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We're both so hyped for Blanksword.

As an ex-Christian, the themes you've got going on really speak to me, and the art style is just magnificent.

-- Mod Mal

BLANKSWORD's world is pretty dark at times, but even under the heel of an all-powerful tyrant, you might be able to make friends :]

And if you swing by your friend's room, you might hear a little tune playing from the old record player… (never mind that thing in the mirror)

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

greetings VISITOR! welcome to BETHEL!

greetings VISITOR! welcome to BETHEL! NEARER MY GOD TO THEE is a 2 - 6 player ttrpg of gendered christmas horror!

play as a VISITOR to the strange town of BETHEL, where you will be hunted (or scouted) for their deadly CHRISTMAS PARADE! the ASHCAN version of NEARER MY GOD TO THEE will release on 01 June!

NEARER MY GOD TO THEE is a hack of lasers and feelings by John Harper! you only have one stat - your GOD score.

try and fail to adhere to the gendered expectations of BETHEL by rolling HOLLY (feminine) or IVY (masculine) against your GOD

however, BETHEL has very specific gender roles - what HOLLY and IVY means is up to your table! every and any action in the game is gendered through a list YOU create at the start of the game!

the best place to keep up with NMGTT news is to follow THIS account or to follow my itch page at: https://ahcoffeebeans.itch.io/

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

MAY 29TH, 5:30 PM CST, I WILL BE BEGINNING MY PLAYTHROUGH OF OFF!

Fangamer has recently released the demo for their OFF rerelease, so I'm taking a quick break from my UT/DR shenanigans (though Toby Fox is on this soundtrack as well) to check it out!

CHECK IT on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/okayxairen YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/fV7gHktdC5k

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

Gay Ghost Galleon is a ttrpg about queer, undead pirates completing unfinished business so their spirits can rest.

Vitus is the ship's cook aboard the Lady Gray. As demonstrated by this section of the character sheet, he needs to rediscover the joy of living in order to find peace. Vitus is Fearsome and Intelligent (3 dice in Fearsome, 2 in Intelligent at the start of the game), and a veteran of many long lonely centuries.

Meet the Lady Gray's crew:

Sabrina - Amora - Vitus - Crow - Jacobs - Eleanor

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

Blanksword has a lot of mechanics and a lot of complexity to it, so we've been working for a while on how to best tutorialize players. Here's a work-in-progress page from our Tutorial Book, which will illustrate the game's controls, systems and interactions for players!

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

You might get this vibe out of Bird of Passage.

I think it's a little more melancholy than the game you want, but from what I've seen of your art, you'd probably enjoy it anyway.

Can someone make me a game where a nice man just drives me around in a neon cyberpunk city at night while it rains and the radio plays nice music and we can have nice chats with the driver?

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

It's out.

Have fun

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

> Something has changed.

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

If you like NieR Automata, OFF, or existentialist indie games with a great soundtrack in general- or, heck, if you like our stuff- you might want to check out a phone game called Aznana.

It's a Japanese indie game about a boy who has never felt loneliness, a girl who's only a head, and a quirky but hostile world they travel through together. We haven't finished it yet, but we feel good recommending it on the strength of the soundtrack and the storytelling alone.

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my game They Speak from the Abyss: Zenith is full of a bunch of weird creatures

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206 bones and us

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

Game devs here: if you're a brand account and you're on Tumblr, you really need to engage with Tumblr culture to succeed here. Even if you make good posts (which you do) and you're running an account for a beloved fandom franchise (which you are), you're not going to have the reach you want to have if you don't engage with people socially.

I'd recommend reblogging stuff- fanart, fanvids, music remixes, and Pokémon related polls. (Not fanfic, unless your lawyers give you the okay.)

Go through the tags and congratulate people who just caught a shiny or beat a Nuzlocke. Check out the Pokémon RP and Pokémon IRL communities.

Basically- engage with the community like you guys are a person in it who just happens to be really famous and popular, don't just post and expect people to come.

what else should we be posting on Tumblr?

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

Me: I want an America Mom: We have an America at home America at home:

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I made a new model of my demon girl

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A reminder. This exists. We're working on version 2.0 now.

- Mod Mal

We finished our first full game - A Bone To Pick, a pirate murder mystery!

Ribsy is a skeleton, brought to life by the capricious Skeleton God. The Skeleton God is bored, and so he's set Ribsy a task- figure out who killed the pirate Captain who once owned Ribsy's bones. 

Gather evidence. Talk to four suspicious crew members and one undead parrot. Play the accordion. Solve the case and walk away a free skeleton... or fail, and spend the rest of eternity holding a gym bag in Davy Jones' Locker!

This game's available for download at itch, on PC and Mac.

[vaporwavegothicstudio]

I hate to say it, but it's not outrageous. It's just that no one is getting paid enough to cover what games cost to make.

You know those posts that talk about how, if people were paid a fair price for their labour, anything crochet would cost like $300 minimum, because of the time and effort it takes to make a piece of crochet? Multiply that by a couple hundred people- all of whom need to be paid. Factor in the cost of real estate in Japan, the cost of producing physical cartridges, the cost of keeping a network up for the multiplayer content, and are you starting to see the problem yet.

"But indie devs only charge like $15 for a game with way more content!" -- I hate to break it to you, but those devs are the equivalent of people on Etsy selling crochet for the cost of the yarn. Most indie devs don't factor the cost of their labour into the prices they charge.

And- bluntly- they couldn't if they wanted to. Because we have systematically devalued the price of indie games, to the point where you can't charge a fair price for them if you want to. After all, Hollow Knight is an 80+ hour game that sells for $15 and goes on sale al the time!!! Do you think you're better than Team Cherry?????

... It's a vicious cycle. No one gets paid enough to afford games, so AAA devs have to raise their prices (to be able to deal with a smaller player base) and indie devs have to tank them, meaning the prices seem even more unfair...

What I'm saying is, don't be mad at Nintendo. Be mad at your boss for exploiting you to the point where you can't pay other people what they're worth.*

*(Unless you work for Nintendo. Then they're your boss and part of the problem.)

We literally cannot let them start charging 80 dollars for video games 70 dollars was already outrageous 60 was pushing it. 80 fucking dollars. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND. For MARIO?!?!?!?!?