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Seeing as I drew Anton fairly recently, I felt that it was only appropriate to also draw his cranked-out coworker Dynamite Annie, and it looks as though she has something very important to say... 💚🏳️‍⚧️✨

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Hellooooooooooooo!

Oooh, I see you are posting some files from the Dynamite Demo. Is there a chance there might be some Satan ones? I'm DYING to see them

There isn't much in terms of unused stuff for him, but I do have some neat info nonetheless! Interestingly, Satan's sprites all use green in place of black (for his legs, wings, horns, and crown) internally, and are then recolored / palette swapped when they show up in-game.

His laying pose is also split into several parts (separate sprites for the body, head, left arm, and each wing) that end up pieced together to form a single image, preventing any weird/incorrect overlap or desync with the lipsync frames. The other ones don't do this (presumably because there's less movement), so it's neat to see the different methods used alongside each other.

Anyway! I haven't put together any gifs for him yet, but here are a few upscaled transparent stills from what we've seen in-game so far!

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boar anton and ferret annie

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You are actually so awesome dude

You don’t know how ABSOLUTELY FIXATED I am on that one red snarlly man, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

Seeing your posts makes me smile like a goober, thank you for making me more excited for the game 😈😈😈✨✨✨✨

WAHOO!! Snarly red man lovers 🤝🤝🤝🤝

The game definitely deserves the appreciation/excitement, and I'm more than happy to have somewhere to dump my own fixated ramblings where others can enjoy them too 👍👍👍👍

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What did they mean by this...

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Will there be any new mechanics in the release of the game, or will it just be normal?

This is outside my wheelhouse, I'm just someone who enjoys the game, lol! I only know info that's technically been provided publicly (be it in the files, shared by someone working on the game, or whatever else).

That being said, the game director has mentioned there being several more level-specific transformations aside from the ones we've already seen / heard about (though what they are, I wouldn't know). And the "antomic bomb" dive move replaced the regular hammer slam only in the latest demo, so there's always the chance they'll add or change more stuff as development continues. Only time will tell! :]

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oh god oh fuck it's happening

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have any more interesting tidbits you haven’t shared here yet? or maybe something you want more people to see/know about :0

This is such a dangerous question to ask me lmao I could go on forever. I won't though ♡

Ummmmm here's just a few things.

1) The first version of the steam demo (DD:V1) had a list of room names for not just Boiler City and Cinnamon Springs, but also the Mines level (and a couple for Glasshouse, including "Anton Actually Dies For Real" lol). I'm not going to list them all, but they were there. Several were just lyrics to the MGS Snake Eater theme.

2) Speaking of Anton death... The silly little "angel Anton" sprites/references in the files of both DD:V1 and DD:V2 (but not the one in between). Not sure where they'll show up in-game yet, but the concept is cute. And, though it's definitely not what I actually expect them to be for, the idea of Anton ending up in Hell and Satan going "I don't want you here, go to heaven instead" is one I've pictured ever since I first saw them aksjdhsjkdfh.

3) Boss victory spritesssss. I love them. Guy who 🤟🤟

Annie's haven't been in any of the demos, but Anton's were in DD:V1 and have been shown off in streams / event demos.

4) I don't wanna explicitly spoil a ton of enemy/level stuff that's in the files of DD:V2 (there's a fair amount, if anyone feels like looking themself), but here's gunbuster (three times so it takes up less vertical space)

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what version of UTMT do you use? For some reason i'm not able to get it to decompile antonblast ;;

Yeah, the main version is busted with newer gamemaker stuff lol. I was given this link to a patch, so I might as well pass it forward! I'm not super tech savvy, but downloading one of the GUI files from there (either version should work?) was all it took for me 👍

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if we’re doing silly questions then uhhhhh share some headcanons you have? or perhaps what you’d like to see in the final game?

Bring back Anton's dog and Annie's cat!!!!!! I want to see them again!!!!!! Grrraaahhh!!!!

^ the animals ever ♡

And, on that note...

I feel like Anton is the type of guy to offer his dog a piece of human food and then when the dog spits it out right away he just picks it up off the floor and pops it in his own mouth like "ok fine if you don't want it I'll eat it after all."

This antonball intermission screen is so cute, but I am 100% certain he's going to be taking a bite of dog slobber bacon immediately following. He's not offering his dog the whole piece. He's just offering a quick nibble. The rest is for him, dog spit and all.

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I have to get around to editing my desktop blog theme at some point. Some of the sprites I use on there were updated in the new version of the demo, and I want them to match properly.

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If the person who called me "an Anton expert" knows me from other blogs that's funny but if they don't it's funnier

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This is fursona anon. I came to you because you are an Anton expert in my eyes. Also we finally compromised and decided Anton is a buffalo because hes big and hairy like one but Annie would be a warthog. We are now going to draw them as sonic characters.

Realest ask I've ever gotten in my life ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ this shit rules ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

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Hey very important question: if Anton were an animal would he be a buffalo or a warthog. I am in a heated debate with my friend over this. Both animals charge into things and are both the most aggressive animals in terms of attacking humans. We decided he would not be a bull because those are domesticated whereas buffalo and warthogs cannot be tamed.

This question rules. Everyone needs to come to me with this kind of stuff from now on. Give me silly stuff to think about. Also man up and just ask me what I think his fursona is asjfgjksgf.

I'm a big fan of bovids, so by default I'm biased towards buffalo (I assume you mean cape rather than water or plains bison). But his big ol' snarl definitely makes me wanna say warthog instead. Though if that's the case, I personally feel like wild boar works better, since they're scruffier and have a sturdier looking build (namely the "high shoulders" look that feels especially Anton to me). Idk though I think both options would 100% work

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"Annie sexy" and "Annie cutesy" are also up there

My favorite file name out of all the layer jumps btw. Grab you. Grabbing you. Getting you.

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My favorite file name out of all the layer jumps btw. Grab you. Grabbing you. Getting you.

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Can we see more of the backside layer jumps?

Yup!!

The last one is a frame from his "boss victory" animation (not in this version of the demo), but now it's by itself and renamed to be the "fist up" background layer jump