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Yeah I think it would take years if you don't know how to do it, that's why I think it was a good idea to make a lot of unfinished games over the years to learn things and keep trying. You see, I give up a lot but I never give up for good, I just see what I like and do it, if it doesn't work out then I give up but if I feel like doing it again in the future I just get back to it. I just don't care if something didn't work for me in the past, I just keep gathering infos about it for a new restart one day…

Now I'm using the Godot game engine, which has a Python-like language and I think it's practically the Blender of the gamedev world, it has incredible features yet very lightweight and optimized for performance, very amazing resource system and memory management that doesn't have enormous memory leaks like Java and also doesn't crash like C++, also the games work on the web with WebAssembly making it faster than Javascript, best of all it's free, like Coco Chanel's famous saying "best things in the world are free", I think Blender and Godot are on the list XD

I dunno, i just learn most things with Google and YouTube, thanks to a lot of tutorials you can find nowadays... I'm even starting to get better with Blender, modeling and rigging, so my current goal is to switch over from DazStudio to Blender and make my own characters instead of altering the Daz people, maybe even some stylized characters, and experiment with shaders, hopefully change my art style again to something more interesting.

But I agree, about 10 years ago gamedev was hell and very little you could do than learning it the hardcore way…but yeah, I don't wanna make my games super hard to play so no worries about difficulty…my goal is to make Helmut walk around the world based around my art just for fun but mini games could make activities more interesting I think.

Oh yeah, those Skyrim's lore books! That's definitely a great idea to add stories to the game, maybe every unique bookshelf could contain one story so you know which ones you've already checked.

Maybe it's also a good way to highlight objects you've never interacted with by adding red dots to them like some games do to attract attention :3

Yeah I wanted to add special places that trigger special animations, like maybe backfolding with a barbell in the gym or folding into a bucket in the bathroom.

Guess maybe each room could have a number of things you can interact with, so you can see the % of completion in every room, but some objects have special requirements before you can interact with them like winning the minigame gives you a power potion that you can use to do the barbell exercises. Then the goal of the game can be completing all the rooms :3

Making a game is easy, simply keep starting game projects every year for 10+ years and then run out of gasoline every time after 1-2 months, then start again after a year... It's like grinding, in the end you get enough EXP to level up :D

I think the first time I started making a game was in 2007 or so, since then I only managed to finish small puzzle games cloned from Mahjong, Tetris and 2048, but not the adventure game I always wanted 😐

This time it's finally a breakthrough because I learned how to do animations and sprites better and finally not spending a week on polishing ONE sprite like some time in the past, which was greatly demotivating ;D

It was also a great change to use an isometric view as it allows to show the world better compared to that straight view where you only get to see one wall out of four on a building. Well, here you can see two walls, so I think it's twice as good :D

Hmm, with so few assets and ideas right now it's hard to think what would be the best controls for the game but it's definitely something to think of ^^

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Thank you so much!! Now looking back at this pic I think it would be fun if some contortionist friends gathered by campfire at night to tell scary stories about bendy monsters and they're all "sitting" in cheststands and triplefolds 🤣

Thank you so much, very glad you think so! :3 I went with the 2D sprites after all, just need to add more stuff to make the game look more "updated" and then will post it soon ^^

I think keyboard controls will not work with this game since it's basically a point'n'click game. You can hold the mouse button if you want to keep moving in some direction.

So true 😄

His name is Jack, Fyra is the artist who created him :P I heard the most important circus skill is not to sit on your own head but to smile while doing so :D I imagine Jack's trainer told him at a young age that stretching with a smile will take you twice as far and Jack planted that idea in his mind like a seed that kept giving him wonderful fruits in his training every day :D

I think we've seen all of the ancient contortion photographs so the only way to see something new is to create fake ones 😂

Oh thank you! X3 I'm trying to make the body shape clear so the extreme parts can be enjoyed more ^^ Unless it seems more interesting to leave it to the imagination to do even more extreme guesswork 🤣

Mwahaha, I'm sure he protects his crotch way more than than on the better days but this is a comfy minimum :D

Evil stonemasons... nice one! 🤣
I suspect he will grab any role as long as he's the main star AND gets to do all the bends in the movie, he's already stealing the show from Andrzej every time 😂
As for experiments, I'm always curious how much more Yasha will be able to contort since he's always claiming to be unbreakable and will I be able to invent even more extreme poses for him than this XD

I always loved those inhuman joints that make impossible the idea that it could be just a human in a robot costume... I really hope this android's waist is also as impossible XD
Thank you so much, never thought this oldie would ever get a comment XD

Well, it was an attempt to study teh anime style and of course heavily referenced from the original manga. I don't remember actually tracing his head but I think I had some manga page open and just copying from it.
I used Photoshop since 1997, first I needed it for scanning, cropping and rotating images for school projects, then started doing some funny photo manips for the lulz, but then even tried to paint faces and some RPG items like potions and swords. It was Diablo/Warcraft times back then and I was on a team of youngsters who tried to make a warcraft clon...err...I mean an innovative fantasy RTS.... XD When I started making this art in 2002 I wasn't exactly a noob :D
About Kurapika, I wasn't aware it was debatable, I prefer to remain silent as hate any kind of debates about anything.

Thank you so much!!
Guess the British army has better top managers than most of the civil organizations 😜

It only matters that people care about the content, if nobody cares about something, I just take it down. You don't need to be sad about that, if you disagree with some content disappearing, just tell me and I'll most probably restore it. But I don't want to add random images to the main page or push the old content in any way.

For me it's mainly a problem of too much stuff that nobody comments or looks at, while wasting a lot of server space and causing slowdowns because of bots crawling all those pages... But if you need it so much, I'm gonna restore it...

Maybe it would be easier to make a repository on Mega.nz for all that stuff, but right now I'm not sure how to keep the stories alongside the pictures on that platform...

Not sure what you mean about the hoodie, the crotch part of his leotard is behind his head so won't be able to see it anyway. I tried to not change the picture's angle or anything about it except the clothes...It took some painting to fix everything...

The way he appears like two people, I think that's the magic of contortion. Helmut still doesn't believe he's learning any real magic in that school, since all the classes are just stretching 😜