#game database

[dozydawn]

Viktoriya Avdeeva, 2006.

[ethersic]

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17+ Through Death We Become — An interactive fiction story about grief. [Submission to Queer Vampire Jam — Other Entries]

Years ago, your life was taken from you, stolen by the teeth of a vampire. For a long time, anger at losing all you were had festered inside, building and boiling, threatening to pour out, but you had maintained it.

Until you heard that the vampire who turned you had shown up in some state, and it all came rushing forth.

Not wanting to lose your chance at revenge, you hunt him down, but before you get to him, you wind up in a random town with a stranger who wants to help you.

7.5k words

1 human (non-binary) love interest

Lots of angst

[nancydrewdatabase]

Book covers in the Message in a Haunted Mansion for the interactable books. Plus two handwritten journals (Lizzie's and Nancy's).

Not to be confused with the book cover of the Nancy Drew book Message in a Haunted Mansion, these are in-game books.

[tagapagsalaysay]

i remember reblogging about Can I Play That a while back so have you guys heard about this. Absolutely ghoulish

[wiezumbeispiel]

Had an idea that was like. Well what if instead of crows glados had 3 baby porygons?? They’re kind of like birds. Kind of. Anyways all you need to know is that she loves them very much

[hush-house-yard-sale]

The Hush House Card Catalogue

@baja-blasted @terephin (please ignore the crabs)

//So the software I'm using to keep track of my books, lore bits, etc. is called Seatable! It wasn't my first choice for this project, I'm more familiar with Airtable (I've used it professionally), but Airtable's free plan doesn't let you color-code :c

//Seatable is a website that looks a lot like google sheets, but instead of building a spreadsheet, you're building a database. I knew I wanted a database rather than a spreadsheet for my card catalogue because it became pretty apparent early on that a spreadsheet would mean a lot of duplicate entries and be a lot more work to maintain, as well as monumentally more work if I wanted to use it for reference.

//My database isn't finished, and so I'm not really comfortable making it public, but I'm happy to walk through some of the things that I like most about it, that made me choose to make a database rather than a spreadsheet.

//The main things that were really important to me was being able to have (and filter by) multiple items in the same column, having lots of cross-linking between the different sheets in the base, and having different views depending on what I was looking to reference.

//These are my different tables right now, and the way they work is that each table has the most detailed information on each item, e.g. Books has the most detail on books, and Skills has the most detail on skills. But I have columns in each table that allow me to crosslink between them.

//So for each book, I have listed the skill and memory they give, but instead of writing each out individually it links to the corresponding entry in skills/memories

//And then over in the memories tab it has all the detail on the aspects, which wisdoms it can be committed to...

//...and every book this skill can be found in and every item it can be used to craft. And those boxes can be expanded so they're easier to read as well!

//I can also group and sort things in different views. My default view for books, for example, splits them into two categories—whether I've read the book or not—and then sorts the books in each category alphabetically. But I also have one that groups them all by mystery and then sorts them from low to high, and I have another that groups them by topic. Each of these views also omits columns that aren't relevant to that particular view, for example, if I'm searching for books by mystery to give to a visitor, it's important to know the author because it's fun to give people books they themselves have written, but I don't really care about what memories that book gives, or when I'm trying to connect lore dots, it doesn't matter whether or not the book is cursed and I don't need to include books I haven't read yet (and thus don't have topic tags for). The rows on the topic one are also bigger so I can better read the blurbs.

//Well, the topic one actually groups by location, because when I group it by topic, it splits it into every combination of my topic tags, rather that giving me "here are all your books about the mansus" "here are all your books about Longs and Names" so I've stored them all in different places in the house depending on what books I think are relevant to one another.

//It's still in progress, I don't have everything written down yet, and I want more data for workbenches, and I want to try and see if there's a way for it to, say, auto-match skills/souls to workbenches for committing to the tree or crafting certain recipes. Also my color-coding is in shambles bc I'm waiting for a friend to recover from covid so that they can make me a greasemonkey script to make it a little less... corporate...

//But yeah! I like it a lot, and it works really well for my purposes. I highly recommend trying it out, and I'm happy to answer questions!

[terra-tortoise]

i said i wasnt allowed to buy any dragons or skins and all my funds had to go to finishing projects but alas. she spoke to me. so i spent 600g on her -_-

[nettlestingsoup]

good things about working from home: i can have a lie in! i can run errands and get myself a fun little coffee! i can unbutton my shirt because it's hot as hell! i can listen to kpop all day! i can play pokémon on my lunch break!

bad things about working from home: i have to self motivate.

[coquelicoq]

Qat lets you search for words matching a given pattern. It is the ideal tool for the discerning setter or solver of crosswords and other word puzzles. Try it now! A French-language version of Qat is also available, with the same search syntax. Essayez maintenant! Qat can find individual words matching simple and compound patterns (much like grep, Word Matcher and similar tools); beyond that, it also has an ‘equation solver’ mode that can find sets of words that simultaneously satisfy given constraints. Using this feature you can, for example, find pairs of words that are single-letter (or multiple-letter) misprints of one another, words that share common segments or that differ from one another in specified ways, words containing the same segments in different orders, and much more besides. See the examples below; a more formal explanation of the pattern syntax appears at the bottom of this page.

oh? my god???

[amaregamesdb]

Help choose the Navigation button style for the Amare Games Database!

I've been revamping some of the visual elements of the website and making sure everything is WCAG compliant for web accessibility. While doing that I thought it would be fun to do a poll to see which style of buttons folks like better for the website. I've added some images of what the 2 options look like in both dark and light mode.

So do you prefer rounded corners of pill-style buttons? * Also I'm not sure why but Tumblr decided to destroy the image quality of the examples. But you folks get the idea.

[ethersic]

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17+ Elysium — A short interactive fiction butchering of Greek mythology made in 5 hours. [Submission to Locus Jam — Other Entries]

Rewarded with afterlife in the Elysian Fields, you find it hard to accept such a gift after all you’ve done. You’re undeserving.

See a long gone lover.

Speak to some unknown gods (?).

Accept the promise of paradise, or don’t.

Content Warnings: Comparisons of humans to meat, murder to consumption, descriptions of gore, blood, death, violence, dismemberment, self-hatred, and generally dark content.

[nancydrewdatabase]

Simone's business cards in the Final Scene

[damnation-if]

hey guys, i just wanted to thank everyone so so so much for all the support i received yesterday. waking up this morning was literally overwhelming with how many kind people chose to help me out and i'm eternally grateful. having two more weeks of security in the place i'm staying is literally. a lifesaver and i can't thank you all enough <3

in some hopefully cool news we are fast approaching 2000 followers! i mentioned it a little in the tags of my last post but i've been making tentative plans for ideas on what to do as a celebration... i Had been thinking about doing a side game and submitting it to the orifice game jam (the theme is. very appropriate for this game after all XD) but apparently game jam entries get uploaded by other people to a kind of database where despite it being an unranked jam everyone is pretty critical with their ratings and that's not really my vibe for a silly side-game that assumes some familiarity with the characters already for a follower celebration i guess.

so i suppose i'll just have to make an orifice-themed side game outside of the jam LMAO 😏

i have a decent idea of what i want to do with it... now that i'm not doing the game jam i might expand it just a Leetol cos i'd like to finally use polls on here and maybe give you guys some things to vote on about it lmfao. but we'll see how it goes! thank you all again <3

[heckling-hydrena]

currently putting together a chart of breed representation in umas because I constantly see people say that snappers never get skins when that is just incorrect. false, even.

[fairyoctopus]

i have every food item in my vault.

[felassan]

this symbol looks to be related to another game as it appears in its logo (Tales of Kenzera: Zau).

[context, two: icon appears there as an asset on SteamDB]