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old fanart of mine from 2013 ish!

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more old fanart from 2013-ish!

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Another mini sketchbook doodle

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IM BACK (kind of)

HELLO ILOMILO COMMUNITY!!! im sorry i completely abandoned this blog for like 1.5 years without saying anything lol 🥲 at the end of 2023 i decided to leave tumblr for the sake of my mental health. i'm still struggling, but i'm doing better than i was before, and i think i'm ready to try to start using tumblr again only for connecting with people around media that brings me joy... like ilomilo! this fandom (both on tumblr and outside of it) seems to have grown while i was gone which makes me so happy to see. i'm looking forward to continuing to celebrate this beautiful game with all of you!

when i last posted, i was working on some ilomilo projects: uploading all posts from the ilomilo devblog to this blog here, compiling information about every block and character in the game, and a secret third thing. i'm hoping to make progress on all of these things this year! i'm still not ready to tell you about the secret third thing but i've been slowly making progress on it while i've been gone and i hope to be able to share it with you someday not too far in the future :~D

i'll leave you with this: since i last posted here i moved and have finally been able to start decorating a space of my own, and i decided to treat myself to a couple ilomilo goodies to celebrate! the plushies are made by angelinalily and the turntable topper is made by (you guessed it) turntabletoppers! i hope to be able to add more ilomilo stuff to this shelf, including some of my own creations (i tried sculpting ilo and milo recently but it did not go well LOL) :~D

that's all for now! see ya around ❤️💙

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Things to look up later: Miika, for its suspiciously ilomilo-like aesthetics

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Fun fact: This Image's source is now gone due to sidebjorn's twitter being deleted, so... Download it while you can I guess?

Breaking News!!!

After several years of wondering where the plushie versions of ilo & milo ended up (or if they even still existed), we finally have an answer...

They're still together!

"After southend closed down, @/sidebjorn took them home." -@/simogo on Twitter

There's also a framed drawing that can be seen in the game under "train concepts"

(Anyway, this is very cool to see & Thanks again to Björn & Simogo for responding!)

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Friendly reminder that when you start learning any fiber arts craft, you will suck at it for the first few attempts. And then you may run into a moment where you’re going to say “fuck it all, this is too hard, why do I even bother with this shit?”

Thank God for my husband who still kept these photos back in 2011 of my first poor attempts in crocheting amigurumi. I honestly had no clue what I was making. Did I crocheted pretty poop dolls? At least that’s what my mind thinks of it.

I guess these two were the closest semblance of ilomilo because I loved that game with a passion.

Did I forget to mention that in my earlier creations, I needle felted most parts of the body because I wasn’t confident in doing color switches and embroidery work on it?

Looking at it now, I’m still amazed that I managed to complete these amigurumi without a pattern. And moreover, I’m glad my husband didn’t delete these photos from his ancient iPod Touch.

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MICROSOFT I AM TRYING SO HARD FOR THE LITERAL FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE TO GIVE YOU MONEY. LET ME PLAY ILOMILO GODDAMMIT

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Assorted cube textures below (Converted from .dds to .png)

Have fun!

I’ve been trying to access the textures from the game files for quite some time, I want to retrieve all the textures for the placeable cubes so I can make little paper versions! Do you have any advice??

Hello! & Yes!

If you're trying to access the files for ilomilo plus, you need to find the place where Windows installs things from the app store, which should be in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps (note that this is a hidden file and does not generally allow user access unless you change some permissions)

Next, search for ilomilo in the top right and you should find all of the game files (I'd copy & paste this file somewhere else, wouldn't want to break anything important in your game)

After that, your textures should be in data\gfx\textures\cubes !

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I’ve been trying to access the textures from the game files for quite some time, I want to retrieve all the textures for the placeable cubes so I can make little paper versions! Do you have any advice??

Hello! & Yes!

If you're trying to access the files for ilomilo plus, you need to find the place where Windows installs things from the app store, which should be in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps (note that this is a hidden file and does not generally allow user access unless you change some permissions)

Next, search for ilomilo in the top right and you should find all of the game files (I'd copy & paste this folder somewhere else, wouldn't want to break anything important in your game)

After that, your textures should be in data\gfx\textures\cubes !

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Merry Christmas 2010!

-From the ilomilo blog Archives

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together! (ft. a standalone + my sanza clip zip music player as an ilomilo with a safka 🙈) (2013-16)

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assorted things i learned about ilomilo while plumbing the game files at 1am instead of packing, doing homework, or sleeping

CHARACTERS, CUBES, AND CREATURES

the sock puppet dog is called a cubethief

the little DEMON cube that shoots up if u walk in front of it and goes “DOOWAP!” is called… the teaser cube. unsurprising

the apple eating creature that goes “YOPE YOPE YOPE” is called a muncher (and the apples are called edibles 😏)

the birdcage creature is called a nabber

the bounce cube is called… exactly what it sounds like LOL (and fun fact being launched off of it is called a “piong!”)

the plunger cube is also called exactly what it sounds like

the arrow thing that shifts gravity is called a carpet

the single cube with the little bunny ears that u can pick up is called… a p-cube? idk what the p stands for

the long doglike cube that snaps out from 1 to 2-4 blocks and woofs at u is called a chain cube!

the like duplicate cubes that you can create out of paper in ch 3 are called mirror cubes

the bird cube that flies vertically is called the elevator cube (duh i suppose)

the cube that lets you walk on top of it and flip upside down is called the hole cube

the cube that turns u 90 degrees when u walk on top of it (or that rolls one block every couple seconds) etc etc) and kinda like.. burps at u. is called a rotocube

lantern cube and light cubes (what u create by placing the lantern cube) my beloveds…. <3

the creature in berry story that’s like the weird little guy on wheels that is always on the opposite face of the active player is called a mimic and the little guy on wheels who carries you with the tray is called the transporter cube. i know that one or both of these two have been referred to as piccolo and/or bouncer before in canon and the sounds they make have been called gny/issel which i think means “creak” in swedish. idk im too tired to go back and check any of the naming stuff (but anyway i don’t like berry story very much so im not as motivated KDHDKDHDKDHJ) but i will do so someday in the hopefully near future <3

the cute creatures who play instruments when u win or get achievements etc are called (aptly) drumman and tubaman

sebastian = “infoman” (i need to go back and check if his ladybug was in the file.. im assuming so) and his house is called the info cube >:~) hell yeah

the safkas are called “kid” in the texture files and “baby” in the sound files 😭😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺 and there are actually 4 of them that were made for the game but the red one isn’t used i don’t think!

fun fact: ilo’s pattern is plaid and milo’s pattern is floral… and all of the safkas but the teal one has both plaid and floral (🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺)!!! the teal one has vertical stripes + floral which is very cool :”~D

this is probably common knowledge but it’s news to me — if u get certain achievements in world of keflings and raskulls then u can unlock special costumes for ilo and milo! ilo can be a pirate, “winter” (??), a devil, or a dragon… milo can be a doctor, a witch, a king, or a wizard. not sure if there is anything to read into about this but i am thinking MANY thoughts and i also want to do fanart

i have no idea what a wallpig is but apparently it’s a character. i think it’s honestly the giant background thing that wraps around chapter 1’s skybox (name for level environment apparently) sometimes? but yeah i have to go check

idk if it’s just me but… i don’t think fold cubes are actually in the game right? like maybe they’re the mirror makers but i thought they looked like portals and not faces

also speaking of mirrors i feel like there are mirror textures in the files that don’t actually exist in the game.. like for the nabber and stuff? but ch 3 is my least favorite so i might be misremembering

some notable background creatures i am either too tired to remember or haven’t paid enough attention to: balloon creature, a cupboard creature, the dogfish (which i vaguely recall), the eggs (i think those are from the multiplayer version which i haven’t played in ages), ropegirl, VICTOR (who i will see in my nightmares), and pirate piany who i literally don’t think ive ever seen in my life but there’s sebastian lore in there bc they look like sebastian. basicslly i need to go back and replay the whole game but pay attention to bc characters

LORE AND EASTER EGGS

interestingly enough it seems like the park level was supposed to be ch 1 as planned but then ch 2 would’ve been the noir / night level, ch 3 would’ve been the water level, and ch 4 would’ve been the paper level? that reflects in some game files but not all of them so i wonder what their idea for the story was before they made the switch

letter names 1-5 (i.e. signatures on the memories) are ilona, milton, kalliope, saffron, and dr gris (probably out of order im too tired to check lol) but letter names 6-10 turned up totally blank for me. idk if they’re just supposed to be negative versions of them but the fact that they have numbers and not any sort of “n” indicator is… suspicious

game mechanics i saw in the files but genuinely have zero recollection of: “blink of denial,” smooch, and a phone ringing and being picked up?? maybe all of this is from berry story but idk

sound file names i get a kick out of: “suckplopp” (sound effect; exactly what the name implies) and “rhubarbarella” (the version of the ilomilo theme that plays when u first start up the game before pressing enter to get to the main menu or whatever)

the memories are called “meta stories” in certain game files and the memory fragments are called “membits” that generate “memory fluid” that goes into the “memory machine” !!! wow

there are lots of cool houses / trees / etc in the bg that ive never paid attention to before but a few of them either have faces / characters on or inside them OR…. they have ilo and milo on them 🤯 like this one house in ch 4 (noir level) has a bunch of them in the ilomilo shuffle style incl with crossed out eyes???? uhmmmm

other cool bg things to give shoutouts to: the carboat, the lightrope (which presumably ropegirl hangs out on), the machinarium

i am SO MAD abt this one. so there’s a paper plane that flies around in ch 3 AND IT’S MADE OF AN ILOMILO MANUAL 😭😭😭😭😭 like it has a picture of ilo and milo on it and then u can see folded up excerpts abt chain cubes and p-cubes and the premise of the game… psspspspsps southend studios release the sacred texts

one of the playroom “props” has ilomilo shuffle playing on a video game screen! and (even cooler) another one has a whole bunch of wooden blocks with the only visible block letters being k, s, i, and m……. our four main characters kalliope saffron ilona and milton might have something to say about this 😜

according to the sound files there was going to be a narrator implemented into the game in some way shape or form! complete with breathing and lighting a pipe and lots of speaking files… but i couldn’t tell if they were speaking an actual language or a made up one like sebastian (and now that i say that i wonder if the narrator would’ve been sebastian’s “human” counterpart? but idk)

one of the background items (technically two but the 2nd is a recolor) features a label for something called nom nom jam with ilo and milo dancing around the words! ilona and milton jam making era……

THE RECORDS READ “SEBASTIAN RECORDS” WITH MILTON AND ILONA’S NAMES AS THE ARTISTS?????? were they musicians 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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How have I never drawn fan art of this game before it literally built me.

Everyone and their entire families should play Ilomilo right now I'm not even kidding it's so good and fun and creative the emotional and I HATE that everyone sleeps on it.

Progress images (and some design points) below the cut:

When customizing the designs, I wanted to make them look like the source materials, ie. plushies. I made them have seams an stiches like their original designs but gave them cloaks instead of the weird body suits they naturally have. Also, the rectangles where their faces are are masks. Their actual faces are much fluffier.

That's really it. I love them. Play their game. Listen to their OST. Do it. Do it already-

Have a nice day dudes :))

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If you've got a Windows Computer, you should still be able to buy ilomilo plus from the Microsoft Store™

ilomilo turns 10 today!

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1,705.) ilomilo

Release: November 8th, 2010 | GGF: Puzzle, Collectathon | Developer(s): SouthEnd Interactive AB | Publisher(s): Microsoft Corporation | Platform(s): Windows Phone (2010), Xbox 360 (2011), Windows Apps (2012)

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Merry Christmas 2010!

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