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The inspiration for The Also-Rans came from my experience playing classic SNES and Playstation 1 RPGs. Chrono Trigger is an amazing game, and should be on everybody’s “play before you die” list, but that isn’t the game that inspired me to create a story with the unlovable side characters, because there really aren’t any in…
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The inspiration for The Also-Rans came from my experience playing classic SNES and Playstation 1 RPGs. Chrono Trigger is an amazing game, and should be on everybody’s “play before you die” list, but that isn’t the game that inspired me to create a story with the unlovable side characters, because there really aren’t any in…
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While I’d like to brag and say I’m a trailblazer with a plan to, y’know, publish, I am not. This was not something I ever saw myself doing, largely because I never really saw myself as a writer with something to write, let alone publish. I also don’t know any writers closely enough to ask…
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I had more characters planned than the 5 man band, even before I knew about that being a trope. Having had to juggle five characters, I fully understand why writers keep it limited to 5; there’s 5 lions in Voltron, and nobody talks about vehicle Voltron’s 15 characters anymore (well, this wonderful picture does). Its…
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I am a huge fan of AI generated art as a way to bang out concepts. I realize it isn’t art, it steals inspiration from real human artists, and that the models that allow it to do its stuff were harvested without artist consent. I don’t know how to right those wrongs, or if abstaining…
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Xenogears was a huge buzzkill of an RPG for me. I only played it once a lot of years ago, so more recent (https://anoverlookingview.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/a-brief-overlook-xenogears-disc-2/) reviews do a much better job of telling you how jarring it was, but I do remember the story being an unwelcome intrusion into what had been, throughout all of Disk…
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