#Game World Consistency

[nicholasandriani]

Mastering Isometric & Isomorphic Game Design: A Quickstart Guide to Unlocking 3D Potential in 2D Worlds

We say that: “oh I love that Baldur Gate, let’s crack out an isometric.” Or, “oh, digging this Final Fantasy Tactics stuff, let’s do that sideways angle thing.” But what does that mean? Let’s break it down mathematical. T:(X,∥⋅∥X)→(Y,∥⋅∥Y) is a isometric isomorphism if it is a linear isomorphism, and it is an isometry, that is ∥T(x)∥Y=∥x∥X∀x∈X; T:(X,∥⋅∥X)→(Y,∥⋅∥Y) is a topological…

[winedimples]

You're still groggy? Fine, look, I marked it on your map, so get a move on!

[itsapipedream]

Welcome welcome to my vey messy aftg fic master post *cheers*

Okay okay okay so this will be all my fav fics and then some, I'll be uploading it from time to time with the new things I read <3

Ah also also I will be put the authors' names from AO3 to have some consistency

Series

I Will Always Choose You series by NikNak22 miscommunication, angst, hurt, hurt/comfort

Travelers series by unrise_and_death uncompleted, AU, kind of soulmates

best thing ever writen I'm still crying about it not being finished...

Lessons in cartography series by profenity post-canon, the best characterization of Andreil I've ever read

Shut Up, This is Love series by lady_flash first long part post-canon, LDR, angst, one shots for the rest of the series

Healing series by Lostintheuniverseslies post-canon, Neil goes to therapy, healing, incredible work probably my fav post canon series

New Tricks series by likearecord AU, rommates Kevin-Alli-Neil

on the tip of my tongue (say something) series by Willow_bird post-canon, recovery, selective mutism, ASL, comfort

The Manny series by orphan_account AU, dad Andrew, past character death

progress comes in small steps series by Ominous multiple POV, kind of post-canon, twinyards shenanigans

Branches of Solace series by Lostintheuniverseslies AU, small town, plant store owner Neil, bookstore owner Andrew, PTSD

SW AU series by Punkin_Carcass explicit, sex worker Andrew, porn with plot

Tales From Foxhole Aquarium series by Fortheloveofexy merman Andrew, human Neil

AUs

Fell for a match made in hell by yourinsomnia reality show, strangers to lovers, this was SO GOOD, they also play exy but Neil never went to plameto

under the kitchen lights (you still look like dynamite) by ephemeralsky neighbors, disabled character

in another life by bazookajo94 Neil writes letters to a "fake" person that ends up being Andrew, no exy

quicksand by likearecord no exy

Firelight by sundowne camp, second chances

If You Love Me, Come Clean by sundowne exchange student, soft, FWB

Why do we feel alone? by Leocante writer Andrew, translator Neil, disabled character

i'll be seeing you (wherever i go) by melopeya, TeoMoy musicians, getting back together

does the dog die at the end? by stillmadaboutpetra disabled character, slice of life, fucking fantastic

The Heat is On by NikNak22 A/B/O, alfa Andrew, omega Neil

Flavors of Fall by NikNak22 small town, slice of life

12 Ways to Woo a Minyard by NikNak22 college, all the romantic tropes

Take This Lonely Heart by simonsrosebud highschool, not mafia but Nathan is still a piece of shit, soft Andreil

Such a Fool for Sacrifice by likearecord Author Neil, bodyguard Andrew, canon torture

Andrew's Kill List by sundowne 5+1, friends to lovers, explicit

The Sun Still Rises by mordax Neil has a little brother, follows canon general plot

Dear Advice Guy by fuzzballsheltiepants paramedic Neil, advice column, manic pixie dream girl Andrew

Point Nemo by moonix one shot, disabled character

Odd Eye by tdashshirts one shot, angst, hurt/comfort

Act Of A Life Time by chaoticas_hell actor Andrew, agorapgobic Neil, flufiest shit ever, ansgt, self harm, lots of comfort

Finders keepers by honeyyghostt childhood friends to lovers, the best thing that ever happened to me

Post-canon / canon compliant

never fallen (from quite this high) by crystalcrow THEE Andrew POV of the OG trilogy

Unbiased and Reliable Results by yourinsomnia explicit, roommates

Kiss My Skin (Burn Me Baby) by Ma_Dude one shot

the right words by rwnjun one shot, 5+1

body count by gay_irl one shot, trading truths

knee socks by tamarsilan one shot, smut

if you really love nothing by seasy33 post-canon, angst, secrets, forgiveness

Feverish Minds by Ficswithcloud Sick Andrew

Call Me By Your Name by Fortheloveofexy petnames, explicit

Baltimore Blues by SpangleBangle Andrew's POV Baltimore

eidetic by hitchups explicit, bottom Andrew

deep down (i'm still just a wreck) by hitchups post-canon, trauma, bottom Andrew

Tell Me Where To Touch You by Fortheloveofexy one shot, comfort, shot Andreil, massage

Paint me a picture of you by Ficswithcloud post-canon, healing an injury, injured Neil

Blooming (Only For You) by NikNak22 post-canon, angst, gardening, miscommunication, Andrew's POV

If Only I Were Enough by Lostintheuniverseslies post-canon, long distance relationship, break up, angst with a happy ending

flashes of intimacy by mostly_maudlin post-canon, introspection, intimacy, comfort

No straighter path than to struggle by otatop post-canon, sick character, sick Neil, PTSD, ansgt

Not Nothing by TheRainbowElectric one shot, 5+1, post-canon

i only need the working of my hands by allyasavedtheday post-canon, temporary amnesia

people problems by loveroulettes one shot, post-canon, LDR, angst, miscommunication, OOC

Deep pressure by Kingfluffkinss one shot, post-canon, slef-harm

Muscle Memory by elesary post-canon, amnesia

lazy, fractured pieces by flitwickslittlebrotha post-canon, explicit, emotional hurt/comfort

Got Me All Choked Up by pistolpidge one shot, explicit

Pretty Boy by Justthislazy 5+1, miscommunication, hurt/comfort

[zuzypiia]

hey so just to combat the narrative tommy's trying to so pathetically push about how "i made the dream smp famous and because of that i made dream famous", my cousins from rural indonesia and their friends knew dream from his viral manhunts and speedruns, and one from the technoblade duel. but when i brought up "tommyinnit" no one knew who he is 😁

[windcarvedlyre]

I've been following @druidposting's DR2 playthrough on discord and we just had a really good discussion about DR's Closing Arguments. Specifically the way the murderer is depicted as grey and featureless, which until now I found a bit annoying.

In Danganronpa it's repeatedly the case that we don't have the full picture until the talking actually stops- which always goes beyond the end of the trial. We generally vote first and come to understand what the murderer's actual motive was, sometimes filling in important pieces of the timeline in the process, afterwards.

But none of that matters for the killing game because characters' emotions aren't directly relevant to who was the 'blackened'- the only thing that matters to Monokuma- so it comes out afterwards and does nothing to change their execution. It doesn't matter how sympathetic they are (basically everyone) or whether other people share responsibility for the situation (eg. Hanamura, Pekoyama, Momota) or whether they intended to murder at all (Nanami). They objectively pulled the trigger and nothing else matters. Nothing about them as a person matters.

The Closing Argument mechanic might illustrate that problem- literally. They're a dramatic, conclusive summary of the entire case... constructed before the vote even happens, before we know if we're actually right, and they're missing something really important:

The actual perpetrator.

We quite literally don't even begin to see the real person behind the crime, any real exploration of their mental state, anything besides the cold, hard facts of the murder that are necessary to convict them, until the comic finishes and the protagonist makes their final accusation- replacing the grey figure with their real appearance in a shot that's often intensely emotional.

And these comics lack crucial parts of the case's timeline and sometimes important parts of the very scenes they depict that we only find out about afterwards. And those are what we know; characters may die with some pieces of the truth and prevent us from ever learning them. These aren't objective depictions of the murder, they're the protagonist's subjective attempt to connect the facts they have. A join-the-dots portrait of someone with missing dots and no colour.

Even characters' expressions may not match how they truly feel, with the grey placeholder potentially looking way more confident and sinister than they were in reality. Pasting Falter's commentary here since they put it well.

For obvious reasons this could especially be a problem for characters that die before the trial- the ones we never get a post-vote testimony from. DR1 chapter 4 really highlighted that in the way Asahina's huge misinterpretation of Oogami's feelings took up a lot of the post-trial discussion, only for Monokuma to reveal Oogami's real suicide note and recontextualise everything.

It might really be a problem for how Komaeda's depicted in DR2 chapter 5. While he isn't greyed out, we get panel after panel where he's either level-headed or maniacally evil, and even the depictions of his self-torture and death don't humanise him:

But we know that his real feelings were more complicated than that. We have his actual corpse to compare the last page to.

He died afraid.

If we approach the comic as Hinata's mental image of him instead of reality, he died without anyone truly understanding him. He was alarming, very hard to relate to, actively fought against people doing so, ensured even the killer didn't watch him die, and the survivors couldn't begin to understand his motive until a chapter later. The Closing Argument reflects that.

Early in DR1 Togami calls out the rest of his class for judging others by their own standards. However, he, too, is doing this, maybe more so than many other characters; his inability to view other people through anything but the cold, brutal logic of the killing game bites him in the ass in chapter 4. In DR2 chapter 2 voting without a good understanding of Pekoyama's motive or Kuzuryuu's involvement nearly got everyone killed. Komaeda's a walking embodiment of the problems with flattening people into caricatures and not empathising with them, suffered from people doing that back to him, and his case- the Closing Argument for which turned everyone else into grey placeholders- was impossible to solve with objective facts. It was only survivable because the survivors cooperated and one person tried to analyse things the way he would.

The games have always been a critique of the justice system and Japanese society and push us to care about others as individuals, not reduce them to- and judge their right to exist by- something they've done or their net impact on society. There are always consequences when someone neglects to do that, and the above might be yet another way the games explore that theme.

[cursezoroark]

I remember people kind of. Complaining. About Melia’s position in Rejuvenation’s plot of how she’s more of the MC than Protag and how everything seems to curate to her. And. Well.

It does do that. But not in the fashion of raising her up. She’s basically the Narrative’s Victim. She kind of gets ripped out of her seemingly normal life and gets isolated from anyone familiar to her for 3 years. Proceeds to reunite with her newfound strength back to the original timeline. And then immediately faces the burden of fulfilling Nancy’s request. Terajuma happens, Team Xen, her Dad Dies. Doomed Timeline. The truth about her family. Genesis Syndrome (I forgot the Name). and then Zeight happens and at that point she’s been brought up only to be beaten down by the events again and again that her optimism and whimsy at the beginning was a Huge echo of the present. If you go through Renegade, you find that the betrayal absolutely shatters her tether onto the story, and her efforts of rising up to the challenge with hope have been completely disregarded. Like they didn���t really matter, because she wasn’t the one with the power to make it matter. M2 is a desperate sort of attempt to achieve something out of the experience, although its persecution rather than resilience. An attempt at justice.

I do think the protag stands as the Protagonist of the narrative, but as it’s Witness, jury to Judge sort of deal. Regardless of what path you decide to take, some events are rather concrete and Don’t change. There are things you can only observe and not Interfere with. As the interceptor, they don’t have quite all the pieces to completely change events, whether intentional or not. But they have the critical pieces. They simple have interferences in moments that seemingly Matter to the narrative. And really, any sort of control of the narrative is what gives them Power. Especially in a world that’s seemingly Programmed from inside out. They listen to the world, and react to it, judge it, and sentence it. There’s always going to be opposing forces no matter the path they choose, but their position is what puts them above the rest.

[redonionlover]

havent been drawing a lot of fanart lately so im posting these from around december-ish? i finally got my friend to play rw last year so i doodled some of her Epic Gaming Moments lol she ended up getting all the non dlc achievments!! and i only went insane like 57 times!!

also some bonus misc. stuff. my personal dp faves and silly iterator gijinkas 👍

[menstits]

I feel like genshin's bad writing issues aren't really the same as other gachas just because the structure of the game itself is very different compared to card collection-based ones. It's not really a matter of retconning character development for the sake of sales, there IS absolutely dogshit writing in this game but imo it's not really tied to the gacha itself in the same way because the entire storyline including the characters' individual ones aren't really gated by owning them and the developers are fully aware that the characters will sell themselves regardless of what their story is as long as they're cute anime characters because a significant chunk of the fanbase doesn't even know how to read

[crunchy-rocc]

a kiss

[thetimelordbatgirl]

The D5 Auradon Kingdom Cup games.... is so confusing and doesn't make sense. Weird that they mention Mal, Evie and Jay but not Ben but then again what is Descendants if not Ben being treated like garbage and overlooked by the plot, narrative, the characters and the writers. If I were Mitchell, I'd rather not be open to come back at all.

To be fair: I think that was the twitter user or their source forgetting to mention Ben there. Rise of Red's opening DID mention Ben to be off with Mal, Evie and Jay touring the kingdoms and now I guess also be recruiting any kingdoms or just locations in general because no Encanto isn't a kingdom ITS COLOMBIA LIKE LONDON IS ENGLAND, and in the process, getting these places for the upcoming kingdom cup games. But pretty good summary of Descendants with Ben there, since we already know off-screen Mal is getting more say in kingdom matters then Ben is as evident by the council meeting in Descendants 3, and she wasn't even queen back then while Ben had been king for at least two years by then, let alone grew up getting ready for the role! Also welcome to Descendants, they can make even a literal sports cup confusing, especially in this films case because so far from everything we've gotten, it sounds like too many cooks are in the kitchen and its about to result in a fucking mess that at the very least will look visually good.

[kristiliqua]

i dont think i’ve ever been so genuinely obsessed with how well put-together a piece of media is ever since the adventure zone: balance , until now . i fucking love ultrakill holy SHIT

[funkytrashsuperstructure]

Five Pebbles turns up the graphics settings

BSM: Hey, local group, I know you are wondering what is going on. Uh... me too!~ BSM: I was not told about a-

BSM: What are- I'm dehydrated. I'm dehydrated? I don't think, uh... BSM: Hold on, let me check- uh... it does not say- FP: I'm turning up the graphics settings, once and for all. BSM: It does not say any- OH I CAN SEE THE GLINT ON MY HANDS!

BSM: I CAN SEE MY AGE. WHAT THE FUCK?! BSM: ALSO THERE'S NO WATER. BSM: Alright so this group senior doesn't know-

NSH: What is hap- what is going on?!

[calico-kiwi]

WE’RE SO BACK (<- finally re-found the spark that fuels them from a creative/serotonin perspective after months of it fleetingly flickering in and out)

[lesvegas]

What is it about Skyrim that feels like the peak of Bethesda games

[necrotic-nephilim]

thank you for the tag, @sasheneskywalker!!!

rules: answer and tag nine people you want to get to know better and catch up with.

favorite color: it changes regularly, but currently, a dusty/greyish purple

last song: Maps by The Front Bottoms

currently reading:

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver is my current fiction read and i *hate* it with my entire being. don't read it.

Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Labor, & Power by Alice Sparkly Kat is my current non-fiction read and so far, it's very good

i'm reading a lot of comics at the moment, but my main read is Manhunter (2004) which so far, is very good, i highly recommend. i'm also planning to read Midnighter (2007) and Black Widow (2014).

currently watching:

The Acolyte has been my most recent fixation so that's just on loop rewatching over and over in the background. a lot

i've been watching Pennyworth which is far better than i expected it to be, i'm really enjoying it

i also started Invincible, which i've been enjoying

idk if it counts but i've rewatched Madame Web a concerning number of times in the past few days.

currently craving: i'd kill for an Italian Cream Soda from tea2go rn

coffee or tea: tea. i used to be a big coffee person in my teens but my chronic illness doesn't like caffeine and it *really* doesn't like coffee so i just drink tea now, but i do love tea

hobby to try: the unrealistic hobby i'd like to get into a fanfiction binding, but that takes materials and resources i do *not* currently have. i think a more realistic answer is i've been meaning to get into marvel comics more.

current au: tbh the main AU i'm working on is a Lance Brunner-centric Post-Crisis fic where i'm completely rewriting his origins to make his death as Robin more significant but still something no one talks about, leading to the ressurection of Jason also reviving Lance and Jason going on his little spree, having no idea he's not the only dead Robin. i've figured out all of the backstory and how i want to characterize Lance, but the actual plot of the fic i'm still working out. i'm leaning toward Lance/Dick as a ship, but i haven't decided. i have so many notes and ideas though and i think it's funny to take a random one-off character from a random 60s comic and actually turn him into something substantial and how he'd shape the Batfamily. trust me i'm so close to infodumping about it here everyday.

i'm also working on a *really* messed up unhealthy Damian/Tim fic, where Damian purposefully breaks the timeline so Tim was never Robin and Damian was the third Robin instead. but when Bruce "dies" Damian realizes he has no idea where to start with finding Bruce so he has to go to a civilian!Tim for help, who has no idea the timeline was changed or that he was ever Robin in a different world. it's gonna be fun and fucked up and full of Damian's jealousy complex over Tim.

i don't know if i can come up with nine whole people to tag for this since i'm still new here but i can try: @searchforahero @divine-dominion @kevin-day-is-bi @kerakeriza @deepwithintheabyss

@maryshellyswife @alicemaem @justmyshittyspace @sandmanwhore and yeah that's all i got.just tagging some mutuals/ppl i see on my posts a lot!!!

[icewindandboringhorror]

One of the interesting bits of trying to resume working on the game after so long is looking back at my ancient Draft Placeholder versions of an image from 4 yrs ago trying to remember what the hell I meant back then, to hopefully interpret it into some more final (ish..) form of the same thing .. making slow progress lol