Hoping Is Hard. Don’t Give It Up.

This is a…sort of(?) re-do post of the one I posted in a community, because for some reason that post (and any others when I post in communities) just will not appear on my blog I’ll post three more related pieces of concept art under the cut so it’s not wholly similar to the one here.

OG Post: l've been making a ton of concept art for this idea I had about a liminal space-inspired game where you explore different nostalgia themed levels to find someone who ended up stuck in here. I'm close to finishing the written concept for the first intended level and currently figuring out the cast list for it, which you can see here! It's a hotel level with the NPCs being inspired by space and astrology that constantly wear pajamas, along with some outliers, like Dorian the Doorman.

In short: it's Fran Bow meets Liminal Spaces. Though I suppose that games's setting is already pretty liminal in of itself. The concept of a liminal space inspired game is probably past its prime, but I enjoy making it anyways. It gets me to do things I don't usually do.

The other Wild Spices (other than the small moment with Pepper Pangolin Cookie) seem to not like them at all, and Cilantro Cobra Cookie expresses glee when she believes that she’ll be able to get their tribe when she catches the Elder Kulfi helping Golden Cheese Cookie. But if they’re so disliked, then why hasn’t Burning Spice Cookie gotten rid of them already?

I imagine he has some kind of twisted attachment to them. When don’t see the only other confirmed spice, Turmeric Pig, by his side in the present of the story, but we do see that the Kulfi are still with him even after he became the Great Destroyer. They’re the last spices that tie him to the past, one (I assume) he’s tried to bury, considering his reaction to Golden Cheese Cookie’s assumption of him, but unlike the Turmeric Pigs, they’re still around.

I think he believes, or knows, that they’re much more clever than the others assume. We do know that the Elder has a few other tricks up his sleeve despite being called a “sniveling wretch” (by Burning Spice Cookie, nonetheless), so I assume he’s given them a lot of chances because what they lack in strength, they make up for in their knowledge of the land. He should know his own temple better than anyone, so why didn’t he check the shortcut Golden Cheese, Smoked Cheese, and the Elder Kulfi took, and instead went outside to look for her? I think he was expecting them to come out from there, and was feigning his obliviousness to their location because it’s too big of a coincidence to be right in front of the shortcut the person you’re looking for took.

But I had an idea I NEEDED to write down a few days ago and now I’m posting it