I'm working on a fic for an exchange and it's going to be printed out and mailed. I want to include an "about the author" section in the back. So I've come to ask: any ideas for what I should include? What should I say about myself or my writing? This is your chance to call me a super gay grandma and possibly get that printed alongside the fic. It can be funny, stupid, sincere, whatever.
Getting Sun and Moon’s final designs finished finally!!
I fiddled with their designs a lot and thought I found the right ones before, but man was I wrong.
Finished up a new mechanic for Roll's little game. Now she can pick things up and carry them around! It seems super simple on the surface, but it was actually really complicated to implement from scratch because Roll doesn't carry things like most other game characters do lol.
The easy part was implementing some new movement modes for carrying light and heavy objects that change her animations and movement properties like speed and weight. The harder parts were setting up the grabbing/carrying system itself.
The first part was setting up a system to check if an object was within her range to be grabbed (the top of it is near her feet) and if she is in a state where she can grab things (in the air and not carrying anything else). It required some learning, but wasn't too hard.
Next, I needed a way to "attach" the object and its collision to Roll so the object wouldn't clip into walls and floors, and so she could perch on whatever she was carrying instead of dropping it if she set it on the floor. This complicated things more than I expected lol.
Funny enough, I accomplished this using a trick I learned from Mario 64. When Mario grabs an object, it "deactivates" the object and puts a fake object in his hands. Then when he throws it, the game moves the original object to where Mario's hands are and reactivates it. I think M64 had a different reason for doing it this way, but it was actually a great way to get an object's collision to be treated as if it was Roll's own collision.
Looks like watching endless videos about old video games has finally paid off lol.
RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! then tag as many people as you have WIPs.
(I will not be tagging as many people as I have wips. I don’t think I even have that many followers.)
I was tagged by @j-snapdragon!! Thank you, I love doing these! The first five are in their own docs and the rest all live in the megadoc. there's a few more (maybe, like, a dozen?) that are excluded for various reasons.
For a while now I’ve been mulling over Durja’s place in my story because I’m attached to her. She started as my ds3 character and was part of an old storyline. She kind of randomly pops in with Sylvaine’s vignettes every now and then but I didn’t know what she was or what to do with her.
But here she is with a new look and new back story and and I’m excited to reintroduce her BUT a lot of her story I’m realizing involves stuff I haven’t talked about on here yet, oops (still need to make that lil website with all the lore stuff ( ಠ◡ಠ )). Anyway, a little more about her below:
She calls herself an ‘Ashen Fury’. She, like Kraw’s father, is from Zenith; the last remaining landmass considered big enough to be a continent. Her Rook was called Mistfall but she doesn’t like to talk much about Zenith, since she believes she’ll never see it again. She leans more towards being bird adjacent rather than dragon, her wings were feathery as well.
Sylvaine had helped Durja after taking control of the Asheweaver estate (a hospital/research facility/mansion essentially). The previous ‘doctor’ and owner of the estate (to be introduced) had left her mutilated and she’d nearly gone into septic shock before Sylvaine was able to preform surgery and safely remove what was left of her wings.
Skip ahead to where Durja now helps Sylvaine out as an orderly/nursing assistant of sorts, as well as becoming her partner (er, one of them, since Sylvaine is poly. Can ya guess who her ‘plaything’ is?). But they have a special relationship over all, might as well be married idk.