#Overclocked!

[acidmouthed]

Now that I'm moving Tex (frombrad2worse's Guardian) and Nova into a new original game idea, I gotta redesign them away from their Destiny digs. It's been nice drawing for the first time since... oh, December or January? Having free time for the first time in so long is nice but trying to come up with outfit designs that mesh cowboy + treasure hunter + sci-fi HARD. Fun. But hard.

Gonna try to do maybe 2-3 of these quick sketches per week until I land on good designs for the 6 characters in the main party.

[cassiefisherdrake]

tell us about overclocked, what is it? you said 'a visual novel with tactical combat'?

EHEHE, thank you so much for asking!!!

Overclocked! is my idea for a strategy roleplaying game (combining a visual novel with tactical/strategy combat throughout) - sort of like Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy Tactics, or Into the Breach, if you've ever played any of those games. If you haven't, you can imagine each combat as a chessboard, if a chessboard sometimes interrupted movement with difficult terrain. Usually the goal is to move your characters across the chessboard, eliminating all enemies or a leader enemy to win the match and advance the story. Outside of combat, you can wander around your 'camp' to talk to your NPC companions, build rapport, and learn more about the story at large!

This story would follow 7 AI who find themselves on a spaceship, the Independent Variable, headed toward an extinct alien planet:

Tex (he/him), the Trapper -- and the player character!

Peaches (she/her), the Bomber

Merit (he/him), the Utility

Nova (she/her), the Dynamo

Prime (he/xe), the Pyro

Gali (they/them), the Floe

Democritus (he/him), the onboard AI - unlike the other characters, he doesn't have a mobile platform body and is housed literally inside the ship itself, controlling and piloting it.

The player, as Tex, is awoken by Democritus during a missile alert and instructed to wake the other bots. Turns out the extinct alien planet they're going to isn't so extinct after all... well, the aliens themselves are long dead, but they've left behind defensive robots to guard their ancient ruins. With the other bots awake and the missile robots defeated, Democritus explains that they were built to retrieve an ancient artifact from this dead world, one that could potentially bring about world peace: an alien AI whose purpose was to govern politics, the economy, and prevent war. To get it though, they will first have to fight through the planet's remaining defenses to collect parts of the artifact that have been scattered across the globe.

As they travel across the dead world, however, they start to realize that things aren't quite adding up. Some horrible truths are revealed about the aliens, the world, and the crew of the Independent Variable itself. Choices have to be made, which can lead to one of three different endings I have planned: the happy ending, the scattered ending, and... the worst ending.

More under the cut because I got really excited answering and this might be a bit long. Oops.

Each of the six 'Power' bots has unique capabilities split into two categories: Mechanical (Trapper, Bomber, Utility) and Thermodynamic (Dynamo, Pyro, Floe). Mechanical Powers focus on your 'typical' kinetic forces: hitting stuff really hard or tripping things up. Thermodynamic Powers are more like magic!

First up: team Mechanical! As the Trapper, Tex is fast, maneuverable, and great at battle field control, capable of leading enemies into well-laid traps like trip mines. Peaches, the Bomber, is... well. A bomber. Her main weapon is a grenade launcher that launches wire pods to deal damage and entangle enemies. What more could you want in a Bomber? Then Merit, as the Utility, is your strongest healer and buff support guy (pun intended on 'buff' - the guy is bara as hell). He's the one most capable of causing the other Power bots to overclock (i.e., land critical hits)!

And Team Thermodynamic! Nova, the Dynamo, is your go-to gal for a rocket-powered punch that leaves enemies quaking in their boots with dangerous electric currents. Prime, the Pyro, of course has a flamethrower, but is also capable of overheating enemy units such that they can just fall apart in a gust of wind. Gali, the Floe, is a sniper with pinpoint accuracy for freezing enemies out of their abilities, movement, or life itself. Probably the term Thermodynamic makes a bit more sense here now: electricity, hot, and cold "magic!"

While each Power bot starts off in their own niche of tactics, as the course of the game progresses and each bot levels up, they all learn new abilities that are more aligned with different strategies - DPS, healing, battlefield control, etc., - so that even if you lose one bot in the course of a battle, the others can fill in that niche a little bit.

Luckily, even if you do lose a bot, you can bring them back after the fight is over! After all, they're robots, they can be rebuilt! Luckily, no memories are lost in the course of a rebuild, so they can all keep on trucking until they acquire the treasure: the alien AI that can bring about world peace!

Thanks again for asking, I really love this story and the characters I have going and can't wait to share more about it! :'] Right now, I'm mostly working on dialogue (after all, RPGs in this style are MOSTLY dialogue!) since I have a majority of the plot line built up and slowly but surely working on each of the Power bots' character designs. I'm having a LOT of fun doing both!

[thefantastician]

sonic scribbles

[dulioon]

Sonic Forces Overclocked is woah

[chaospears]

now we see the warning sign we'll disobey our Frankenstein.

[kuroiyuki96-art]

A couple of new drawings over the past few weeks

[luetta]

touching and teasing a robot girl and then making her print an event log, so you can see all of the simulations she ran while it was happening about what she thinks, hopes, dreads would've been happening next

[chaos-theoryyy]

So there's this very old, unfinished, funny as hell overwatch SFM series on YouTube called Overclocked that I discovered a while ago and I decided to draw some of my favorite funny screenshots

Hanzo and Cassidy both being fucking dumbasses / comic relief is so Relationship Goals™

There's also these redraws from ep 3 where the series randomly switched genres from lighthearted comedy to angsty horror for some reason

Though I LOVED the Reaper Sombra father daughter angst

[transmechanicus]

I'm solidly in the camp that Admech absolutely can cast miracles the same way as Sister's of Battle, it just manifests as them discovering hidden cheat codes for their guns that makes them shoot better, and that's indistinguishable to them from the strange shit that happens with STCs every other tuesday.

[caffeccino]

Mooncake doodles <3

She's on the track and field team, hence her extensive cybernetic augmentations. She can run real fast, but not for very long. It also put her a bajillion dollars in debt, but a small price to pay, don't you think?

[thirium]

Detroit: Become Human Requests

Ripple // for @iwonderwh0

[infizero]

LOOK AT THIS SHIT DUDE. the voice acting the animation im gonna pass out dude its so good

[ksou0]

peaceful days have died, let's survive

[chaospears]

and the marionettes awaken, into a nightmare

[theactualsunshinechild]

Boothill explaining with a bitter smile that his body is "no longer made for lovin'":

Dan Heng, rolling up his sleeves, eyes glowing with the autistic need to figure out exactly which wires he needs to tug on to make this man's eyes roll back into his head and his voicebox short out: "First of all, with thorough research and dedication all things are possible, so jot that down."

[keingakobold]

Sometimes, the solution to your problem simply requires more... everything.

Terrifyingly mobile for her size and capable of pumping out enough beampower to transmute a skyscraper beyond recognition, Harpy is able to provide just that.