VOYAGER!

hello neighbor ❤

it's been a while! life has been a whirlwind this year, but i'm excited to have found the time for my favorite frazzled office worker again. i also have some other projects cooking, but they're a secret for now :^)

for the moment, enjoy a new level theme for susan taxpayer! i'm really happy with this one, and i hope you enjoy it too.

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speaking of other projects, i'd like to formally announce i'm looking for work! do you have a game, short film, or animation that needs music or SFX? i have TWO openings for commission/contract work, and i offer both sliding scale rates and monthly payments.

if you're interested in working together, contact me and inquire at:

beatrixquinn.works/#contact

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finally, my deepest thanks to my patrons Bobby Schroeder, Digamma-F-Wau, MichaelaFost, Morgan Amaranth, Punkitt, sailor_retrograde, R Bakbacon, SigmasonicX, and trashclown.

if you would like to help support my continued work, you can donate at any tier at:

patreon.com/BeatrixQuinn

thank you for listening, and thank you for being. ❤

As promised, here's the full collection of every character portrait in SLARPG in their full resolutions. (Spoilers within! Literally every character in the game is here, including spoiler characters and something from the game's climax.)

These vary in size because the resolutions I drew them at varied, with ones I drew earlier in development usually being smaller. Some of them, particularly ones for more minor NPCs, are kinda messy because I drew them fast and they were only meant to be seen in-game at a scale of less than 100px. And expression variants are missing here because I actually drew most of those directly onto the low res in-game portraits to save time and to maintain scaling consistency. On the other hand, several characters (mainly the party members) do have some alternate outfit portraits, because I drew those at full size.

Just look at it. It is the most perfect visual representation of Newton’s 2nd law of physics I’ve ever seen. The ball, which was shot out of a CANNON, drops straight down. Two equal and opposite velocities completely canceling each other out, leaving the soccer ball to drop to the earth with a net velocity of 0. Sir issac newton would be proud to tears of this gif.

And yet this “myth” is nothing more than basic physics at work. A 10 year old with an interest in science could have told us this is possible. 60mph in one direction minus 60mph the exact opposite direction is 0. Basic.

But what makes this so frieken cool is the fact that they went through all the trouble to actually demonstrate the invisible laws that govern the way our universe works. To get this shot both the soccer ball and the truck had to be moving at the exact same speed. Real world variables make that extremely difficult to pull off. It took them hundreds of attempts to get it right. They went through all that trouble to “prove” something we have known as fact for hundreds of years. And we get this amazing gif to watch as a result.

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]