I love libraries, tea, sandwiches, interactive fiction, poetry, science fiction, children's books, and art. I hate Byron and the Dewey Decimal System. I also cry really easily.
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Diaspora is finally in the publication queue at Hosted Games! For those of you who aren’t familiar with this game, it’s a project I started with my friend Vince about… ten years ago. At the time, it was my first interactive fiction, and in some very important ways, it still is. Most of the writing on it was done from 2016-2021 or so, but the last parts ended up taking us much, much longer than they should have.
Regardless, though, it’s now finished, and to those of you who’ve been around a while and waited so patiently for this project, thank you. It means the world that you’ve believed in us for so long, and we’re so happy that you’ll soon finally be able to play the complete game, which will be a lot like you might remember, but with some edits that will hopefully improve the quality of the experience. It’s certainly an ‘early work’ in a lot of ways, but there are things about it that I’m very proud of, too.
You can wishlist Diaspora on Steam here, which would be a big help, and if you’d like to learn a little more about the game, I’ve added some information to my pinned post, or you can check out the ancient forum thread here, or our (now largely defunct, but perhaps good for a browse) tumblr blog for the game here. Currently, the release date is set to 6 August (2026), and I don't expect that to change, but I won't call it certain until it's actually happened.
for blending, it was honestly just from doing a whole lot of studies, especially from photos, and it just sort of 'clicked' for me. It's also to do with the brushes you use, I like using 'softer' brushes that blend a lot smoother (all my brushes are here).
Hard vs Soft Edges - Guide to Shadows
My Rendering Process (Video)
colour theory is a tricky one, I'd argue that I don't even fully understand it yet. My main advice about it, is to stop using the standard painter's colour theory predominantly taught in art classes (RYB) for blending & colour mixing, and learn the colour theory relevant to digital art (CMYK)
If you try to apply colour theory rules from traditional paint to digital art, you'll find that in digital art, mixing for example yellow and blue does not make green, but instead makes a gross grey-ish colour.
I suggest using RYB for picking colour palettes and schemes, and using CMYK when it comes to the rendering and painting process.
Guide to creating colour schemes
CMY vs RBY colours. Who cares? (Video)
Color Conundrum: How It All Works! (Video)
Primary Colors Are Red, Yellow and Blue, Right? Not Exactly
I cry very easily and over everything but most recently I cried at nearly every chapter of "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White. I will never not cry at Arthuriana!!!
Hey there! I was wondering what brushes you used for this artwork, I’ve been looking for textured brushes on clip studio for a a while now and it seems like I can never find any? turtle-brownie/821485232331046912/did-this-like-a-few-months-ago-whoopsee
hiii of course!!! I used mainly 3 different brushes from memory, and all three are up on my website here:
Canvas Brushes - The main 'crux' of the painting; textured brushes that mimic the look of traditional paint on canvas
Intoxicate Pencil Set - A bit less textured than Canvas Brushes, but I use this one predominately for refining and details
Textured 3 - I use this one in conjunction with Canvas Brushes to lay down colour, as well as blending. This one has a more subtler texture, and looks especially nice with the colour jitter feature.
The first one can be found on the CSP asset store; the other two are downloaded from people on twitter who shared their brushes via google drive haha
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I happened to see a new open-source text-based interactive fiction engine on Reddit, in case anyone is interested! It seems ideal for anyone wanting to make Disco Elysium-style text-based games and looks very stylish as well as easy to learn! 👀
(def didn’t keep to just one song per ask but oh well lol. also my music taste is so specific smh)
1:A song you like with a color in the title
Blue, NewDad
2:A song you like with a number in the title
9 to 5, Dolly Parton
3:A song that reminds you of summertime
So What, P!NK
Animal I Have Become, Three Days Grace
4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about
Leaving, On a Jet Plane, John Denver
Bad Man, Fightmaster
I Hate Everything About You, Three Days Grace
5:A song that needs to be played LOUD
I’m Not Okay (I Promise), My Chemical Romance
Never Can Say Goodbye, Gloria Gaynor
6:A song that makes you want to dance
Dancing Queen, ABBA
Bad Romance, Lady Gaga
7:A song to drive to
I Love It, Icona Pop ft. Charli xcx
Loud Bark, Mannequin Pussy
8:A song about drugs or alcohol
Morning Elvis, Florence + The Machine
DENIAL IS A RIVER, Doechii
9:A song that makes you happy
Dramaturgy, Eve
My Kink Is Karma, Chappell Roan
Battlecry, Nujabes
10:A song that makes you sad
most of my favorite songs make me sad lol
No Choir, Florence + The Machine
Landslide, Fleetwood Mac
Wake Me Up When September Ends, Green Day
Numb, Linkin Park
11:A song that you never get tired of
pretty much all of F+TM
Breaking Down, Florence + The Machine
Tiny Dancer, Elton John
12:A song from your preteen years
Dog Days Are Over, Florence + The Machine
13:One of your favorite 80’s songs
i like disco a lot, but mostly listen to ‘70s disco
She Works Hard For The Money, Donna Summer
14:A song that you would love played at your wedding
this one was surprisingly hard for me
Sunlight, Hozier
Cosmic Love, Between Two Lungs (Symphony of Lungs), Too Much Is Never Enough, F+TM
Time After Time, Chet Baker
15:A song that is a cover by another artist
Disturbia, Mac Glocky (originally Rihanna)
Hurt, Johnny Cash (originally Nine Inch Nails)
Tiny Dancer, F+TM (originally Elton John)
16:One of your favorite classical songs
Gymnopédie No. 2, Erik Satie
Claire de Lune, Claude Debussy
Nocturnes, Op. 9, Frédéric Chopin
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007L I. Prélude, Bach, Yo-Yo Ma
17:A song that you would sing a duet with on karaoke
American Idiot, Green Day
Dreams, Fleetwood Mac
18:A song from the year that you were born (1999)
Goodbye Earl, The Chicks
19:A song that makes you think about life
F+TM
One of the Greats
You Can Have It All
King
Free
Morning Elvis
Hunger
Grace
The End of Love
No Choir
Caught
St Jude
Mother
Shake It Out
Breaking Down
All This And Heaven Too
Dog Days Are Over
20:A song that has many meanings to you
The Night We Met, Lord Huron
The Chain, Fleetwood Mac
21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title
Bennie and the Jets, Elton John
Jolene, Dolly Parton
Cassandra, Grace, Patricia, St Jude, Morning Elvis, F+TM
Helena, MCR
gwen, wilt
Talia, King Princess
Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
Rhiannon, Fleetwood Mac
22:A song that moves you forward
not exactly sure of the meaning of this prompt, but my girl gloria never lets me down
Real Good People, Never Can Say Goodbye, Gloria Gaynor
23:A song that you think everybody should listen to
these are songs i love and also think most people would enjoy
Dog Days Are Over, King, F+TM
24:A song by a band you wish were still together
The Ghost of You, MCR
25:A song by an artist no longer living
Killer Queen, Queen
Almost Blue, Chet Baker
Rocky Mountain High, John Denver
I Feel Love, Donna Summer
Come As You Are, Nirvana
26:A song that makes you want to fall in love
found this one difficult as well tbh
Take Me to Church, Wasteland, Baby!, Hozier
27:A song that breaks your heart
Fast Car, Tracy Chapman
Hurt, Johnny Cash
I Lied to You, Miles Canton
28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love
all of F+TM
As It Was, Hozier
Red Shoes, Dolly Parton
Walkin’ After Midnight, Patsy Cline
29:A song that you remember from your childhood
Drift Away, Dobie Gray
Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash (tbh all of Johnny Cash)
Only Time, Enya
Riot, Three Days Grace
30:A song that reminds you of yourself
Fallingwater, Maggie Rogers
Mother, F+TM
Here’s all my answers!! I had a lot of fun doing this, and also realized that I don’t really have a great way of organizing all the music I like. Obvs this prompt list isn’t meant to be totally comprehensive, so plenty of music I really love didn’t make it on here.
Recently I’ve been listening to so so much of NewDad and wilt, both on this list. I really do listen to F+TM that much; her and Yo-Yo Ma have been with/gotten me through so much over the years.
If anyone else wants to tackle this, please tag me, I’d love to see what you choose! Or if you just wanna chat about music, that would be super great as well! If you have some recs, pls reply to the post or message me!
The post is already quite long, so my answers are under the break ☺
The songs are from various countries, sometimes a little too niche, and my taste in music genres is quite wide-ranging: I apologize in advance if this isn’t very relatable!
I love the way you render! 😭💕 How do you pick your colors?
I remember like, years ago watching this video by Keinan Lafferty (I think) on youtube, and used the 'banana method' or whatever he called it in that, which is essentially making a curved 'banana' shape on your colour picker
essentially, the idea is, using your base colour (or, mid tone), you progressively shift the colour lighter and more de-saturated for your lighter tones, and inversely shift progressively darker and more de-saturated from your mid-tone for your shadows.
You can see in my colour-picked example here that it is not a perfect semi-circle, but it was generally the basis for how I'd pick colours, and then would tweak them from there.
How I'd tweak the colours usually is with the help of overlaying gradient maps. I'd also tweak colours in especially shadows, where I'd intentionally use a slightly lighter grey for the illusion of 'cooler' tones in shadows, and darker more saturated tones along the edges where the shadow meets the light.
I've more recently started trying out using triadic colour schemes, where I pretty much jump to the opposite side of the colour wheel for my shadows and light.
This image on twitter sort of sparked my inspiration to experiment more with that (image is linked to the original post) but I am still trying to get the hang of it still 🥲
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I know I said I was going dark. But the situation with @thistimeitsdifferent--if has got me heated.
So here's how to spot GenAI in writing:
YOU CAN'T RELIABLY SPOT LLM USAGE.
The em-dash, en-dash and ellipses have been in use ever since their respective inventions. Crack open a novel from anytime before 2020, and you're bound to encounter any combination of the three.
The rule of three is human nature. Think about it. Damn near every fairytale involving the acquisition of something is in threes. There's the three-act structure. Trilogies. Trilogies of trilogies. I could go on.
Repetition of certain phrases: everyone has a pet phrase or two. Non-writers included.
Constant similes is something GenAI got from fanfiction where the authors are, by and large, amateurs and hobbyists who haven't quite gotten the hang of when a description is more effective without a simile than with.
Starting a sentence or paragraph with question? Well, that's just what people do. Continuing this with another question? You guessed it, still something that humans do. Is it annoying when it gets overused? You bet. It's still not a reliable indicator of LLM usage.
'It's not X, it's Y' is something English speakers have been doing for ages. The fact that people get witch hunted over this has made several authors in the writer spaces I lurk in completely change their language and the voice they chose just to avoid being accused of LLM usage.
But Siri! What if—
Nope. Not even having multiples of these is a reliable indicator. Some people just write like this, and LLMs generate text based on these people's writing.
But their English sounds so weird!
Did it ever occur to you that some people's first language isn't English? Eller er det noget, man måske er lidt for amerikansk til at overveje?
But I just know this person used it!
Do you, though? Who's to say an author you really like doesn't use GenAI? Scepticism is good, but scepticism without the critical thinking skills to apply it is as bad as taking everything at face value.
So what can I do, then?
Stop reading. Block the author if you must.
Don't go into their DMs or askbox or email or whatever other means of direct communication with the author to accuse them.
At best you're right and they'll own up to usage and quit.
At worst you're spitting in the face of an author metaphorically killing themselves to write, who might just have certain pet phrases, who just happens to have a favourite set of punctuation, who loves to use the rule of three because human nature dictates that three is pleasing.
At worst you're killing someone's passion and making them quit working on something that would have become brilliant with time and practice and effort.
At worst you're being xenophobic—unintentionally or otherwise.
And since this is the IF scene, consider this, too:
Writing is lonely and difficult and some people struggle to find writer's groups they mesh well with. Consider that IF writers are doing this largely for FREE. Consider that word count inflation has gotten so absolutely INSANE that IF authors are expected to drop 12 novels' worth of words into ONE SINGULAR piece of media.
And then consider if sending in that accusation really is worth spending your limited time on this planet.
The Wedding is my first Visual Novel. You can now buy it! Demo | Steam |Itch.io
And thank you all for the support. 💕
Steam finally decided to behave, so I can post my emotional rambling, and you’ll just have to endure it. 😄
Is it crazy to say that I’m more proud of The Wedding than When Life Gives You Lemons? Don’t get me wrong, I love both, and Lemons is probably the game that got me where I am since so many people resonated with it.
But as far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to make a Visual Novel, and now, four years later, with so much support from this community and a crash course in learning how to code in Ren’Py, it’s finally done. I finally published my first VN.
The graphics, the story, the characters... I love them all.
Micah holds a special place in my heart because I never thought I could create a character that sassy and still have readers fall in love with them. Cassidy was a last-minute addition and somehow became one of my favorite romances (sorry, I’m biased). Tara/Tariq is incredibly sweet, and their artwork with the bonnet is still one of my favorites.
And then there’s Danny and Taylor. All of them are so different, yet somehow they all came alive as I write every little scene and every little dialogue.
Yes, the launch was delayed on Steam because Steam needed to approve the page, and yes, I was kind of bummed out and was waiting before I made an official announcement.
But, Hey! It's finally available on Steam. 💕
This was a passion project; the game is nowhere near perfect, but I love it, flaws and all, and I’m incredibly proud of it.
Thank you all for the support. Thank you to all my Kickstarter backers. I’m so grateful to have an audience willing to read my silly little stories.
Here’s to more stories coming your way, however cringy they may be. 💕
Also adding some of my other finished games.
The Midnight Saga-Demo | Steam | Google | Apple
Insert-Rich-Family-Name-Demo | Google Play |Apple Store| Steam
It Takes Three to Tango Demo
When Life Gives You Lemons-Demo | Steam
Also... Big thank you to Dori for this beautiful Banner. 🥰
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I am melting, it's 28°C in my apartment (36°C outside and bound to get hotter in the coming days) - but I managed to finish my little Arcadie!AU illustration of Stanislas and Eveline...
Though, while coloring I realized that their AU would probably hardly be sunshine and roses XD Queen Serene would most likely have plans for her second born daughter and to marry her off for political reasons... so the princess romancing one of the Queen's Commanders might be... problematic.
BUT I just want them to have at least a moment of bliss while Queen Serene is still oblivious to what is going on...
I mean... look at the possibilities Arcadie would have had if the Queen wasn't such a warmonger...
And, if you love interactive fiction and you don't know Arcadie yet, both games (Arcadie Second Born and Arcadie Cold Lands by @sofia-d-asb) are available on Steam and totally amazing! Go play and read them!!
