xeneth.design

Despite a little early talent, I was never THAT good at drawing, because I never really went to school for it or focused on honing the ability. For something like the last decade, the only kind of art I've produced has conformed to a pretty specific style that I've been referring to as " MS Paint Card Art Placeholder. " When making placeholder card art, it was important that no one illustration take very long, hence the limiting tool that is the Microsoft Windows 10 era Paint application; because the tool does not support layers or transparency, I was discouraged from attempting to "perfect" any one aspect of what I was doing. The linework being crafted by mouse meant a certain shoddiness that I found was complimented or made to "look intentional" by the included crayon brush; this crackly tool comes in but four line weights, further limiting creative options and focusing me on producing quick and dirty color images that were intended to be replace...

     After hearing murmurings from Super Eyepatch Wolf and others, I decided to jump into system_erasure 's latest game  Void Stranger completely blind... This is normally where spoiler warnings would be appropriate, but I'm not sure how much I could possibly spoil given I haven't really started the game yet. That's right; I'm stopping to write this in response to playing the game for all of 5 minutes! + + + Void Stranger appears to be a game about defying player expectations. Before even getting past the title screen, I am confronted with a dynamic representation of the simple controls; Up , Left , Down , Right , A , and Start , in black, white, and gray against a field of rising particles. The interface responds to inputs and makes it clear that my controller is indeed working, but pressing Start simply causes it to light up; it does not allow me to actually start the game... How strange. A bit of thrashing around on the buttons yields a minor discovery; did the...