Eric

We finished our fan remake of Anodyne!

Hey, I have enough algorithm-muting defenses in place that I am still pretty capable of scrolling my feed with minimal psychic damage. I'm going to, for as long as I have the patience for it, try and do a weekly round-up of some of my favourite art from Twitter. I scroll by a lot of really great art and it's usually only at the end of the year that I go back and look through all of it, so I'm going to try and do this as an exercise for myself to try and appreciate the work for longer than the 5 seconds it takes for me to look at and click like.

I'm gonna try and maybe limit it to like 5-8 pieces. We'll see how it goes. A kampo/traditional medicine store by Mateusz Urbanowicz
Urbanowicz is a Polish illustrator and background artist working in Japan and works on more hyper rendered stuff like Shinkai's films, but I've been really enjoying these rougher inky drawings of urban mundanity lately.
a .. by soro
Soro does a lot of really cute work, that is (if you wanna be reductive) quite Ghibli-like. This little guy rules. I don't remember my first encounter with these little springy beetle decorations (I wanna say like 2003 is when I saw them crop up), but I love them as a head element. The fifth cat, by Brynn Metheney
If you read my creature design post, you'll know I love Brynn's work. This is actually part of a larger thread about the feline species of North America with great illustrations of the actual cats that live here. She has a book on the way with Flesk Publications on the folklore of the American deserts and dry steppes that I'm very excited for, I think this may be part of that? ego of a god, by silly_chaotic
Never heard of this French illustrator before a little less than a week ago, when this traipsed across my feed. Incredible composition, using peak saturation point in their colour choices to produce a really strong value separation while still making the whole thing pop with colour. Feels almost like an embroidery. an untitled mecha illustration by tatsumimi
This piece is so sick. Really sharp value composition, super dynamic angle to draw this scene from and the robot shape language is really cool and exaggerated in a way that I wish I went for more. This is like a natural extension of what I've been trying to go for in some recent designs of mine (still under NDA).

That's it for this week. There were a couple others that I didn't get to, but they were by artists who I'm sure will come up again either in an appreciation post or another one of these if I manage to be consistent.

A few weeks ago I added these special attacks when you initiate what I now call "Radical Mode" in Virtue's Heaven. During playtesting over the last few weeks I realised however, that as cool as this one attack is, it might be cooler to have more of them. So now, as long as your energy meter has charge, you can keep doing these attacks, but each one depletes a huge chunk of your meter. And running out of meter will cancel radical mode, which will cost you whatever benefits it gave you.

The kinds of attacks you do, depend on which conviction your have equipped and the sequence in which they appear corresponds with the sequence you have them equipped (the first slot corresponds with your first attack, and so on). Also the damage each attack does, increases the later in that chain it is. Right now, it's horribly unbalanced, but that's okay.

Anyways, have you put Virtue's Heaven on your Steam wishlist? I heard it's the cool thing to do right now.

The next step is stop sharing the bad takes that people on twitter keep having, because you feel like you need to inform folks who are not on twitter anymore, that people there keep having bad opinions.