Kissed By A Star comes out tomorrow. Never had I let my creative ambition sore so high, never had I let myself be so vulnerable. If you liked Three Ghostly Roses/A Ghostly Rose, Cope Island, or Mownt: For Peace... Give this a try! #gamedev | #indiedev | #pixelart | #rpgmaker

Despite the fact that this has gone from mediocre to miserable, it's at least fodder to juxtapose against Fuga and other quality RPG stories to better find out exactly how/why they're able to create effective drama/stakes And I mean hey at least its not as bad as BoF2 or Demon Legacy or something

Well thank god, ToL decided that not only does its Soul Cannon™️ not actually need people's lives to fire, but that the villain just whiffs his shot with it and misses anyways. That was a valuable 3-4 hour waste of time.

Funny that this should come up in the very first RPG I play post-Fuga, and how it immediately doesn't work when I have little reason to care about the people they're going to shoot out of it

Don't you hate when this happens at work? #gamedev | #indiedev | #pixelart | #rpgmaker

Now that RMN is back up I could submit my reviews for Hero's Realm, Demon Legacy, A Blurred Line and Theia there, which all collectively will apparently be the lowest scores on each title so Happy to be of service for the fresh drama now that the site is back 🫡

Mei Marzipan, AKA "God's most perfect angel" #furryart #art #furry #anthro #kemono

holy crap RMN is mostly back!? (downloads aren't working yet but the site is back!?) rpgmaker.net

Anime Patty! :D #foxpopvli #art #animation #anthro

What a perfect time to replay this after many many years

I think a lot of indie devs (and especially RM devs) took the wrong lessons from older titles on this front, like everyone wanted to have this 30/50/70 hour long game when the truth of the matter is that 90% of those professional titles also didn't need to be that long

I mean it sucks to be down on a game at all, really, because I really like to try to find the positives in whatever RPGs I tackle. But so far the lasting impression from ToL is the fact that like so many other RPGs, you could cut 50% of the game out and be left with something way nicer to play

It really sucks to be back in this situation again, but for the second time now I'm finding the only real thing I can say about a Tales game is "at least it looks pretty" I haven't gotten around to redoing Abyss, but it'll be a tragedy if it falls to the same problems as Legendia and Rebirth

I've never seen a single message so accurately summarize the problems with the industry before

Take the advice of two of the best goobers! Don't fall into the trap of making yourself miserable with doomscrolling and news watching! Not really much of a cel shader, but I took a swing at it at least! #art #furryart #anime #digitalart

Shoutouts to Tales of Legendia for being the first JRPG in a long while to actually make my thumb sore from the amount of idiotic A button mashing I end up doing (Please give your RPGs some interesting combat I beg you)

Wow, I didn't know that @kingdomsofthedump.bsky.social actually finally came out! Jumpscared by it while going through my Steam Queue. Did some art for this eons ago (~10 years), which shockingly seems to have made it into the final game, so that's neat. Will have to make it a priority to play.

Randomly having a nightmare about being chased by a snake, as if I just subconsciously realized I was half rat and needed to have a bunch of weird pred/prey phobias

Likewise, the character design work by Kazuto Nakazawa is just supremely unique... It's a real shame this is the only mainline Tales title he worked on.

Even though the writing is very poor so far, it's still kind of a shame that ToL never got any sort of port or HD treatment, the art design for the world and the colour palettes with those rose-reds are really gorgeous looking. Very Tales of Rebirth-coded in this sense so far

Time to get back to the big list of RPGs again... Jumpscaring myself with the "2005" on the title and the reminder that it's been 20 whole ass years since I played this one 👴 (and never even finished, to boot)

A self portrait for 2026, since I haven't done one in quite a while (or at least it feels like that's the case) and I wanted to change some stuff about the look. #furryart #furry

Concept art by Mark Whiting for The Iron Giant (1999), dir. Brad Bird, Warner Bros. Feature Animation

Krystal: The Secret of Blue Water #foxpopvli #art #krystal #starfox #fanart

(CW: Nudity, Topless Female) An NPC from the backgrounds in Fuga 1, who made a nice subject. Love how the pose/anatomy came out, esp. with the new rendering. (I would call this artistic nudity, but I know how the automod feels about nipples so I may as well tag it "Adult" myself) #furry #furryart

Flam Kish, from Fuga 3. Been studying the art, trying to learn from it... Think I've been making progress. Trying a new method for colours now to style match. It's clear that I need to mess with pencil brushes though, the ones I have aren't adapted for shading. (CW: Hint of a butt) #furry #furryart

Concept art by Hayao Miyazaki and Nobuo Tomizawa for Sherlock Hound (1984–1985), dir. Hayao Miyazaki and Kyosuke Mikuriya, Tokyo Movie Shinsha

あけおめです 今年こそは本出せるように頑張ります

Maybe you won't hear it a lot online, but 2025 was a good year, at least for me. I cut out all the excess in my life, I focused on my own health, happiness, and the wellbeing of my friends and my creative ambitions. Ending the year after growing the most I probably ever have during one.

Probably my last post of the year. Listen to me gush as I try not to cry over the very act of writing a review of a game. Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3 is a goddamned masterpiece. #furry #furryart

Merry Christmas eve! I'm still slowly working on my project, have updated a village map from Paradise Blue!

Marie Christmas

Played and finally finished a review of Fuga 2.. In which I basically just gush for paragraphs about this game about cute furry kids that made me cry earlier today, and fills me with hope and pride that we don't have to be held back by who we are. We can stand with the best, and do better, too.

Been playing Fuga 2 the last few days after getting gifted it, and with the chokehold it has on my time + the excellent upgrades its been making to the formula, it might end up the best game I've played this year (maybe!) It might even be the first RPG to crack the 8/10 barrier in many many years 👀

Lots of neat looking RM games on display here, and some other quality indie recs 👍

Of all the things you can click on, this isn't one of them, which will leave me forever wondering what the fuck "memes" is supposed to refer to

System Shock coming in clutch in December. Up there with Fuga 1 as one of the best games I've played all year... I realize I am really beginning to enjoy this type of high threat/difficult + tight resource management gameplay, even outside of the (unfortunately) brief moments it appears in RPGs

Low Rider Chantico

Within spitting distance of my year-end goal, so I decided to treat myself to some first draft sprites for some core chars (and to get back to pixel practicing). Feels good after spending a year looking at placeholders😩 (Turnarounds not pictured but you get the idea.) #pixelart #rpgmaker

Photos and camcords are like temporary travel machines. They will stop the time for you and allow you to get back to that memory for a few seconds every now and then, when you feel the need of it ✨ #foxpopvli #art #vhs #retroart #furry #anthro #illustration

Concept art by Lou Romano for The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005), created by Craig McCracken, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons

E33 winning indie awards is a really good barometer of how utterly, almost irreparably mutilated the term "indie" has become in recent years. Really sad (and annoying) even if it is unsurprising thanks to all the underdog stories people want to ascribe to these huge projects

Thank you, Zimbo the Magnificent, for making Episode I Podracer such an unreasonably good N64 racing game

Finished off the demo for 5th Era earlier, and honestly, the whole thing felt pretty messy. It's a bit of a shame, since I was kind of looking forward to it- not saying that I'm entirely off of that now but idk. Less excited about the whole thing for sure.

Trying out the demo for 5th Era. First thing of note so far: please do not do this with your camera. I don't need to feel like I'm drunk when I'm playing your game.

Another RM game off of the big list, and boy was it a rough one.

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⭐ Very happy to finally announce: Kissed By A Star will be released February 2, 2026!!! Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3727750/... #gamedev | #indiedev | #rpgmaker