Malvanean - Announcement inevitable, like the Dawn
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Summon demons. Ascend the throne of the sun. Delve into the oceans beyond the firmament. Malvanean - Announcement soon.
Joined October 2024
Give in to the temptations of the flesh. Explore the oceans beyond the firmament. Get lost in the cosmic void of the self. Ascend the throne of the Sun. A roguelike monster-catching dungeon crawler where the only way to heal is eating your allies. Announcement coming soon
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Our lead writer has been working on a small side project, and if it seems even remotely your thing you should check it out. If you buy the game on physical disc, you also get the game assets + a license to use them for your own projects (even commercial!) https://t.co/kgVCD0wjUY
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Limited physical editions for RPGmaker horror game 'Rosa + Juliet'
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The Devaputra is the essence of Myiasis, the principle of flesh turning other flesh into more of itself. Distilled to its essence like this it is virulently dangerous, ceaselessly copying itself. It eats, it infects and it impregnates until all flesh in a space is more Devaputra.
The Argentonymus is a sort of "abyssal mirror life," life naturally occurring deep inside reflections. Bringing it into the real world requires the refining of silver into its purest essence, where it is prized by cultists of Chazakiel, a fallen angel associated with reflections.
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she's a fujoshi
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PRISON OF HUSKS is in the STEAM SCREAM FEST! Explore a beautiful world of forgotten dolls in the demo. Find the horrors that wander the lonely places in my retro-soulslike!
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The Argentonymus is a sort of "abyssal mirror life," life naturally occurring deep inside reflections. Bringing it into the real world requires the refining of silver into its purest essence, where it is prized by cultists of Chazakiel, a fallen angel associated with reflections.
The Embryon is what remains of the prime matter of flesh when all else is stripped away from it. It shambles around, resembling a humanoid- though it lacks every single trait of a human save for 'the flesh.' For alchemists, the Embryon is a blank slate on which to build new life.
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The Embryon is what remains of the prime matter of flesh when all else is stripped away from it. It shambles around, resembling a humanoid- though it lacks every single trait of a human save for 'the flesh.' For alchemists, the Embryon is a blank slate on which to build new life.
The Witsilver is cinnabar, the moon-element of change and mercury as well as one of the four components of the cosmic self distilled into its essence. It is an amorphous metal blob capable of taking any shape, yet is most prized for its staggeringly large intellectual capacities.
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Artwork by @squp_haver
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Older lore post about the Ficus Genetrix: https://t.co/8WorWyL5TA
The Ficus Genetrix is a demonic fig living in symbiosis with wasps. The fig lures the wasps into its mouth with a sweet pheromone, to be swallowed or incorporated into the fig's biology. Inside, the surviving wasps procreate until the fig burst- their larvae carrying fig seeds.
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The Ficus Genetrix is an example of a Myiasis-type demon, a demon symbolizing how organisms turn other organisms into more of themselves, in this case inspired by the life cycle of the common fig or Ficus Carica
One thing we don't want to do with Malvanean is use elements like 'fire,' 'air' or 'water.' Plenty of games have fire attacks. Few games have attacks based on an element symbolizing the process by which the larvae of the wasp turn the flesh of the caterpillar into more wasps.
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By making the game's attacks and spells tie into an overarching pseudo-alchemical philosophical system we hope to make it feel like a coherent world, and in making it a coherent world we hope to more effortlessly communicate information about both gameplay and story to the player
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As such the 'Myiasis' element is a corpus element symbolizing the often predatory way in which life turns other life into more of itself. Myiasis-type attacks infest enemies with bugs under their skin. Myiasis spells heal you by drawing on another's health- be it enemy or ally.
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A big part of the themes of Malvanean is the spirit yearning to go in one direction and the flesh yearning for another, so we've split the game's eight elements in two groups- four 'cosmic' elements relating to the soul, and four 'corpus' elements relating to the body.
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One thing we don't want to do with Malvanean is use elements like 'fire,' 'air' or 'water.' Plenty of games have fire attacks. Few games have attacks based on an element symbolizing the process by which the larvae of the wasp turn the flesh of the caterpillar into more wasps.
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Artwork, as usual, by the talented @squp_haver
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The Witsilver is cinnabar, the moon-element of change and mercury as well as one of the four components of the cosmic self distilled into its essence. It is an amorphous metal blob capable of taking any shape, yet is most prized for its staggeringly large intellectual capacities.
The Bottlebird is the bile, the caustic element that breaks down organic material distilled into its essence. Alchemists call acids "bottled spirits," likening the digestion of matter to a spirit devouring them, but the true spirit from the bottle is this ravenous, predatory bird
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The Bottlebird is the bile, the caustic element that breaks down organic material distilled into its essence. Alchemists call acids "bottled spirits," likening the digestion of matter to a spirit devouring them, but the true spirit from the bottle is this ravenous, predatory bird
Alchemists adore distilling elements down to their essence, and in an animist world these essences can have forms reminiscent of the myriad forms of life. The Gnome is the essence of lead, prized by many an alchemist for it's darkly comedic demeanour and hardy, unyielding nature.
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