#willytor

[punkitt-is-here]

how does it feel for "forever weed brownie" to be reaching "im at soup" levels of having every fandom ever create their own version of it

Delighted by it

[ponett]

ive seen you post about doctor robotnik's ring racers occasionally on twitter and would like to hear your overall thoughts on the game

I'm enjoying it a lot! It plays well, has a ridiculous number of unlockable characters and tracks, and is generally just really polished. This would be impressive even for a paid indie kart racer that cost like $20-$30, but for a freeware fangame that's somehow built off of Doom? It's nuts. So much love and care went into this. I've been having a lot of fun playing through all the Grand Prix cups and clearing out the challenge board, which I've only completed 47% of it even with over 15 hours of playtime logged.

It's absolutely one of the most hardcore kart racers I've ever played, though, and that's gonna turn some people off. While playing solo even easy mode can be difficult, especially thanks to the rival system that gives one CPU buffs over the others. Anything below 150cc is a complete joke for me in Mario Kart, but even playing on the "normal" difficulty in Ring Racers (now renamed "intense" in the 2.2 patch) kicks my ass, and if you place poorly in a Grand Prix race it gives you a game over and makes you redo the race. I can't even imagine touching the higher difficulties at my current skill level.

This is compounded by how technical the game is and how many options are at your disposal. Spin dashing, tricks, fast drops, collecting and spending rings, an item roulette that can be manually stopped, a high risk high reward chargeable melee attack when you have negative rings, the ability to harass and be harassed by other racers while positioning yourself before the start of the race, gates that can only be passed through when you have a high level of boost, lots of items with different quirks that reward skilled play. And of course, perhaps most daunting of all to new players, there's the game's unique slope physics designed to mimic how they work in the 2D Sonic games, which will often require you to either spend rings for a small boost or stop and charge up a spin dash to get up a steep hill.

All of these add a lot of complexity to the game that can be pretty daunting early on, which is why it has an infamously long story-driven tutorial to introduce all of these mechanics. I'm not sure said tutorial actually does the best job introducing how those mechanics will actually be put to use in races, but I can't blame them for thinking the game needed it. (I do have to admit I am annoyed by the game's insistence upon framing everything via Sega Saturn inputs, though. I had to open the settings screen to figure out what buttons the tutorial actually wanted me to press.)

Some of these things have already been addressed in the first couple patches, of course. You can now exit the tutorial way earlier, some unlock requirements have been relaxed, there's an option to let the game automatically use your rings for you, easy mode has been made easier, a handful of problematic courses have been tweaked, etc. And I'm sure they'll continue to refine the game based on player feedback. But it's probably always going to be a fairly hardcore game. It's hard and has a high skill ceiling by design. Nintendo's never gonna make a super technical new Mario Kart for sickos - not on purpose, at least. They need it to be a pick-up-and-play party game that sells 70 million copies. But a freeware fangame not beholden to shareholders can experiment more and try to cater to that more hardcore crowd. Say what you will about Ring Racers, but it absolutely has a specific creative vision of its own beyond "Sonic Mario Kart," and I respect that even if the game sometimes frustrates me

[musashi]

just watched your latest youtube video (the one on the aai collection) and i want to thank you for not assuming malice from the actions of the ace attorney wiki admin who refuses to let the relation between franziska and miles be listed as "siblings". I've seen so many people see that and jump to the worst possible conclusion that "this must be because they ship miles and franziska" and not the much more reasonable conclusion that theyre just sort of anal about the nuance of their relationship and what's explicitly canon

i... that is deranged. that is the most wild conclusion to jump to that i can think of.

the aa fandom's violent allergy to actually engaging with the text is... unlike everything i have ever seen. i used to understand being unhappy with canon, wanting to rewrite/fix/add to it, all the memes about "lol i made it better" "canon will be lovingly baked at 400 degrees until it is properly browned" etc but the aa fandom has turned me into an absolute canon-worshipper with how much they just... do not care to acknowledge canon at all, and get WEIRD when you are a person who does.

i don't understand why they get so uppity at the siblings thing. there are a million different ways you can interpret whatever they have going on, but all we know is:

miles studied under manfred von karma

franziska, who also studied under him, affectionately refers to miles as her little brother.

like that's literally it... that's all we have. we don't know if miles lived with them. we don't know if miles considers franziska to be his sister. he never calls her that, and often jumps through hoops to avoid calling her that. why is that? is it that he doesn't see her that way? that he believes his fondness for her is too deep, special, and nuanced to delegate to something simple like 'sister'? is he just being emotionally constipated, a thing we know he is often? meditate on it! why do people just lie, instead? why don't people want to have fun and analyze the relationship?

i don't think it is even "anal" to run the wiki that way. a fandom wiki, like a regular wiki, is supposed to be full of strictly canon information, not conjecture and fanon. if you want conjecture, then get on ao3 or open your word process and make some. but a wiki is meant to provide documented, sourced information, and you cannot say that miles edgeworth considers franziska his sister when he patently says nothing on the matter in canon.

turning that into "its because op ships them" is the most deluded form of thinking i can imagine, and it's so transparent--they're insecure about their headcanons or mad that they were misled by fanon, do not like concrete proof that they were misled, and so they try to paint an innocent person as secretly some sort of deviant or problematic to cast that shame elsewhere. typical 15 year old catholic twitter user behaviour, you meet one you meet em all.

even if they did ship mitsumei, like... who cares, genuinely. they're lines. they're made up. but that's not what's happening here, it's literally just a wiki runner who is running a wiki correctly, and the aa fandom historically HATES canon and facts so they're losing their shit.

one of the youtube videos i have on the backburner is "aa fandom misconceptions" where i'm just going to debunk a thousand of these stupid fucking things one by one. the more time passes the more anxious i get wanting to make it. maybe it's just me being a rules-obsessed autistic, but i cannot stand when people just lie about canon.

[attex]

Eve in plaid

theyre in matching outfits now okay ? i put them together and gave them matching outfits because theyre bestfriends for ever .

lilith has more little accessories bcz she woudl like them . they both have crappily applied nail polish because theyre babys and cant rly put it on properly . but its ok they like it so

matching hairclips and also the way i draw lilith's hair matches with eve so theyre like this .

theyre so best friends okay theyre like . both demons but one of them is always a demon in appearance but benefits more from angel rooms and the other is a human in appearence but benefits more from devil rooms ok their dichotomy best friends for ever and also the primarily two toned color scheme here fits them i love them ok .

[splatoongamefiles]

actually instead of eyeballing the alpha you can actually just use the M_BangleTrans_Opa.png and plug it into the alpha and that just works

oops didnt see it lmfao

[onestepfromeden]

Weekly Update #43 - Alt Chars

-Alternate loadouts for Saffron

This week, in addition to many demo tweaks, I added alternate starting sets for characters in hero select. These are placeholders, but they will be able to be unlocked by completing certain things in the game. I was planning to have an out-of-game shop where players could purchase things like this, but I figured it would be better to have them unlocked through achievements like in FTL. The only benefit to having it be a shop (like in Rogue Legacy) would be for less skilled players to become more powerful just by playing more. However, I don’t think this game will require that (at least for the normal mode).

The “Wand” is the spellcasting tool and basic attack which can change with these sets too!

At the moment, each set has a slightly different scenario behind it!

-Fixed reaper push movement

I finally fully fixed off-tile push movement. I accomplished this by having a boolean for when characters are not on their “owned” tile (their white highlighted ones). When they are not on their owned tile and are pushed onto another, it checks if it is on their side of the field. If it is, it changes the ownership to that new tile. Characters can’t be pushed onto other “owned” tiles but it checks if it is owned by itself, so they can now be pushed onto their own “owned” tiles.

The movement system is a lot more complex than this and involves three tiles saved to each character: Start, Current, and End. It uses these three variables to allow for saved movement across the field.

-Made the existence of unlockables more obvious

One of the other big things I worked on this week was moving everything to Resources from Streaming Assets, since I’m not releasing mod support anytime soon. However, I wanted to keep my modding process so I had to use System.IO.File to generate txt files from the Lua script files (because Unity wouldn’t import Lua files as TextAssets).

-A little easter egg in the demo

Things have really been ramping up, it’s almost too much for me to handle! But I am really excited to see where things go.

Thank you for reading! If you haven’t yet you can play the demo on GameJolt!

There is also a Wikia for the game that Willytor, Frosthammer, and Soikano worked really hard on! Check it out Here.

[punkitt-is-here]

your latest reblog's tags reminded me of this interaction

everyone should be doing this

[punkitt-is-here]

am i fucking stupid? downloaded susan taxpayer, installed smbx2, put susan taxpayer into the worlds folder, and when i try to run the smbx2 exe nothing happens

Did you unzip it? :O

[punkitt-is-here]

sender of the previous ask i managed to get it to work with the file associations for the lvlx file. im certain theres an easier way to do this but either way im in game now :)

:3👍 will look at it more in da morning. Have fun!!

[attex]

did you see acs got updated you might want to update your tboi character select mod

oh God oh God oh fuck. shit fuck got damn . i need to get to doing tainted names too but my spoons ahhggggg. thanksfor telling me thoguh