#essence game

[uncannyforest]

Windmill, Jasmine (flower), and Fountain (the white diamond) are all displaying properly in the 3D world! There were some small glitches before

[uncannyforest]

This post is legit probably going to influence my game mechanics

I no longer feel bad about not animating a "drop" in arrows' path

This will hugely vary from bow to bow (and historical bows have more drop than modern ones) but your +14 Bow of Slicing Through 3 Enemies With One Arrow is probably going to fairly comfortably shoot past 50m!

Also, I really love the shot at 30m where my arrow left a silhouette of droplets! It was very fun 😁

More content on Patreon but for some reason Tumblr won’t let me link it today 🤷

[1alchemistart]

dont got much to offer for The Holiday but have these sillies!

happy valentines day :D

[kosmicprlz]

the prince and lord death dancing

thanzagweek day 5: dance!!! -- i really had so much fun on this one.. so theres also different versions of it too!!

[halogalopaghost]

I have just stabbed you in the tavern and I'm looting your body. Put in the tags what you dropped

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[claraoswalds]

This is a brand new science for me, and I love it. The language of luck. 'Cause what is a coincidence but a form of accident? Two things bumping together unexpectedly. Like you and me.

[lynnetendo]

some sifs I drew from memory into my sketchpad while I was at a family meetup... i thought it'd be fun to digitalize the more original style ones with a pixel brush and the ones that were more my own artstyle with my usual brush (initial pencil sketch under the cut)

unironically, any notable change you see between the traditional sketch and the digital version only stems from the fact that i had no space on the real paper e.g. the sketches being repositioned or sif's hat not being curled downwards everywhere was because i could actually use the space better digitally lmao

[fisheito]

follow the vice captain! grow flowing locks for maximum chivalry and knighthood!

[joejhang]

jeremy worded it so accurately the history that kevin and jean have with each other truly is dizzying

[uncannyforest]

After many hours of work throughout March and October, I think I've finished refactoring Essence's 2D rendering code to 3D! I just ironed out the last bugs I could find—mainly boat and moose issues. The boat logic was definitely a land mine of problems towards the end.

Later I'm going to make characters 3D, which is half the reason I'm doing this in the first place, but I'm very happy that 2D objects are being displayed along 3D objects quite smoothly.

Now I can resume working on the actual gameplay! I've been planning a lot of big changes to shift the focus towards raising creatures and their interaction with the environment . . .

[saturngalore]

my version of penny pizzazz!!! 🩵

[monkeyslunch]

Dumb Small Dog One page RPG jam.

A simple one-page RPG that helps you embody the role dumb small dogs have in our society. It may require skill and practice.​

Built on the Essence system​

[nathaniels-diary]

People in 2012 when the first hunger games movie was casted "NOOO GUYS Rue cant be black!! Katniss says she reminds her of Prim!"

People in 2025: "NOOO GUYS Louella cant be black! Haymitch says katniss reminds him of her!!"

Like have we learned NOTHING?

[mysims-mod]

Unused Essences - Part 2

As I mentioned at the beginning of Part 1. I originally wanted to discuss everything in only one post, but because I hit the 30 image limit. I had to split it into two.

If you haven't yet, you can read Part 1 right here.

So without further fanfare, here's the rest. Below the cut again.

It’s fish. Just fish

Now this is where the unused essences start to get… even less complete than what we have seen this far. While there is a flair model leftover, and even a palette of paints. That palette is incomplete, It has a patterned paint swatch, but only one. The second pattern swatch is black, pure complete blackness. And the rest are pure white like the other essences we have discussed.

Now while I have been showing a render of the swatches up to this point, I do think it is worth showing how it looks in-game as well. Because what would be the second patterned swatch is instead completely pitch black.

It’s also worth mentioning that the one (1) swatch we do have is very similar to the rainbow trout swatch visible in-game. In-fact they are virtually identical to one another.

Sad Bear is an interesting case, while every essence that we have looked at so far has had some paints and text tied to it, this one does not. The only thing that remains is this very cute looking flair model.

We don’t know exactly what this would have been. It’s possible that this was just an earlier form of the final sad essence, but we don’t have any definitive evidence, leaving this one as a bit of a mystery.

Burn is another even more interesting one, and is more mysterious than Sad Bear. 

This one is unique in that it does not have any leftover text, or even a flair model, but it does have two full pattern swatches. But this is even more interesting, with everything discussed before, the Material Sets that allow the paints to appear in-game could be brute forced and loaded in the PC version with no problems, this however cannot.

As a result, whether or not there are any flat paints to accompany the palette is completely unknown.

Ok hear me out on this one.

This last one is just the Cherry Blossom essence. Except under the name of Apple Blossom. Every bit of text, every paint swatch, every everything is the exact same as the final Cherry Blossom, but with ‘appleblossom’ as its internal name. However in the actual text that is displayed in-game, it is still referred to as Cherry Blossom.

Interestingly, while the duplicate textures remain in the game’s files. The material set to actually make them appear in-game seems to no longer exist. Creating another Burn essence situation, where they can’t be seen in-game.

Although it would probably just be a duplicate of the Cherry Blossom’s set as well.

It is worth noting that there are also a few other models in the game files bearing the Apple Blossom name, but none of them follow the standard convention for essence models which is ‘flairEssenceName’, but they do at least provide an alternative idea of what an Apple Blossom essence could have looked like.

And with that, these have been almost all of the unused essences in MySims. But believe it or not, there are still more unused essences to talk about! A whopping 27 that I could find at the time I’m writing this.

However they are… much less interesting compared to the ones discussed today. These have all had some kind of interesting leftover attached to them, whether that’s a model, textures, or text. But these remaining essences on the other hand…

Are comprised entirely out of very basic placeholder assets, which make them not very interesting to look at in comparison.

I do want to talk about them at some point in the near future though, and I can say with certainty that it will be before 2032!

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

the reason tom blyth was so good as snow is bc he holds his jaw in this very specific way throughout the entire film that simultaneously makes him look annoyed, superior, angry, disinterested, above it all, like everyone is beneath him, judgmental, pretentious, like a little bitch,, and ik that’s not tom blyth’s resting face that was a very specific artistic choice and it was the right one