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Ink Demonth Day 9: Record

For today's theme, I will be...

...speedrunning batim! Live on twitch now!

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--New Commission Prices!

Accepting V*nmo, P*yPal, and C*shApp.

DM any questions. Willing to do most types of characters designs, but I'm a huge fan of: horror, monsters, fantasy, and your original characters!

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Some things are meant to be remembered; for the right reasons.

i've posted this review on steam, but i think that i want to say it here, too.

Here is my review of the 'promotional' material (according to steam) Secrets of the Machine

What I liked: the art appeared to be a true return to form; the style had its original charm with updated lighting techniques and slightly better optimization than previous games in the Bendy series. The audio design was also nice, with good ambiance and nice composition.

And now, the jank.

The game handles reasonably well; but it is clearly slapdashed together and is missing important components. There is no starting menu. There are no loading screens; and it is very jarring. There are no options in the game menu - you cannot minimize the game, you cannot brighten the game, you cannot make the game run any better on your computer, and it is incredibly laggy. If you have a potato laptop? Nah, get out. No game for you. There are no subtitles that you can enable, and voices are very muffled. Additionally, the game is very dark, and as mentioned, you cannot adjust that in the settings of the game, nor in steam settings. You have to do so from your computer.

Controls are extremely janky, as you cannot run, you cannot jump, and there is no indication for interaction with any objects. There are no control settings for remapping, and you cannot even see which keys do what.

Puzzles are boring and confusing; with no guidance. There were no hints, no rhyme or reason. There was more puzzle in the BATIM chapter 1 demo release. This thing is very confusing, especially when you cannot see anything at all. You will spend a long time walking back and forth between two rooms, wondering how you can progress, because you've done everything you could: you smashed cutouts; you hit targets; you opened and closed hands; you found posters for future games, but nothing that could move forward the one you were playing at the time. If you look at the community page, you will see that most people simply spent their time clicking on the soup can dispenser to see how many cans they could get.

Puzzles are boring and confusing; with no guidance. There were no hints, no rhyme or reason. There was more puzzle in the BATIM chapter 1 demo release. This thing is very confusing, especially when you cannot see anything at all. You will spend a long time walking back and forth between two rooms, wondering how you can progress, because you've done everything you could: you smashed cutouts; you hit targets; you opened and closed hands; you found posters for future games, but nothing that could move forward the one you were playing at the time. If you look at the community page, you will see that most people simply spent their time clicking on the soup can dispenser to see how many cans they could get.

If you have epilepsy, nah get out. Oh? I didn't mention the flashing lights? Well the developers did not either. Not only did they not mention the flashing lights, not in the game nor in steam, but they included TWO car crashes without warning - one audio based, and another that was directed at players. This is not only rude, but it is dangerous. Warnings exist so that people can make educated choices whether or not to interact with content that may be sensitive to them. Warn people appropriately. This 'game' did not take any measure to protect its players. There are many instances of sudden loud noises, flashing lights, and jarring location switches (not to mention the car crashes).

The story was lacking, and has nothing to do with the puzzles that a player is faced with. It feels like three disjointed tracks, and none of them align, all of them crashing together in a discordant, unsatisfying, confusing mess. It brought in more new characters that had nothing to do with the original story nor interested players, and had content that went against previously established material. It was (as you can tell, from a writer's perspective) a bad story.

It was less of a demo, less of a playable trailer, more like a tech demo with a few morsels for fans to pick apart and wish there was more of, wish there was more effort put into, wish there was more love and care for them, the players who arguably were the foundation of this game. There were teasers for games that, honestly, lacked the soul that the very first game had, and here's a point to prove it: there was an easter egg that if you clicked something 414 times (very funny.) it would rise in the air and then fall down without further ado. In the game files, the name for that sound effect? Sting. Yeah. It did. Games are a collaborative work; between the creators and the players. Blatant disregard and flippancy towards half of the collaboration is not acceptable behavior. This is a development team that mocks those who once loved them most, those who poured over their coding and carefully crafted world to marvel at what they had made, and coaxed in others with the rich promise of a delightful story that anyone could engage with on any level. The spite the creators have shown for the individuals who, essentially, had given rise to their stature in the first place, is painful.

Finally, by the time that I got a chance to sit down and actually play the game- I personally could not. The developers, by constantly updating a clearly unfinished game, had made their final update - that of a wood board blocking the actual place where gameplay takes place. You cannot go to any of the places shown in the screenshots, because the game is locked on the opening area. I've seen many people complaining of it; hoping that they can play the game.

Now, in the fashion we've seen common of JDS, they have rescinded their terrible design choice - but without notifying players that it is now possible to play the game; without telling players that this was purposeful; without telling players anything aside from a big old screw you. It is entirely possible that the only reason they put the game back into a playable state was the torrent of negative reviews that spawned after their. interesting. choice. regardless, those who care about their playerbase would have informed those who complained that it was a temporary gesture for storytelling reasons. They, however, did not, and there are a multitude of reviews marking the game as unplayable.

No matter what, the bottom line is this: This is not okay.

I'm not sure how much more eloquently I can put the fact that I'm heartbroken. This game, unlike any other, shows how much scorn that a developer can have for their own fans and playerbase. I am glad that there are people who enjoyed it, but I wonder - what did you really like about it?

Is it the memories?

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Wow that was a nothing burger. No bun

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Bendy: Secrets of The Machine STREAM

HI I'M STREAMING NEW GAME WITH SOME FRIENDS COME JOIN IF YOU WANNA HANG IN THE TEXT CHAT

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"Devil's Swing", Promo Poster from The Hellion Theater, 1941

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In the recent news of Tumblr being very likely to sell us artists to midjourney, I might straight up delete this blog bc I cant bother to go through everything to edit all the posts w glazed images etc so again theres like 500 of you on here I doubt all still active but please have a look at my art blog + neocities cause I might do all that back breaking work there

Art blog: @fullmoondaggers-art

Neocities:

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just doodled this morning's T shot, nothing special

✧☾𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖒𝖊!✧

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All that to say please reblog my art n give me feedback and follow my art blog where I try to be active and post stuff

Kinda odd seeing one of your works reposted without your consent or knowledge in a post praising you... Its from 2021 so whatever but also me and OP chatted quite a bit so I dont see why they didnt ask. Pretty disrespectful tbh but whatever

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Part 2 of me beating batim! come join as i finally beat the beast bendy fight for the first time!

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BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

To celebrate the one year anniversary of BATDR's release, I will be beating BATIM for the first time!

The whole thing will be streamed over on my twitch! twitch.tv/pineappleoracle

Come hang as me and a bunch of my nerd friends overanalyze every pixel of this game!

"Pine what do you mean you've never beat batim, you've been running a bendy blog for over five years??" Well you see. Until this year, I didn't have a laptop capable of running the beast bendy fight. It was just way too laggy. I don't even know how I got past Bertrum before.

"But didn't batdr come out on the 15th-" In a hilarious repeat of last year, I am insanely busy on the 15th and don't have time until the next day lmao

Depending on how the stream goes, I might then continue right on to playing through batdr! Or maybe I'll do that the following day, we'll see!