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gamedevhellhole · 2 years

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okay, okay now what if I ACTUALLY make a Nitrome Must Die fan comic???

the ms paint esque medium mix about shady business and distant dreams, all achieved in the coldest ways possible???

well except some elements of mechanically produced magic... but uhhh we might wanna leave it to the still developing worldbuilding???

okay fine but what's with the hustle? well it's a little passion project of mine that will revolve around made up postcanon events of NMD because that open ending can be interpreted in so many ways

yeah that emo 100th game anniversary Nitrome game uh huh

here's de synopsis: our two (2) protags are angsty fellow kids (sorta) planning on opening up a game studio of their own. why did they decide to do this – only the true OGs know /hj???

the main characters are very stupid! unemployed mfs from cheap apartments! except their supposed net worths are definitely not cheap. A and J do have quite a dark story behind of course, but nah, nah they are not traumatised by bit, quite the opposite here they're the ones that traumatize.

and so they try to start their ways out of spite! here's the catch: their puny souls can be fueled by anger and hate only, so they have to pick up some unhealthy hobbies to keep their inspiration afloat. (spoiler: cartoonish violence. exclusively. maybe mafia ca-chings)

they have no talent, they have no sheer will and any actual goals in life, but one specific thing to do, like again, out of spite.

however eventually this will quickly shift solve into a maniacal production phase which pushes them forward in game-making industry. (idk much about further stuff tbh... it's the synopsis)

the perfect result would be achieved if we make it really REALLY really close to the original source. while the source itself really doesn't show the characters' true personality enough... well I sorta strive to make all the style the writing and everything both as canon and as adapted to modern stuff as pozbl.

and yeah the artstyle?? like emo 00s cartoons sort of? you know the ones? i'm having a crisis in this field it's either making it funky as heck or not making it at all kind of stance.

ohh the world they live in is a quite an interesting place. but actually not really. generic edgy big city that has a charm I've yet to practice my writing and drawing skills for.

08 Mar 2024 update:

making it public so any fellow tumblr nitromians get another dose of nmd fan content

(because to be honest i can't get rid of the terrible hyperfixation i got on NMD alone until i do something big for it, then i'll do awesome stuff for other nitrome masterpieces after that)

this post here is not a teaser; maybe just a prompt, and so far it's a little reminder (for me it's been a prompt for a year... argh help)

the style picking is still ongoing, the script is planned yet not properly written, like for example idk what other characters to add if they're not canon to the original universe

the designs might just might get released here in a few months or so

aaand the planned page amount?? idunnow... prob 50-55 by default it needs to have a finished plot.

with this being a FAN project i take inspos from other comics that use canon characters for one's own plot (this exact genre of resurrecting the unused characters) and honestly they drove me to this haha

along with one comment under that nmd trailer vid on youtube with the same idea that got 8 likes by now.

oh it got 10 already!!! (i couldn't get in contact with the OP sadly)

so yep... now it's a semi public post xd. wait not or wait wait wait cause I still try. btw happy women's day <3

#nitrome must die #nitrome #fan comic #rant post #brainstorming #mostly #like #oh dear #that's a big post here oh boy #im hyperfixating so hard rn

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rockandroobuckaroll · 3 years

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Shane has such a cartoony face he's perfect to practice with.

#I'm having an artstyle crisis and I'm trying to change it up a bit #Shane's weirdly long face is helping in the nicest way possible #he has a good face #also please ignore the fact its not good i have not drawing traditionally in many moons #i forgot what its like not to have an undo button haha #that and im left handed so SMUDGING IS A THING AGAIN #shane madej #my art #also i have attempted to draw Ryan but it's very hard to make him look like Ryan #the boy has a very specific face but its also hardly exaggerated for cartoony styles unlike Shane #shane is just long face and slavic eyes and there ya go haha

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oriocookie · 3 years

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games ive been playing bc im a Gaymer™ (and some thoughts on them)

most recent update: october 20, 2022 added unpacking!!

games i’ve finished are above the cut, games i’m still in progress on are below so any trigger warnings on those are incomplete. please let me know if i missed any TWs on the completed games, and recommend some to me in the notes! if you need to know about a specific trigger for a specific game, send an ask/a dm/comment on this post! i gotchu!

TWs and commentary may contain spoilers. read at your own risk!

- What Remains Of Edith Finch (completed)

played on xbox

beautiful game

it’s well done and most textures are fucking flawlessly lit

my only issue is there are things that don’t come back that feel like they maybe should???

like, i was dicking around in front of the garage door before i went in on like my 3rd replay, trying to find things to look at that i missed the first few times, and then something clattered inside the garage and edith said “i heard something moving around inside the garage”

and like. holy shit?? holy shit. when i went in to look around there was nothing that had fallen over and nobody inside so uhhhh??

i Get that it’s a clever thing to make you go inside the garage.

i know.

but Still.

anyway wonderful game and its p short so aspiring streamers, this one is for you! its abt an hour nd a half/two hours worth of gameplay

TWs: death, grief, blood visuals, gun visuals, birth visuals(?? this one is more of a just in case), meds, alchohol, possible suicide (there’s no way to Know)

- Night In The Woods (completed)

played on xbox

this game is one of my favorites of all time

the characters are likable, the dialogue’s funny, the art style is SO damn cute, it has all these fun minigames, openly queer characters, catchy songs, a bit that might give you an extistential crisis, the works!!

it’s a really good game, my issue is there’s really no way to get everything.

you will Always miss something

the gameplay took me 12 hours to complete and i had watched playthroughs before so it’s a LONG game

but this is so high on the reccommended list

TWs: death, cultish behavior, christianity (this game is super cool about it tho, the pastor is a woman and she’s very “no matter what people believe in, i will help them”. yknow. like Actual christians), vomit, knives, derealization, depersonalization

- Knights and Bikes (completed)

played on xbox

this game is hella cute and it’s good to play with a friend! i played it once on my own and i’m currently playing it again with my sibling.

an issue with the multiplayer function is that it doesn’t splitscreen, once my sibling got stuck and we couldn’t progress onwards because the game wouldn’t let me walk too far away from her. makes sense i guess

the storyline is so cute and it reminds me of night in the woods(see above) someone in the comments of this post recommended it to me so💜💜💜 thank you.

all the game mechanics and race minigames are so good 10/10.

the artstyle? WONDERFUL. melza and nessie have the cutest little faces. i have a older sibling problem so they are now my younger siblings. i have adopted them.

captain honkers is my siblings favorite and she insists on stopping whatever plot is going on in order to feed and pet the goose.

nessie and melza are written like real kids and i applaud the devs and writers for that.

TWS: money issues, possession, ghosts, cuts and bruises that are kinda graphic but not that bad

look at this book i found!! it’s got cute art and everything!!! it’s a retelling of the story which i understand is not some people’s thing but honestly it’s great so far!

- Slime Rancher (story complete)

played on xbox

literally whoever developed this game went “so how cute can i make this” and then absolutely SMASHED that limit

i havent even finished the game yet but it’s adorable

my problem is how EASY it is to fall into the ocean and how confusing the map is

i keep getting lost so i wish i could put like,,,markers on the map?? or have the map tell me what slimes are in what region??

idk maybe i’m just dumb but i am very lost all of the time while playing this game

also the soundtrack is impeccable and it’s a very good game for chill streams

hey hi update i’ve finished the story part of the game. it ripped out my heart and stomped on it then wrapped it up in a pretty bow and gave it back to me. wtf.

TWs: there are monsters that try to eat you but you can opt out of having those spawn, flashing(dont stand too close to plort or food deposits if this is an issue for you! the little burst of light when you put something in tends to strobe!!!)

- Firewatch (complete)

played on pc

this game is absolutely hilarious

and beautiful!! its not necessarily realistic but everything has a style to it that makes my little gamer heart happy. i set a screenshot i took as my pc background and it looks very pretty

the music also really makes the game. it hardly ever shows up but when it does you notice!

everything is voice acted by the way, which sets up the game very well! i never once felt like they were reading from a script, and it made me laugh a ton, even when i was pretty scared.

this is kind of an extension to the TW list but if you struggle with paranoia and feelings of being watched, don’t play this game!! it relies very heavily on that mechanic to make you scared, which is good for horror but bad for people who deal with that every day of their lives. please be careful!

TWs: dementia, paranoia, death, animal death, corpses, cheating on a spouse (if you choose the right dialogue), fires, (brief) abuse mention

-emily is away (two storylines complete)

played on pc

honestly? not a huge fan of this one.

storyline 1: i chose to like. not stay talking to emily? it ended at 2006 if that makes a difference.

the entire game was just me going “so what is the most neurotypical answer i could give right now”

i like movement games so the solely text based game was Not as fun for me.

but whatever

ill probably play again and find out why everyone Really likes this game so much

okay storyline 2: i chose all the nastiest answers

wow shes not dating brad shes dating travis. weird.

also every time i insult her music taste i die a little inside thats so Mean

but its for resarch

i feel so BAD being mean to her wtf :((((

alright thats over and now i feel like a dick. thats enough emily for tonight i think

TWs: romantic breakup

-pikuniku(complete)

played on xbox

ever wanted to play a game where youre a jellybean with legs fighting against capitalism?

thats this

need a friend to take down the evil Sunshine Co.? its co-op! live your dreams of toppling capitalism with your best friend by your side

its pretty fun! if you like to have everything explained to you then this probably isnt right for you but thats ok

its a cute cartoonish style, very simplistic. like a less detailed night in the woods or knights and bikes! and yall know thats my JAM

lots of little side quests to do so enjoy running around the open world doing whatever the hell you want

TWs: at the very beginning the villagers are very prejudiced and scared of you, since youre a different species then the rest of them

-unpacking(complete)

played on xbox

ok this was cute

my little sister begged me to get it so she could watch me play it, since the youtube videos she was watching weren’t getting uploaded to youtube kids fast enough.

very soothing, i put on a youtube playlist as i was unpacking this persons houses throughout their lifetime and it was calming but also very rattling especially the college chapter (since thats a thing for me soon at the time of writing this)

the ending couple chapters i was like trying to puzzle together if the persons lover was a girl or not and results inconclusive, could be a guy very comfortable in his masculinity

ok while checking some stuff for the tws i figured out that its a girl!! yay wlw lets go

TWs: theres a chapter, chapter 2010, that sorta seems like domestic violence? the infamous diploma-under-the-bed chapter, where you can’t put basically any of your stuff anywhere, and after this chapter, lots of the characters things are damaged or missing, as if there was a big fight. could be reading way too much into it tho

- Spiritfarer (incomplete)

played on xbox

this game. this game. ive seen Nobody talk about it but it’s so cute!!

stella, the player character is ADORABLE, she’s so damn happy to be doing that job and hanging out with her friends!

its so cute her animations are my favorite thing!!

this game tackles grief and loss, mourning, death, and fear with stella and her cat, dandelion

its such a cute game and its based in greek mythology, you just get to steer a ship around and help out lost souls!!

also an adorable game for chill streams

TWs: death, watching loved ones die (heavily implied stella took care of her best friend in her last moments), ghosts, jellyfish(this isnt a typical tw but they feature prominently as someone’s greatest fear in the game so), storms

-Raji: An Ancient Epic (incomplete)

played on xbox

okay i’m not even out of the training stage yet and this game is a FUCKING DELIGHT.

music? 10/10. story? 100/10. graphics? 1000000000000/10.

the cutscenes are all done in this amazing puppetry style and aaaa!!!

if there is one game on this list i really want you to play, it’s raji.

it’s all about hindu mythology, it’s so so easy to follow along(even for me, who admittedly doesn’t know too much about most religions) and i adore it.

listen go download raji right now. i will fucking WAIT. just. please.

it deserves a lot of love and support

TWs: demons

- Journey To The Savage Planet (incomplete)

played on xbox

okay this one is significantly less wholesome than most of the ones here

i have maybe an hour put into this game?? and there have been 3 drug jokes, 4 different swear words, a heavy implication that you are a slave for capitalistic labor, and something that i’m like 90% certain was a sex joke.

so yeah

t’s a pretty game, but honestly it’s really just a horror game disguised as a survival game

the entire time i’m exploring i just keep singing “🎵i hate souuuuunddddsss, if i round this corner and hear a sound i will dieeeee, all sounds can shut up forever please and thank youuuuuu🎵”

so if that doesnt give you an example of what my mental state is playing this game idk what will

TWs: uh everything listed above, and also terrifying flying squid

- Oxenfree(incomplete)

played on xbox

i’ve watched a play through of this one already but shhhhhhh we don’t talk about that (also its not like i remember what happens anyway)

anyway i LOVE the art style.

it’s like a more simplistic version of night in the woods and y’all know that game is my Jam.

can you all tell gravity falls is my bread and butter because all my favorite games are about creepy towns and weird creatures

i’m not far into it and so far my only drawback is the clunky dialogue.

it just. it sounds Off. i don’t know how else to put it.

i like the radio function a whole lot though

plus the concept is sick as hell it’s literally the dialogue as the only thing holding this game back and not even by that much!!

TWs: grief? it’s been a while since i played i need to head back

- Hollow Knight (incomplete)

played on xbox

i’m honestly not sure about this one.

i’m notoriously bad at platforming games, plus i have no idea the story of hollow knight.

ive played for about 5 hours and i have zero progress.

this game is one that i would only reccommend to people who Know that they’re good at platformers and also are good at remembering where theyre going.

i’m still playing this one and struggling

TWs: all the npcs look like cartoonized bugs, and you have to fight your own spirit whenever you die

- Outer Wilds (incomplete)

played on xbox

this game is goooood.

it’s hard to do, but it’s a space exploration game and it’s Hella fun.

you do have to respawn alllll the way back at your starting planet and it basically rips away any progress you made, which makes sense for the story but damn it’s annoying.

the aliens are cute tho

and the soundtrack is still the only game soundtrack i’ve actually spent money on, because it’s good!!

if you do decide to play this, i wish you luck!!

TWs: none?? none i think??

- Unraveled (incomplete)

played on xbox

i’m so ashamed of this game.

it’s the cutest, most cottagecore-y game in the fucking World, and i rage-quit it

i fucking rage quit unraveled

this is my greatest shame

i’m actually gonna go look up a playthrough as soon as i’m done, because i want to see the rest of this game.

i’m stuck on like stage 3

anyway its a good game it’s just another platformer which my fingers do not appreciate

TWs: death, dementia, being alone???

#what remains of edith finch #night in the woods #slime rancher #spiritfarer #journey to the savage planet #hollow knight #outer wilds #unraveled #knights and bikes #games #video games #game development #raji: an ancient epic #oxenfree #firewatch #emily is away #pikuniku #unpacking #ori games

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kagemajaya · 4 years

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Kakushigoto - On the midlife crisis of an artist

Spring 2020, Ajia-Do - 5/10

Hime has put the fear of God in Gotou-sensei once again. Kakushigoto was one of the two shows I was most hype for in Spring, and with its first episode my hype was still in place. I expected another installment of good old Kumeta humor, with a lot of manga industry references and self-deprecation sprinkled on top. However, as the season progressed, I was faced with a show that didn’t quite know what it wanted to be. The dark humor was there intermittently but didn’t have enough of a presence to pull off the few jokes it attempted. The interesting tidbits about the manga industry were fun to learn when included, but despite the story being about a mangaka and how he tries to hide his job from his daughter, we didn’t really learn a whole lot. Self-deprecation was mostly in the form of how Gotou-sensei saw his daughter - his daughter was his whole world, to the level that everything he did was dictated by her and what he thought would be good for her.

The extremity of this could have been comedic if the tone of the show actually had decided on being fully comedic. Instead, it was a light-hearted slice of life, where not much of interest happened throughout the first 11 episodes of the story. It relied on being funny but failed most of the time, only to reveal Kumeta Kouji as an artist who was now too much of an adult with normal adult worries and adult interests to actually pull off being interesting- the change of topic from his previous stories to a dad-daughter pair already being a red flag. The experience reminded me of the time The Offspring put out a punk album in their 40s, singing about their life as parents. The album was not bad, but it was a bit ridiculous - that’s not the soul of punk after all. Maybe it was time they did other kinds of music.

A great taste of the behind the scenes of the manga world and Kumeta’s self-deprecating humor - and perhaps a sad forecast?

Kumeta Kouji’s brand of humor is one I feel is similar to punk music in this regard. It requires the whimsical childishness of an artist. The cheekiness to not care about who gets offended by your jokes and being able to create an absurd universe that barely holds within its own rules. His first work which he wrote in his early 20s, Katte ni Kaizou, is a pure and unbridled example of that. Its humor sucks for (likely) anyone other than teenage boys but it’s unapologetic and dirty and crazy. At the beginning of the journey, he is too immature as the anime continues, both the artstyle and the humor gradually changes and comes closer to what we know him best for: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. SZS is witty, funny, sometimes sweet, but most of the time doesn’t bother, wacky and has nothing to do with reality beyond the biting remarks it makes about society. It uses the medium to its fullest, with beautiful outfit designs, experimental voice acting sequences, a quirky cast that is perfect at being a mouthpiece for his observations, but doesn’t aim to be more. Now, in his late 40s and early 50s however, he seems to have gone down the maturation rabbit hole a bit too much.

Kakushigoto’s cast doesn’t fit in a slow paced slice of life because they are still the quirky characters of a wacky comedy but they are trying to tell an emotional story instead. It’s difficult to accept them as tools to tell jokes because the structure of the narrative calls for characters who have depth. The pace itself however could easily be a joke. After 11 episodes of nothing happening, the last episode packed in so much that I didn’t quite know how to digest all that. It was involving and all, unlike the rest of the show, but it could have been told over half a cour rather than in one episode. I will not dwell too much on the eyerolly moments because at least I wasn’t bored, and I’ll take that as a win.

Kakushigoto won’t stay with me as a special story in its own right. I’m not a fan of family stories, and a father loving his own daughter is not an interesting story if it’s not embellished with other details. What Kakushigoto managed to do however, is continuing the saga of Kumeta Kouji. I love figuring out creators from their work if their work embodies enough of their vision. Kumeta certainly has a vision and a style, and it’s a treat seeing it change over the years, whether I enjoy the shows themselves or not. From his youth to young adulthood to middle age, the shows together tell a good story of who he is as an artist and perhaps partially as a person. I’m looking forward to watching Joshiraku, the last of his manga that have been adapted into anime to have a full picture. And I heartily recommend Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei to everyone (and maybe even Katte ni Kaizou if you like the man himself.)

Here’s hoping for an actual midlife crisis for Kumeta to produce another brilliant work for us - here here!

#anime #Seasonal anime #series review #anime review #kakushigoto #kumeta kouji #katte ni kaizou #sayonara zetsubou sensei #anime rec

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