Deimos Sketch

he is taking form

(also I'll try to upload this to the steam workshop in a bit, I'll rb with the link when it's done!)

EDIT: the link and some more pictures are in reblogs!

the old cistern beneath the flood control system

touhou’s gameplay rules being diagetic is really funny to me you live in a fantasy world where gods go shopping at the market on the weekends along with all sorts of youkai and oni and what not, people with the ability to rewrite fate, stop time, manipulate density, become nuclear bombs, etc., but there’s a big sign over there that says: ”All Disputes Must Be Settled Via Dodgeball” and everyone just goes along with it.

IMac Aquariums

I've been working on the Hong Lu slugcat design for the mod, but I'm having trouble deciding on a look for the rest of the sinner slugcats,, I don't know if I should make their colors based on their hair color or their textbox/logo color. I drew a comparison, and I'd like to know what you guys think works better!

(note: these sprites are only drawn for reference and won't be used in the mod)

Jebediah

V1 slugcat

That's it

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.