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me when i get my silly little ideas

I don't trust him
#aren't all creative ideas body horror when you think about it#<- things you don't want to hear your co-worker say#which is why i post on tumblr instead lmao
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#hate when this happens#my doppelgänger never shows up when I have to confuse the guards at the aquarium. but pops up when I’m taking in the views @the-quasar-hero
typical dopplegänger behaviour. in twinkleby, all dopplegängers are created as inverted versions of their counterparts. an introverted neighbour will have an extroverted dopplegänger, etc etc. very hard to get a dopplegänger to do what you want, when their wants will always be the opposite
that feeling when you try to enjoy the view but your doppleganger is back from the dead
#and the ultimate end game?#make the neighbour and their evil dopplegänger fall in love despite their differences#twinkleby hard mode is marrying theodore and evil dopplegänger theodore#at least if i get to call the shots i mean#which i don't the team will decide#we'll see what happens when relationships are introduced haha#i am team dopplegänger romance all the way
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that feeling when you try to enjoy the view but your doppleganger is back from the dead
#rip in peace theodore jr you will be missed#showed this to a friend and it gave him an existential crisis#twinkleby#indie games#game development#cozy games#unity#motionbuilder
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#oh no it's very funny#it's just literally my epitaph#or well i guess it's sad cause twinkleby is my job so in that case work killed me#which i mean -- ain't that the game dev life jfc
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they absolutely refuse to be in the same room but they keep longingly staring at each other through any available door or window
#meanwhile lucretia is outside severely depressed#because she's outdoorsy and and an extrovert#and none of the others go outside to chat with her lmao#twinkleby#unity#game development#indie games#cozy games
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fun fact about me: i am the proof that the "like riding a bike" idiom is, in fact, incorrect. i learned how to ride a bike when i was a kid, but then spent years not riding bikes, and now whenever i get on one i get into horrible crashes. worst one to date was probably at a previous job when we were on a business trip and a manager was like "it's so beautiful here! lets rent bikes and bike to our next meeting", and so we did, and i got on my bike, and -- standing still, not even pedaling yet -- tipped straight into a ditch full of cacti
@the-quasar-hero @queer-of-swords @tootkin-goblin @saffronaa
ok imma do a tag game where you give a fun slightly weird/disturbing fact about yourself! (there still has to be a slight fun factor to it)
fun fact about me: i was born purple and it’s still my favorite color
npt: @traumadumpwriter @xxl1ly-1n-ch41n5xx @la-gotica-fantasma @child-of-frey @tbiggestman @yourlocalstilinski-valdez @ssseashell @anythinggoesbutme @inkstainsonmysheets @coralchaoseagle @rue-all-names-was-taken @shootingstargirl2001 @hollydayxoxo @liaisbroke @hopeless-umii @ultimategazer @hrzsthydn @jasperhaleobsessed @darkvelvetsweetie @colourobserver @pho-pho @blueotter24 + open tags
#to this day i will point to cacti and be like 'i remember what those feel like' to anyone that will listen#ask game#thanks for tagging me <3
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the intention: ooooh you've unlocked the game's ˖ ࣪ ⊹°˖✧ four seasons ✧˖°⊹ ࣪ ˖ do you hear the music? the acoustic guitar of fall? the thrilling strings of spring? now you can compose any scenery and music you want ~
the reality: you've unlocked your local pie shop's fridge cleaning pizza
trying to be all classy when i write achievements and falling into research holes on classical music and literature, but then i went and named one "Le Quattro Stagioni" after vivaldi's "four seasons" and unfortunately -- as the uncultured swine i am -- i associate that title with pizza every damn time i see it
#at least in sweden this pizza is just whatever the shop wants to get rid of at the time#or ingredients they always have in excess#don't think i've ever seen a quattro stagioni with the original ingredients in my life lmao
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trying to be all classy when i write achievements and falling into research holes on classical music and literature, but then i went and named one "Le Quattro Stagioni" after vivaldi's "four seasons" and unfortunately -- as the uncultured swine i am -- i associate that title with pizza every damn time i see it
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OH MY GOD THIS IS INCREDIBLE??? also damn i love the idea of using theodore's glitch-faces as actual interactions/reactions for things -- will definitely have to look into if that's a possibility at all haha
@twinklebyisnthere it's always such a delight to see your posts on the community, I just had to make a small quick fanart!
#thank you so much this made my day!!#i think it's officially the first twinkleby fanart which aaaah my heart <3#also i laugh everytime i look at it#this captures the essence of theodore so perfectly hahaha#twinkleby#theodore tag#fanart
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put new character in the ga,me
new character immediately starts eating lamps
profit???
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#oh so when they do it it’s a glitch when I summon a goblet from thin air I’m using ‘black magic’ and ‘need to be killed’ @the-quasar-hero
#i for one think we should adopt the stance of reacting to any bug with labeling it 'black magic'#and calling for any character or feature involved to be killed#but maybe that's why i'm not in charge of QA lmao
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okay so i didn't get far with my "recreate wuthering heights in twinkleby" project but i did get some seriously haunted screenshots at least
dorian heathcliff dissociating by the door
florence catherine wandering the moors outside, while dorian heathcliff stare forlornly through the window
#also please ignore the blonde musician in the room with proper lamps he's just chilling#also all of these names are placeholder tho i am pretty sure dorian's name is finalized lmao#twinkleby#wuthering heights#cozy game#game development#indie games#unity#i mean we SHOULD just name a bunch of characters after brontë books like#maybe i will spend the summer trying to convince everyone about these#it's swedish vacation time everyone's gone on vacation#the time for classic literature mutiny is now
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my goal for the week is to recreate all of wuthering heights in twinkleby when i playtest the new houses and islands
#when you test it's important to set goals for yourselves#goals different from 'does the new chest spawn system work as intended' or 'do the new walk cycles work with animation transitions'#theodore will be my heathcliff and wallis will be my cathy and lucretia will be the woman in the attic#wait dammit that's jane eyre isn't it#i am bad at the classics lmao#anyway i'll get all these characters into a house on a misty gothic island and call it a day#badabing badaboom#game development#twinkleby
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#in the voice of an ai-sleuth staring at hands for signs of ai: hmmmmmmm#the animation mishaps keep mishappening#twinkleby#game development
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put new character in the ga,me
new character immediately starts eating lamps
profit???
#new character trait unlocked -- lamp eater#also yes this is how i will leak our new characters lmao#our marketing person is on vacation they can't stop me hahaha#twinkleby#cozy game#game development#indie games
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omg sorry but i want to print "I'm nothing but a patchwork of all my inspirations" and put it on my office wall -- truer words have never been spoken. and!! kurosawa is the OG. AMAZING source of inspo (and btw i think about when kurosawa and tarkovsky watched solaris together all the time, like that event in itself is a huge inspiration to me haha)
as for analogue art; hell yes. i've personally gotten real into analogue photography in the past couple of years for similar reasons -- the process is so different and tactile than digital work.
and yes i am indeed a one piece noob, but man if that doesn't describe the beauty of fanworks; the active conversations about a piece, the sheer "yes and" of it all. i think that's my ideal state of creating, when people engage with your work and pick up on the smaller pieces of characterization, or interpret something wildly different than originally intended -- it's what makes a world come alive. AND! even tho i'm not in the op fandom that is gorgeous -- god i love your art so much haha
hiiiii, for the artist ask!! super curious about 6, 7 and 26 ~
HIIIII <333
6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it) I'm nothing but a patchwork of all my inspirations........ everything I do is something else mashed up <3 although (and I don't mean to sound pedantic with that I swear jdjhfds) one of the most consistent influence in my art is probably Akira Kurosawa's films...... his sense of graphic and narrative composition and camera work is just unmatched, so shoutout to my man Akira <3
7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate Printing! Linocut, woodcut, and serigraphy especially. I've worked with lino a couple of times, but I'd really like to get into it properly. I adore the look of these techniques, and how analog the process it.
26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended I'm sorry ajdsjf you'll have no idea what I talk about but. The one with baby Crocodile from One Piece...... everyone assumed I had drawn his dad, when in actuality I have this very fleshed out headcanon based on the song Becoming A Man by A.S. Fanning, that he was taken out of the streets by some wealthy """philanthropist""" who ended up abusing him bc of course he would etc etc etc. So I guess this was kind of a father figure? But not his dad hahaha. This touches on insane theories and lore territory so I was not very keen to explain it all at first, but I just LOVE how much people have theorised and expressed themselves about this piece! Many people told me it even resonated with their experience!
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