18FJust a casual Ace gal who loves Dragons, Dinosaurs, the Military, Giant Robots, and Art of All Kinds! A now-and-then blog for random thoughts I have, or for random things I hear people say! (Or what I’ve said…)
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Theme Reveal Date & Rule / Filter Reworks
Hello Art Fighters! The time has come... the date for the theme reveal stream has been announced! It will take place on our Twitch during June 15th from 2 PM to 8 PM UTC (10 AM to 4 PM Eastern Time).
We have several fun activities lined up, so check the graphic below for a list of them! There will also be a special surprise after the themes are revealed, so stick around for that...
Graphic made by Scribedhearts!
Last but not least, we have updated our rules and filter guidelines - please familiarize yourself with them. We apologize for these changes so close to the fight. You can expect reworks to be earlier next year.
Read the newspost in full for all information. We can't wait to see everyone at the theme reveal!
Links to buy those official wof keychain that i recently found about !
So- my post got a lot of people wanting to buy those keychains, so here are links to all of the ones sold online that i found. Keep in mind that those are just sold by people who got them in a library, this isn’t amazon or anything, these are sold by individuals who only have one !
You also need to know that, as those only were given out in metropolitan France (from what i know, maybe non-metropolitan too), the people that are selling them all lives there, and might not be able to ship them where you live or that might be a bit more expensive for you depending on where you live.
I marked the currency in euros since its the french currency, but you can use a converter if you use another currency.
At last, those people are French and speak french, so they might not understand or speak English very well, please be nice with them :)
Links for the sundew keychain :
Vinted links :
10€
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16€ (This second one is more expensive because it is also sold with the first book, but if you ask the person, maybe they will accept to just sell you the keychain!)
Leboncoin links :
https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/collection/2600839297
(9€)
I couldn’t find any for the Clay one and the Tsunami one sadly :(
When i found out about those i instantly bought them, but it seems like i bought the only ones being sold on those websites. But keep an eye out, somebody might decide to sell theirs in the future :)
i’ll share the link if i find a new one in the future ! Take care, hope you’ll enjoy the keychain if you decide to buy one !
WOF FANS COME GET UR MERCH
I found where that official Sundew keychain is from !!
Do you remember that Sundew keychain i posted about a little while ago ? Well i found where it’s from !
It has been released by the french editor of WOF (Gallimar Jeunesse) around the release of the french version of the Poison Jungle. It was sent to some bookshops and given out to people buying a book of the serie !
You can find them for sale on websites like Vinted or Leboncoin by looking up "porte clé les Royaumes de feu" ("Wings of Fire keychain" in french)
But EVEN BETTER, there have been two other keychain that have been released by the french editor : one of Clay and one of Tsunami ! I found both of them for sale on Leboncoin and bought them instantly >:D
Anyway, for the people wondering where it was from, here you go ! It was an advertisement keychain made in france :D
BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD!❣️ Once you are given this award you're supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people you adore! Absolutely no pressure but. It's sweet to know someone thinks you're beautiful inside and out
🙏
“I am dead, actually decaying, his rizz game couldn’t outmatch her mentally ill game.”
I have no idea why it decided to be anonymous, but here XD sorry! All of them in one doodle! Kalimba (blue) Petrel (rust) and Marimba (the tiny one XD)
I’ve seen your posts a few times— if you so desire, I have three WoF ocs for you to mess with! :DD
https://toyhou.se/24941389.queen-kalimba
https://toyhou.se/24952650.petrel
https://toyhou.se/24951506.marimba
Not sure if you meant to post this anonymously, cuz then I can’t tag you in the art, but anyway-
The links aren’t working for me, so if you can send another ask or reblog this or whatever to fix it, then I’ll gladly draw your characters!
WoF fans check ur bookdar
Alright so here's what we've got so far for the TDP Limited Edition. It's 16 more pages than the original book (552 pages in total) and it's said to have new stuff. They could be anything. Little bits of extra lore, illustrations by Joy Ang, whatever. It seems pretty cool! It releases in September of this year. Here's the cover, spine, and back cover. I love this artwork so much,, also appears to have gilded pages! Red! Neat!
ID below cut
[ID: the cover of “Wings of Fire: the dragonet prophecy. Limited edition.” shows Clay sitting besides the underground river, his wings spread and mouth open. His tail and one of his hind legs are in the splashing waves below, as if he had just slipped into the water or got out of it. The cave ceiling is dotted with glow worms, their silk threads illuminating the scene. The pages appear to be gilded with red.
The back cover shows Queen Scarlet standing on the edge of her rock balcony between two pillars made of various materials. Her head is tilted up and she looks down in surprise or disappointment. She’s wearing her gold coat of chain mail hung with rubies and a lot of intricate jewelry that matches it. Blue ribbons decorate the cornice of the balcony above her and sway in the wind. Big golden text at the top reads: “Discover where it all began in this exclusive limited edition of the dragonet prophecy!” Below is the blurb. The spine has the title and “limited edition” written on it in gold, with a close up of Clay from the cover at the top, bordered by a yellow stripe with the series symbol and “book one” written on it. End ID]
(via hehe (read desc) by JrMilitaryGal on DeviantArt)
U want some charas! Lo and behold! All listed for sale r being sold for pts— this is to fund a 2.5k goal to adopt a boi, and quick!
Oh no why must you remind me
it used to be 2007 you know
Amanda if u can hear us we are rapidly approaching ur location
reblog if your name isn't Amanda.
2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!
We’ll find you Amanda.
“If ur gonna be on ur phone drive better while ur doin it I dunno. At least hold it out so u can see the window like a pro. It’s a joke calm down. Someone’s gonna get mad at that.” — same guy from the Stormchaser livestream
“Looks like everyone in this area got their license from a crackerjack box”
@gregorsmissingarmor Hehehe thankies >:))) drawing was fun even though I couldn’t stay long XD tried to fit the board theme of Star Wars but I could not draw human beings in that moment 😂 so instead went with.
Lizard ✨ y’all’s drawings are so great I was just staringggg 🙏
Magma board with your local clone simps and fellow hooligans 😌✨
@gregorsmissingarmor @mire-draws-things @hyacinthquetzal
“Columbus seems like the kind of guy to break Ohio, so Columbus, Ohio.” — my friend explaining how they remember the Capitol of Ohio.
“You fool, in hugging range, I am a pro goose gotter.”
“I just followed three mosquitos up the stairs and I don’t know how to feel.”
“BEWARE THE GATOR STACK.”
“Man, that is my goal: Be so pathetic and miserable looking I deep fry someone’s brain.”
“????? No??????”
“!!!!!!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!!”
“NO.”
“I got the miserable part, I’m already halfway there.”
“NO, DON’T DEEP FRY MY BRAIN??? No because I don’t see any lifeform with enough empathy in your far vicinity to have their brain deep fried so I’m assuming I’m the target. I’M TELLING JR.”
“JR WOULD WANT TO DEEP FRY YOUR BRAIN, TOO.”
“????Bet.”
“BET????”
“Uh, no, not too much, don’t splode earth by accident, thanks.”
“Oh yeah like I almost did with France.”
“I love my blasphemous unit of measurement looking ass.”
“Let me tell you, being a machine with no limbs is a fascinating experience.”
“Americans know of Normandie because, well, thats where yall crashlanded hero style screaming freedom and freed our country then Europe in the process.”
“YEP THAT WAS US.”
“Oh yeah, was it that time I went: “instructions unclear turned into honse.’”
“DON’T MAKE ME CALL UP MY GIRLFRIEND’S MOM’S MOM. She’s a lawyer political mf and she will factually, logically, and lawfully kick your ass.”
"Siri, set a reminder for two days to throw sushi at a French werepigeon.”
🎮 HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 🎮
Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?
To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:
SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!
Ren'py (and also a link to it if you click here do it): THE visual novel software. Comic artists, look no further ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It has great documentation! It has a bunch of plugins and UI stuff and assets for you to buy! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) You can also port your game to a BUNCH of consoles! ✨Cons: None really <3 Some games to look at: Doki Doki Literature Club, Bad End Theater, Butterfly Soup
Twine: Great for text-based games! GREAT FOR WRITERS WHO DONT WANNA DRAW!!!!!!!!! (but you can draw if you want) ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's versatile! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) ✨Cons: You can add pictures, but it's a pain. Some games to look at: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, Queers In love At The End of The World, Escape Velocity
Bitsy: Little topdown games! ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's (somewhat) intuitive! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! You can make everything in it, from text to sprites to code! Those games sure are small! ✨Cons: Those games sure are small. This is to make THE simplest game. Barely any animation for your sprites, can barely fit a line of text in there. But honestly, the restrictions are refreshing! Some games to look at: honestly I haven't played that many bitsy games because i am a fake gamer. The picture above is from Under A Star Called Sun though and that looks so pretty
RPGMaker: To make RPGs! LIKE ME!!!!! NOTE: I recommend getting the latest version if you can, but all have their pros and cons. You can get a better idea by looking at this post. ✨Pros: Literally everything you need to make an RPG. Has a tutorial inside the software itself that will teach you the basics. Pretty simple to understand, even if you have no coding experience! Also I made a post helping you out with RPGMaker right here! ✨Cons: Some stuff can be hard to figure out. Also, the latest version is expensive. Get it on sale! Some games to look at: Ib, Hylics, In Stars and Time (hehe. I made it)
engine.lol: collage worlds! it is relatively new so I don't know much about it, but it seems fascinating. picture is from Garden! NOTE: There's a bunch of smaller engines to find out there. Just yesterday I found out there's an Idle Game Maker made by the Cookie Clicker creator. Isn't life wonderful?
✨more advice under the cut. this is Long ok✨
ENGINES I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND THEY SEEM HARD BUT ALSO GIVE IT A TRY I GUESS!!!! :
Unity and Unreal: I don't know anything about those! That looks hard to learn! But indie devs use them! It seems expensive! Follow your dreams though! Don't ask me how!
GameMaker: Wuh I just don't know anything about it either! I just know it's now free if your game is non-commercial (aka, you're not selling it), and Undertale was made on it! It seems good! You probably need some coding experience though!!!
Godot: Man I know even less about this one. Heard good things though!
BUNCHA RANDOM ADVICE!!!!
-Make something small first! Try making simple: a character is in a room, and exits the room. The character can look around, decide to take an item with them, can leave, and maybe the door is locked and you have to find the key. Figuring out how to code something like that, whether it is as a fully text-based game or as an RPGMaker map, should be a good start to figure out how your software of choice works!
-After that, if you have an idea, try first to make the simplest version of that idea. For my timeloop RPG, my simplest version was two rooms: first room you can walk in, second room with the King, where a cutscene automatically plays and the battle starts, you immediately die, and loop back to the first room, with the text from this point on reflecting this change. I think I also added a loop counter. This helped me figure out the most important thing: Can This Game Be Made? After that, the rest is just fun stuff. So if you want to make a dating sim, try and figure out how to add choices, and how to have affection points go up and down depending on your choices! If you want to make a platformer, figure out how to make your character move and jump and how to create a simple level! If you just want to make a kinetic visual novel with no choices, figure out how to add text, and how to add portraits! You'll be surprised at how powerful you'll feel after having figured even those simple things out.
-If you have a programming problem or just get confused, never underestimate the power of asking Google! You most likely won't be the only person asking this question, and you will learn some useful tips! If you are powerful enough, you can even… Ask people??? On forums??? Not me though.
-Yeah I know you probably want to make Your Big Idea RIGHT NOW but please. Make a smaller prototype first. You need to get that experience. Trust me.
-If you are not a womanthing of many skills like me, you might realize you need help. Maybe you need an artist, or a programmer. So! Game jams on itch.io are a great way to get to work and meet other game devs that have different strengths! Or ask around! Maybe your artist friend secretly always wanted to draw for a game. Ask! Collaborate! Have fun!!!
I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye
The head is done, except for a couple small touch-ups!
“Whaddup YouTube, welcome back to my channel, I’m Hyacinth, and today I’m kidnapping the French.”