#good game well played

[vivi-scera]

okay fun silly question because these are my favorite types of stories but what are your guys' favorite pieces of media that require the audience to go in blind? usually the synopsis is a diversion of some sort or there's just some killer plot twist that changes things (like the genre) significantly.

#i'll go first: mystic messenger and invincible #doki doki literature club is also up there but i haven't played it myself #i honestly think mystic messenger is THE best example. not only does it change the genre but also the mechanics of the game/medium #even saying that there is a plot twist gives away the plot twist i want it to be that good #OH puella magi as well ofc

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Exclusive: Mad Cave Studios' Maverick launches a "Year One Box Set"

Exclusive: Mad Cave Studios' Maverick launches a "Year One Box Set". Limited to just 500 copies #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Since fall 2021, Mad Cave Studios’ Maverick imprint has offered engaging and authentic stories for those who think differently, are not afraid to be independent, and fight for who they truly are. Now, Maverick has collected its first five YA original graphic novels in one limited edition box set: Maverick Year One Box Set.  With titles that range from slice-of-life stories to urban fantasy and…

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#exclusive #featured #good game well played #graphic novel #graphic novels #in the shadow of the throne #mad cave studios #maverick #needle & thread #nightmare in savannah #world class

[kizzer55555]

DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter. 

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge. 

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game. 

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely). 

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

#DPxDC #dcxdp #Danny makes a card game to save the world. #Technically he worded the ritual so that they had to ‘beat’ him as those are the most powerful barriers and most reliable. #keys can just get lost or stolen (like the one to Pariah’s Coffin) #A riddle would be useless once someone figured out the answer. Like how no one takes the sphynx seriously anymore. #(Sorry Tuck. But it’s true). #And there is NO WAY Danny is just leaving a hole open for anyone to pass through. No thank you! #So…beating him. But it’s not like Danny wanted to fight so…he edited the ritual a TINY bit. Card games are good. Much less painful too. #Danny Tucker and Sam made the most complicated card game they could imagine. #It’s based on their strategies for fighting ghosts. Capturing them in thermoses. And MUCH based on a on field battle strategy. #It often requires spontaneous thinking on the spot. So Danny? In his ELEMNT. It doubles as practice for his actual ghost battles too. #They had SO much fun making this. #Sam added an entire series of plant cards that act as traps and healing ointments and duds that just take up the field. #Tucker added legitimate hyroglyphics combined with Latin as well as English and ghost speak. #Yes. You actually have to speak that language to play. With proper pronunciation. (Amity Parker’s think the three are talking gibberish.) #I headcanon Sam and Tucker are fluent in Ghost. #Constantine WILL figure this game out SO HELP HIM! #Some of the cards also have combinations related to constellations either in name or placement on the board. #By the way the board is based on a Hexagonal summoning circle with Rhunes along the edges #And the placement of the cards on the board and on what rhune MATTERS. #Also the cards move disintegrate and have certain abilities. Think of Harry Potter Wizard Chess. #But they are normal when Danny plays at school. This is just for ✨effect✨ Against invaders. #Danny faces multiple opponents. He also halts alien invasions. #While Danny COULD stop crime on earth he’s not sure how to fight a normal human and hold back so he sticks to ghosts. #The Justice league are going crazy trying to figure out who this entity is and after deep research are convinced this is some sort of #Ancient being who has protected earth for millenia. They have paintings on ruins and everything. #Danny is not aware they think this. #Raven starts praying to Danny as if he is a god and wrangles the other Teen Titans into doing so as well. Danny is still unaware of this. #Danny is not a King or an ancient. Just a very VERY strong ghost.

[murderspice]

aaa games: we have some of the most CUTTING EDGE character customization options for you!! you can't make them fat tho, only cause we'd have to design more clothing models and adjust the animation for them and we just don't have the resources for that haha you understand right. that's totally the only reason we don't let you do that. anyways which of these 6 cocks would you like your character to have

#im noticing a pattern sfdjkfsdjkl #this isn't about just one game in particular but i did just start bg3 so that one's fresh in my mind #cyberpunk2077 also did it #please don't start a debate on this silly vent post im begging you im just a lil guy #fatphobia #aaa games #aaa game industry #getting to choose the genitals is all well and good but like. priorities maybe? #anyway this has been my ted talk. back to playing abs mcgee we go

[eliseliedl]

Little Goody Two Shoes Coming in October 31st 🎃

#this is gonna be reposted to oblivion but oh well #little goody two shoes #gamingedit #rpg maker #horror rpg maker #indieedit #elise #horror rpg maker games #creaciones #please play this game and also Pocket Mirror <3 #astralshift is doing such a good job i'm speechless #1k

[dragondawdles]

did an art sprint challenge thing tonight have a sub-2 hour deku link

#legend of zelda #loz #tatl #link #link mm #majoras mask #young link #deku link #dragon doodles #id in alt #tried to capture that epic and goated n64 swag #but tatl's a bristly little thing as a treat #did this for the lu server sprint prompts they're doing this week for their anniversary but I'm really happy with it actually so I share :] #sorry for no art lately btw... had a markedly Bad start to the year and it kinda knocked me off the art game (I may elaborate later) #but I think this was a good piece for that! played it fast and loose and a little weird and it worked pretty well actually #more art's always 'a cookin. slowly but surely

[emry-stars-art]

Find the mer au masterpost here 💕

#jellyNeil is getting SO CLOSE to the breakthrough of starting to understand speech #but for now. it’s doing it’s best #so here is where we #playing with the timelineeeeeee #does sharkdrew meet jellyNeil before or after finning?? #kinda breaks my heart to imagine jellyNeil trying desperately with its newly burgeoning intelligence to understand what happened #why the shark can’t swim as well anymore and why he seems hurt and why he’s so much more angry #where the fin went #why the shark won’t let Neil touch the place the fin used to be #Neil realizing oh. something horrific happened #which heartbreak USUALLY means I should add it. we suffer together #okay byeeeee have a good day #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #neil josten #andrew minyard #oops all mers au #sharkdrew #jellyneil #jellyfish #digital #chibi

[turtleblogatlast]

My favorite reading of Leo’s “indubitably” tell is that it’s not actually a tell, and Leo just plays it up as one so he doesn’t get called out when he really wants to hide something.

Especially since throughout the series we see him lie and trick multiple times without saying the word once.

I like to think that one time when they were kids Leo happened to learn the word “indubitably” and because he tends to repeat new words he learns, he ended up using it at the same time as he was caught lying. He uses the word again later in another lie, and that’s where the association comes from.

OR- counter argument: “indubitably” is one of his tells, but only for unimportant things, especially when said to family. Long plays, particularly ones with villains, are in a different category in his head.

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #bro said ‘oh everyone thinks that’s a tell…well I won’t stop them then 💅’ #lil schemer #absolutely a one off gag type of thing but fun to take further #listen my boy is a lil manipulative and u know what he’s so valid for it #dude pulled off the Lair Games 4D chess play like it was nothing he 100% knows what to do to get people to believe what he says and does #actually while we’re down here can we take a moment to recognize how good a planner he is as well #because in many unhappy returns when he’s setting up he and splinters battle #he (on the SPOT) decides to incorporate Big Mama’s guards into the fight as well…because he came up with a plan to use them on the kraken #like please that’s so???? nah I don’t think I’ll ever get over that

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! This question came up when I had family visiting, and I am genuinely unsure of how common this is

#the person behind the yarn #I always have a deck of cards in any bag I carry with me #before I had a purse it was in my yarn project bag #before that in my school backpack #now that I have to take a purse when I leave the house for carrying emergency meds reasons #I have a deck of cards in there in case I'm ever bored somewhere and want to pass the time #and I was out with family and pulled out a deck of cards and they were very surprised #I do want to look up the instructions for a few more two or three player card games though #I mostly default to playing Speed and that's kinda unfair to play with kids #well okay maybe not unfair in general but A. I am very very good at that game* and B. the kidlet I was playing with was not familiar #with how the facecard numbers work #so I had to slow down a lot #(*when I had the deck of cards in high school Speed was usually what I played and I got a LOT of practice lol)

[sygneth]

I played Sherlock Holmes The Awakened (finallyyyy) and what can I say. Had to update the list of my favourite Sherlocks.

Granda Holmes, Frogwares Holmes, ACD Holmes (don't look at the order here, it's just for composition, ACD one is still my #1)

#my art #sherlock holmes #sherlock holmes fanart #granada holmes #frogwares holmes #acd holmes #i loooooved the game #i regret not doing a good research and not playing chapter one first #but well i am planning to make up for that as soon as it's on sale again #because my stupid ass only saw that it was on sale yesterday 3 minutes after it ended -.- #ANYWAY it's such a good game and so well made ahhhhh #my cthulhu hype is back

[dynjir]

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

#dynart #super mario rpg #smrpg #legend of the seven stars #HELL #YEAH #GOD what a good month #this game was my very first RPG I've ever played #and it is getting such a beautiful remake ;-; #and!! #I can finally draw geno pretty well now!! #I am so normal about this you guys UGH #I am so full of inspiration lately #watch me be in 5 different fandoms at once

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Preview: Good Game, Well Played

Good Game, Well Played preview. Sienna reflects on her time working at a local video game store as she must say goodbye to one of the people she called family #comics #comicbooks

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#good game well played #graphic novel #graphic novels #justin birch #katherine lobo #mad cave studios #maverick #rachael smith

[autumnal-rains]

Tell the Two Fingers, That Ranni the Witch cometh, to rend thy flesh

#ranni the witch #fanart #ranni #lunar princess ranni #elden ring #elden ring fanart #my art #yes i have not played elden ring #(because i am not good at video games) #but i love ranni. she's the best #she's done no wrong. aside from the murders #(including the murders) #funkiest demigod. slew her own body #slew her stepbro (godwyn) primarily to get back at her stepmom #(or well that's my interpretation of it) #anyway fallen angel by alexandre cabanel stays winning for drama reference

[front-facing-pokemon]

#spheal #i wish i could post circular images on tumblr. because this one is deserving of a fully circular PNG. i could technically just take a #regular square image and then make the edges transparent to make it *effectively* a circle‚ but like… would that appeal? #if that would appeal then i'll do it. i don't think it would be *too* prohibitively hard. i would be willing to make an addendum #with a circular transparent image of spheal staring at the screen if enough of you want it. either way #this guy rolls everywhere and i think tumblr is gonna like that. i feel like this is gonna end up being a well-liked pokémon amongst tumblr #as in. i feel like. it already is. because. of how it is. i just don't know bc spheal isn't like. one of my favorites #it's cute don't get me wrong but it's just not one i think about all the time. it's one that i'll like if prompted but not unprompted #i'm gonna stop before i dig myself into a hole. i beat totk finally. it was very good and i honestly had way way more fun with it than i did #with botw. i have my criticisms obviously. it's not perfect it's not pmd. but it was very good. and now i've moved onto the next game in my #backlog. which is very long but i'm steadily working through it. hopefully i can get it done before i graduate this december and stop having #any time for the rest of my life ever forever to play video games. dreading that day. but uh #until then i will game. and hang out with my friends. and go on tumblr. and do all these things i like to do. until i no longer can #wow this got depressing i'm gonna Stop here. enjoy spheal

[obsob]

cat parade

#mine #original #hehe hello!! hvent drawn in a while!! #i made some. changes to how i draw n im enjoying it!! also to my colouring techniques as well hehe #also bought a diff sketchbook n this paper is suiting me much better i think #im so. sleepy. i meant to take yesterday off but instead i. did this. so today i will rest!! #i will read.....n play viddy game ....huhuheuee #n also crochet...i ran out of wool with one line to go on one of my patches OUGH #ookay..sleepy. time for rest. hope everyone had a good day!! #oh also happy halloween sdkjbkg i. completely forgot

[sysig]

Ellen McLain’s commentary from my trivia playthrough

#She's so cute <3 #WPP #Portal #Ellen McLain #If you haven't played through the audio commentary I would Absolutely recommend it it is So fun #I clicked out of curiosity - kind of just expecting like a movie's audio commentary y'know? Like a video that highlighted specific scenes #No it's just the whole game again but with trivia pop-ups! I love that!! #It reminded me so much of like trivia track or the pop up fun facts from special editions of movies I would watch as a kid #But you can play through them!! You have to click on them and they spin! I love that!!! #I always love hearing the design and development process - fascinating how the playtesters reacted to this new game! #We take it for granted now but yeah I imagine it would've been very confusing at the time #And I was like ''Well it was such a small team and Ms. McLain was such a large part of it - surely she'll have a few bubbles?'' #She does lol - as soon as I got to her first one (it was a slow burn! They buried the lead with her lol I'm already invested!) I had to go #I saved-quit the game out of sheer excitement and giddiness lol I had to sleep on it before I was ready to come back #It is so cool to hear her natural voice ah <3 And the kinds of direction she was given! Other bubbles also talk about her vocal direction :) #Very cool! I wonder what TTS they used for reference :0 #But to hear her real laugh without the audio processing over and and she still sounds like GLaDOS! I mean of course she does but just jfdksl #That's /her/ laugh! They share a laugh! It's a very similar laugh!! #Not to mention her talking about wanting to play and just fdskalfd they clearly did such a good job with her performance and ahhh #It's too cute it's all too cute sharing a room with GLaDOS while her voice actor talks about making a cake to share with her friends stopppp #I am so enamoured <3 #I also took a bunch of screenshots of GLaDOS still shit-talking while she was being destroyed lol #Actually beat the ending in one try this time :P I ran out of time the last time pfft #But now I've beaten it twice in as many days :D Although I did start it the first time several days ago - but I beat it again quickly! #Has me all the more itching to replay 2 ♪ #WPVG