Quinn K.

Quinn K.

@quinnkdev.bsky.social

Curmudgeonly artist, writer and gamedev from Austria. she/her 2023 IGF Nuovo Award Nominee. Worked on: An Outcry, There Swings A Skull, OFF. Now: Blanksword Opinions are my own. Icon by Kobold Factory

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still on a "dark seed" kick for the season, and i think one of the absolutely shoddiest aspects of both games in the series is how frequently and poorly they fade in overlays to hastily establish parallels, and morph transition to enforce unreality. it plain doesn't work, but at least it's funny!

what fascinates me about so many of the shoddy decisions in DS2 (like this one) is the complete and total lack of trust in their audience cyberdreams must have had. i guess the only thing they trusted their audience to do is NOT HAVE WATCHED TWIN PEAKS. ayooooooooo

Quinn K.@quinnkdev.bsky.social

still on a "dark seed" kick for the season, and i think one of the absolutely shoddiest aspects of both games in the series is how frequently and poorly they fade in overlays to hastily establish parallels, and morph transition to enforce unreality. it plain doesn't work, but at least it's funny!

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🦇 𝗪𝗘𝗜𝗥𝗗 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗗𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬! 🦇 Blanksword — @blanksword.bsky.social In this story-rich roguelike RPG, you wake up murdered, memoryless, and missing your ENTIRE brain. Armed with a smiling sword, rebuild yourself from scratch, face your betrayer, and overthrow a tyrannical God! ꒰ #weirdgamewednesday ꒱

in regards to the bioware news... i wasn't into their games myself, but i had a really good time as a teen watching my brother play through the three Mass Effect games. it's painful to see the bedrock of this medium be eroded by people who don't know what the hell they're doing and don't much care

i coded a new mechanic into Blanksword that really just showed me how weirdly easy this "fun"-thing can be. us gamers are simple creature, the world's most enriched gerbils

Q: what mechanic is it? A: you remember in the demo, when you were wanting to help the Angel of Waste Disposal clean up the trash in her map? *well!* :) you'll see!

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always retweet the no hustle mizuki comic forever

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It was Shigeru Mizuki - comic artist, antiwar activist, folklore archivist, and general cultural titan.

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I've been kinda lazy with sharing stuff lately so to make up for it, here's what Ondy was working on this week: Remember-Me's brand-new overworld pattern, where you have to maneuver around a little maze and you get hit by a dangerous "rewind attack" if you fail! (The visuals are WIP of course)

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I wanted to do a serious painting and record the whole drawing process, just to have an example for the youtube. It ended up taking over 10 hours, so I'll have to do multiple x16 speed edits to make it at all palatable to watch.

i'm upset that a character as sad and pathetic as mike dawson is only possible to write accidentally if he were possible to create on purpose i'd be out here making my "dark seed III" with the serial number filed off

tis the season for (mike) dawsonposting again, but i was just informed that this mulleted motherheadexploder thinks people shouldn't be taking antidepressants in Dark Seed II! fuck! he's so stupid funny!

"You've been taking PILLS!?" look mike The Clown from The Carnival in Crowley, TX isn't *your* limp ass taking aspirin every day against an alien embryo in your head. go see a real doctor instead of one with a freud-inspired dick joke framed on his wall

if the player understands nothing else about Blanksword, they Must understand this: BLANK goes through horrors but never once ceases to try.

realized what one of my life's small joys is: starting electronic appliances. something extremely satisfying to clicking a button and hearing a machine rumble to life and follow its design

dishwasher-kun (that's its name now, lol), the washing machine, my turntable, my computer, my tascam recorder, my guitar amp... i'd be markedly less happy if they didn't have fun, clicky buttons, and weren't toyetic.

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blast that repost button and win mama an award

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I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

my brother had been staking out the electronics stores in the area for a while looking for a dishwasher that's worth its salt and the price, and finally found the one. he helped me install it (thank you!) it's a lifesaver. getting the dishes clean has been the bane of my existence for nine years.

it was a problem that led to other problems and just branched out to make my day-to-day (and several anxieties) worse. now, it's solved. it's a relief i've not felt in a long while. thank you, dishwasher-kun.

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Literally one of the best short games I ever played and you can get it for free, and there's also a game I worked on in there (hanged man) that's pretty fun (and a bunch of other cool games)

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