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The Case for Chromatism concept art

tw/ sh scars under cut

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rpgmaker is fun as hell wym i can make my friend bryce go stupid mode because i didnt subscribe to his youtube channel thats so funny

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📚 A List Of Useful Websites When Making An RPG 📚

My timeloop RPG In Stars and Time is done! Which means I can clear all my ISAT gamedev related bookmarks. But I figured I would show them here, in case they can be useful to someone. These range from "useful to write a story/characters/world" to "these are SUPER rpgmaker focused and will help with the terrible math that comes with making a game".

This is what I used to make my RPG game, but it could be useful for writers, game devs of all genres, DMs, artists, what have you. YIPPEE

Writing (Names)

Behind The Name - Why don't you have this bookmarked already. Search for names and their meanings from all over the world!

Medieval Names Archive - Medieval names. Useful. For ME

City and Town Name Generator - Create "fake" names for cities, generated from datasets from any country you desire! I used those for the couple city names in ISAT. I say "fake" in quotes because some of them do end up being actual city names, especially for french generated ones. Don't forget to double check you're not 1. just taking a real city name or 2. using a word that's like, Very Bad, especially if you don't know the country you're taking inspiration from! Don't want to end up with Poopaville, USA

Writing (Words)

Onym - A website full of websites that are full of words. And by that I mean dictionaries, thesauruses, translators, glossaries, ways to mix up words, and way more. HIGHLY recommend checking this website out!!!

Moby Thesaurus - My thesaurus of choice!

Rhyme Zone - Find words that rhyme with others. Perfect for poets, lyricists, punmasters.

In Different Languages - Search for a word, have it translated in MANY different languages in one page.

ASSETS

In general, I will say: just look up what you want on itch.io. There are SO MANY assets for you to buy on itch.io. You want a font? You want a background? You want a sound effect? You want a plugin? A pixel base? An attack animation? A cool UI?!?!?! JUST GO ON ITCH.IO!!!!!!

Visual Assets (General)

Creative Market - Shop for all kinds of assets, from fonts to mockups to templates to brushes to WHATEVER YOU WANT

Velvetyne - Cool and weird fonts

Chevy Ray's Pixel Fonts - They're good fonts.

Contrast Checker - Stop making your text white when your background is lime green no one can read that shit babe!!!!!!

Visual Assets (Game Focused)

Interface In Game - Screenshots of UI (User Interfaces) from SO MANY GAMES. Shows you everything and you can just look at what every single menu in a game looks like. You can also sort them by game genre! GREAT reference!

Game UI Database - Same as above!

Sound Assets

Zapsplat, Freesound - There are many sound effect websites out there but those are the ones I saved. Royalty free!

Shapeforms - Paid packs for music and sounds and stuff.

Other

CloudConvert - Convert files into other files. MAKE THAT .AVI A .MOV

EZGifs - Make those gifs bigger. Smaller. Optimize them. Take a video and make it a gif. The Sky Is The Limit

Marketing

Press Kitty - Did not end up needing this- this will help with creating a press kit! Useful for ANY indie dev. Yes, even if you're making a tiny game, you should have a press kit. You never know!!!

presskit() - Same as above, but a different one.

Itch.io Page Image Guide and Templates - Make your project pages on itch.io look nice.

MOOMANiBE's IGF post - If you're making indie games, you might wanna try and submit your game to the Independent Game Festival at some point. Here are some tips on how, and why you should.

Game Design (General)

An insightful thread where game developers discuss hidden mechanics designed to make games feel more interesting - Title says it all. Check those comments too.

Game Design (RPGs)

Yanfly "Let's Make a Game" Comics - INCREDIBLY useful tips on how to make RPGs, going from dungeons to towns to enemy stats!!!!

Attack Patterns - A nice post on enemy attack patterns, and what attacks you should give your enemies to make them challenging (but not TOO challenging!) A very good starting point.

How To Balance An RPG - Twitter thread on how to balance player stats VS enemy stats.

Nobody Cares About It But It’s The Only Thing That Matters: Pacing And Level Design In JRPGs - a Good Post.

Game Design (Visual Novels)

Feniks Renpy Tutorials - They're good tutorials.

I played over 100 visual novels in one month and here’s my advice to devs. - General VN advice. Also highly recommend this whole blog for help on marketing your games.

I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye

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Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

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Welcome to my game dev blog!

you might ask "cat why aren't you posting your stuff to your main blog?" and to that I say.

(btw my main blog is @generalconceptofacat )

because I will post a lot of sketches here and I like posting finished art to my main blog most of the time (keyword most of the time I've posted sketches a few times but i like to post finished stuff most of the time) and also I wanna post coding related stuff here.

anywaysssss this is a long ass post so more beneath the cut!

QnA!

What engine do you use?

Renpy and RPGmaker XP

What art program do you use?

Clip Studio Paint

What are your pronouns?

Bitch anything can be a pronoun if you're not a coward

Ok but what can I call you as a name?

Cat, Felis, Beepers, these all work.

What's your opinion on (insert discourse/drama here)?

Uhh I think I'm about to explode you with my exploding sand grenades. watch out. Watch out I'm pulling the pin. Watch out. Watch out i'm throwing it. It's exploding. oh no you're dead. oh no. RIP.

You reblogged from this user and they're a terrible bad person!!!

Sorry but I literally cannot be bothered to check every single fucking blog before I reblog something. I'm not doing that. also I'm not reading your 5 million page long DNI to figure out if I can interact with you sorry. If you're uncomfy with that just block me and move on LMAO

What is your current project?

idk rn Im working on a few things idk which one is gonna be first.

So here's my tagging system-

there WILL be triggers in my games.

I will try to give trigger warnings when possible and will tag them as

tw trigger.

ex - tw eyestrain

I'll be using visibility tags like art,furry art, renpy, indie game, etc so dont pay attention to those

I will be tagging everything the title of the game its from, the type of post it is, and then the visibility tags.

ex.

(game title), concept art , art, renpy, indie game, furry, etc

So

tags (my stuff)

All posts- #kittydevposting

Text posts- #text post

Art- #art

Concept art- #concept art

Character art- #character art

Coding- #coding

Writing- #writing

Music/Music concepts- #ost #ost concepts

Character/Writing- #character concepts #writing concepts

wips -#wips

tags (stuff that isn't mine)

Reblogs- #reblog

Inpiration- #insp

Resources- #resources #save

Asks- #asks #answered #(url)

Fanart (if i ever get any) - #fanart

If you're looking for a specific character or game, search for that specific character.

I will tag them as:

#(game title)

and

#(game title) (character name) and #(character name)

I hope you have a lovely time on my blog.