How I Pratice Drawing Things, Now In A Tutorial Form. The Shrimp Photo I Used Is Here Show Me Your Shrimps

Wait, do people know about the Before I Play wiki?

I have used this for..... at this point easily over 6 years. It's a wiki where there will be low-spoiler/non-spoiler hints about just stuff you would want to know before playing a game.

It's always stuff like.... "Vitality in this game is useless, put your points in everything else first" or "Don't leave the second hub town until you buy X item, it'll become unobtainable."

Lemme pick an example almost everyone will know. From the Animal Crossing New Horizons page, the first tip is:

Nearly everything on the island is movable later, including all buildings and even cliffs and rivers. The main things that are fixed are the stuff on the border of the island (river mouths, beaches, rocks/peninsulae, the dock and the airport) and the resident services plaza, so picking your island layout should be based around that primarily.

That's stellar advice, tbh, given what you'll know about the game 30 hours in instead of 30 minutes.

Not every game is covered obviously and not every piece of advice is good, it's all subjective, BUT..... I look up almost every game I play for the first time, just to keep stuff in mind. The SMT4 page had top tier advice imo.

It’s me the cartoon devil on your shoulder: you should do it

its almost 6 am and ive just been hit with an extreme urge to speedrun a game that i am well aware would be absolute hell to speedrun. ive never speedran a game in my entire life

Hey look I drew John, isn't he beautiful?

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)

Listing to tma definitely affected this drawing a bit. The symmetry ruler in procreate is super fun to use.

Bad Sex Flesh Tournament Round 1

The Alchemy of Desire vs. Back to Blood

Freedom vs. The Destroyers

The Day Before Happiness vs. The World Was All Before Them

Winkler vs. The Office of Gardens and Ponds

The Death of Bunny Munro vs. The Yips

Katerina vs. The River Capture

Kismet vs. The Seventh Function of Language

Mr. Peanut vs. The List of the Lost

I was playing around with screentones and had a grand old time. I feel like this style fits like a retro horror game.

Ps. The brushes I use for cell shading are called something like Kyle’s screentones

I need an art reference and i could just go to google images but i really think a random episode of Ok Ko i vaguely remember from watching it in fifth grade might have what i need

Cecil invincible looks so much better after balding and having his face disfigured but I guess thats just the power of not having a mullet

I love how the most utterly useless pokemon of all time is also capable using the most powerful attack of all time