#rpzine maker

[lionheart-giddings]

finally able to post my piece for @rpzinemaker

i had sm fun working with the artists and staff of this zine

they made it a very pleasurable first zine for me :))

#rpg maker #rpzine maker #corpse party #ayumi shinozaki #sachiko shinozaki #blood #my art #might turn this into a print #rpg maker games

[tofutasties]

RPZinemaker, a free zine celebrating RPG Maker games (2023)

#rpg maker #rpg #art #rpzine

[iztopher]

delighted to share my art for RPZine Maker, a free zine dedicated to all sorts of RPG maker games that you should definitely check out! I was ecstatic to get to draw Aveyond for it

(Image ID under the cut!)

[Image ID: A digital illustration of the Aveyond 3 party gathered around a long, dark wooden table with the world map laid out on it. Mel sits at the end of the table, pointing at a marking on the map with one hand and resting her face on the other, deep in concentration. Te'ijal and Galahad stand behind her on either side, Te'ijal resting one hand on Mel's shoulder and one hand on Edward's on the other side of the table, and Galahad with his arms crossed. Te'ijal has a rippling burn mark across the far side of her face.

On the left side of the table, Edward sits closest to Mel, smiling and pointing to a nearby but different location from her. Sitting in front of him is Lydia, with a scowl on her face and a dainty teacup in her hand. A small silk purse is beside her on the bench.

On the right side of the table, Stella sits closest to Mel, both her arms at her side and smiling slightly. Ulf sits beside her, holding a book in one hand but directing his gaze at the map.

In the foreground of the picture is a stone window frame with blue flowers sprouting across it, framing the illustration as if the viewer was peering inside the room. End ID.]

#aveyond #drawin darwin

[quinnkdev]

Deleted that last post about the RPZine Maker affair.

Man, I'd just royally fucked that one up.

I kept the original post around in a .txt on my computer in order to be able to refer to it later, and re-reading it, it really was just me being an irresponsible failure of a writer.

I failed to communicate the idea I wanted to -the feeling I wanted to - and instead hurt a large amount of people for no good reason.

I'm sorry. I'll think twice as I write anything similar again. I was attacked, sure, but the way I tried to discredit people's hurt was also unacceptable.

Thank you to @malakhimsoft and @ashe-dreamthief for moving in to help de-escalate the situation.

Just to emphasise this again: That zine is fucking amazing. Get it. It's free and it's a strong 40+ pages of cool as hell art.

#Quinntrospection

[iztopher]

Sending you two free ⭐stars⭐ to talk at length about whichever fics you desire and one for rhyme and reason!

YESSS THANK U XZONI!!! i have a lot to talk abt with this fic so I am going to use all of the stars for it jldsk

overall thoughts - this fic was deliberately supposed to be kind of meta! I took some inspiration from New Quest, a series of short fics that essentially treats every playthrough of Aveyond as a timeloop, where in between the characters are aware they have to repeat the story over and over again. I liked the idea of treating each different playthrough and/or fanfic retelling of the game as a different iteration of the loop, and "fate" essentially being what the series has written into it as What Happens. this is all kinda background to Rhen's feelings about being the chosen one, but I explore it more in depth through the perspective of the Oracle in my fic for RPZine Maker!

perhaps one of my least favorite parts in Aveyond 1 is the "YOU'RE the chosen one, not me, Dameon!" part at the very end. As a kid, a girl being the chosen one to me (back when I first played Aveyond, so like, 2007, 2008) was everything to me, and seeing that be seemingly overriden for the sake of... a? last minute reveal? that goes absolutely no where and is never clarified/confirmed, or has its impact on Rhen or Dameon explored, felt so so cheap and frustrating. I tried to make some sense of the line and at the end of the day the option that makes the most sense to me while being most compelling to me, and, IMHO, being consistent with gameplay, is the idea that both Rhen and Dameon are both the chosen one, in that neither of them could save the world without the other helping them. If Rhen can't do it without Dameon, then Dameon is the chosen one, but if Dameon can't do it without Rhen, then Rhen is the chosen one. This is something I tried to lean into in combination with #1 by implying that technically all of the required party members are chosen - the world couldn't be saved without any of them. 3. I have such mixed feelings about Rhen becoming queen, in that I can enjoy it as the canon ending but I want it to be seen as her choosing her responsibility over her own happiness, and not this triumphant reward like the ending frames it as. I also hate that it involves Dameon in canon. But this was a gift fic, and I was pretty sure my recipient liked the Rhen as Queen ending as a good thing, so I challenged myself to find a way where I could find that to be an unabashedly Happy Ending for her. And in the end, what I came up with is the idea that Thais chose her as its hero/the chosen one, through its belief that the princess would come back and save them one day. I absolutely love running with the "Aveyond is fueled by people's belief in it" lore tidbit from Av2 and applying it to magic all across the series, and I thought the idea of a self-fulfilling prophecy in a like, positive, confidence, the love of a people for their hero/leader and the love of a hero for the world she saves, kind of way, was really compelling and would be enough to tug the bittersweet ending vibe I got from Rhen as queen from Mostly Bitter to actually mostly sweet! I wanted her to have a connection to Thais that we don't see in game, where her becoming queen is a culmination of that rather than being thrust into it.

#dear mel

[iztopher]

⭐ I haven't been up to date with your work lately (or the internet in general tbh), but feel free to take this as a go signal to infodump commentary about your latest projects. :D

AWWWH THANK U <333 (it is all good i am so behind on the archive myself OTL)

SO i am actually right now this moment finishing up a piece for the RPZine Maker! I wanted to write something that would cover the entire series, so I'm working on a piece through the Oracle's POV exploring my worldbuilding headcanons and her perspective on the heroes. it's been challenging but I'm really pleased with how it's shaping up and looking forward to being able to share it >:D

#dear mel