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MOTH BRAIN, a 10-page Batman Horror comic for @gothamhorrorzine. I made this back in December. My dream is to one day be able to make a Killer Moth comic at DC, my boy deserves the limelight.

Leftover physical zine merch is available here. The full digital zine is available for purchase here.

Now I will get back to not being on tumblr anymore bye

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HOT GAMEDEVS DON'T GATEKEEP

Inspired by this post by @midwinterhunt, here's a compilation of all the game dev resources I have come across, most of which I use fairly frequently. Most of these are free, some are paid but fairly cheap. Feel free to add your own resources. ✌️

Important reminder: When using basically any works or programs someone else created in your games, make sure you thoroughly understand the licenses and terms it has been shared with. If you don't know what the terms are, reach out to the resource and ask. Don't be lazy about this; it's not only dishonest but it can come back to bite you.

Engines

Unity - Best suited for mobile and multi-platform.

Unreal - Tailored for shooters and high-fidelity experiences.

PICO-8 - Virtual console for simple games

Godot - Open source and free!

GameMaker - Good for 2D games

Bitsy - Great little engine for making simple games and experiences

Construct - Never used but have heard nice things

Scratch - If you've never coded before, this is the best place to start. Great for young devs and those who want to get their feet wet.

Adventure Game Studio - Best suited for adventure games

RPG Maker - Best suited for top-down classic JRPG style games

Twine - Text-centric games like Interactive Fiction

Assets

OpenGameArt - Many assets, various licenses, and plenty of CC0 content.

Unity Store - For Unity only. Some free.

Unreal Store - For Unreal only. Some free.

Godot Asset Library

Jean Moreno's Toon Effects - Some of the best effects available on the Unity store. Unity only but I've used them in basically every project.

Steamworks.net C# Wrapper For Unity - Unity only C# wrapper for integrating Steam compatibility to your game

Itch.io - Plenty of free art assets and game dev resources

Kenney - Kenney makes tons of open-source assets for devs to use.

Art

Mixamo - Generates rigs for your humanoid models and lets you apply a library of free humanoid animations to them. Super helpful for prototyping. Adobe.

Blender - Free, open source and fully featured 3D program.

XNormal - Free offline normal map generator

Normal Map Online - Free online normal map generator

Crocotile - Cheap tool for building 3D models from sprite sheets

MagicaVoxel - Free voxel modelling tool

Piskel - Free online sprite drawing tool

Aesprite - Paid sprite drawing tool

TurboSquid - Not always great quality, but can be good source of free placeholders.

Textures.com - Limited texture downloads per day but free for personal use.

Pexels - Free stock photo resource. Most are free for commercial use. Check licenses.

Clipstudio - Good for illustration or graphic design. One time payment.

GIMP - Image editing program a-la Photoshop. Free.

Audio

Audacity - Free and fully-featured DAW/audio editor.

sfx.me - Free 8-bit synth-style sound effect generator for games.

CastingCallClub - Easy forum to find amateur voice talent for your project (p.s.: you should pay them).

FreeSound.org - Free sounds, searchable by license. A go-to for my audio needs.

Incompetech - Royalty-free music by Kevin McLeod.

Scott Buckley Music - Royalty free with conditions. Generally more on the cinematic side of things but very good stuff!

SoundCloud - 'Search -> By Track -> Filter: Use Commercially' leads to songs posted with allowance of commercial use. Always reach out to the artist to understand their terms and confirm that it's okay to use with your project.

Project Planning

Keymailer - Handy for mailing keys to influencers (don't expect a lot of traction unless you're paying for some of the features though).

Trello - Kanban board. Great for organizing tasks, managing bugs, etc. Free.

Notion - Private text and wiki page editor. Good for project organization, note taking, and fleshing out ideas. Free.

Obsidian - Alternative to Notion, with similar features.

Miro - Free whiteboard for organizing thoughts, images, brainstorming, etc.

Wave - Free Bookkeeping site. Great for keeping finances organized.

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Huge hellsing fan so to celebrate halloween i made pieces of our fav vampire and priest

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Deadbolt

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Redesigns with a little more thought put into them.

I struggled a lot with Apollo design since his suit and color palette was already so simple. Imo he hard to accessorize because of his power set.

Do you guys partial to hear me yap ab my design process? I can post a tutorial (?) on character design as a follow up.

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The Souls Lore Community: Someone Should Be Studying This.

As I was watching SmoughTown's most recent Elden Ring lore video, I started thinking about the lore hunting of Souls games as a social phenomenon, and I genuinely hope this community is studied by psychologists and social scientists someday, because it's worthy of research.

Normally the rise of FromSoftware's games from relative obscurity to worldwide fame is what people might be interested in, but the dedicated lore community online and especially on YouTube is especially fascinating to me. Dozens of YouTube channels are specifically dedicated to collecting, compiling and deciphering every scrap of lore and storytelling available in these games with a deliberately obfuscated storyline, and hundreds of thousands of people watch and consume this content, not simply satisfied with playing the game, but joining in on the search, the debate and discovery.

I'm reminded of Jacob Geller's absolutely stellar video "Shadow of the Colossus and the Search for the Last Great Secret", and I feel like the modern Souls lore community is a convergently evolved social phenomenon to the "Secret Seekers" on those old forums trying to tease out the last secrets of Fumito Ueda's masterpiece (Hidetaka Miyazaki was directly influenced by Ueda's work, so this makes sense).

People will evaluate Souls lore with greater skepticism than I see most people use for their political or personal beliefs, and the lore debates I've seen in person often feel like academic discourse more than your average nerds discussing their favorite game, so I suppose all I have left to say is "why is no one studying this???"

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Hey! It's been a while but I've been getting back to making art, drawing comics, and playing entirely too much Devil May Cry

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Made a typo. Typed Imperial Fish instead of Imperial Fists. This happened afterwards.

The Cod Emperor

Rogal Dory and Perchturabo

Magnus the Red Snapper

Tuna Wolves Horus

Tuna Wolves Emblem

Jaghatai Carp. Primarch of White Carps.

Robait Gilliman. Primarch of Ultramarlins

Primarch Vulkan of the Salaflounders

Primarch Lionfish el Jonson of Dark Angelfish

Primarch Codrad Curze of Night Cods

Primarch Perchturabo

Primarch Angleron of Whale Eaters

Primarch Lorgar of Worm Bearers 

Primarch Fulbream of Emperor’s Cichlid 

Primarch Eelman Russ of Space Wolffish   

Cowfish Corax of Sea Raven Guard

Rogal Dory of the Imperial Fish

Primarch Sardinius of Blood Angelfish

Primarch Moraytarion of Depth Guard 

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same sex marriage is legal today. first christian orthodox country where this happen. yiayias in love can now marry. it is a good day.

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Moments in time, preserved through sentiments Twitter | Ko-Fi | Patreon

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blessing these dope sea sponges.

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Hellboy crossovers are not even "crossovers" to me.

Hellboy absolutely belongs in that line-up with those Magical Girls.

He would team-up with Guts/Casca, Gotrek/Felix, and Columbo.

He would be drinking with those boomer-shooter protags.

He would be in that superhero's city.

He would be telling that man the 2 need to kill someone.

Hellboy just fits.

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An owl struggles to keep his grip as his owl friends look the other way in Tibor Kercz’s “Help!!!” in Opusztaszer, Hungary

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The first man slain signals the end... for the more blood that flows, the more well equipped the Sanguine Knight becomes.

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"He asked then what no other primarch had given voice to. Even Angron, upon his discovery, would act without asking the question Sanguinius now asked.

‘What if I refuse?’

The Emperor seemed to weigh this. ‘You will not refuse. I know your soul. Here, you’ve saved tens of thousands of lives. With me, you will save billions of lives on millions of worlds. You will save the life of every human yet to be born. That is not something you could turn your back on.’

They stared into each other’s eyes, father and son, creator and created. Neither argued against the truth of the Emperor’s words."

Alternatively titled "Sanguinius can see the fuckin future and it didn't take much to get him on E's side."

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カワセミ（Common Kingfisher）

ルリビタキ（Red-flanked Bluetail）

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Killer Instinct (Neo Geo Pocket)

Made in October 2021-June 2022