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Blister Blight, the game I've been part of the art team for since 2021, is finally ready to go public and is now live on kickstarter!

The buzzword-laden way I've described it in marketing materials is "story-rich 8-bit action-platformer that fuses classic run-and-gun side-scrolling gameplay with a branching story reminiscent of modern roleplaying games," but this is tumblr, so I'd like to say what I really mean by that:

Did you ever play Mega Man X when you were growing up? Do you remember how cool it was to discover that the order you beat the levels in had unexpected effects on the remaining levels, like how defeating Chill Penguin made it so that Flame Mammoth's stage was all frozen over so there wasn't as much lava? Blister Blight is a game built from the ground up around that experience.

I am incredibly proud of the work we've been able to do with after-hours hustle on whatever time and energy we have left over from our day jobs, and we're officially ready to make it our top priority. Being able to work on games full time would be an absolute dream come true for me, and I really can't imagine how much cooler we'll be able to make this game when we can truly focus on it.

I'll be posting more about the game and my contributions for it for the rest of the month, but in the meantime you can try the demo for yourself and see what I mean! It's free on our itch.io page for now, and I'll update this post when Steam gives the green light to take it public there, too.

If you like what you see, or want to learn more, please check out our Kickstarter page and consider backing the game. I think we have something really special here.

I'm fully moving everything over to @chromegnomes (different from my old new account called chromegnomes, now @chromegnomes-old, which will also go inactive now)

I'm prioritizing tumblr more in light of the inevitable collapse of the bad website twitter where I had some mild success in building an audience for my art and gamedev stuff before it was bought by an evil wizard (derogatory) who is actively destroying its functionality

so I can't have my More Important Blog also be a secondary page that can't follow or interact with anyone

I'm fully moving everything over to @chromegnomes (different from my old new account called chromegnomes, now @chromegnomes-old, which will also go inactive now)

I'm prioritizing tumblr more in light of the inevitable collapse of the bad website twitter where I had some mild success in building an audience for my art and gamedev stuff before it was bought by an evil wizard (derogatory) who is actively destroying its functionality

so I can't have my More Important Blog also be a secondary page that can't follow or interact with anyone

Problematic Author: Thomas Jefferson

Work: The Declaration of Independence

Reason: “Met God She’s Black” t-shirt is fast fashion 

if tumblr really wants to pick up twitter's slack they'll add the ability to switch which blog is your main so I can stop following all my art friends back from my personal blog with all my 2015 cringeposting

I think I may need to just delete and start a clean blog while I still only have like 80 followers on here lol

The Beach King of Angmar.

the wizard roleplay on this site is such a strange phenomenon like it’s just always something that’s There and i never usually stop to think about it

it's not roleplay they are real wizards talking to each other

oh my bad sorry for invalidating the wizard community

Haven't been as active on tumblr, in large part because I've been busy running a kickstarter for my card game Wizard War - a TCG-like game made to be played with any deck of 54 playing cards, and adaptable to any TTRPG campaign.

It's fully funded on kickstarter, and if you'd like to join and get your own copy, you can do that here!

In addition to the game zine, most backer tiers include either 1 or decks of 54 pixel-art playing cards by yours truly!

We also have a demo available for download, completely free - either put the digital version on your tablet or print out the booklet version, double sided and flipped on the long edge!

If anything about this sounds appealing to you, your support would be greatly appreciated - this is my first ever published game. Thanks for your time!

it's always funny when someone comments on eurodance like "why don't they make music like this anymore" because they DO and it's one of the most creatively stagnant genres on earth (spoken with love in my heart for it)

all you need to make eurodance is one female vocalist (mediocre-to-incredible), one male vocalist who Cannot sing but can say shit like "I'm a sex king man with a party plan / international nation hand in hand" in a deep voice, and an apartment somewhere in italy

i wonder how much healing that one xkcd comic did to the internet with saying “you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000″ when encountering a person who hasn’t been exposed to a popular or well known thing

you’re so right

I honestly think the three most important memes to learning and self expression on the internet are:

- the above xkcd comic

- the abovementioned “holy shit, two cakes” image:

- and:

didn’t even realize it was a bot because this interaction is so human

i got greentext’d courtesy of @strayhopes and if this isn’t me,

palpatine straight up told anakin he was a sith lord and anakin was like well. this is a lot to process so im going to go fetch my boss and we’ll come back in about half an hour and murder you so don’t go anywhere and palpatine didn’t you have to admire the man

palpatine is the best villain of all time bc he's the classic master manipulator who pits his enemies against each other without lifting a finger by preying on their weaknesses but normally those types of villains have the caveat that once their bullshit get exposed it's a simple matter of slapping handcuffs on them bc they're like weak old CEOs or whatever

but our boy sheev? when his plans don't go perfectly he's just like oh well and starts zapping fuckers to death bc he's also the most powerful old prune in the galaxy and he could just kill everyone around him if he gets bored

like luke throwing away his lightsaber and declaring himself a jedi was great but you know that luke kinda thought that was it, the crotchety old emperor doesn't have vader to fight for him anymore courtesy of luke cutting off vader's hand for possibly the fortieth time in anakin's life, so it's smooth sailing until lando destroys the death star and blasts them all to kingdom come, but then palps is like aw shucks no new apprentice can't blame a guy for trying and just starts deep frying luke for shits and giggles and our poor twink is like THIS ISN'T ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT THE FORCE COULD DO ABORT ABORT ABORT

and with mace and co arriving at sheev's office to bring him in for being dark catholic it's functionally the equivalent of a scooby doo villain of the week getting unmasked by the gang but then he just starts snapping necks

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