The mad ramblings of a trans girl (She/They) wishing character creators were in real life. I'm a game dev, character modeler and character creator enthusiast. Currently working on a Racing Game called Stick Drift and an N64 fan game of Magica Riot
Magica Riot N64 Fan Demo Update! - Building Bricks!
Got a chunk of the front of the building done!
Still need to make some textures and edit some stuff but this first of 3 main buildings is almost done.
Spent way too long figuring out how I wanted to make the modular pieces for it tbh and I'm gonna redo some of it.
Magica Riot N64 Fan Demo update!
The sides of the building isn't as big of a deal because the left side won't be seen and the right is just painted concrete I think, so I can just use some planes for that. It'll also be where the alley Claire hides down is. That Alley isn't there IRL though.
I also need to adjust the scale a bit.
This is the building on Google Maps btw. Since this was added to google maps the construction stuff has finished and there's a building there that Kara was kind enough to send me a photo of!
This is a screenshot of that photo Kara sent me too.
It looks like there's a small gap next to the new building that could be an alley but having it on the other side of the red brick building would put it more in the center of the street which is better for the level cause I can block the player from getting near the intersections easier.
It also means I don't have to model and texture as many buildings cause I can just have some be part of the skybox or something.
I also haven't textured the windows yet. I'm trying to decide how I want to do it and if I want stuff in the windows or not.
Would be funny to put Nova in a window before the fight starts to recreate this though lol.
Instead of the usual links I'm just gonna throw this one here cause for Pride Month the Magica Riot books are 40% off on Itch atm so if you haven't already you should 100% go buy and read it and support queer art!!
It's 7 USD for all of them which is around 6 EUR or 5 GBP!
A bundle by Storm Maiden Studios, $7.00 for Magica Riot, Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius, Magica Riot: Full Bloom
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Didn't get a huge amount done today tbh as I started the day having to fix my OS.
I was mainly grabbing reference for environments and sorted it into my PureRef file.
I did make a brick texture and one of the pieces for a building in the 13th and Alder level.
I didn't get to take a look at the code I have to change though so I'll probably do that later this week when I have a bit more time.
Gonna try fix the code and have most of the 13th and Alder level finished by the end of the week.
Then next week I can try start on the Clarion Room and The Vault.
My head has been a little all over the place since I got sick so I've been struggling to concentrate on stuff properly and I've been getting randomly dizzy again and I'm getting my wisdom teeth out in 2 weeks and I'm not looking forward to it.
Gonna try get as much as I can done before I'm gonna be out of it on pain meds from my wisdom teeth.
Then hopefully it won't take me too long to recover.
I've spent most of this year feeling unwell in one way or another and I'm pretty sick of it.
Here's Kara's Patreon, my Kofi and the Magica Riot Bandcamp!!
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She played bass on 10,000 songs, including the most-played track of the twentieth century. She was paid $55 per session. Her name never appeared on the albums.
Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, 1964. A woman in a cardigan walks past the receptionist, a Fender Precision bass in her hand like a briefcase. She doesn’t sign autographs. She signs a timesheet.
Her name is Carol Kaye. In three hours, she will record what will become the most-played track of the twentieth century. She’ll pocket fifty-five dollars and head to another studio, on the other side of town, for the next session.
The record label will never put her name on the album.
Between 1957 and 1973, Carol Kaye took part in roughly 10,000 recording sessions. Not as the featured artist, not as a guest, but as a hired hand. She was part of an anonymous collective nicknamed The Wrecking Crew—elite studio musicians who actually played the instruments on your favorite records while the famous bands posed for promotional photos.
The work was relentless. Three albums before the day was over. Stale coffee in paper cups. No rehearsal. The charts arrived minutes before the tape rolled. If you couldn’t read a chart and nail the take in two tries, you didn’t get called for the next session.
Carol could do it on the first try.
She started playing guitar in grimy bars at fourteen because her family couldn’t pay the electric bill. Music wasn’t a romantic dream for her. It was survival. It was a job—factory work with better acoustics and lower pay.
But she was faster and sharper than almost everyone else. She corrected charts in pencil while the producer was still explaining what he wanted. In one session in 1968, she told a famous producer his arrangement sounded like a dying dog. She chose her own line. They kept her version.
That descending bass line that drives the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”? Carol Kaye. The propulsive groove of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”? Carol Kaye. The acoustic-guitar intro to “La Bamba”? Carol Kaye. The iconic theme from Mission: Impossible? Carol Kaye.
She invented techniques on the spot, out of sheer necessity. When the bass sound was too muddy for AM radio, she stuck felt under the strings and used a hard pick instead of her fingers. The tone cut through the static like a blade. It became the sonic signature that defined 1960s pop.
Bassists spent years—decades—trying to crack the secret of the Beach Boys’ gear to get that sound. They were studying the wrong people. They should have been studying Carol.
She received no royalties. No residuals. No gold-record ceremony. No credit on the album sleeves. When “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” hit number one, Carol was already back in a studio cutting a soap jingle.
The biggest bands mimed her bass lines on TV variety shows. New York marketing departments decided a mom in classic clothes didn’t fit the rebellious-youth image they were selling. So they simply left her name off the album credits.
For thirty years, almost no one cared. The truth only began to surface in the late 1990s, when music researchers found the same union contract numbers on thousands of hit records. The very documents meant to preserve studio musicians’ anonymity betrayed them.
Think about it. Every time you heard “Good Vibrations,” “River Deep – Mountain High,” the Righteous Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, or Sonny and Cher, you were hearing Carol Kaye. She composed the soundtrack of an entire generation’s youth.
And yet the records still say nothing. She’s now over eighty. She wrote instructional books. She trained countless bassists. She is finally starting to be recognized by music historians who uncovered the truth about The Wrecking Crew.
But she never got what she deserved: her name on those albums. Credit for the music that defined an era. Recognition that those bass lines everyone associates with the “Beach Boys” were, in fact, Carol Kaye’s.
Fifty-five dollars a session. Ten thousand sessions. The most-played track of the twentieth century.
Magica Riot N64 Fan Demo Update - We're back with another friend!
Finally have a small update!
I didn't update here as much as Bluesky, sorry for that but I got home from a trip and then got sick and then had a heatwave in my country which meant I either couldn't use my PC because it was too hot (I don't have AC) or I was too exhausted to. So my body hasn't been having the best time of late.
Anyway Jade has a mesh now!!
She still needs some proper textures which I might work on next week properly cause I've just been exhausted this week.
She has a small issue in engine though where it's not loading her textures.
You might notice too her and they other girls in the background aren't crumpled into balls anymore. That's cause I updated the engine to the latest github commit.
That may be why the textures haven't loaded for her?
For those that don't use github for anything, you lucky people, it's a code and project collaboration tool / website (That now steals public and private projects to train an AI) that's often used for distributing the most up to date currently in production software, mainly by indie devs.
Part of the collaboration is being able to branch a software and edit it as you see fit and then submit those changes to be merged back into the main branch you branched off from.
A github commit is basically when the main branch get an update.
If you have been lucky enough to never have to use github for anything I am jealous of you, it's awful and confusing but is sadly one of the only easy tools for keeping a live backup of a project.
I may upload the project for this game to a different one that doesn't train AI at some stage.
It will be far later down the line though that I even attempt to do that and make it public and will likely be around full release.
Anyway there is some stuff to note with the update to the engine!
First off they added Rigid Bodies!! Rigid Bodies are what most game engines use to handle physics!
It basically helps control and constrain movement and rotation while handling gravity and other physics calculations that are required for movement.
This is a really good thing and will help a lot as I won't have to code gravity into each character and object that needs it anymore!!
However because the system has changed so much I will need to recode the character controller to accommodate the changes. So no build with Jade just yet.
On top of this though more good things were added!
Like skeletons being supported in the viewport! So the girls are no longer crumpled meshes lol. It also means once I get animations sorted I can preview them in the editor and make sure they are working!!
I can also edit materials in engine now!
They also added a capsule collider!!
Capsule colliders are very important for game dev! They are used for basically every moving character in every game as they are curved on the bottom making it so they don't get caught on corners or slopes.
Here's what one looks like in Godot.
This makes it so movement isn't impacted when the character needs to run up a staircase or something.
That capsule is what all the physics of the character is applied to and is what checks the character isn't trying to move though a wall. For this game it'll also double as a hitbox for damage.
I was using sphere's to emulate the effect but a capsule is a much better shape to have as it can be made to fit a character much easier and then you don't need to set up 3 colliders 2 sphere's and a cylinder or cubeoid to get a similar set up.
That's all of what I have to update today!
A long ranting update to satiate the lack of one this whole week hopefully lol.
I'll be doing a lot of fixing and updating early next week before I build out a proper test level for me to dial in numbers and get the feel of the controller down.
Here's Kara's Patreon, my Kofi and the Magica Riot Bandcamp and the Magica Riot website!!
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using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold
i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again
these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled
I know I said I'd be back with the Magica Riot N64 Fan Demo updates this week but in my travels I'm after getting some kind of cold or flu so I'm going to take the rest of the week to rest and recover and get back to work next week!!
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i genuinely can't fucking deal with the larger internet anymore holy shit what the fuck are you people TALKING about. i am at my limit with this stupid bullshit. who the fuck cares if a man is hired to draw medical diagrams for young girls jesus christ we're pearl clutching about medical illustrations now? next you're gonna tell me male pediatricians shouldn't advise parents on their kids' vulva issues? male surgeons shouldn't be in the room when performing a procedure where a woman's breasts or vulva might be exposed? male researchers shouldn't conduct gynecological medical research? sure. better for men to live in ignorance and NEVER ally themselves with us to expand access to sexual education and reproductive healthcare i fucking guess. Twenty thousand likes. i hate it here KILL ME
THIS is the post that got me my first ever anon hate. i'd like to thank the academy tbh
also not related but can ppl on this post being like "yeah STOP being mean to men!!" pls stop cuz that's not the point of what i was saying 💀 i'm not mad bc someone was mean to a man i'm mad bc feminism is being hijacked by bioessentialist conservative Christian moralist bullshit where the goal seems to be the complete and total segregation of women from men instead of like, the material improvement of women's lives. i don't care if some intsta commenter is mean to men i care that feminism is culturally turning into Nu Conservatism
Just over six months ago, “Magica Riot: Full Bloom,” the second novel in my ongoing series about Portland’s queer magical girl rock band, was released! 🥰
Bigger, more emotional, and even gayer than the first, Full Bloom sets the stage for the future adventures of my girls.
Novels about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.
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I went to The Lego House in Billund, Denmark yesterday the place is awesome imo.
I even found some Bionicles!!!
Lego should bring back Bionicles!!!
Here's some other cool stuff in The Lego House!!
There was an F1 exhibit thing on which only had the Mercedes car unfortunately. I was hoping it would have had like the Ferrari.
There was a couple cool Dinosaurs too!!
At the center of the building there was this MASSIVE Lego tree that was around 5 or 6 stories tall I think.
There was a couple of fun cities and stuff on the branches like it was a Lego Yggdrasil that was still under construction.
There was other stuff too but I can only put 10 photos in a post here.
There was also an injection molding machine that was actively making red 2x4 lego bricks and packaging them so I now have some lego bricks that I watched being made yesterday!!
My favorites were the tree and the bionicles though tbh.
