Artean

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level 27 hobbit software developer irl he/him | en/fr mostly I love video games and learning how they are made! Myst & Witch Hat Atelier propaganda account Mastodon: retro.pizza/@artean

Screenshot from Myst Online: Uru Live. Inside a giant cavern so tall that clouds mask the ceiling, there is a stone dock beside an underground lake. The lake has a dark golden hue, bordered by large stalagmites and near the opposite shore stands a massive golden arch.
Syberia 3 (by B.H. Sokal) cover Kate Walker is seen from the side, facing right. She wears a dark beige fur coat. She is touching a mechanical heart that she wears as a necklace. Her eyes are closed, her hair is tied back with some strands moving with the wind and she is softly smiling to herself.
New additions to my Bandcamp Library. Pacific Drive by Wilbert Roget, II. Warhammer 40,000 Mechanicus II by Guillaume David. Phonopolis by Floex. Airborn Kingdom, Airborne Empire and Winter Road by Paul Aubry.
New addition to my Bandcamp collection: Aphelion Soundtrack by Amine Bouhafa Greedfall: The Dying World Complete Soundtrack by Olivier Derivière The House of Hikmah Soundtrack by Austin Wintory Blue Prince Soundtrack + History Extended by Trigg & Gusset Grime II Soundtrack by Alex Roe
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About Me: Video Games grid Favorite game: Riven: The Sequel to Myst Best Story: Fallen Hero: Retribution Favorite art style: Dishonored 2 Biggest personal impact: Myst Best combat: The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Overhated: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Underrated: Obduction Overrated: Knights of the Old Republic Needs a remake: Dragon Age II Criminally overlooked: Riven: The Sequel to Myst Favorite protagonist: Clementine (The Walking Dead) Favorite antagonist: The Illusive Man (Mass Effect) Best soundtrack: Myst IV: Revelation Best multiplayer: Helldivers II Not usually my thing, but...: Fire Emblem: Awakening Turn my brain off: Helldivers II Best with friends: Resident Evil 6 Best retro game: The Secret of Monkey Island Nostalgic childhood game: Rayman 3 Game everyone should play: The Darkest Files
Tweets by user "dishonorable titty". "it was supposed to rain all weekend and yet my betrayed eyes unwillingly behold the accursed daystar" There is a follow-up tweet that just says "disgusting".
Cover for Star Wars: Reign of the Empirev The Mask of Fear by Alexander Freed. It depict Mon Mothma standing alone in her Senate pod. She is seen from afar, a small, alone figure in the only spot of light in the Senate.
Forgotton Anne cover. Anne, a red-haired young girl is looking at the side while holding a small glove with a light blue crystal on her hand. Behind her are an old man with a beard and a top hat, and a anthropomorphic training dummy with a face on his torso and a wig. A pair of wings are spread out behind Anne.
Planet of Lana: An Off-Earth Odyssey The cover depicts a young girl with short black hair in a beige tunic, standing in a wind-swept field of grass. At her feet is a cute cat-like creature, like a black ball with white eyes, little ears and a spiral tail. They are looking up at a menacing spider-like robot on top of a rock. In the sky, above a distant forest, a large planet can be seen, only a crescent of it is lit by the sun. The whole image has a minimalist palette, made of mostly pastel blue and green.
Cover for TR-49. A young woman with glasses and a middle-aged man with a short moustache are pictured in black and white, their faces obscured like shadows. The title TR-49 glows orange at the center, surrounded by faint gray codes of letters and numbers.
New additions to my Bandcamp library : Menace Soundtrack by Scott Buckley Styx: Blades of Greed Soundtrack by H-Pi Relooted Soundtrack by Nick Horsten & Dustin van Wyk
Grid of 9 game covers. Riven, the Sequel to Myst. Dishonored. Ace Attorney. Minecraft. The Stanley Parable. Justine et la pierre de feu. Dragon Age II. The Walking Dead. Skyrim.
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Cover art for The Longest Journey. It shows the title in a stylized font and the protagonist, April Ryan, in the background.
Short clip from The Mysterious Cities of Gold, old anime from 1982. A young boy wearing a medallion jumps from a cliff into the water, as the clouds unveil the sun behind him. He dives into the water in a big splash, then emerges on the shoulder of his friend, a dark skinned boy wearing a yellow poncho. They then fall clumsily backward into the water.
My Bandcamp library contaning new additions: - Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved Soundtrack by Joey Lopes - Dissimilar Soundtrack by Alexandre Didi - Inscryption Soundtrack by Jonah Senzel - Cairn Soundtrack by Martin Stig Andersen, Gildaa, The Toxic Avenger - Livber: Smoke and Mirrors Soundtrack by Uluç
Cover art for Syberia 2 by Benoit Sokal. It shows a determined Kate Walker in a fur coat with a mammoth behind her.
A guy starts singing into a large pipe. From the darkness, another continues the song. The first guy then pushes some rocks down into the pipe, and the second guy's performance is interrupted by a loud thump and a "AAAAAAH".
My Bandcamp soundtrack collection now enriched with: - Absolum Soundtrack by Gareth Coker - Malys Soundtrack by Belinda Coomes - Perfect Tides, Kathy Rain & Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer Soundtracks by Daniel Kobylarz - Constance Soundtrack by Tiago Rodrigues
Syberia cover. It depicts the protagonist Kate Walker a white woman with brown hair tied in a braid, and Oscar, an automaton with glasses, a coat and a red scarf.
Un scientifique est à son ordinateur, dans un laboratoire où sont étudiés de nombreux gnomes sous cloches de verre. Ils sont mignons avec des petits chapeaux pointus et font des trucs de gnomes. Le scientifique lit un email reçu : "Il y avait une faute de frappe dans mon email précédent. Il fallait bien sur lire : 'Veuillez vous concentrer entièrement à la recherche sur le GÉNOME' ". Le scientifique confus fait : "oh".
Capture d'écran de Myst (1993). On y voit un ponton en bois sur le bord d'une petite île. Au bout, un escalier monte vers une grande roue dentée en pierre, qui ne semble pas faire partie d'un mécanisme. À gauche, le terrain est plus élevé et on voit une partie d'un bâtiment circulaire. À droite, la proue d'un bateau en partie immergé. La mer est d'un bleu presque vert, et le ciel semble brumeux, d'un bleu très pâle, presque gris. La seule interface du jeu est un curseur en forme de main, au centre de l'écran.
Panel from Witch Hat Atelier. Agott raises up from her bunk to move next to Coco's one. Agott: "Coco. You still awake? You should get some sleep." Coco's voice from behind the curtain: "I have to keep drawing. I have to keep drawing." Agott moves the curtain. "C... Coco." Coco is kneeling on her beg, her back turned. "What do I do, Agott?"
Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights novel
Magister Livius Erimond of Tevinter, falling ass over tit. One of many times.
New additions to my Bandcamp collection: Herdling by Joel Schoch, Fireside Feelings by Marwan de Carmentran, Hollow Knight: Silksong by Christopher Larkin, some covers by Malukah, and Skin Deep by Ghoulnoise. Also the soundtracks from Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided by Michael McCann and Sascha Dikiciyan that I bought last month.
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3 gaming mats from Riven. Gehn's, with the Age 235 Descriptive Book, his frog juice pipe and his scarab beetle inkwell. Catherine's with the Tay Linking Book, the crystal panel, Moiety daggers and an ytram frog on some books. Atrus's, with the Riven Descriptive Book, his journal, lamp and his Linking Book safe.
My Bandcamp shopping cart. Includes "Clair Obscur: Nos Vies en Lumières" by Lorien Testard, "Celeste: Farewell" by Lena Raine, "1000xRESIST" by Drew Redman and Line Katcho, "Into the Breach: Advanced Edition" by Ben Prunty, "The Partisan" by Mick Gordon, "Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space" by Jared Emerson-Johnson, "GREATEST HITS" by Lacey Johnson, "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" and "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided" by Michael McCann, Sacha Dikiciyan and Ed Harrison.
View of a park in Boston, with some skyscrapers in the distance. The sky is very lightly cloudy.
What was your way into Lex Luthor? I really understand Lex. I feel like I relate to Lex way more than I wish I did. But for me, Lex looks at Superman like artists look at AI. He is the world’s greatest man in so many ways. He’s done these unparalleled things. And then you got a guy who comes in who’s done nothing to deserve the ability to fly and to smash down buildings. And he’s also extraordinarily handsome, too. And all of a sudden that’s all the world is talking about. And that sort of obsession with being replaced, with being — with your gifts not being seen or passed over — I think is what drives Lex. I relate to everything he does. He’s just meaner than I am.
Cover of Riven: The Sequel to Myst. It depicts a lake at night, surrounded by cliffs. In the middle of a lake is a small island, on which is perched the stump of a once gigantic tree. A huge round hive is perched atop this stump, with small windows letting through spots of orange light. On the bottom left corner are the developer's and publisher's logo: Cyan and Red Orb.
Even Red Dead Redemption 2 ("the current holder of the crown") gets "some things wonky that look better in this demo. Whether that applies to the game as a whole is to be seen. But Red Dead has its share of, like, the four legs being bent in situations where they shouldn't be. And I don't like the faces of the Red Dead horses." Red Dead Redemption 2 image showing a silhouette of Arthur Morgan riding across a field at sunset. A horse from Red Dead Redemption 2, ashamed of its terrible face. | Image credit: Rockstar
A miniature of a large cavern. There is an island with a peak, in the middle of an lake with an orange color. A little cardboard arch is placed next to the island. In the background, the entire wall of the cave has been modeled.
Picture of a CRT monitor with a spreadsheet with what looks to be bug reports, or a list of changes to make. They're all dated September 2003. Here's the 6 rows we can see: "Final Bahro love" "Can lightning flashes not affect the mountain" "Cleft board and final "real" Yeesha" "Need lake love - jumping from final Bahro." "Need changes to final Yeesha music" "Camera (et al) love on final "real" Yeesha end"
Note book page with a list of tasks. The first two tasks: "Find Room 46" and "Reach the antechamber" are marked completed.
Screenshot from Riven. It show a night view of a lake. The moonlight, even obscured by some clouds, is bright enough to see the landscape. The lake is surrounded by cliffs of dark stone all around, forming a vaguely circular shape. In the center of the lake is a sort of enormous dark sphere, laying on the top of the trunk of was was once a gigantic tree. The surface of the sphere is irregular and studded with points of orange light. Upon closer inspection, there orange dots are windows, and this entire sphere is some sort of hive where people must live.
Screenshot from Myst Online: Uru Live. It's an underground city, dimly lit by an orange light. We see a dock bordered by a decorated fence, with light blue crystals providing lighting. Beyond is an orange lake. The reflections make it look almost golden. On the background are tall rock spires, and even further a gigantic golden arch. It is in shape of a trapeze, and the archway is really think, almost a slit compared to the rest of the structure. The ceiling of the cavern is so high it is obscured by clouds.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Several adventurers are facing a roaring dragon.
Yeesha's speech from Uru, in a blue cave with glowing paintings on the walls and a pillar at the center.
The Myst island (from the 2021 remake). An earthy path cuts between grass and pine trees and leads to a series of stone columns, 4 on each side, and a small round fountain. Just behind is a small ancient greek-like building, with 4 columns and a triangular shape above the entrance. Behind it is a tall spire of rock with a metal cylinder at the top. The whole picture is colorful, bathed in warm yellow sunlight.
Merrill from Dragon Age 2. She is a Dalish Elf, with large golden eyes, short hair pulled back and delicate face tattoos. She is wearing a green tunic with fur shoulder pads, and a light green scarf around her neck. A wooden mage staff hangs on her back.
My purchases for this Bandcamp Friday. Soundtracks for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Stray Gods: Orpheus, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Monaco 2, Chicory: A Colorful Tale and Wanderstop.
Couverture du jeu Riven. On voit un gigantesque dôme doré, sur une île rocheuse. Un long pont de bois y mène, partant de notre point de vue. La mer autour est calme, mais des volutes de fumée en montent. Le ciel est très bleu, avec quelques nuages blancs.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The protagonist, Adam Jensen, a tall white guy in a dark coat, with futuristic sunglasses, stands in front of an artistic structure of golden neon lights. They form a shape of wings rising from behind him.
Blue Prince. A young boy opens a door through a series of blue-tinted rooms.
My Commander Shepard from Mass Effect 3. She is a white woman with green eyes and chin-length dark auburn hair.
A desk with a computer screen, a keyboard, and a notebook. The screen is black save for the "Dogubomb" logo in the center. The notebook is open at the first page, where only two words are witten: "Blue Prince". An pen and its lid lie just next to it.
My former desk that is now occupied by an impressive amount of old computers and monitors. There is a TI-99 computer with BASIC and game cartridges sitting on a Sony monitor. An Amstrad CPC6128 computer connected to an Amstrad monitor. A small Panasonic monitor sitting on a Philips one. And a tiny portable TV!
Amicia de Rune from A Plague Tale: Requiem. She's a young girl in practical medieval attire, with some part of leather protection. Her short hair is held back. She is staring at her cloth-wrapped hand in disbelief.
Vue de l'Isère, en entrant dans Grenoble. À gauche le bas d'une colline verdoyante d'arbres. À droite les immeubles de Grenoble le long de l'Isère. On voit des montagnes enneigées en arrière-plan.
Emily Kaldwin throws her dark vine power to a corner of the screen. She has short black hair, a black and gold scarf over her mouth and nose, and wears dark clothes, especially a black and gold jacket. She has a thin sword in her right hand.
An old man in an elegant white and gold jacket talks to the camera, behind bars. That's to say, we are behind bars, not him. This is his place. It's a round room with books, complex apparatus and a window from which is seen an ocean with giant strange rock formation on an ocean, illuminated by an orange sunset light. The man is portrayed by a real actor, John Keston.
An eleven year old Clementine stands in a clearing surrounded by zombies, at night. She is wearing a backpack, and a hammer in her left hand. With her right hand, she grips at a bleeding wound on her left arm. She has a scared expression on her face. She is wearing a cap with a "D" stitched on it.
An small island perched in the clouds. There is a small hut behind a pine tree, four pillars, a small mountain with a waterfall on its side, and other small rocks piercing the clouds. A man wearing a red jacket and a hat is perched on one of this rocks, looking at the island. The scene has a "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" feeling to it.
Screenshot from Riven. If you use a screen reader, be warned that this description is extensive, about 350 words long. It's taken from inside of a round stone room with a large window, that frames the distant sun setting in the ocean, bathing the entire scene in dark orange light. The sky is like a mattress of warm orange clouds. Tall rock formations raise from the ocean. They have a large base that narrows as it raises, like an arrow. But at the midsection, it suddenly becomes larger, and jagged, with many vertical spikes. They look like small mountains, balanced atop thin spires of rock. Maybe the ocean was higher at one point, eroded the base of the rock spires, then the sea level suddenly dropped, exposing these uncanny mountains. Inside the room is a round desk made of white marble, with gold decorations. On the desk is a thick book, opened at the first page. There is no writing on that page but a sort of black rectangle, like a window leading to a pitch black void. Around it are writing implements: a dip pen stored vertically in a small glass sphere and a golden inkwell in the shape of a beetle. There is a spherical copper object, standing on three little legs, with a fine tube on one side. I wonder what it does ; maybe it's for burning incense? There is also a wine glass, half-filled with yellow liquid with a bone resting in a glass. I'm still wondering why a bone is in there. On the left side is a object made of wooden and copper, about the size of an open hand at the base. The body of it is shaped like a cone, with a sort of mouthpiece at the top. It's actually a pipe! The guy vape some frog extract with it, yuck. Two columns raise from the desk, supporting a dome. There are five-branch stars all around. There is also writing running around it, but it's in an unknown language. The script is stylized and elegant, clearly designed to be written with a feather or a dip pen.
Screenshot from Dragon Age 2. It frames Marian Hawke, Merrill, Bethany and Varric. Hawke is a female human in leather and fabric armor, with short black hair and a red line across the ridge of her nose. Merrill is an elf with delicate face tattoos and an olive green scarf on her shoulders. Bethany has long black hair, a mage staff and a red scarf around her neck. Varric is a beardless dwarf with a gold chain around his neck, and wears an expensive jacket with the front open, exposing his magnificent chest hair to the world.
Two small notebooks and a pen
Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal cover. At the center is a skull with glowing red eyes, wrapped in three black claws, circled by a sun-like symbol. The background looks like old black leather, and the corners are golden.