Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer

Another new character - the Neck Queen Aino - added to the game project!

Another new character - the Neck Queen Aino - added to the game project!

Yes, exactly!

"We'll make a feature-length animated movie..."
"We'll make a musical anthology..."
"We'll shoot Bambi's mom..."
"We'll have the kids smoke and drink, then turn them into donkeys..."

"But the audience..."

"It's my company, fuck'em!"

I also feel the need to say, as Pixar is under Disney, that Walt would have surely spat out anyone making such a statement about his company. The man did not give a FUCK about audience expectations.

I'm sorry if I misspeak for queer folks, but a statement to the tune of "we are in the business of maximising mass appeal and will sand off any risky and ambitious elements to produce the smoothest of slop" might have been better than this. At least it would have been honest.

No matter how you read the response, it comes off as pathetic. No idea why Docter felt the need to make it at all.

So either this is a blatant lie biased only towards "certain kinds" of conversations - or Pixar has become a shriveling, scared corpo willing to compromise the quality of its stories so it doesn't have to hear some parts of the audience compain about them.

The alternative of course is that Pixar has abandoned the storytelling drive and pillars which give the company its value.

Docter is of course is being dishonest. Pixar differentiated its stories from Disney specifically by making them a lot more psychologically nuanced, closer to real world. It's what the company does. You don't do that without risking unexpected converations being sprung from the audience.

I remember a time when the point of children's media WAS to enable conversations kids could learn from. It's up to the parents to do the research on how they want to challenge their children.

And hey, sometimes life gets ahead of you. I must've popped a few convos like that on my parents for sure.

Finding Nemo starts with the massacre of the protagonist's mom and siblings.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

I'm not a huge Evangelion fan, but I appreciate how the series & movies managed to feel so reflective of Hideaki Anno's personal life and developing worldview. They're often rough, but always earnest.

So I hope the upcoming series closes that chapter and moves onto new characters and plotlines.

It is with a great misfortunate that I inform you of having been reminded of the Artemist Fowl movie adaptation, and of how great the original book was.

I mean, god... the accorn...

I catcha glance of every now and then, and am just endlessly disappointed how... devoid of passion they are, even for their indeded purpose.

The Old Songs are for more than battle. Invoking them at the right moments allows the player to converse with the Primal Essences of the world.

#GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #KalevalaseuranTuella

Also I really need to fix the UI AAAAAAH D:

The Old Songs are for more than battle. Invoking them at the right moments allows the player to converse with the Primal Essences of the world.

#GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #KalevalaseuranTuella

a man with curly hair is holding a small object in his hands ALT: a man with curly hair is holding a small object in his hands

The urge to rebase yet another shitty script from 6 months ago calling to me like the One Ring.

I can certainly see myself that way sometimes; acknowledging that in certain situations, under certain circumstances, I behave and think differently with a different persona. So looking back, I can certainly perceive that version of me as different from what I am at the moment.

Also slightly amused by how people read Elisabeth and Sue as different people and split consciousnesses. Whereas for me, it was so much more interesting to read them as the same person travelling between different bodies, who starts to perceive the other as "someone else" the moment she transfers.

Finally got the chance to watch The Substance. The movie hit me very close to home, especially the pre-date scene. As someone who often bails on social events and dates at the last minute due to feeling so physically offputting, it resonated with me greatly.

Me when I make valentine-themed comics

How it started VS How it's going:

Big congrats!

Added a new enemy move that disables one of your Songs for X number of turns.

Also wasted like 2-3 hours trying to do it the "smart" way, before doing a quick and dirty FindAnyObjectByType() to get what I needed😅

#GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #KalevalaseuranTuella

Post a banger not in English

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiua...

Astro Protocol is out now on Steam for Windows, Linux & macOS!

A focused turn-based 4X space strategy game with intense 1-hour matches, tactical hex combat, and high replayability.

store.steampowered.com/app/3727420/...

#indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Added a new enemy move that disables one of your Songs for X number of turns.

Also wasted like 2-3 hours trying to do it the "smart" way, before doing a quick and dirty FindAnyObjectByType() to get what I needed😅

#GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #KalevalaseuranTuella