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*emerges from my college’s practice room covered in blood* hey guys i’m almost done figuring out the general leitmotif for always running so i can write tari’s theme *smiles normally*

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trying to practice enemy animations before trying them in pixel art, it’s kinda rough but i think it’s kinda silly :3

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another attempt at corrupted ztar inklings, one with the goop and one without. i’ve been drawing a lot of corrupted inklings since i’m trying to get what i wanted corrupted characters to look like in a humanoid shape before i take things on like goombas or cheep cheeps

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first pic is some concepts for what the idol groups would look like during the game, since there’s a special splatfest for the celebration of stars, kind of torn on the colors, but i definitely like the idea of them utilizing the yellow, teal, and white from rosalina’s design

second pic is some concept art for a little cutscene that plays once you get on the train in inkopolis/inkopolis square/splatsville, i’d probably have to make it a little bigger since meggy and desti would also be in this cutscene but i’ll figure something out

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i’m trying to figure how big i want the sprites before i start making them (especially since i’m using a plug-in that gives me different run animations, an idle animation, and 8 directional movement, which essentially means i have to draw each playable character 72 times and each npc 24 times) anyways, sorry for the lack of updates but since this game includes lots of world building it takes a lot of research lol

if you’d like to send asks about the game or just smg4 or game design in general, don’t be afraid to ask!

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preliminary sketch (fancy way of saying that i need to make the tiles for this and am only using the basic tile sets in rpgmmz) for the castle exterior

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NEVER skip the basic ass design stage i am regretting it severely (i have to redraw all the sprites i’ve made so far)

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since the celebration of stars is actually an entire event in the whole kingdom/world, it would make sense for inkopolis and the splatlands to have their own celebration/ splatfest so i’m designing outfits for them :3

Squid sisters design is based off of the cut of some of rosalina’s dresses, as well as bunnies since they’re considered very important to the festival

off the hook’s stuff was kinda hard but i decided to take inspo from the outfits i’ve noticed in the official art (pearl likes wearing big ass jackets and marina likes showing off her midriff lol), i also wanted them to not quite match like the squid sisters but also not look as formal as deepcut

i wanted deep cut’s to look the most official/formal since in the cannon of the smg4 rpg, the three clans are hosting the event so it’s very important for them to look nice

the fest theme would be “What’s your favorite Star Celebration snack?” with Starfruit, Konpeitō, or a triple fried galactic shwaffle

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Anyone else feel like it’s been one of those days since 2019?

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sometimes when i stay up late brainstorming i make things like this and then wake up the next day and i’m literally like “what in the god damn fuck was i trying to say with this”

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this isn’t technically related to this game, but i can’t find any record of anyone else picking up on this but there’s a song that took me WEEKS to find that plays during one of desti’s appearances (which if this game ever gets done, i’ll definitely be using leitmotifs from it for her theme), but i just thought i’d share in case anyone’s curious.

the song is Nimbasa CORE by plasterbrain, might not seem exciting to most but i was convinced for awhile it was a song from octo expansion (for some reason???) so that made it harder to find

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hai!!! uhm im new to your blog and i was wondering what your rpg was about? like the plot, if there is any :3

it starts with smg3 and bowser creating bad star and stealing the nightmare stone, which basically gives them the power to steal every power star and bring villains to life (which to mario and the gang are previously unseen but are villains from the past). they’re also corrupting people across the land, and the only way to reverse this is by restoring the power star in that area. Mario is the only one with the ability to restore the power star, but he’s gonna need some help to take these villains down

i can’t really work on the game rn since it’s the end of my semester and that means finals (yayyyyy…..) but hopefully i can get more work done on it over the summer

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haiii!! i discovered this blog, and honestly it looks good!! i love the sprites so far and the art!!! just a quick question, if the game will be finished, will it be playable?? like posting it onto gamejolt or gamebanana, etc?? just wondering, i wish u good luck on the projectt :DD

thank you, and absolutely i’m too much of an egotistical bastard to put this much effort into something and not post it anywhere, game jolt and itch.io are probably the two most likely platforms. the main issue being that nintendo will beat my ass to high heaven if i make it worth money since there’s so much copyrighted content, but mario and the music box is still around since it’s free and i’m willing to take this risk for the sake of having a sick ass smg4 game lol. and maybe, if it ever gets done, i’ll turn it into an arcade cabinet just for me to play it on for fun lol

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teaching myself to play the piano and mix my own music is definitely gonna be pretty difficult, but i’ll save the soundtrack for further down the development line once i know basic music theory lmao

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SO CUTE OMG???

Girl, smg34 sketch

Perfect aftermath au by @poly-star-trio

Design smg34 from @smg4-rpg-development

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bad star sprite and some concept art for some enemies, hopefully i can get animated enemies working since they’d be super cute

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THANK YOU OMG

i want them both dead