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Cornelia and Elyon from W.I.T.C.H., one of my fave childhood shows! Trying to improve my background art skills and I think a garden would be their happy place!

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(some of the) Indie Games out this week (Sep 15 - Sep 21)

Sayonara Wild Hearts - Switch / PS4 / iOS - September 19

“Sayonara Wild Hearts is a euphoric music video dream about being awesome, riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords and breaking hearts at 200mph.”

Untitled Goose Game - PC / Switch - September 20

“It’s a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.”

Mutazione - PC (steam / itch.io / gog) / PS4 / iOS - September 19

“A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural.” 

Neo Cab - PC (steam / itch.io) / Switch / iOS - September 19 (on iOS)

“Stay human in a world overcome by automation. Play as Lina, one of the last human driver-for-hire on the streets of Los Ojos.”

Jenny LeClue - Detectivu - PC (steam / itch.io) / iOS - September 19

“Jenny LeClue - Detectivu is a thrilling mystery adventure. It’s also a game about detectiving, friends, and choosiness.”

Later Alligator - PC (steam / itch.io) - September 18

“A very, very silly alligator mystery with multiple endings and multiple.. friendings. ;V”

Overland - PC (steam /  itch.io / gog) / Switch / PS4 / XB1 / iOS - September 19

“Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States.”

Assemble With Care - iOS - September 19

“A story in 12 objects”

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New friends & goodbyes *☆ travel diary part 7 - the end 

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stayed home tonight and made a gif

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Yo! Still without anyone for letter Y so another founder: Helga Hufflepuff !

Red hair, blue eyes, wide smile, this is dear Helga, ready to teach anyone without any selection. She was just there: ok this is a school? there are plenty of kids in the country? well I’m gonna teach them! Because anyone deserves education, no matter what or who they are. SHE IS SO PRECIOUS OK ?

THIS IS ALMOST THE END OMG. SO PLEASE ?

>>  if you have 2mn to answer my little question, you’d be such a cutie, please! Potter Girls Artbook, yas or nah ?  << 

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Indie Game Spotlight: Ooblets 

We knew we wanted to launch our latest gaming feature, Indie Game Spotlight, with a game that would really get Tumblr excited. That’s why we’re kicking this off with the creators of Ooblets (@ooblets), one of the most adorable life simulation games around. You can collect creatures, enjoy town life, discover new crops, operate a farm and all your little Ooblets compete in dance battles. Naturally. 

We spoke to writer and designer Ben Wasser and programmer and art director Rebecca Cordingley (@nonplayercat) to give you the low-down of their latest game, soon to be available on Xbox One and PC. 

Ooblets is often described as a mix between Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon and Pokémon. What else inspired the game?

Ben: On the writing and tone, I took a lot of inspiration from things like Bee and PuppyCat, Adventure Time, and Steven Universe. Also, our battle system was inspired by a few RPG card games, like Monster Slayers, Card Quest, and Slay the Spire.

What was the most difficult thing the team faced while making the game?

Rebecca: This is always a hard one to answer because making games often involves millions of small difficulties that add up to a giant ball of problems. I think a lot of bigger isolated issues relate to trying to please everyone and all the various platforms, aspect ratios, controller layouts etc. They’re not the hardest issues to solve, but will often just involve busy work or good-enough solutions.

Game design issues are harder to solve because they involve a lot of grey areas and are never self-contained, and that’s where you end up with those giant balls of lots of little problems that you chip away at day by day.

What kind of advice can you give for anyone wanting to make an indie game?

Ben: Don’t wait for the perfect moment to start or think that you need other people to help you. You just have to start making stuff yourself with what you’ve got.

Rebecca: 

Try to enjoy the process as much as the outcome / don’t become so focused on worrying about the finish line that you forget to enjoy making the game. 

However hard you think making a game might be, multiply that by 10

Learn by doing!

If life were a video game, what would some of the cheat codes be?

Ben: I asked Rebecca for an answer to this and she just wrote “GOVERNMENTJOB TALLBOY” which I think are two separate cheat codes, one for getting a free cushy government job, and the other for her to be taller.

Which Ooblet would improve the world most if it existed?

Ben: I’m gonna have to go with Pantsabear.

Rebecca: Tud! She has a sweet little froggy soul.

When will the game be available?

We’re hoping to launch sometime in 2019. We’re still too far out for a good estimate, but it would be awesome if we could do earlier in the year opposed to later!

Need this game? Ooblets will be available on Xbox One and Steam when it’s ready to launch. Follow @ooblets to stay tuned for all the updates. 

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

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my two pieces for the zium garden, sunrise and sunset!! check out the zium if you have a chance - over 50 artists collaborated to make a huge digital museum and it’s a really amazing experience

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OkayStupid Zine by OveritStudio

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Big math news! It’s been thirty years since mathematicians last found a convex pentagon that could “tile the plane.” The latest discovery (by Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Casey Mann, and David Von Derau) was published earlier this month. Full story.

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A character for the D&D 5e Homebrew game I run. His name is Dandy(lion) and he’s a moss construct

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how to draw arms ? ? 

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