#Malison the cursed city

[frankiesmileshow]

I finally finished the Metatron boss sprite for Malison! The biggest sprite finished for the game yet, but not the biggest boss sprite of all by a long shot! That would be Asmodeus, the demonic counterpart to this battle.

I will be working on Asmodeus tonight on my stream, check it here - https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow

#pixel art #game development #weekendrpg #monster pixel art #angel #malison the cursed city #malison

[landsharkrawr]

Do you post any of your games anywhere? I love your art and I'd love to play your stuff

it's been a pretty long time since i've put anything new out but I have an itch.io page and some games ive worked on for global game jam Itch: https://landsharkrawr.itch.io/

global game jam: https://globalgamejam.org/users/landsharkrawr

my current work is on a couple things that are prob pretty far from release still so look forward to those. I work on Nanokin doing character design, finishing up sprite sheets for already designed characters, and illustrations. i've also been learning to model for that one (tho most of the work i did so isnt public srry lol). I also occationally get contracted to do character designs and a lil writing on a game called Malison: The Cursed city by @frankiesmileshow tho i havent posted the stuff ive worked on for that here at all.

as far as personal work goes i have a hard time keeping those ideas small so whether or not something new from me specifically comes out is both unlikely and far from soon lol sry

#ask box #bonerwater

[vintagerpg]

It is so hard to pick, but I think Where the Wheat Grows Tall (2021) is my favorite zine to come out of 2021. It’s an OSR-ish/essentially system agnostic scenario from Camilla Greer and Evlyn Moreau, cut from a rich fabric of Eastern European folklore.

Do you know the Noon Lady, or Lady Midday? Gemma Files’ excellent novel Experimental Film was my introduction to this terrifying and complex entity. This zine does its own thing with the folklore, to excellent effect. The thing oozes atmosphere.

Basically, there is a field of wheat that is near a farm. There is a wall around it, because folks fear it is cursed. Sure enough! Something has upset the natural balance and the family from the farm has wandered into the field, where witches, faeries and far, far worse lurk, at night and under the noon-day sun. Nothing good befell them. It falls to the players to unravel what is going on, find out how to undo it and, if possible to rescue the family, if any of them survive. There are many, many entities to encounter in the field, but this is definitely more a mystery than a hack and slash. Avoidance is best, with diplomacy a second best option, I think. Especially because, and this is why the zine is one of my favorites, you get the sense that everything on the supernatural side of things is working according to a system of rules that are just beyond our understanding. That goes a long way toward A. Establishing that there is no clear right or wrong solutions here and B. That this incursion of the supernatural maintains a capacity to unsettle throughout the proceedings.

I’ve been a fan of Moreau’s illustration work since Marvels & Malisons. The drawings here are even richer and more assured. You would think that the noodle arms (big fan of noodle arms) and cartoonish aspect would undercut the creeps, but the opposite is true. Creep city.

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #Roleplaying Game #D&D #dungeons & dragons #ZineMonth #Where the Wheat Grows Tall

[catragemiau]

I did iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

🔻  BIO below  🔻

Name: Leery (Muriel - before meeting Malison)

Nicknames: Unlucky Child, Lost Soul, Host, Wanderer

Species: fox

Age: 14

Gender: female

Height: 95 cm with heel, 87 cm without heel

Weight: ???

Alignment: Good (before meeting Malison); Neutral (after meeting Malison); Evil (after Malison's reincarnation)

Ability type: strength

Affiliation: Malison - partners

Likes: her parents, gems, reading, sword fighting, obtaining new knowledge of magic

Dislikes: Malison (until Malison's reincarnation), strangers, cults and cultists, rudeness, when her friends or nice people get hurt; being powerless, manipulated, confused

Skills: stealth, wielding one-handed sword, going berserk under extreme negative emotions; used by Malison as a vessel to cast magic (until Malison's reincarnation)

Theme song: Igorrr - Problème d'émotion

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Name: Malison (Fabian - before meeting Leery)

Nicknames: Puppeteer, Cursed One, Ghost Guy, Asshole

Species: fox (before getting cursed (his appearance) ); ghost (after getting cursed); tangible spirit (after reincarnation)

Age: 20 - before getting cursed; several hundreds ("old enough to grow tired of listening to you whining") - after getting cursed

Gender: male

Height: ???

Weight: ???

Alignment: Evil

Ability type: magic

Affiliation: Leery - partners, The Archmages (formerly)

Likes: himself, his father, magic, power, knowledge (especially forbidden), spirits and other magical elementals, experiments with spells

Dislikes: Leery, townsfolk, listening to whining, people who waste their potential; not having everything under his control, doing something for others without personal gain

Skills: magic - various curses, enchantment, curing, darkness (before getting cursed and after reincarnation); able to use Leery as a vessel to cast weak magic (until reincarnation)

Theme song: Igorrr - Barocco Satani

Their first meeting:

Muriel and her parents were driving to another city but got lost and decided to stop in a village where crazy religious peps (or better description - the cult) lived. They looked oddly old-fashioned like they were form the medieval times or even another dimension. One thing led to another, the cultists killed Muriel's parents and the kid got surrounded. Suddenly she saw something shiny on the ground. picked it up (it looked like a pendant) and opened it. The terrific dark shadow appeared in front of the cultists and so they got scared away. That ghost was Fabian the Mage Ghost who was locked inside Muriel's new accessory for centuries because in his times he was surrounded just like the kid was and to escape the upcoming death he decided to use the magical pendant he and his father worked on even though it was pretty unstable.

Fabian said that he knows how to get the revenge on this crazy cult which the kid and the ghost hated for the described reasons. While the unlucky fox was gathering the needed weapons and spell books the ghost explained that she and her family got sucked in by his dimension. It was like a fast moving fluid in comparison to other dimensions and because of that it had A LOT of magic power and cross-dimensional accidents.

Once the companions were prepared, they invaded the cult village and burned it down (here's the illustration). After that, the mage ghost said that now the kid had to help him for helping her get her parents avenged but before that she had to take a new name because her previous life has (metaphorically) finished. The ghost took a new name too for the sake of him not being recognized by other mages and spirits (his and his father's reputation was not the best one). So, the ghost said that he must return to the world as a living creature and the kid had to help him because they were connected and the ghost couldn't interact with the world himself. It took a loooooooong time for them to reach their goal and the kid did a lot of wrong things due to ghost's influence.

#sth #sonic fandom #sonic fc #sonic oc #sonic fan character #sonic original character #leery the fox #malison the mage ghost #oc #fc #my oc #art

[willem-blue-99]

Color of War: Nemesis - Grimm the Relentless Terror / @statisky The Unremembered Accursed “I was feared around the city as the malison of Inkopolis. Living with this curse, any opponents whom I faced were left with a cold, ghastly fate.” —Grimm the Relentless Terror

#splatoon #statisky #crossover #nemesis #grimm

[jennyaugust1918-blog]

Diary Entry 2

22 July, 1918

I fear my good friend Enoch is indeed mad, of that there is now no doubt. I do not blame him for retreating into the malaise of madness, indeed I fear I may soon follow, if a more grisly fate does not befall me first. Arkham Asylum, where Enoch once resided, is a hideous keep, yet it shames me to say he was for a time well ensconced there. Never again will he walk the halls of academia; never will he know again the joy of imparting esoteric knowledge, his rustication from Miskatonic University was indeed valid and justified though I wish with all the power of my soul it were not so. I feared at first that my dear friend’s dismissal from his praxis of palaeontology was unwarranted, but alas and alack it was not. Friend Enoch is now and I fear evermore a madman. Arkham Asylum, I believed he would at least be well cared for in that spider house of unwoven hysteria, alas I would be proven wrong in that regard, as I will relate in its time. Yet though my unfortunate friend was non-compos mentis, and the dedicated alienists that tried to plumb the depths of his madness with all the resolve and dedication of cenobites did their good work with care and fathomless resolve and fortitude, I yet took it upon my humble self to try and find the root cause of my friend’s mental unhinging, by investigating his past actions and trying to puzzle out wherefore he lost his once great and learned mind. Lo that I had not, for now I fear the dark gloaming of insanity is as infectious as any biological disease, for I have learned to my eternal regret that knowledge can be tainted with the malison of madness, and to know too much of the arcane is to know that the sum total of man’s knowledge is recondite. I take small comfort in the knowledge that even the maggot spawn has some purpose in the cosmic order of things, but enough philosophy, why seek understanding when to crack the façade of ignorance is to shatter the vessel that holds the intellect that seeks recherché rendering all learned understanding nugatory?

I ramble, forgive me. I was able to take possession from my friend’s domicile on the University campus his notes of his doings before his tragic fall and deduce his movements before I found him howling within the shuttered room of that saneless sanctum for the mentally unsound. Friend Enoch was, before his interment in Arkham Asylum, investigating a line of genealogy of local families in the Essex County region, particularly the Olmstead, Williamson, and Waite families. I never learned why Enoch chose to delve into the pasts of these particular bloodlines, but I would suppose in his field of palaeontology and related field of anthropology he perhaps at first believed he had found a link of some sorts to a particular family tree from the continent, his interest perked by the gruesome suicide of the late British nobleman Sir Arthur Jermyn, but that is only conjecture on my part. If only poor Enoch had known not to slake his thirst for knowledge in the tainted blood of the families who dwell in the caliginous regions betwixt the Miskatonic and Manuxet Rivers. If only I had as well. For in addition to his notes I also found amongst Enoch’s possessions his collection of ancient grimoires, heathen works of ghastly antiquity that would cause a soul to shudder at the epic gulfs of time that these tomes cast their uncanny knowledge over into our unscholarly present. Some of these uncanny tomes my poor friend found in the University’s own library, others he procured elsewhere as I have gathered from letters of correspondence with one Doctor Ambrose Dexter of Providence, Rhode Island, and Professor John Kirowan and one John Conrad care of The Wanderer’s Club, City of Exeter, Devon, England. These unearthly grimoires are shuddersome to speak of once one has delved too deeply into their pages. Grisly works such as the unspeakably ancient and authorless Book of Azathoth, the Pnakotic Fragments and their companion volumes the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, the Book of Eibon, the De Vermis Mysteriis and the unutterable Dhol Chants, the Cultes des Goules by Francois-Honore Balfour first published in 1702, Observations on the several parts of Africa by Sir Wade Jermyn published 1761, Thaumaturgicall Prodigies in the New-English Canaan by the Reverend Ward Phillips published in 1805, Unaussprechlichen Kulten also known as Nameless Cults or the Black Book written by Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt first published in 1839; and most loathsome of all, that blasphemous of all grimoires, the dread Necronomicon, written by the mad Abdul Alhazred in 730 AD.

I read these books. I read them. Not in totality, but enough, heaven help me I read enough.

Upon reading I learned, and the blessed joy of ignorance was stripped from me forever. For my investigations led me to that decrepit vault of tenebrosity at the end of the leaden Manuxet, that Cimmerian haunt fallen like a horrid overgrown holt to blight the earth on the shore of the Stygian sea; darker than a shadow out of time at the end of that long black river. For there in that overflow of rot and corruption that empties into the cruel sea, I found the answers I sought and the answers I wish I could forever strike from my riven mind. Answers enshrined like cursed plunder in the dilapidated town of Innsmouth.

May god have mercy on my soul.

[frankiesmileshow]

Almost done with this animated pixel art ophanim angel! The central eye to animate and the background is left to detail and polish. Also, it will need a "stunned" frame for the rings! Tune in to my twitch stream to see it all come together! https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow

#pixelart #monster #game development #malison the cursed city #angel #malison #pixel art

[frankiesmileshow]

Continuing work on the alchemy lab's various failed experiments, for my horror RPG. These here were from yesterday! Doing some more! Check out the stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow 

#pixel art #game development #Horror RPG #monster art #Malison the cursed city

[frankiesmileshow]

Ophanim animation is under way! Sketched the motion of one of the rings, two more to go. Then I will put more detail on the individual eyes! Tune in to the stream below. https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow

#game development #pixel art #monster #malison the cursed city #malison #angel #monster pixel art #pixelart

[frankiesmileshow]

Drawing more of these shadow monsters for Malison, The Cursed City on my stream tonight! Tune in here: http://twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow… 

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #game development #Malison the cursed city

[frankiesmileshow]

Animating the ophanim sprite tonight. Its gonna be a doozy. Tune in to the stream here- https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow

#malison the cursed city #monster #game development #pixel art #angel #ophanim

[frankiesmileshow]

Continuing the pixel art for the Asmodeus battle. on this phase of the boss, two giant monsters are fighting, and you need to pick a side...

Tune in to my stream here - https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow

#pixel art #game development #monster #malison the cursed city

[frankiesmileshow]

I made these yesterday, continuing on them tonight on the stream. Tune in here: https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow 

#pixel art #game development #Horror RPG #Malison the cursed city #monster art

[frankiesmileshow]

More roach abominations tonight on the Malison dev stream! Look at this one. He doesnt like it!!! Tune in here - https://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow

#pixel art #game development #horror rpg #cockroach #monster art #malison the cursed city #body horror

[frankiesmileshow]

Still wrapping up the chapter 1 quests of my horror RPG tonight! Tune in here: https://twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow… #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #Malison

#pixelart #game development #Horror RPG #Malison the cursed city #horror game #survival horror

[frankiesmileshow]

I made this video to introduce folks to my survival horror RPG project: Malison, The Cursed City!  

Follow me on Instagram here to get updates! https://www.instagram.com/frankiepixelshow/

Want to join the games’ discord? https://discord.gg/xg9wtQcfZk

I will stream the latest development update tonight, on twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/frankiepixelshow

#pixel art #game development #video games #horror game #horror rpg #survival horror #Malison the cursed city #indie games #indie rpg