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idk I think palworld is pretty abhorrent not just for plagiarism but all the slavery shit and straight up human trafficking in it?

one of my favorite things to do in Rimworld is capture a guy, harvest his organs and then put him in a machine that regenerates him, and then do it again and sell the organs

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a herd of dairy cow isopods grazing the great green meadow 🌱

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made a guy

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I'm proud to say I was the lead gameplay developer on this project! Shout outs to everyone on my team who worked so incredibly hard to make this project real and all my friends on the art and production team who were down in the trenches with us.

There's a lot of incredible voice (Amanda Hufford, Ray Chase, Robbie Daymond, Max Mittelman, and dozens more) and writing talent on this project, and you are absolutely missing out if you don't give this a shot.

It's not perfect, but there's a lot of excellent representation in this game. For example.... you can date me in this game???? o///o WILD

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why not make a cool demon dog in 3d?????????

rigging this and getting the rig to not break in mmd won't be so fun

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hello do you like my video game

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gdscript appears to be... as easy to learn as advertised. well the grammar at least. i am still learning what it functionally means to program. i am both dyscalculic and very visual (i think those things are probably related) so while the abstract concepts aren't impossible, i have to work them out with visual analogies to get it. i've been modeling it in my head as a series of nested parent/child relationships not unlike html.

thankfully my partner is a linux neckbeard programmer (said literally and lovingly) and i can sit down with him and explain the stuff i've learned and he can confirm if i'm 'getting it' or not. he said i'm picking up the concepts fast. neat.

i followed a tutorial last night and cobbled together a little 2d thing. today i'm going to see if i can make changes to it outside of the tutorial myself, and possibly rewatch the tutorial entirely so i can commit stuff to memory better.

learning programming appears to be similar to learning a real language in that you can learn grammar and words but you won't really be able to make full sense of them unless you are speaking them in context where the language is used. same with learning programming, watching abstracted grammar tutorials kind of just confused me a bit, following a tutorial where you actually employ the principals in situ is when my brain was making the 'oh, ohhhh' sort of connections.

also, godot's in-engine documentation where you hold ctrl to click on a function etc in the script window to pull up its explanation is great. sure fucking wish blender had that.

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your renders are fantastic !!!!

aw thank you! i should post more of them really. i have like years of cg backlog i just havent shown anyone

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Hello :) Welcome to my blog.

I am a tiny little autistic plural ftm troglodyte with mental problems who worldbuilds about miserable tiny little men with mental problems. My worldbuilding autism is actually mostly on the culture / sociological / psychological / theological side of things but I do have a lot of miserable little men.

Check out the #my-work tag for worldbuilding and artwork, and check out #my-gamedev tag to witness a comically dyscalculic man teach himself programming and game development.

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SVEN & DIRUMIR

you'll be seeing more of these two soon... very soon. along with titanic amounts of autistic worldbuilding about these two characters and the culture of their people i've been working on for about 5 years now on and off.

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rody horse bryce render 🎈🎈

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I made @chknnuggs-the-eel cyberhead designs into a actual mod!

Get it here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/475226

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speaking of learning blender, now that i'm no longer in 'all my art must make me money or i'll be literally homeless' mode i was in for the past 10 years, i should sit down and learn how to properly render and animate.

and learn gdscript. fuck.

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I haven't used tumblr in a long while for mental health reasons and I gotta say, y'all have gone freak mode on blender in my absence, gottdamn. like however many years ago when I was first posting CG here, not many people were doing cg, and now so many of you are and the stuff you're all making is crazy cool. I'm proud of you all for picking up the medium and learning it. It's a bit of a learning curve but very worth it.

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THORNTON GREY, 2.5K TRIS & 256x TEX

Worldbuilding and cg autism under the cut

This is Thornton Grey, a character of mine I've had for around 15 years now. He's from a more or less retired worldbuilding universe of mine, waiting to be either recycled or refactored. Thornton is one of the dearest characters from that setting (and in all honesty, one of my dearest characters in general) and I tend to keep him in my current brain palette of little men to doodle in various formats.

I've been doing these early cd-3d (aka psx /ps1 etc) styled models for some of my OCs with hopes of eventually ?? learning godot. I guess. I need to get my worldbuilding out to the world so it become property of the grand creative consciousness, aka to affect people with my art the same way people affected me.

The tri count is higher than many people tend to target for this style and i'll probably improve that over time as I make various kinds of assets related to my worldbuilding, but eh who cares lol. The textures are photobashed stock images with details painted over and posterized in photoshop.

Here's some bonus 'march of progress' of my art of him over time.

Lore? Well, many of my characters start out with me being bored or annoyed by a specific trope in media, and he is no exception. He's a few things, but primarily he's my take on the 'little pinocchio robot boy/man who wishes he was a Real human'. Thornton's character addresses more so the preoccupations we as humans have to classify and categories types of people or non-people.

The universe, with the codename Redverse, is set approximately 1920s/1930s alt-earth america. He was child to a pair of grandmaster clocksmiths in the early 1800s whom could not have children of their own, and spent decades producing an analog AI composed of millions of intricate gears assembled with a small cube which composes his brain. He has a small boiler in his trunk that provides power for the various hydraulic systems within his limbs and keeps his brain's clockwork properly wound.

After caring for his elderly parents until their deaths, he took his father's trenchcoat and gun and traveled the country. (why is his gun a german luger? i don't know, i was like 17. it looks cool.)

Computers, robots, ai, etc, are not really a thing in this universe, granted the targeted vague time period. So he's generally regarded by others as an advanced automaton (he basically is.) and as a curiosity. He however has no qualms about being artificial in nature, as he sees it, he has all the makings of the average man -- has parents, has to eat (hard coal for his boiler), and can love. To view him as nonhuman baffles him, and his matter of fact attitude about the issue tends to win over many people he gets to know. Regarded mostly with respect for his kind and empathetic nature within the communities he spends any amount of time in, he's eventually pulled into the underworld of armed resistance forming against the increasing power of a fascist authoritarian regime that has quickly possessed control of the tumultuous american politics.

A tl;dr of this universe is "but what if AMERICA was the nazis". Very clever 17yo me. I'm sure you had a shock of your life when you grew up and learned about america's rancid role in world politics. Thus the retirement and possible refactoring -- I think it can be a compelling alt history universe if I actually learn more about how do to it properly, if i ever revive it. I'm not the first person to do it but maybe I can offer something interesting if at least for the setting of a noir style vibe game.

Anyway, Thornton becomes very involved. So involved, in fact, he becomes essentially the poster child of the resistance movement. And is targeted for it.

Widely hailed as a martyr for his subsequent demise, the resistance movement gets his hands on his thankfully intact head and revive him the best they can. He is unfortunately damaged, and upon revival, starts channeling visions from beyond.

And that is about as far as I got with his story. Perhaps you will see more of him in the future.