that much : ) 

this anti-gravity station has bested me for the time being but THIS IS NOT OVER, I’LL BE BACK B( 

anyway im gonna do an underwater tunnels level instead for now 

hm..... this looks very bioshock,

considering the amount of references/obvious inspirations/etc ive seen so far its possible this is an intentional bioshock homage but i havent seen any Blatant references yet. looks more like potential lovecraftian deep sea monsters

goodness. alright then

these are some Nice tunnels

...wait is that an entire tentacle 

,,,,,,that is, in fact, an entire tentacle, 

gross. ok well, 

i appreciate the. bit of viscera stuck to the light as well, thats a nice touch 

this is a really neat environment, it has a really strong. feeling of claustrophobia/being Incredibly Far Underwater/isolation/it feels like some eldritch horror is going to show up outside one of those murky windows at any moment 

kinda reminds me of the deep sea areas in soma 

theres barely any room to get through these tunnels which is another challenge

......

“do not.” no. “donate” ? what the fuck does this say 

if you’re gonna leave me blood messages at least make em LEGIBLE, damn it :\

nice 

holy SHIT that is a huge fuckoff tentacle, 

what am i EVEN SUPPOSED TO D O WITH THIS

cmon tentacle lets go 

dont be difficult now 

hm..... yes this. this will work. its fine

holy SHIT it actually DID work,

WELL!!! ALRIGHT THEN 

also as it turns out you can just burn the tentacles and they become much smaller/more manageable charred flesh blobs but i wanted to see if it was possible to just stuff one into the furnace :’) 

anyway ill finish this later i dont have time for it rn