#train puzzle

[whirligig-girl]

NWR No.1 and SLYM No.11513 at a dual gauge interchange just outside of the city center.

SLYM No.11513 is an Advanced Steam Locomotive native to Gymnome--a coal-burning steam engine operating at high pressure, with technological improvements to allow it to rival the efficiency and ease of use of a diesel locomotive, such as electronic controls, compound expansion of steam, a gas producer combustion system firebox, dual exhaust, and automatic firing and oiling. 11513 was built some time in the 2340s, and survives to 2381 as a museum piece.

NWR No.1 is a much older locomotive and from another planet altogether, built 1915 for the LBSC railway as a one-off prototype for a six-coupled shunter to replace the aging Terriers and to supplement the much larger E2-tanks. NWR No.1 made it to the North Western Railway not long after it was built, having been allocated there for the war effort. It is not clear how a locomotive built 465 years in the past on planet Earth made it intact to Gymnome, nor how its gauge perfectly matched Goo'iw Broad Gauge, at least not without invoking some kind of universe-spanning magic railroad, or perhaps the notion that this is all a simulation being run in some kind of virtual reality in some alien starship.

(no this isn't canon.)

Artist's notes:

Earlier today I doodled this in my sketchbook.

And when I got home i decided, hey, I have my Thomas 3D model, and I have the game model of the Advanced Steam Tank Engine... why not actually stage them together and draw them to-scale. The size difference is greater than I expected--partly I think this is because the Thomas gauge-1 prop was not designed with scale in mind, so it's bigger than British Railways loading gauge. Granted, they are at different gauges (standard gauge versus roughly meter-ish gauge), but the loading gauge on the advanced steam engine is very wide.

My first attempt at the drawing was from a very different angle:

But I quickly realized that you can't actually see the Advanced Steam Engine's wheels, and that's a major design aspect.

So i chose a different angle.

I constructed the dual gauge track before anything else.

And before long (the better part of 2 hours) I had the line art finished.

The Advanced Steam Engine ended up being a hybrid between the original illustration I did of it months ago, and the game model--with most of the geometry accurate to the game model, but with the subtler detailing of the illustrated version.

Thomas was meant to be a sort of hybrid of the Gauge 1 Prop from the TV series and a realistic loco. I prioritized the geometry and simplicity of the gauge 1 prop in most respects, but added details below the running board, in particular brake rigging, sanding gear, and these blade-like protrusions of the frames which i'm pretty sure are some kind of debris deflector, a british version of a cowcatcher. There's also snifters on the cylinder saddle, and the whistle is made of two different lengths to justify Thomas' multi-tone whistle.

The original background was going to be this marshland with (electricity-generating) windmills in the background, a callback to that first shot in the Thomas & Friends opening credits, but I hated how it felt like the middle of nowhere, so I introduced the retaining wall and an alien city scene.

British steam engines are generally given very shiny liveries which reflect the environment in interesting ways, so I made sure to do that justice, using a GWR 14xx autotank as reference.

By contrast, the Advanced Steam Tank Engine is kept in a more workwormlike condition, with a somewhat faded matte paint work and a fair amount of grime.

The original illustration of the advanced steam engine, for comparison.

Finally, a version with faces.

[msasterisk]

artfight attack on @whirligig-girl - the engineer and conductor from Train Misconductor (the game we're making together)

[clara-the-cat]

I've recreated the locomotive and various rolling stock from @whirligig-girl's upcoming game, train puzzle.exe!

Featuring such classics as:

The advanced steam engine

Transgender tanker & Lesbian boxcar

Boxcar with starfleet division colors on it

This one

And many more!

Now you too can experience your favorite inglenook puzzle game in stunning high definition!

[emacrow]

Oh.. un hi Uncle Ed?

Riddler was checking his watch, waiting for his henchmen to come bringing two Wayne they said they found on time in the Distraction at the Museum.

20 minutes before show time.

He walked towards the first tied up wayne as keeping two apart in separate rooms was a brilliant idea. Only this wayne was oddly wearing casual clothes that seemed more mid western state that made his eyes narrow in silent calculations. Grabbing the brown bag covering the Wayne head and pulling it off.

A very familiar yet annoying face with a splatter of face paint of planets and stars. Blue eyes who recognized him not in fear but a quiet joy that made Riddler's face go flat with tired sighed.

"Danny, what are you doing in Gotham, and please don't tell me your parents are in gotham?" Riddler asked, pinching his fingers between his nose.

"Oh..umm.. hi Uncle Ed? Ah no. My parents are spending a trip in the Bahamas cruise with vlad? I'm just.. Freelancing while Jazz in Collage over here?" Danny said with a nervous smile his eyes flick a bit to the right as he trying to keep a strong gaze at his uncle who face palmed his hand.

"You snuck over here when you're supposed to be with Alicia for the summer. Did we not have a whole PowerPoint discussion with your parents about you staying away from Gotham City even if im no longer on probation to not teach you?" Riddler groaned as he untied his nephew, mumbling about getting his stuff back from his henchmen later.

"You know, Aunt Alicia doesn't like me much, and Jazz talked about this crazy clown trying and failing to off her due to Fright Knight, and I'm not getting out of this even if I pay you?" Danny, stop trying the excuses at point blank as he follows his uncle slowly our his secret hideout.

"Maybe, but your parents are still going to find out, then I'll be to blame for not telling them about you staying over here with me, and you know how your mom get about me."

"Is she still salty about that incident with bumbl-

"Yes, she still is ab- watch out for block step 3 by 9-, and I swear she has a bazooka carved with my name on it for the day I visit your house." Riddler sighed, disabling the traps he had set out earlier as easily as breathing while Danny avoided the white and black checker floor block before he stepped on it weight sensor pressure.

"..."

"I'm still sorry, and thank you for taking the blame that day, Uncle Ed." Danny whispers softly.

[whirligig-girl]

as i have said on artfight: OMG!!!

I love all the details you put into the humanized/gymnomi-slime-ified design, how it looks similar to both of their crew members and i love the way the object head style looks with a slime face. The MU cables hanging down from their pants, the cool pose, it's very good. The engine also looks great, lots of good attention to detail there too! This got me happy-stimming autism-style and it's been a while since i've done that!

Artfight revenge for @whirligig-girl !! With Slym !!! I love the design of the locomotive and of course couldnt help myself with a humanoid/smellanoid slime design teehee!!

[keferon]

oh!! wait, prowl becoming autobot hq would be so cool though!!!! he'd have so much fun i feel making training courses and running the numbers, like you said. i could totally see him actually smiling for once like "holy shit. i finally. theres numbers. theres variables. theres shit to calculate" and everyone else see him smile (i imagine it'd probably look unnerving) and thinks "...is he ok" then jazz just hits them with the "oh yeah no hes just happy! lol"

Yep yep YEP

Like. Prowl is a machine. And machine’s natural state is to perform something. In his case being the operating system of the complex implies that there are people he has to take care of. Otherwise he would just have NOTHING to do. Leaving him alone at the end would be kind of cruel.

Also having a giant building that can shift and transform and rearrange itself as a headquarters? Cool as fuck~

Oh and Jazz lives inside the walls. There’s quite a lot of space in those. Perhaps that space was even left specifically for him. Who knows.

[savanir]

The things we see

Amorpho is the result of a failed collaboration between Spyral and CADMUS.

That is... when he was alive he was, but he didn't turn out the way they intended (too stubborn for example) and he was terminated.

It was a life he'd rather forget, the training, the tests, the torture. He much prefers being a free spirit.

Now he spends his afterlife being who he feels like being and going where he feels like going.

But when his curiosity gets the better of him and he returns to Amity Park to see how the ghost boy is doing he's unpleasantly introduced to the GIW who he managed to miss the first time he was in town.

All the bad memories come rushing back, so he decides to find Phantom and offer his services and knowledge about infiltration, espionage and sabotage to crush the shady organisation.

Danny, at first a bit wary of Amorpho, happily takes all the help he can get.

[the-lion-guard-88]

GUYS I’M CACKLING MY ASS OFF, BRENDAN BLABER (@/jelloapocalypse) MADE THIS TWEET! PROUD MR. WPUZZLEZ SHIPPER?!?!

[bwobgames]

They weren’t lying. This thing is massive.

He remembers the ones by his grandma’s house, when they were still working.

He remembers travelling on the overnight bus to visit her.

He remembers his dad’s train collection.

He remembers…

Snow.

His dreams have been weird lately.

He tries not to think about it.

He misses grandma.

Marigold presents their tickets, and they are invited in.

There aren’t many people who tried the high-class cabins, so they’ll have plenty of space and privacy.

They step in

Something feels…

<-PREV START NEXT ->

[clumsypuppy]

[whirligig-girl]

Finally ready to start showing off the project we've been working on for a few weeks.

TRAIN PUZZLE (dot exe) (title pending)

me and @msasterisk are working on a switching puzzle game set on slimegirl astronaut Eaurp Guz's homeworld. You operate an Advanced Steam switcher to move cars around. The prototype implements a single level, a model railroad Inglenook layout, but there will be other original levels as well.

MsAsterisk has done all of the programming and game engine work, I've done the game design and art assets.

more screenshots and development photos below the cut:

Until the last couple of days, the game has used plain colored boxes for its cars. The first playable version, shown here, was just a pixel art train toy, with no actual game mechanics, but with an external list randomizer you could still run the inglenook game.

The physics was apparently a monumental undertaking to get working, but now it works great!

i don't remember what this was about. Truncated the vertices to the unit cube or something.

@thefallencomet's playtesting of the first prototype revealed a severe bug with couplers where switching cars coupled at a distance between three tracks at once would completely break physics. MsAsterisk fixed it by simply breaking couplers when they're too far apart.

car concept art

u.i. concept art. The tracks are bonafide pixel art here, but they've since been replaced with all 3D assets. The loco here is a pixelated render done in blender of the advanced steam tank engine model that i made about a month ago.

control stand model, WIP. We're not sure if we're going to go for this kind of detailed control stand. Why does a steam engine use a control stand that would look more at home on an EMD diesel? It's the magic of Advanced Steam Technology! The actual engine is controlled with actuators and microcontrollers, they're merely operated from the safety of the control cabin. The gauges are for brake cylinder, boiler pressure, steam chest, and speedometer--but no promises about whether these will be functional.

and finally, portraits of the engine crew

More to come as the game continues development.

[fenicearts420]

Hey Marie, what's your favourite dragon to turn into?

Puzzles: Nerd~...

[art4lm]

These were requested from my instagram

thought of drawing one of markiplier’s characters but I decided to redraw his pfp instead 🤷‍♀️

[mollysunder]

I believe everyone has the right to complain however they want a be a hater or whatever, but I do think the complaint that Mel shouldn't be good at magic because we didn't see her train is actually pretty funny. Practically no one trains in Arcane, except like Vi and Caitlyn, everyone's just good at whatever. Jayce could hold off several chemtanks, Jinx figured out hextech with a notebook (a field of study isn't a cookbook, it's a discipline) after a few days, Ekko figured out hextech in even less time and then TIME TRAVEL.p, and Viktor's also just a powerful wizard without any real ceremony.

Everyone in the cast is a genius at what they do and at what's thrown at them (mostly for plot convenience). Besides, this is LoL, torturing someone with no sensible end goal for an extended period of time counts as a training arc.

[katzy88]

I have a VERY strong feeling these two are going to end up like Lemon and Tangerine from the Bullet train movie after what we just watched from the new Smg4 episode.

[aplaydatewithmyinnerchild]

disney style pooh bear and friend <3

pooh and piglet knit plush | bowl | sippy cup

balance toy | plush set | train

parade float toy | puzzle | push toy