Angeline Era's Demo is OUT!! In this "Bumpslash Adventure," explore a world of Fae and Angels, strange sights, thrilling combat, and...
💥Bump The World!⚔️
play on steam:
me: *pees during avenger*
kevin feige: You cheated not only the movie but yourself. You didn't grow. You didn't improve. You took a shortcut and gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. Its sad that you don't know the difference
Hey gentle reminder that the curved symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played without separation is a slur
Video game developers often underestimate the importance of art direction. And yet, who doesn't remember booting up Super Mario 1-1 for the first time and getting mindblown at the "left" direction of its art?
New Blog Post: Good ol' Charlie B (a comic)
Half visual essay, half tribute to visiting old friends, written by a former Peanuts superfan. I unpack the decline of my beloved Linus in the strip's final years...
Incredible, searching, funny, sweet interview with T4T couple Kumi and Kazuki from Shinjuku Boys (1995).
"We're equals. That's why our relationship works. I don't want him to be more masculine, we just want to have fun together."
Transcription:
This is such an elegantly chaotic style!! 🤯 Where does one even start, modelling like this?? It's so different from all the tutorials I've seen... (Shannon from Quest 64)
Even the Ocean was inspired by Megaman X4, Final Fantasy 9, the utter annihilation of my faith in the USA and the video games industry over the course of 2014, and mario
✨Thrilled to announce that Even the Ocean is coming to Switch, XB1 and PS4 next week!!✨
It's about Aliph, a power plant engineer, expected to fix the world's energy imbalance. Can one person do such a thing, or... will the world face the inevitable?
Hey I'm about to start a transition-adjacent process into somewhat uncharted territory. If any mutuals have nice thoughts about me or well-wishes, I'd appreciate a little boost! 💗
👋I'm Marina, 2D/3D artist/writer/codesigner behind Anodyne 2: Return to Dust (MONDAY AUG 12)!!
🌈I'm a queer trans woman of color wielding potent nostalgia to spin a NEW tale of kindness, power, fear, & connection..
💌RT & wishlist if u love to see it!!
Blog on clarifying/refuting the industry's value system:
"If wonder is not scarce and progress is not linear, then the world that rises from the ashes of the Video Games Industry can be more exciting & more technologically vibrant than ever before." 💙
🥳 Wow! My new game Sephonie is out NOW! 💖 Please enjoy this amazing new parkour platforming adventure where you'll wallrun to secret nooks and glide on dandelions to find mysterious creatures! Delve deeper into the cave, deeper into your hearts...
(links below)
To fully complete Anodyne 2 you'll need tens of thousands of hours. You must learn to read and use a computer or video game console... even develop cognitive puzzle-solving abilities. A mere baby couldn't do it.
Games industry causes so much harm via sexual abuse, labor exploitation, racism, etc. And for what? Probably should be abolished along with cops. No more superstars. "Fun", play, art... these qualities have never needed to cost human suffering OR millions of dollars
all my best/worst posts are on Cohost:
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No amount of angry comments should dissuade you from adding difficulty settings to your game. This player was having trouble with the first boss... but after I switched on invincibility she finished the (still pretty tricky) battle in no time! 🌟
Here's an explanation of one of my favorite VFX in Sephonie! By using an intentionally "mismatched" UV map, I created a fancy-looking but actually dead simple fluid effect...
Incredible, searching, funny, sweet interview with T4T couple Kumi and Kazuki from Shinjuku Boys (1995).
"We're equals. That's why our relationship works. I don't want him to be more masculine, we just want to have fun together."
Transcription:
It's morally neutral to disappoint people.
I've been repeating this phrase to myself lately. I find that it helps me to be more straightforward in dating and relationships. To distinguish what is wrong from what is simply unfortunate. To release unhelpful people-pleaser guilt.
I'm too gay for my flight home to be delayed by 3 hours!!! I have a N64 underwater breath gauge for when I'm surrounded by heterosexuality and now I am taking damage every 3 seconds
💡This is it!! Anodyne 2 is live!!!💡
💖💖💖 This is my heart in video game form. A culmination of so many artistic and emotional threads from across my life. Please take my hand and go on this journey!! I hope you enjoy your time!! 🏞️🌞
✨ ✨ Anodyne 2: Return to Dust ✨ ✨
..is OUT NOW on PC, Mac & Linux!! 🎉
Explore a beautiful, lush island! Shrink into the 2D mindscapes of its inhabitants, and save them from the vile Nano Dust!
➡️ Steam:
3D platformers often benefit from extra midair control, since distance/angles are harder to judge than in 2D. Instead of a double jump or ledge grab, Sephonie features Dash Vault, a powerful yet nuanced ability that'll make you see the spaces around you in a brand new way! 1/4
👀💙 What do you think of the new cover art I made for Anodyne 2? It's made of 3D renders from the game which I then touched up with digital painting!
💌 Wishlist:
So excited to finally announce our next game, Angeline Era!!
⚔️Run into enemies to "Bumpslash" them in this fresh take on 3D action!
🌿Piece together the lore of an esoteric 195X land inspired by Irish and Japanese American mythology!
📽️Our best trailer yet??
Wishlist today! 🎁
Announcing...✨ANGELINE ERA!!✨
A fast-paced Action RPG with intense boss fights!
Hunt down the Sinners of an esoteric land of Angels and Fae!
Unholy abominations and charming creatures await!
Wishlist it today — coming in 2024!!
Friction is very important in game design! Sephonie's unique wallrunning controls cause "friction" for some players, but look at what would happen if you tried to wallrun without any friction:
Happy 4th birthday to Anodyne 2!! 🎂🎉Thanks to everyone who's joined Nova on her 2D+3D adventure through New Theland.
If you'd like help us celebrate, you can leave a review on Steam or recommend the game to a friend! (It's on sale for a week!)
This winter,
@even_kei
and I will take 3D platformers into new ecological, political, and literary territory! In our new game 'S', 3 Taiwanese-descent biologists from the USA, Japan and Taiwan will cave dive, and - maybe - find supernatural love. Title reveal soon!
#marinamelos4
At the end of each of our dev cycles, Melos and I fight to the death. The winner is credited as the sole creator of the game and the loser is put in special thanks
Miss game manuals?? Check out what
@even_kei
made! Find it in Anodyne 2's title screen when it releases on 8/12!
(Also... I hear there might be a way to acquire a physical version in the future...)
✨Wishlist Anodyne 2!✨
3D character platformers that progress thru lushly varied locales have often fixated on tired stereotypes of race & ethnicity. There's a certain poetic logic (or absurdist comedy?) in releasing one that directly grapples with contested ideas of nations & culture 1/4
Our new game is really coming along!! The characters and props use a PSX vertex color-inspired art direction like FF7 enemies (although behind the scenes I am actually using a UV + texture workflow). What do you think?
Good read! Anodyne was greenlit on Steam back in 2013 thx in large part to a collab/promo w Pirate Bay. At the time we had a loose "hope more people will be able to play it" mentality, but it's become clearer that IP law isn't for small creators like us & "piracy" is a net good
"IP law has been used to create monopolies, crush the public domain and hurt the artists its proponents say it serves," writes
@mechapoetic
for
@readpassage
in an article that asks us to rethink what we know about "pirates."
💡Did you know Sean and I are in the early stages of working on a new game? It's VERY different than anything we've done before: a collect-em-all RPG with a puzzle grid battle system (think: tetris but totally different). Here's some loose concept art...
Friends... we have a release date 💙💜💙
🔷Anodyne 2🔷
🌟August 12🌟
🌱 This story contains so much of myself. Art changes my life regularly, and I hope that mine can do the same for others. I can't wait for you to spend time in this strange and beautiful world
✨Anodyne 2✨
...is coming...
... on *AUGUST 12TH*!! 🎉 🎉
Soon, go on a ✨2D+3D✨ journey with lush, PS1/2-influenced art and unforgettable characters!
Wishlist it here!