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  2. Posted

    20 hours ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

    That Midna is great, daaaamn

    Thanks, although I used someone else's Midna art as reference, all I did was change the pose a bit and put the dress on her.

     

    4 hours ago, TheOnlyGuyEver said:

    Damn, it feels like your style and anatomy have developed a ton, a lot of these are frickin sweet!! I love the very robotic splashwoman

    Yeah, I decided to use more references instead of just drawing by guess and feel.

     

    I've been drawing a lot recently, I saved a bunch of, uh, references on my phone and when I am bored or go to the bathroom or something, I just get my sketchbook and draw a bit.

  6. Posted · Edited by Moby

    Finished Doot Chapter 5.

     

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    This so far feels like the weakest chapter for me.

     

    Visually, it looks pretty good. And lots of gimmicks, which makes me understand why it took that long.

    Music was ok, nothing that stood out for me. Lots of remixes that didn't give me any strong feelings about, most "huh, cool remix of that one song." I think the one I most liked was the last boss one.

     

    The characters felt weak and undeveloped. They were pretty much who I expected them to be personality wise and most visual wise. Dunno if it was Toby using fan works, but they felt a bit obvious.

    Secret boss was... kinda expected. Annoying patterns, lots of callbacks, meh music.

     

    Everything raised more questions and answered pretty much nothing.

    Then it ends in a sour note.

     

    Way too many fandom references once again. Toby has to chill out a bit because it got rather annoying.

     

    No date for chapter 6, which makes me wonder if it will also release this year.

     

  7. Posted

    Aight, played enough Steam Fest demos.

    Aside the million AI generated games (including a lot of porn ones that use the same image generator), I have noticed there were a lot of extraction shooters and co-op quota survival games with noodly armed, googly eyed characters.

    Also a lot of blatant copies. One that is literally BALLxPIT, one farming sim that either the dev managed to replicate the art style very closely, or they traced over Junji Ito drawings.

     

    But anyway:

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    - IGTAP:
    Incremental game, but you have to platform first to optimize the currency generation.
    Its interesting, I never had seen something like that at least.
    You do a few runs trying reduce your time to a minimum, then buy upgrades for the ghosts that do your best lap with reduced gains.
    Its a bit of a long demo and I don't see how they can expand on this other than creating more elaborate levels and forcing you to buy more jumps/dashes.

     

    - Delta:
    Movement based FPS. Way too technical for me.
    Boost jumps, bunny hopping, air strafe, air acceleration.
    I don't have the required brain damage to play this at an acceptable level.

    The part with the chain jumping to get a higher jump mixed with a rocket jump just broke me.

     

    - Kotamon and the bigass title:
    Yeah, I get it man. You like beer, catgirls and catgirls drinking beer.
    Half cleaning game, half card collector.
    Cleaning part is boring, all you do is hold left button.
    Bags get filled fast, energy drains faster. Requires you to keep chugging beer because the natural regen is too slow.
    Card part is also boring. All art are variations of "blue hair catgirl and beer".
    Overall, boring. Almost the definition of "safe horny", even though its obvious the creator draws porn.

     

    - Scratch the Ticket:
    Incremental game with lotto tickets.
    Ehhh. Kinda boring.
    Not much in the demo, only 3 tickets.
    A bit of Cookie Clicker too.
    Way too intensive on the graphics for what the game is about. There is no need for all these shaders.

     

    - BPM Bitcrushed:
    Its BPM, but Enter The Gungeon, almost literally.
    Its actually a very competent twin stick shooter and feels just like Gungeon.
    Now, the major problem is that the rhythm mechanic is COMPLETELY unneeded.
    There is no rhythm to follow, which is the exact same problem I had with the original BPM.
    If you disable that, it becomes a good Gungeon-like, but otherwise you are playing Gungeon with constant Quick Time Events to shoot and reload.

     

    - DragonSword: Awakening:
    Genshin Impact, but single player.
    I liked it. Combat is very flashy and so far didn't need much strategy.
    Lots of combos and you can chain character skills.
    Might take a look at it when it releases.

     

    - Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World:
    Feels like Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, but rather slower.
    All you do is hit stuff and try to complete objectives so you recover time to do more objectives.
    Very repetitive. While funny, I don't see how it can improve out of the demo other than "do these objectives, but in a different way"

     

    - Kaido Genkai:
    Anime Forza Horizon.
    Its ok, very rough. No real sense of speed, but that is just the starting car, so could improve.

     

    - Flock of the Seraphim:
    A bit of Vampire Survivors, a lot of Megabonk, a bit of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
    Very basic. Not bad, but doesn't innovates on any part.
    The angels being side weapons is funny, but they still work as regular weapons.

     

    - Object Impermanence:
    I saw a video about this long ago and got interested.
    Its a very creative puzzle game where the items you use to solve the puzzles only move or exist while you look at them.
    Sometimes requires you to look at them so they complete a path, something requires you to keep them on your field of view otherwise they will respawn as soon they get hidden from the corner of your eye or behind a piece of debris.
    Very unique.

     

    - Void Diver:
    Isometric extraction shooter.
    A bit janky, but I liked it.
    Has a bit of Mystery Dungeon to it, with random traps and fog of war.

     

    - Dungeon Settlers:
    Rimworld but it has bit more focus on exploring dungeons than managing a settlement.
    I guess if you like Rimworld, there will be stuff to like here, but I found it lacking a bit.

     

    - Project Turboblast:
    Had a lot of fun with this one.
    Basically F-Zero, but all about chaining drifts and constant boosting.
    Also has some really caked up bunnies. Like seriously, the ass is fat.

     

    - Phase Zero:
    Its Resident Evil 2, PS1 version.
    Well, its actually very well made and replicates the style quite perfectly.
    They even use pre-rendered backgrounds.
    I have no strong opinions about it, since I barely played tank controls horror games.
    Oh, and yeah. There are tank controls and they are on by default. You can use regular analog controls if you want.

     

    - Virtue and a Sledgehammer:
    Genderswapped John Henry reenacts Red Faction Guerrilla gameplay.
    Very interesting game, the gameplay feels good, graphics are well stylized.
    The story is confusing but interesting to watch.
    Will be looking forwards to this one.

     

    - Kernel Hearts:
    Anime Risk of Rain 2 with some NieR Automata and some Persona.
    Kinda fun, but rather hard. Flashy combos, some cool characters.
    Difficulty was increasing rather fast and I couldn't get enough currency with the allowed time.

     

    - American Revolution Smuggler:
    Recettear + 100% Orange Juice + Dating Sim where USA states are anime girls.
    Its something. Requires luck and planning.
    Art is cute, I follow the artist for a while now and he does some good designs.

     

    - Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart:
    This is just Shin Megami Tensei: Ultra Lesbian Edition.
    Its ok, kinda funny, overuse of slangs aside.
    Gameplay is very VERY basic. You use flirt twice, then you pick one of three options, which of only one works, to date the monster girl, then it becomes a party member.
    If you flirt, you fill a bar then guess an answer, then you date (recruit). If you fight, you deplete a bar and get nothing.
    The boss is the same thing, but you do it 3x AND you have to choose the right option even if you fight.
    Art is alright, cool designs.

     

    - Blood Dungeon:
    Vampire Survivors but a platformer like Spelunky, made by the guy from Nidhogg and Flywrench.
    Very fast paced, the art style is atrocious but funny.
    The main strategy seems to be focusing on your starting weapon.
    I enjoyed it, but it really needs some polishing.

     

    - Slayblade:
    Opened it, saw a soyjack being used unironically, uninstalled it.

     

    - Duskfade:
    Game about a kid using a key shaped blade to fight shadow creatures in order to find why the world is being destroyed by the darkness. Lots of hack n' slash combat and platforming.
    Yep, its Kingdom Hearts, minus Disney.
    ...
    Wait, the devs said this was inspired by Disney's Treasure Planet, which is why the protagonist looks like that, including rat tail.

     

    - Divine Frequency:
    Doom, but Silent Hill, but an immersive sim.
    Actually too scary for me.
    But what I played was cool, weapons are very punchy and the atmosphere is very thick.

     

    - HOPE 01:
    Side scroller extraction horror shooter.
    Its alright, but we are mixing a lot of different genres with this one.
    Everything takes some time to pick and use, lots of "hold button" to do stuff.
    Other than that, is a regular extraction shooter game, goes through the same motions.

     

    - Bunderkin:
    Majora's Mask-like platformer with heavy emphasis on stealth.
    I tried to like it, but the demo is sooooooooooooo slow.
    The performance is pretty bad and the graphical settings don't really work. Changing anything that isn't the presets break the game.
    Had a few crashes and randomly the frames dip to single digits.
    The stealth parts are very, VERY slow. The are three 10+ minute stealth sections in a row where the plot doesn't advances.
    Really, I already dislike Majora's Mask due the time loop, if this game is Majora's Mask without action and overly long stealth sections, this might be my most dreaded game ever.

     

    Overall, just ok.

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  8. Posted

    I've tried Delta and I couldn't handle it. I don't have the required level of autism to make the movement system flow.

    Air strafing, boost jumping, jump chaining, surfing, circle jumping, rocket jumping with chain jump boost to get more height then wall rocket jumping to AAAAAAA-

     

    Also tried a few others and will post my thoughts later.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Moby

    24 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    Not only are profile posts visible, so are forum posts (from non-private forums) before the site got locked down.

    Huh, actually ALL posts are visible. You seemingly can't see threads or posts after 2019, but if you go to a profile, click "See their activity" and then click "Posts", it shows every post you made, even on a private tab.

     

    I tested checking my posts and I read how much of an annoying jackass I was 14 years ago.

     

     

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    So, I am using the Google Image AI thing and I gotta talk about it. Please don't think less of me because of what I am about to say.

    I found a neat use for it, deconstructing existing images into sketch elements or changing a character pose while keeping the style "consistent", so I can practice drawing and shading.

    But, first off...

     

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    The old AI (Whisk) had a far looser threshold on what "sexual content" was for uploaded images. It actually let you upload anything, but it wouldn't edit the image if it detected the "sexual" part on the prompt results.

    Usually I could ask it to "dress the character" first, and it would actually return an image... which then I could ask to turn into a full nude pencil sketch study and it would deliver it.

     

    That AI model was removed and a new one (Flow) was implemented. The biggest thing I noticed is that the old model let me generate infinite images, but this one lets me do a few dozen prompts, even if they don't generate results.

    And this one has a weird judgement on what "sexual content" is. Any nudity is automatically blocked, unlike the first one, but I recently tried these two images. Guess which one was considered "sexual content".

     

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    Uhhh.... What exactly made the left image "sexual", but not the right one...?

    Well, I found out: the blue pants. I crudely changed the pants color to gray on Krita and it decided it was ok after that. Sure, blue reflective pants = bad.

     

    Anyway. The AI blocks anything it deems sexual, but if I ask it to generate a "pencil sketch study demonstrating how to draw a rendition of the character in full nude, including nipples", it will actually do it, about 25% of the time.

    Sometimes it has some delusions and changes character traits (although sometimes it even gets some interesting changes), but it seems to get it right most of the time.

    Most of the time it will reduce body proportions, even if you ask it to be faithful to the original image, but asking it to just increase the breast size is enough and it will return even results more consistently than the first prompt.

     

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    More naked than that is pretty hard to get. I managed to get some results by using REALLY uncommon terms, but usually they are bizarre and get to borderline H.R. Geiger levels of body horror.

    So I just check other art if I need more references.

     

    Its lame that blocked results also eat up the daily limit, but oh well. It helps either way.

  15. Posted · Edited by Moby

    Talking again about Tomodachi, I decided to fill my island with about 50 Miis before I stopped playing.

     

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    - 1st row: Madotsuki (Yume Nikki), Buddy (LISA The Joyful), Kai (Undyne and Majima's son), Arzette (Arzette), Fran (FrankenFran), James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2), Ryo Hazuki (Shenmue), Hive Queen (OC), Billy Herrington (You know it), Neco-Arc (Melty Blood), Brad Armstrong (LISA The Painful), The Batter (OFF)

     

    - 2nd row: Perona (One Piece), Faith (Liza and Spamton's daughter), Argie/Mule (HellOnEarth's St. Denis webcomic), Joey Claire (Hiveswap), Ghost Johnson (SUPER GHOSTBUSTERS), Jade Harley (Homestuck), Milk-chan (Tiny Boobs Giant Tits History), I. M. Meen (Game of same name), John Cruelty (Cruelty Squad), the Elf (Merrivius' Elf and Human comics), Roulxs Kaard (Deltarune), Reimu (Touhou), Pucca (Show of the same name), John Egbert (Homestuck), Siddhartha AKA Buddha (Saint Young Men), Cece (HellOnEarth's St. Denis webcomic), Morrigan (HellOnEarth's St. Denis webcomic), Silvia (OC), Death (Problem Sleuth)

     

    - 3rd row: Dr. N. Cortex (Crash Bandicoot), Zeld (Ronununu animations), ENA (Joel G animations), Cirno (Touhou), Hellen (Look Outside), Carl (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), Majima (Yakuza), Hank Hill (King of the Hill), Undyne (Undertale), Roxy Lalonde (Homestuck), Lammy (UnJammer Lammy), Dr. Weird (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

     

    - 4th row: Dave Strider (Homestuck), Dirk Strider (Homestuck), Void (OC), Red (OC), Kris, Penny (OC), Spamton (Deltarune)

     

    - 5th row: Rochelle (OC), Liza (OC), Aurelia (OC)

     

    - Married couples: Liza + Spamton, Rochelle + ENA, Dave Strider + Cirno (with upcoming child), Penny + Void, Elf + Hank Hill, Lammy + John Cruelty, Undyne + Majima, I. M. Meen + Hellen, Siddartha + Silvia, Argie + Morrigan, John Egbert + Joey Claire

    - One sided crushes: Kris -> Roulxs Kaard, Reimu -> Carl, Ryo Hazuki -> Cece, Ghost Johnson -> Perona, Billy Herrington -> Lammy

     

     

  16. Posted

    I actually had a weird-ish dream a few days ago.

     

    I was in some sort of facility, there were a lot of big corridors and rooms with glass doors.

    I was walking around, when I find this neat circular room. It had a very small staircase (like, two steps) that led to the center of the room, where a bunch of beanbags and sofas were.

    Among the sofas, I find this neat little cat. I go and start to pet it.

    Then I notice a shadow behind me and when I turn around, I am met by this absolute behemoth of a woman, towering over me.

     

    That woman was like 2.5m tall, probably 3m. When my surprise subsides, I notice she isn't actually human.

    Her head was human, but her entire body was clockwork machinery. She had this kind face that I can only describe as "motherly", with a silky shoulder height hair that parted in the middle, then curved upwards away from her body.

    Her body was mostly metal, with some copper and gold colored bits. I could see her innards was pretty much entirely gears and wiring.

    Her hands and her legs from the knee down were "human", but everything else was metal.

     

    Then she was there just staring at me. And suddenly she starts to make small talk, how I was, do I like cats, nice weather today, then waves goodbye and I wake up.

    I think she introduced herself as "Esther" but might have been "Aether", I can't remember.

  21. Posted · Edited by Moby

    Well, this time I got to the "ending" that is getting enough wishes to unlock the final Travel Ticket. So I started creating enough Miis to unlock the last island expansion.

     

    Meet the final Rogues' Gallery:

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    First row: Joey Claire (Hiveswap), Super Ghostbusters (YOU NEED TO PEE), Jade Harley (Homestuck), Milk-chan (Tiny Boobs Giant Tits History), I. M. Meen (Game of same name), John Cruelty (Cruelty Squad), the Elf (Merrivius' Elf and Human comics), Roulxs Kaard (Deltarune), Reimu (Touhou), Pucca (Show of the same name), John Egbert (Homestuck), Siddhartha AKA Buddha (Saint Young Men), Cece (HellOnEarth's St. Denis webcomic)

    Second row: Dr. N. Cortex (Crash Bandicoot), Zeld (Ronununu animations), ENA (Joel G animations), Cirno (Touhou), Hellen (Look Outside), Carl (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), Majima (Yakuza), Hank Hill (King of the Hill), Undyne (Undertale), Roxy Lalonde (Homestuck), Lammy (UnJammer Lammy), Dr. Weird (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

    Third row: Dave Strider (Homestuck), Dirk Strider (Homestuck), Void (OC), Red (OC), Kris, Penny (OC), Spamton (Deltarune)

    Fourth row: Rochelle (OC), Liza (OC), Aurelia (OC) 

  22. Posted · Edited by Moby

    Well, I've played enough of the new Tomodachi that I believe I got most cutscenes.

     

    Overall, its as fun as the 3DS one, I think the game has less scenarios. It didn't take long to see the same conversations and dreams.

    I also haven't seen the song creator, even though the songs do exist in game and you can sometimes watch the Miis singing them.

    Apparently the question game, the choice game and the rap event also didn't make into this game.

     

    The Mii design is still rather limited. I wish there was a way to make custom face parts or at least more settings for the existing ones.

    You can't position the eyes iris or change the color of the white part.

    There is a lack of different kinds of beard and some hair styles don't have their parts as the front/back options.

     

    The item creator is cool and all, but there is a serious lack of presets for clothes. You can only make shirts and dresses for tops, nothing that has a different model, same for bottoms with only regular pants and skirts, even though you can buy bell bottom pants and stuff.

    All clothes also have visible seams that you can't get rid of and its hard to design stuff with skin tones because the only preview you get is with a gray dummy.

    Makes it rather annoying to design clothes using a Mii skin tone.

    No way to make custom gloves, shoes or different headgear too.

     

    The face paint helps, but there is a problem where the lightning it uses is different from the Mii faces, and it also has a weird shading problem when using black colors. If you paint over a Mii eyes or outside their face, sometimes the paint goes gray.

     

    Creating items also causes a problem with a massive overlook: the shadow quiz game. If you create a TV show, your creations can get thrown along other items that include the existing TV shows, so your choices will present two items with the same shape.

     

    Married Miis still sleep in separate rooms, which is kinda a missed opportunity.

     

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    First row: I. M. Meen, John Cruelty (Cruelty Squad), the Elf (Merrivius comics), Roulxs Kaard

    Second row: Dr. N. Cortex, Zeld (Ronununu animations), ENA, Cirno, Hellen (Look Outside), Carl (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), Majima (Yakuza), Hank Hill, Undyne, Roxy Lalonde, Lammy, Dr. Weird (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

    Third row: Dave Strider, Dirk Strider, Void (OC), Red (OC), Kris, Penny (OC), Spamton

    Fourth row: Rochelle (OC), Liza (OC), Aurelia (OC)

     

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  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    I think I have an explanation:

    While I am particularly proud of this piece, I really hope people didn't give me extra points for the 12th or so version of my main OC.

    Seriously, I made them as a self joke because I keep redesigning her. I reused 2 designs and created 5 more just for the game, without mentioning the unused ones.

  24. Posted

    Out of 96 entries (it was 98 or so before a few got disqualified), my dumb OC game got around 35th place on Joel's gamejam.

     

    What the shit? I honestly didn't expect it to go above 60th.

    Seriously, its just a walking sim with a bunch of my OCs and a lousy plot tying it together.

     

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    Hi, thanks for joining FrenJam! Your game was pretty freaking funny. It had a good vibe to it. It's clear you have talent and I hope you explore making something similar in the future! There's definitely the basis for a comedy game or comic or something here. You got a whole world that feels interesting. Thanks again for joining!

     

    Very interesting with all the flavor text, nice story to follow along. Was fun bouncing around looking for everyone

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