#nonbinary game design

[chlmera]

Local Enby Writes Indie Game

hey guys, my name is kiri, and i’ve been the lead writer at studio kumiho for 4.5 years. we just released our first game, Cricket JRPG, and if you like story-driven games with lots of heart and laughs, you should totally check it out! feel free to send me any messages about bugs <3

[temeyes]

beating my art block by redesigning MC's hunter uniform

[bastart13]

In season 4, we get to meet some new fairies! Caligo Hawkeye, spymaster and sibling to the Fairy Councillor, and Elder Lightwing, grandmother to Sophie and Solaire

[b0amagination]

Me for the past six years: something will get me back into video games and reduce the “I’m wasting time” guilt of playing them.

Date Everything: *exists*

Me: Haha, I’m aroace, it won’t be the one about dating humanized household objects!

Me, five hours later: Oh my god my silverware is so sweeeeet I’m gonna flirt with him,,,

[arcticsart]

Clinical Trial

First time making digital art in years.

I might edit/finalize it someday.

[beastimus]

Oh shit, I've barely posted about this... Anyway, on Saturday I'm releasing the Demo for a game called Wonderlanders that I'm working on with my brother onto Itch.io (and maybe some other places). Its a 2d RPG going for a similar vibe to Earthbound and Undertale (and some other, less popular games.) Featuring a non-binary protagonist named Scout (Featured Below) who gets teleported to the absurdist world of Atlas after trying and failing to feed pizza to a stray cat (Featured below that).

As they try to get home, they fight all kinds of enemies, ranging from a slug who's late for work to Kappa Prime!!! the shark captain of a crew of Pirate Ghosts!

But are they alone on this quest? NO!!! They are joined by many friends they meet along the way. Such as:

Kid, the adopted son of two goat detectives who are also the GOATS,

Carliese, the heiress to a fallen fast food empire,

And Kent the Cat, a Philosopher who's buff both physically and logically.

The demo is just the prologue, about ten minutes, until you actually get teleported into Atlas. Its mostly to get interest and feedback, and to have something to point to when we say we're working on a game. The real thing will be out in about six months.

[kawareo]

Saw a scene from Dragon's Age Veilguard for the first time and all I can say is that I am so sorry for the fans because god damn

[phantomeros]

hot single women in front of your house

(datingsim in development)

[littlestarsprite]

I had to do it, it brings me joy. Ft my builder, Cole!

Update: I counted his windows, if you count the one on his door he does actually have five windows.....

[titanofthedepths]

I was talking about this on a call the other day but one of my favorite things about Sea of Thieves is that the characters are allowed to be ugly and so wildly diverse. Even the skeletons are diverse and have compelling and fun designs.

Note that when I say ugly I don’t mean that as a bad thing - I’m a firm believer that ugly doesn’t have to be a bad word, just the same as fat doesn’t have to be. Nobody’s perfect and that’s beautiful etc etc, when I say ugly I mean “not conventionally attractive” and it’s something I wholeheartedly appreciate

Like. Player pirates are randomly generated, which can be frustrating but at the end of the day it’s refreshing to not be able to sit and put together the perfect pirate. There will always be little scars or nicks or features you didn’t choose to place there, but they’re your pirates’ features. Just a couple days ago I realized my pirate has a snake bite on her cheek, and I LOVE that it’s there, though I never would have considered it for her had I been given the option to build her from scratch.

The NPCs, too, are diverse, and allowed to be flawed, and ugly. With their crooked or missing teeth and imperfect proportions and scars and asymmetrical faces - Rare could have very easily chosen to make every last NPC a perfectly pretty face fit for a magazine, and they chose not to. It makes the characters feel a little more real, more like they’re people - I can’t tell you how often I sit and examine the models of NPCs to look at every little detail and just appreciate how imperfect they are.

And like previously stated - and perhaps the thing I appreciate the most - even the skeleton characters are widely varied. Rathbone moves with a hunched posture that hides the fact his frame is fairly small, Grimm is tall and wide in that way that Sea of Thieves builds their fat characters, one of Chi’s horns is growing from her eye socket and she’s lankier than Ruth’s sturdy frame, Horatio has arms that are just a little too long, so on and so forth.

Just… Sure, I don’t by any means love Rare as a company, but the character design we see in Sea of Thieves is some of the best I’ve ever seen. I have a lot of love for this pirate game and the amount of love the design team put into every single character they offer us

[thebestusernamepossible]

If I was making a game that came out in chapters I would have a character that used he/him for the first chapter, let the fandom grow, then for every following chapter they gain new pronouns. At the end of the game gender Gorg will have them all. Is this anything

[brandonwritesgames]

Celebrating Pride month by playing Dieselpunk 1921, shooting imperialists, and supporting a nonbinary indie designer :3

[heyitsrink]

My OC Orion and their overzealous ghost sidekick, Lyra. These characters are from a Blades in the Dark campaign I recently started.

Alias: Oracle Playbook: Whisper Heritage: The Dagger Isles Background: Labor Vice: Stupor (drink, drug, precarious sexual encounters [see below])

Crazy demon ex-lover pulled from a character sheet doodle

[jonahmagnus]

A little step-by-step dressup doll because thats what they are to me

[midnight-illustrator]

Every once in a while something in a Drawfee episode simply rots my whole brain until I take steps to exorcise it. This time it was Karina's concept for Toxic Beach Ultra, the bitchy mutant volleyball game (from their Drawing Randomly Generated Videogames episode). The vibes were too good to pass up and I had to take a shot at it, and this is who I came up with!!

Their name is Osgood, and they'd be like, an unlockable character at higher levels in the game. They'd probably appear as an enemy before they were available to put on your team.

If they score against you, their lines include phrases like: "what's the matter, babes? Paralyzed?"

If you score against them, their lines include phrases like: "Lucky shot. But watch yourself; I bite."

(I know nothing about sports and comparatively many things about octopuses)

Their buff is that their extra arms grant them more reach, and they can hit the ball from farther away. Their ideal placement on the team would be Libero or Defensive Specialist. I imagine they're pretty annoying until you can put them on your team, so they're not a fan favorite, but I love them anyway ❤️

(also happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️)

I'll throw a link to the episode under the cut, and also a couple detail shots, because Tumblr likes to destroy my resolutions :(

Honestly one of my favorite parts was figuring out my own take on the logo, which I wasn't expecting!

[luaneedssleep]

Meet Anchor! 🐟⚓️💙

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Anchor (they/them)

“The town’s biggest nuisance!

Always lurking around town, looking to cause trouble. Careful, they might bite you!!!”

Our current lineup!