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33, she/they trans game dev and occasional vtuber. Help each other and together we will destroy capitalism and build a better world https://ko-fi.com/lilycutesmith https://terrorbuns.itch.io/ avatar & banner by https://bsky.app/profile/piumike.bsky.social

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 49m

Its either that or remake SMB1 for my birthday so like, gotta pick my poison

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 50m

The dumb of ass currently working on an rpg: ok but what if i made another rpg tho

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Vee @shellbreaker.bsky.social · 57m

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TwinkleSoft - RoboGAL DEMO IS OUT! @twinklesoft.bsky.social · 6h

We made artwork to celebrate the release of Disaster Arms - Impact Project B.A.H.N. by @pd-cgt.bsky.social

Another incredible game from the developer of Somnabuster!

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 7h

ughhhhhh think i need to get a new mouse

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 11h

now that i got past the roadblock in this project known as "target selection", im having fun doing stupid shit (speed sorting)

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 11h

this is one lifehack they DON'T want you to know about!

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かわアナゴ @kawaanago0827.bsky.social · 12h

マーシャドー
#ちびかわポケ

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 12h

anyways i think more games should beat you over the head with their messaging and themes even if you think that's "boring" and "overbearing". like idk there's some shit you really can't be subtle about anymore and I think its important that you just smash the player's head with that shit

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 13h

i talk a lot of shit for someone who's only really played through Etrian Odyssey games to finish and hasn't done so for most other rpgs lol

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 13h

I think having a class/character that's purely dedicated to this sort of support is actually fine and frankly useful in terms of giving you, the designer, an anchor point in encounter design, but having that shit accessible with items is silly busted because now you have a whole party doing it

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 13h

i think you should avoid having full party healing/reviving unless its very conditional or super high cost in a turn based RPG because otherwise you can just sort of facetank thru encounters unless there's mechanics you can't respect if people are dead

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 13h

ok but can you put omastar higher? his pose is very strong

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 13h

my hell brain is considering the concept of a NES boss rush fan game which I do not need in my life but by golly I'm considering it

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🐻 grumbleroar🐻 Karlach is the Perfect Woman @grumbleroar.bsky.social · 21h

LMAO

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Fey (フェイ) @feytaline.bsky.social · 23h

do you ever just think about about the White Bitch Forest

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 1d

I need to get around to playing this game all I know is that summon coffins is a real spell and is the funniest shit

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lily valeen @itsmelilyv.bsky.social · 1d

i am doing my best, i am doing my best, i am doing my best
#pixelart

pixel art in blues and purples. shows a nervous automata woman looking to the side, with a halo and a ring choker, in front of a dark background with a grid

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 1d

somehow, EO1U does the whole "you gotta kill the forest folk to progress" part Insanely Worse to a comical degree they were NOT cooking there.

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 1d

I've explicitly been not looking anything up and largely just been playing thru the game with whatever my memory has on what's good/what to expect and mmmmm game's fun. I think the idea that it's plot tries to convey works better in EO1 where a core part of the gameplay IS just plowing thru randoms

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Also for how relatively simple the class kits are, they all do Something and have some sort of Goal they want to do and I think that's cool.

It's also funny that the (imo?) "worst" class is Ronin and purely because it needs to spend turns Stancing Up rather then hitting the gas, and its still Fine

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 1d

it's cool how the game DOES expect you to do relatively long runs to bosses so you need to account for randoms on any boss attempts; the encounter reduction stuff isn't enough to nullify all randoms so you need to consider your pacing and how well you can just Attack thru an encounter

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 1d

this does mean that my defensive core of Immunize + Trickery + Provoke is sort of necessary to keep my landy and dark hunter from just Exploding from stray hits lol (Immunize is too expensive for randoms tho; Trickery + Provoke usually do the job well enough for those)

Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 1d

I've thrashed the third stratum now in EO1HD and its really funny how the game having its damage affected by level difference means that the enemies' STR stat is ramped the FUCK up to compensate.

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Lily Cutesmith 🏳️‍⚧️🔩🧟‍♀️ @lilycutesmith.bsky.social · 1d

i fucking did it i coded the got damn menu it dont support other features it needs to yet but fuck it works!!!!!