#or unique dialog

[emeraldspiral]

Invader Zim game where there’s a gag where you’re given the option to rename “Zim”, but if you try it he’ll just tell you the name you picked sucks and is unworthy of a mighty Irken Invader and it goes back to “Zim” by default. Unless the name you chose was “Carl”, in which case Zim will say that’s a great name and for the rest of the game everyone will call him “Carl”. Like, every single actor recorded two versions of every line where his name is spoken, just for “Carl” and nothing else.

#Invader Zim #invader carl #he has unique dialog for when you try to name him #moxxie #razputin #billy #kaos #daggett #or any of his other characters' names

[shadowshrike]

I promised myself I wouldn't get mired in the weird moral chaos that is bg3's fandom, but I have a legitimate question: for a lot of fans, is this the first time playing with Choose Your Own Adventure stories?

The writing seems to be classic CYOA in the epilogues, at least with the evil post-game companions I've experienced. If you roleplay someone happy with your choices, the game generally reflects that those choices were satisfying in the exact way you'd expect. If you roleplay someone who regrets your choices or has doubts, it usually reflects that you should regret those choices. Either way, the "reader" is given a predictable response in order to fulfill their desired narrative.

Don't believe me? Go through the epilogue and try to play a character who both likes and hates every companion or where they ended up. Some changes are subtle while others are more dramatic. A few quick examples, all from a single save: Playing a character who hates Halsin, though you romanced him, your conversation is short, civil only because Halsin is too mature to rise to your insults, and stilted. He's a distant companion that you've pushed away successfully.

Playing a character who loves Halsin and romanced him, the conversation between you is extraordinarily long and sweet, and you are written as dear to each other. It includes, potentially: sharing stories and teasing him about his more salacious ones, talking about his love of children (and them loving the bear), learning how he's settled into his new life, hearing about him finally finding happiness, being welcomed into his community, welcoming him to share in drinks, and even joyfully adopting an owlbear. This image is just the very beginning of it.

Playing a character who disapproves of Shar but encourages Shadowheart to follow Shar anyway, you get a zealot's lecture about how you're being naive, thinking that Shar's exploiting people, likely confirming your feeling that she's a lost-cause cultist now. The happiness in the conversation is one-sided (from Shadowheart).

Playing a character who is fine with Shar and encourages Shadowheart to follow Shar, you get a short, sincere thank you, and she immediately starts trying to bond with you. The tone of the conversation remains upbeat as she expresses how pleased she is with the church despite its difficulties and how she'd do everything again in a heartbeat.

Playing a character who doesn't like being an immortal consort, but ascended Astarion and agreed to it anyway, gives you an Anne Rice-like fight between bitter eternal lovers. You also get some petulant dragging of your friends.

Playing a character who loves being an immortal consort and ascended Astarion gets you the dark fantasy of all-powerful monsters in love, gleefully ruling and exploiting the world (along with your friends and probably each other) together.

These are all valid endings to the exact same story with very different implications for the future. It's easy to muddy the potential narratives if you try to hold all the unique, mutually exclusive dialog options together.

Remember, at the end of the day, this is written as a linear experience. Everyone's epilogue choices are self-contained in their own story, even if it's possible to reload and choose a different final page. Have fun fishing for unhappy endings if the drama gives the flavor you enjoy, or seek out happy endings if you want to feel fulfilled by your choices. Just know that not everyone will experience or want to experience the same ending for an otherwise identical set of choices in game. That's the cool part of getting to choose your own adventure.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #rant post #I really want to discuss how awesome the writing is for doing this #but I get a headache whenever I try to check out the fandom #i don't care what narratives someone likes #or hates #i just think the fact there are competing narratives that can almost all turn out 'happy' even if they're immoral is so cool #instead of a linear dialog 'tree' where you're supposed to click on every option before continuing and then be good to get a happy end #It's made each playthrough so unique #imo characterization discussions are best when a single playthrough's specific choices are considered parallel universes #because the game responds to what kind of story it thinks your Tav wants #and (mostly) gives you it within the construct of the story it wants to tell

[psystirene]

i'm glad not only the women in this game are fervently delusional (/j)

#SO FUNNY #this is a test thing mind you #in reality lae'zel is the one who orin took for me #thoughhh it is narratively interesting for orin to kidnap minthara #i don't have the MOST faith that she actually has unique dialog when rescued #despite the fact that she really should #minthara lacks a lot of things she *should* have unfortunately #i actually don't know wtf happens when you rescue your companion cause i haven't gotten there yet in any game #baldur's gate #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #minthara #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #baldur's gate 3 #rambles

[lizard-queen-izzy]

That jontim fic is the first thing longer than a blurb I've finished in so long.

#tma #the magnus archives #idk how much i count it? #cause the dialog was mostly not mine #yknow #like i wrote everything else and i wrote some unique dialog at the end but. #idk man #its something i finished though #jarchivist #savemejarchivist #jontim

[buny1]

Help I’m making a comic and big mama is in it and I’m struggling with dialog for her-

#her dialog is really unique so I can’t #think of ways to use it because it’s really random #bunytalk

[incorrectinfinity]

God istat is so so good fuckkk

#🎀.txt #ok spoiler zone in these tags please be warned #how this game humanizes its characters is so so unique and special #they're all based on classic rpg tropes on a base level sure #but the more you know about them and their lives and their problems and their personalities #you see that they are so much more than that #siffrin knew this to an extent too. even more than the player. #but then without you even realizing... they revert #they go back to being characters #ones with predetermined actions lines and feelings #ones that as the game goes on and Siffrin continues to get stronger... become less and less valuable to you #to the point where you skip everything you can #to the point where you can begin to quote them on even the most random possible dialog opportunities #and the thing about that... the thing about these beautiful characters becoming nothing more than something to skip through #to ignore #to treat as a burden #to space out during #is that siffrin is right there with you #these people aren't his friends. they aren't even characters anymore. they're actors in a play made to drive you insane. #so they act with them. they join this play #this never-ending play of insanity #and he plays his role WELL #to the point where you. the player. see the main character as an actor. #and siffrin sees themself as a disgusting manipulative liar playing his friends for fools. #no not even his friends #because they aren't their friends anymore #they're actors. they're fictional characters. #and siffrin misses and loves his FRIENDS. not whoever these... things are #because they aren't even actors anymore #because actors are people. and people change. these are just fictional characters now. and siffrin is stuck with them.

[sonic-adventure-3]

i would pay so much money to have a sonic game where wave and rouge and blaze and amy interact for extended amounts of time. the amy, blaze, rouge, princess peach, and daisy interactions in mario & sonic at the olympic games london 2012 3ds version was the closest i ever got to happiness

#i’d settle for a party game with unique dialog depending on the group of characters you choose to play as #rambles #rouge being there was so fun i think about everyone asking rouge to accompany them for ‘protection’ all the time #something to the effect of ‘we’d feel a lot safer with you around rouge!’ #it was simultaneous so cute and also everything surrounding it was so misogynistic #some of the events being gender locked was bullshit

[aikotos]

"I heard you can romance Aigis now in Reload"

...You always could.........

#idk why ppl kept (and keep; even w reload) saying #aigis isnt a romance; shes needed for the tartarus #harem dialoge; has the unique dialogue for romances #when you go alone w her & even the code itself #classifies her max rank as lover #talk #tangent to this; i keep seeing ppl saying that #her relationship with the mc is 'sisterly' or 'motherly' #why is shipping aikoto the f/f experience with an het ship 😭 #let me escape....

[hetalia-club]

I love seeing you make the Italies into Baldur's Gate 3 characters, they're so on point. I'm trying to make Alfred into one too and debating whether I should stick with Paladin or make him an Artificer (yay mods)

Both ☺️

#but I would start off paladin just so you don’t miss unique paladin dialog options

[angel-thoughts-dump]

ohh they are finally showing how the vampire protagonist met his best friend/love interest, amazing meet cute! he exploded in a horrible accident and the police sent him to the autopsy where she works, his body put itself together, and he woke up in front of her and jumped to drink from the nearest blood bag in the place, but this woman is so insane she wasn't scared just a little shocked, she asked "what are you?" "I'm a vampire" and she was like oh let me see! and went to touch his face, no hesitation lol

#lmao the dialog can be so overly drmatic and formal but the actors do have great chemistry #-I see you are not afraid #-fear is based on ignorance I prefer to understand who and what you are #-you are an unique woman #-no. I am a scientist #I love this girl #I didn't think I would get invested in this two but umm #if I compare it with ats she is like a mix of wesley and cordelia

[the-faultofdaedalus]

mmmmm watching goif play bg3 and i am Thinking. i am thinking. abt au where its like.... thrumbo/astarion situation swap. i think that would be fun! they're similar (terrible) situations but like... in very different ways. the cazador thing is a sidequest like the mystic carrion one in canon. and astarion is.... well. let's just say that it is going to become infinitely harder for him to hide the fact that he's not alive.

#i mean. the good news. he doesnt have to drink blood. the sun is good. and mirrors still work. #the bad news is. well. #also of course he would still be romanceable #because im not a fucking coward #listen i think it would be fun if the boy was a zombo #i think he'd have a WHOLE different set of issues #bg3 spoilers #ig #i think if you romance him before you get to act 3 you should get to have unique dialoge options with mayrina #like hey. keep at it. having a zombie husband isn't THAT bad #this is just based on the fact that he looked like he was gonna start crying in the cutscene w/ mystic carrion #like. this could've been your fate bud! if you had just been found mostly dead in an alley by a different guy! #think abt that for a sec!

[sungsuho]

ok well you cant add more than one video per post even in reblogs i guess. but i was only able to get put because i wqs using rowan LMAO bc of their gravity well. reason number one thousand why theyre the best weapon to date

#got their whetstone tonight 😏 will be getting everyone elses tomorrow #and then griding to defeat holmes w rowan (of course) #thoigh she gives unique dialog for everyone i think so ill probably play througg her fight w everyone at least once #and then. i will kill katana and finish the game #i will say the giant content update was definitely needed because when i was at this point last play throigh. i just wanted to het it over w #because i was so overpowered and tjere was nothing left to fo #except max everyones hearts as quickly as possible #but they definitely level balanced or something bc its way better now #still op LMAO since im jist grinding in the 1st dungeon #but whayever:p

[mqole]

the world isnt ready for my baldurs gate 3 spreadsheet/s

#mq speaks #the item one is slow going bc ive only just gotten to the end of act 2 and im like. manually checking everything #but the dialog spreadsheet is really promising #all the approval points in act 1 are done and im starting act 2 atm #and then my little goblin brain decided it wanted to expand the scope. #so now we're adding a sheet for all unique party member dialogue i guess <3 #no joke i love spreadsheet im so worried im gonna spend more time on spreadsheet than on game

[zhongrin]

— a short and casual genshin impact otome game.

⟣ 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟𝕝𝕠𝕒𝕕 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 ⟢

┊ (Windows 🪟, Linux 🐧, or Mac 🍎 only!)

◇ 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬? ◇

Just a simple something I had in mind for a Genshin otome game... I have 0 attention span, 0 time, and 0 knowledge to write and build a full-fledged 3D game with intricate stories, plot, and mechanics. This is just a simple visual novel with a streamlined plot and partial voices. You should be able to complete everything in like... 30 minutes long in total. Might be less, even.

◇ 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐬 ◇

The game will contain the following: established relationship, FLUFF, comfort, lots of pet names, suggestive themes, lots of kissy sounds on some routes, implications of violence (not towards player), a sprinkle of protective behavior

◇ 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 ◇

Zhongli, Xiao, Childe, Diluc, Kaeya, Itto, Kazuha (Zhongli is selected by default because who doesn’t love geo daddy???)

◇ 𝐰𝐡𝐨'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫? ◇

This is a very self-indulgent project, hence the dialogues were written with fem!player in mind. It will contain suggestive themes, so please be aware of that before downloading / playing!

◇ 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲? ◇

Yes, it's totally free - in fact, I do not accept payment.

◇ 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲? ◇

Click the link to download the appropriate file based on your OS. Only Windows, Linux, and Mac are supported. No, I won't release it on other platforms.

Open the game, and you’ll find that it’s pretty straightforward. Customize your profile, select your love interest, then start the game.

There are no wrong answers and the love interest can be changed anytime (just go back to main menu and select the character’s picture on the right side).

◇ 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐢 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬? ◇

You can personally send links to this post / the game’s itch.io page to your friends via DMs, but outside of that (reposting), NO. For example, posting about this on Reddit is prohibited.

◇ 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞? ◇

This is a super casual project.

Scripts are not proofread. Probably lots of grammar mistakes.

Novel format without narration (full dialogs).

There are no actual sprites, just official art and something akin to a speech bubble to cater to the characters’ changes in ‘expression’.

There are voices, but only partial - mostly just grunts, chuckles, kisses, and stuff. I’m using JP voices EXCEPT for Itto because Max Mittelman is a gem. No, I will not add other languages' voice versions.

Sound cues and voices are quite important for this game so I recommend using headphones.

Depending on when you open the game (morning, afternoon, nighttime, midnight), your currently selected love interest might greet you differently.

To reiterate, there are no wrong answers.

Selecting all talk/act options for a character will unlock a small event where they'll give you unique gifts.

I lowkey have so many ideas on how to expand on this in terms of gameplay and options but let’s be real here it probably won’t happen lol why can’t my brain be this creative when it comes to work

◇ 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬??? ◇

No... That said, anyone can literally say that. Please be responsible for your own actions.

I have also released other games on the same itch.io profile, so this isn't my first rodeo. Feel free to check the reviews on those before making your decision if you're wary about downloading!

◇ 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 ◇

hyv please don't sue me i gain 0 dollars for this and i just wanna simp in peace

⟐ 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚜 🄸 𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑.𝚒𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚎 🄸 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 ⟐

© zhongrin | 2022 ◆ do not repost or share without permission. reblogs much appreciated. feel free to reach out to submit suggestions, feedback, comments, or if you just want to talk!

#genshin impact #genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #genshin otome #genshin fangame #zhongli #xiao #childe #diluc #kaeya #itto #kazuha #zhongli x reader #xiao x reader #childe x reader #diluc x reader #kaeya x reader #itto x reader #kazuha x reader #rin uses her programming skill to have fun #rin writes

[tamberella]

Congratulations on your author debut, I'm so excited for your book!! 😇💕

Would you consider talking about the whole process of becoming a book illustrator /children's book author?

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!! And I'd be happy to share the process!

It all started for me with my 3dTotal artbook. 3dTotal is a small publisher in the UK, and they mainly focus on collections of artists' work. They use Kickstarter to fund each book, and my agent (the amazing Seth Fishman at Gernert) discovered me through the Kickstarter for my artbook Windows to Worlds!

He asked if I had any interest in working on graphic novels or picture books, and I had already been thinking about picture books! He found me my first picture book project with Penguin Workshop, Mother of Sharks, written by the awesome Melissa Cristina Márquez, which came out last year!

While I was working on Mother of Sharks, I was also talking with him about developing The Bakery Dragon, based of course on this painting, which was (and is) one of my proudest artistic moments.

For a little background on the painting, I painted it right after a really challenging couple of months medically - I was dealing with medical complications from my chronic illness for about 6 months, and I wasn't able to finish a single painting the whole time, I was just too exhausted from hospital visits and being in pain. That painting was the first piece I was able to actually complete (both emotionally and literally) in about half a year. So it always held a really special place in my heart, and I really wanted to keep living in that little world. I think there's something in it that is very special to me, about being outside in the cold, seeing warmth and love through a glass barrier, and wanting desperately to reach it.

With Seth's guidance, over a couple months, I developed a pitch for it. The script developed slowly alongside the designs for characters, locations, etc.

(Early version of Ember above! He has changed a bit!)

I thought I had already read a lot of picture books, I've always loved them, but I read hundreds and hundreds during this process. There is something uniquely fun and challenging about telling a complete narrative in 48 pages (which is already a long picture book, many are 32!) My book also pulls some elements from comics, such as speech bubbles, which I found to be incredible assets for humor and character development.

My pitch included designs, some early example spreads, and a rough script with story beats and jokes! My agent took it out into the world, and the publisher we ended up going forward with was Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House! I absolutely love the Knopf team and the beautiful books they put out! My editor, Katherine Harrison, really understood what I wanted to accomplish and has been so incredibly helpful in her guidance!

And from there... through rewrites, dialog adjustments, and lots and lots of drawings, it became a book! I'm happy to answer questions about the process! I'll leave you guys with a little preview from the interior of the book! (And of course you can pre-order it here, gotta learn the author skill of always including that link haha!)

#ask #book making process #author process

[actual-lea]

So who wants to hear about the stupid stupid way I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3?

I made it to Act 3 on my first (original character) playthrough like a week before Patch 5 came out, and after finding it absolutely unplayable (on the PS5) decided it was time to go ahead and start an origin character run for the funsies while waiting on the new patch to fix the Lag Hell. Naturally, I picked Gale. Since this was mostly just for fun/to hold me over until I could continue my other file, I decided it would be a nice time to see what happens if you just refuse to consume any magic items. Of course, if you are not playing as Gale and ignore his Orb Problem, he will apparently eventually leave your party, but what if you ARE Gale? I couldn't find an answer with a minimal amount of Googling SO

There are three stages to his Arcane Hunger, each of which give you increasingly debilitating debuffs: Arcane Hunger, Greater Arcane Hunger, and Severe Arcane Hunger. It seems the triggers for progressing to the next stage are the same as the triggers where he would start needing an item in my other file (i.e. that bridge next to the Blighted Village, entering the temple at the Goblin Camp, the Hag's Lair, etc.) which obviously makes sense. I figure with the amount of contingencies in this game for incredibly specific situations, surely there is some kind of unique dialog or fun cutscene that will play if I ignore the Arcane Hunger long enough and just play through the debuffs.

I played Act 1 completely normally, doing a lil quicksave every time I was about to Long Rest just in case the game gave me a cutscene of the big explosion upon waking up (I thought maybe it would be time-based, similar to the game over you get if Gale dies and you leave him for 3 days (? I think?) which does not seem to be the case). I made it through basically everything without anything odd happening besides the aforementioned debuffs. The Severe Arcane Hunger is where things get really sloggy, because Gale can only move at half speed.

I have been slowly trudging EVERYWHERE since the Goblin Camp.

I eventually started going out of my way to make sure I hit all the Arcane Hunger triggers I know about, to see what would happen, and the answer is nothing, aside from Gale occasionally reminding me that he's wracked with terrible pain.

So, surely, the game will certainly not let me into the Mountain Pass without SOMETHING happening, right?

WELL

That's surprising, but whatever, at least now I have the chance to see what happens if you go meet Elminster without having consumed any magic items,

Except

He wasn't there.

I went to the area in the Mountain Pass where the cutscene is supposed to start, and it just. Didn't happen. Nothing happened. I could walk right up to the entrance to the next area.

But SURELY, the game won't let me into the gotdamn Shadow-Cursed Lands without saying SOMETHING about the fact that the orb has been starving for several weeks at this point, right? The game isn't going to let me into Act Freaking 2 without at the very least giving me a game over to tell me I'm not allowed to do this and make me reload and actually feed this poor starving wizard, right?

RIGHT?

WELL

WELL

Here we are. I'm at the Last Light Inn, I'm at the Taco Bell, I'm at the combination Last Light Inn Taco Bell with a bag full of delicious Cheesy Gordita Magic Boots that I refuse to eat.

SO LIKE. How far does this go??? Am I gonna be able to infiltrate Moonrise Towers without ever speaking to Elminster? Am I gonna trudge all the way to Ketheric at half freaking speed and fight him with Disadvantage on everything?? Am I gonna make it all the way to goddang Baldur's Gate with a Netherese orb that is long overdue to explode???

Like I said, I did not find an answer on what happens if you do this on a Gale Origin playthrough, and at this point, I don't even want to, I just want to see how far I can take this.

I already know I'll have to do another normal Gale playthrough where I actually FEED HIM after this, because I'm sure I've missed out on a ton of dialogue and whatnot, especially from Tara who only ever has this to say when I speak with her in camp:

I am genuinely beginning to wonder if there is actually nothing in place to stop me from doing this. I am wondering what the dialogue options will look like when I get to the "Heart of the Absolute" where Gale would ordinarily want to blow himself up, if Elminster had ever shown up to tell him to do so. Maybe the devs just didn't bother, and figured that no one would be stupid and stubborn enough to play through the whole dang thing while so severely debuffed.

Joke's on them, Disadvantage means NOTHING to Magic Missile Machine Gale Dekarios.

#baldur's gate 3 #poor gale #this man is having the worst time of his life #long post #gale dekarios #no gale dinner