#layered game?

[stil-lindigo]

prodigal son.

a sort of epilogue for God of War Ragnarok, since I miss these two so much.

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#these two occupy so much of my brain space and will continue to do so forever more #the way cory barlog managed to transform kratos from your standard killing machine into a layered loving father #whose character is centered around bettering yourself for the sake of your children #absolutely magical #and ragnarok #good god that game made me cry so many times #i miss kratos and atreus so much #and apparently ragnarok was the last of the norse games? #so this is how i deal #i give myself closure by manifesting it into existence #they have great stew btw #kratos atreus and mimir #two dads and their teenage son #god of war #ragnarok #gow ragnarok #kratos #atreus #mimir #comic art #i have so many feelings ugh #thank you for reading #stillindigo art

[ineed-to-sleep]

Blacked out in front of my tablet and woke up with sketches of my Touchstarved mc + Kuras my beloved. woops

#I found out dr. kuras is 6'6 I said hold on lemme get a stool so I can climb this man #touchstarved #touchstarved game #touchstarved kuras #kuras #sleepyscribble #oc.emma #my mc is meant to be a self insert but also like. I wanted to come up w a design and character arc and everything jkvkvk #so I ended up basing her on my personality/looks but taking her into a direction that would fit the game #she's like. me but 'characterized' and a bit exaggerated for the sake of being a character yk #the way she turned out is that she's basically a friendly happy go lucky mage who laughs at her own misery but hides #a deep layer of self loathing underneath all that bc of her curse #having been cursed all her life she believes she's a monster and the sunny personality is a way for her to 'make up for it' #but at the same time she feels like a farse. like she's only luring ppl in to an inevitable demise #and she thinks she's selfish bc despite knowing the danger she poses she still goes out there and puts herself among ppl #bc she craves human connection. even tho she feels guilty for 'indulging' in it #anyway I love the cursed mc concept in this game <3 it's been really interesting to think abt how that would affect someone #also I kept her physical features looking pretty much like mine #bc I wanted to draw myself in a cute way. teehee #but the clothing I was basically thinking like. early game simple clothing that she didn't rlly pick for herself #and maybe later I can have an updated design w something she would actually pick for herself

[zzoupz]

condemnation of memory

#something idk how to put into words.. feel free to interpret how you want #this was v experimental and mostly done on 1 layer lol #faith the unholy trinity #faith game #john ward #gary miller #garyjohn #<- smiles. #zoup art

[kaisumisucreations]

did anyone order a metric fuckton of ghost holow nite

obsessed with the skin for rw actually, feat. @lightosoul

ghost deserves to have swag wings

#hollow knight #hollow knight ghost #hollow knight game #little ghost #the knight #rain world #rain world game #slugcat #art #fanart #drawing #doodles #kaisucreations #i originally drew all of them on one big canvas #(and reached the layer limit on sai lol) #but i split them up into categories for easier viewing #thats why the formatting may seem a bit odd with the empty spaces #anyway ghost is so easy and fun to draw its great #i am not immune to ghost is cute propaganda

[obsob]

autism 2 autism communication

#mine #original #orange overlay pink multiply layer my beloved #what hve i done today.....done some face studies!! very helpful!! #i am . beginning...to find.....a way of drawing that feels comfy to me...ouh #i will hopefully do some portfolio drawing tomorrow hehe #im going to re do my website...how it is now is. ugly. i wouldnt hire me #what else is going on...ive ordered some wool bc i hve learnt how to KNIT #im so alarmed. im going to attempt to make a cardigan i am so deeply alarmed #i need to exercise and have a bath. mmm. i will play vid game and then chores and then exercise and then eat and then bath #hve a good evening my friends

[peevishpants]

ad astra abyssosque

#OPEN THE DOOR. STOP ... HAVING IT BE CLOSED. #this is about genshin #genshin impact #genshin fanart #traveller #celestia #i only ever play at night i havent seen the daytime Start Game Screen for months #weiwei art #fanart #gi traveler #once again i merge all my layers too early and then regret it

[ghoulish-art-tendencies]

I was watching dnp in 2017 and it inspired me to make this piece. I have a lot of little references from 2011-2024 and I spent way too long on this piece but I really like how it turned out and I hope you do too!

#dan and phil #dnp #dan howell #phil lester #daniel howell #amazingphil #phanart #fanart #dnpg #dapg #dan and phil games #danandphil #dnpgames #dapgames #art #digital art #digital artist #if your wondering i spent 7h 25m on the piece and used 88 layers #i spent all last night and today working on ig #it*

[akl-sketch]

Excuse me, waiter? Sorry, it just seems like there’s a lot of blood in my dating simulator.

This might be my most ambitious project yet! I’ve been working on it since February and it’s finally done! I tried to mimic The Arcana the best I could - I am amazed by that original style. It’s so beautiful and clean and Dana Rune, Nikolai Ladizinsky, and Veronica Lieske created so many illustrations that are decadent as a chocolate fountain. I also found the original font and altered it slightly to make it feel a smidge more stylistically cohesive.

I chose the Shadowlands camp as a setting since it seems like that tends to be the relationship solidifying set for a lot of these characters. Who’s your go-to choice?

#art #illustration #my art #drawing #digital art #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #gale dekarios #astarion ancunin #wyll ravengard #shadowheart #lae'zel #karlach #the arcana #the arcana game #i love them all #shadowlands #dating sim #dating simulator #bg3 romance #247 layers #we made it fam #baldur’s date #karlach cliffgate

[fawningbruises]

Demon Prince of the Gloom

(TOTK AU: if Link had received Ganondorf's arm instead of Rauru's)

#totk #tears of the kingdom #totk link #gloom hands #gloom spawn #totk au #i've been wanting to draw this basically since starting the game #link struggling against the corruption while also controlling gloom spawn with his arm is just endlessly fascinating to me #also being so viscerally tied to ganondorf would've added a really intense layer of connection to all their confrontations #my art

[sea-buns]

I have never wanted an uncut episode of Game Changer more than I do for Bingo

#theres just so many layers #and so many little bits #i need that bts video to be an hour long istg #dropout #dropout tv #game changer

[helloyesamwoman]

"You were beautiful. Your antenna outstretched, piercing the heavens and reaching to god. Even if you fell eventually, you were salvation. You were the saving grace to humanity being the higher life form of them all. You shall be reborn. And from those ashes you will finally get your well deserved death."

#digital arwork #digital drawing #fanart #ultrakill #digital art #ultrakill fanart #indie game fanart #ultrakill earthmover #earthmover #ultrakill layer 7 #ultrakill violence #ultrakill spoilers #ultrakill violence spoilers #red and black #robot art #robotics #robot #mecha art #scifi art #mecha #giant monsters #firey art #fire rain #gigantic #massive #violence #red art #red aesthetic #apocolyptic #war without reason

[savabbba]

just finished this after MONTHS!!!

#the arcana #the arcana game #asra alnazar #muriel #muriel of the kokhuri #the arcana asra #the arcana muriel #i flattened the image and then accidentally saved the file by instinct so now all the individual layers are gone lol

[dragonpropaganda]

The Architecture of Rain World: Layers of History

A major theme in Rain World's world design that often goes overlooked is the theme of, as James Primate, the level designer, composer and writer calls it, "Layers of History." This is about how the places in the game feel lived-in, and as though they have been built over each other. Here's what he said on the matter as far back as 2014!

The best example of this is Subterranean, the final area of the base game and a climax of the theme. Subterranean is pretty cleanly slpit vertically, there's the modern subway built over the ancient ruins, which are themselves built over the primordial ruins of the depths. Piercing through these layers is Filtration System, a high tech intrusion that cuts through the ground and visibly drills through the ceiling of the depths.

Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets, the friendly local ghost, tells the player of the "bones of forgotten civilisations, heaped like so many sticks," highlighting this theme of layering as one of the first impressions the player gets of Subterranean. Barely minutes later, the player enters the room SB_H02, where the modern train lines crumble away into a cavern filled with older ruins, which themselves are invaded by the head machines seen prior in outskirts and farm arrays, some of which appear to have been installed destructively into the ruins, some breaking through floors.

These layers flow into each other, highlighting each other's decrepit state.

The filtration system, most likely the latest "layer," is always set apart from the spaces around it. At its top, the train tunnels give way to a vast chasm, where filtration system stands as a tower over the trains, while at the bottom in depths, it penetrates the ceiling of the temple, a destructive presence. (it's also a parallel to the way the leg does something similar in memory crypts, subterranean is full of callbacks like that!)

Filtration system is an interesting kind of transition, in that it is much later and more advanced than both of the areas it cuts between. This is a really interesting choice from James! It would be more "natural" to transition smoothly from the caves of upper subterranean to the depths, but by putting filtration system in between, the two are clearly demarcated as separate. The difference in era becomes palpable, the player has truly found something different and strange.

Depths itself is, obviously, the oldest layer not only of subterranean but of the game itself. The architecture of Depths has little to do with the rest of the game around it, it's a clear sign of the forgotten civilisations that our friend Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets showed us, there's not actually that much to say about it itself, it's mostly about how it interacts with the other layers of subterranean.

That said, Subterranean is far from the only case of the theme of layers of history. It's present as soon as the player starts the game!

The very first room of the game, SU_C04, is seemingly a cave. It is below the surface, the shapes of it are distinctly amorphous rather than geometric. (well. kind of, it doesn't do a very good job of hiding the tile grid with its 45 degree angles.)

But let's take a closer look, shall we?

See that ground? it's made of bricks. The entire cave area of outskirts is characterised by this, the "chaotic stone" masonry asset is mixed with brickwork, unlike the surface ruins which are mostly stone. This, seemingly, is an inversion of common sense! The caves are bricks and the buildings are stone. This is not, however, a strange and unique aspect but a recurring motif.

This occurs enough in the game for it to be clearly intentional, but why would materials such as bricks be used in otherwise natural looking terrain?

The answer lies in the "Layers of History" theme. This is in fact, something that happens in real life, and it's called a tell

To be specific, a tell is a kind of mound formed by settlements building over the ruins of previous iterations of themselves. Centuries of rubble and detritus form until a hill grows from the city. Cities such as Troy and Jericho are famous examples. The connections to the layers of history theme are pretty clear here, I think. Cities growing, then dying, then becoming the bedrock of the next city. The ground, then, is made of bricks, because the ground is the rubble of past buildings. The bones of forgotten civilisations, heaped like so many sticks!

#rain world #rainworld #rain world lore #rainworld lore #rw lore #rw #subterranean my beloved #thank you to videocult for making the first survival game themed around stratigraphy and new york city rats #i would've gone on for another paragraph about how OE relates to this but like. #that's dlc stuff #and i still think of the dlc stuff as modded content lol #better to keep it separate #also this analysis is not comprehensive! the layers of history stuff is common throughout #there's farm arrays there's the relationship between shaded citadel and five pebbles there's the stuff buried under garbage wastes #so much more #unfortunately i do not have much energy lol

[literalfuckingfreak]

“you never felt the call of the divine, astarion?”

“oh, i tried them all. none of them answered.”

#i love him!!! AAAHH!!! #excuse the unusually angsty caption #i just got that conversation in game right before i decided to sit down and finish this #anyway. what a guy #moving on. #astarion #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #they gave me a whole 28 layers to draw this entire thing. and by god i did just that. #WOWWWW TUMBLR FUCKED MY IMAGE QUALITY STRAIGJT IN THE ASS HUH #art

[deezilpum]

nora: andrew and neil don't do this because it's not something they're comfortable doing. this is not something that bothers them, they have no desire to do this thing. here is three books to show how in character this lack of desire is for both of them.

half the aftg fandom: here is a whole bunch of fanart and fics of andrew and neil doing those things because it's cute and if they don't their relationship is toxic. nora doesn't know the characters like i do

#aftg #andreil #andrew minyard #neil josten #all for the game #fandom #i dont think andrew never smiling is as horrible as everyone seems to think it is #stop changing complex and interesting mlm relationships to make them all grumpy x sunshine couples #its boring #let characters be layered #sorry

[strrwbrrryjam]

"we need more complex female characters," you guys can't handle molly o'shea, mary gillis, abigail roberts, sadie adler, tilly jackson, marybeth gaskill, karen jones or susan grimshaw.

#karen tilly and marybeth dont get it as much people are usually quite kind or just completely forget about them #but they are included too. with susan molly mary sadie or abigail they get the worst treatment #being called either a bitch whiny mean asking too much emotional etc #i can understand why people can't handle susan. sometimes i can't handle susan #when i see her sometimes interact with the girls or remember the fact that she killed molly i'm genuinely disgusted but she's more than tha #there are layers to her. she's like dutch yet people still like him and try their damnedest to defend him #people might be surprised by sadie being included too but god the hate that she gets from mostly men for being 'overconfident' is insane #you have complex female characters yet you refuse to either give them a thought or completely disregard them as one negative quality #and refuse to recognize that they are just as complex as the men in this game #treat them as such #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 molly o'shea #molly o'shea #rdr2 susan grimshaw #susan grimshaw #rdr2 sadie adler #sadie adler #rdr2 abigail roberts #abigail roberts #rdr2 mary gillis #mary gillis #rdr2 tilly jackson #tilly jackson #rdr2 karen jones #karen jones #rdr2 mary beth gaskill #mary beth gaskill #rdr2 van der linde gang #van der linde gang