#acade

Character: Dottore (not sure if i wanna do Akademiya or Fatui so you can decide)

Gender: Female

Character name: Loise (It's for an oc yes)

Relationship status: Romantic??

"... In all honesty, i am one to judge a book by its cover, but you and i know how the concept of loneliness feels, being the reason why i approached you

And so, i lied that day, I didn't really approached you for pure entertainment, yes..

I'm willing to stay here, by your side, Zandik

And i thank you for being here as well"

*Loise cupped his cheek and locked her mix of blue-green eyes into his crimson red eyes with a hint of blush*

(I'm writing this at almost 2 at the morning i hope I'm doing this right)

I’m really sorry but I don’t do oc x characters on here, I only do reader x characters! I’ll still write the prompt but I won’t be mentioning the oc’s name (instead referring to her as ‘you’) but feel free to imagine her though! Also this is academia Dottore <3

“…You better not be lying to me about all that sappy stuff you just said. Whatever, who doesn’t judge a book by its cover? I thought you were quite the weirdo when you came up to me for ‘entertainment’. I suppose you are quite the weirdo in all honesty, but I suppose I can tolerate you”

-Academia! Dottore (he avoided eye contact for a moment before he made a fake cough, stepping away from your hands quickly)

Masterlist

What? You’re not out of money yet? Well, as it happens, there aren’t just 3 pixel art Kickstarters active right now, here’s the fourth one (and I have to post quickly to hold this claim, because Faeland is in its last day … but then again, there are SO MANY MORE pixel art campaigns that I haven’t even mentioned yet, so …). 

Meta talk aside, what’s in front of me is quite a slippery game that I have a hard time pinpointing. 198X is a game about … games. Looks like we’re not out of meta territory yet.

The trailer/Kickstarter video sets a familiar Ready Player One vibe but doesn’t give away much. The generically named Kid who lives in a generically named Suburbia, outside the as-generic-as-it-can-be City, promises a coming-of-age story that we—gamers that grew up in the 80s—should fit like a glove. The look of the protagonist that eludes gender pronouns doesn’t seem coincidental either.

OK, but what do we do in the game? Well, everything seems to be centered around the arcade, where we’ll find a gateway to 5 classic genres: the shmup …

… racing …

… RPG …

… platforming …

… and beat-em up. (Looks like Streets of Rage punks are getting their job back.)

If this indeed aims to be Ready Player One The Video Game, it’ll have to carefully tie everything together into as compelling a narrative and not just feel like a disjointed set of minigames. The tricky part here is that you can’t simply sum 5 mediocre games into a great one—each of the arcade titles will need to be great to begin with. The designers promise unique twists and unexpected turns, which will hopefully—in combination with the enveloping story—transcend pure nostalgic copycat territory. Authors of the similarly premised 1980s-cinematic-gaming-exploration Narita Boy recently admitted struggles with bringing originality to this approach (but have eventually managed to find the spark). As I love growing up stories, I really hope 198X achieves the same.

If gameplay hangs under a question mark, one thing is quite certain: Hi-Bit Studios managed to assemble a high-class act of pixel artists from all around the world: @mrhk, @einsbern, @doomcube-art, @motocross-arts and (tumblr-less) Tim Jonsson. That’s enough of a reason for me to keep a close watch on this one.