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Recently I finally gave in and got a 3DS, largely because I couldn't help but think the 3D Pokémon models were SO COOL. And I still can't stop thinking that. I was also super-relieved when I found out my regular DS games could keep their crisp original resolution if I pressed SELECT + START, because it would have seriously sucked if that hadn't been the case. But no! This awesome system lets you eat your cake and have it too.
Anyway, after a fun day of playing with the AR squares and putting armies of Kibago all over my sofa, I randomly began to imagine something greater. What if you could have a virtual pet that was projected out into the real world as a hologram, with a fully-customisable model and a teachable AI? As of 2010, hologram technology has entered an amazing new stage where you can even touch the objects and watch them respond. Although conversation programs often leave something to be desired (just ask Cleverbot), you could even make it talk if you wanted to. People could step out of the house to walk their pet unicorns. Or you could have a front desk employee who didn't actually exist. o_0
Right now I just want to write a story about that (though maybe one day I'll actually be building them for all I know o_0). I don't know precisely how I'll be telling the story, comic, narrative, or otherwise, but I do think it will have to be set in Japan (ah, Japan... the perfect setting for all these silly monster and pet stories that don't want to go to the trouble of being more adventurous) and star some slightly distinctive boy with an awesome feline-shaped dragon thingy. Dragon-shaped feline? Ah, whatever. I'll figure it out when I draw it.
YES I KNOW IT SOUNDS LIKE DIGIMON. But it isn't. The monsters were created by people, there's no Digital World (at least not one humans can go into; maybe there might be some kind of basic MMO featuring the monsters, but really not anywhere near the same thing, and it wouldn't be one of the main parts of the plot or the main thing people do with them), and there's more of a dystopic element to it... one of the main points of the story is that the monsters want to be real and the kids want them to be real but they aren't, and they can't be no matter how much they try. (It's really kind of sad.)
This will not replace the Tyrian project! It will only be a short story, at least at first. Then maybe I'll venture a longer one, or two. I don't know how far this is going to go, but I'm really excited about it. (I was so excited I had to type all this out at midnight instead of waiting for morning... I literally wrote "right" instead of "write" at first, for one. XD)
Anyway, after a fun day of playing with the AR squares and putting armies of Kibago all over my sofa, I randomly began to imagine something greater. What if you could have a virtual pet that was projected out into the real world as a hologram, with a fully-customisable model and a teachable AI? As of 2010, hologram technology has entered an amazing new stage where you can even touch the objects and watch them respond. Although conversation programs often leave something to be desired (just ask Cleverbot), you could even make it talk if you wanted to. People could step out of the house to walk their pet unicorns. Or you could have a front desk employee who didn't actually exist. o_0
Right now I just want to write a story about that (though maybe one day I'll actually be building them for all I know o_0). I don't know precisely how I'll be telling the story, comic, narrative, or otherwise, but I do think it will have to be set in Japan (ah, Japan... the perfect setting for all these silly monster and pet stories that don't want to go to the trouble of being more adventurous) and star some slightly distinctive boy with an awesome feline-shaped dragon thingy. Dragon-shaped feline? Ah, whatever. I'll figure it out when I draw it.
YES I KNOW IT SOUNDS LIKE DIGIMON. But it isn't. The monsters were created by people, there's no Digital World (at least not one humans can go into; maybe there might be some kind of basic MMO featuring the monsters, but really not anywhere near the same thing, and it wouldn't be one of the main parts of the plot or the main thing people do with them), and there's more of a dystopic element to it... one of the main points of the story is that the monsters want to be real and the kids want them to be real but they aren't, and they can't be no matter how much they try. (It's really kind of sad.)
This will not replace the Tyrian project! It will only be a short story, at least at first. Then maybe I'll venture a longer one, or two. I don't know how far this is going to go, but I'm really excited about it. (I was so excited I had to type all this out at midnight instead of waiting for morning... I literally wrote "right" instead of "write" at first, for one. XD)
Moving (sorta) to archive.org
Ok, I've made a decision.
I'm going to stop writing more than one-sentence descriptions for my Stablehand stuff here, and while I'm not necessarily going to stop submitting it, I'm only going to describe the things fully at Sangkara. I'm also going to put forth much less of an effort to have everything I've posted at Sangkara uploaded here, though in the end all the important stuff is probably going to get posted here anyway.
The thing is, I spend way too much time categorising and writing descriptions and otherwise doing things other than draw my pictures and show them off, and honestly I get a lot more HTML/layout freedom at my own blog.
Tsunden Nuzlocke!
Okay, now that you've gotten announcements for the first four pages of my TsunNuzNotes, I'm just going to be submitting the rest straight to scraps unless they have especially good drawings/gags in them.
So, if you want to follow that, go to your watch list and be sure you've checked to watch my scraps. If not, you don't have to see any more of it.
Oh, and if you haven't figured it out by now (which I really doubt), the Tsunden Nuzlocke is starting for real now.
Interest Check: Would you join this group?
I'm half thinking about starting a Stablehand/Retrolark-inspired group here called #A-Vision-Quite-Fantastic.
The purpose would be to showcase emerging sci-fi-fantasy worlds like mine that evoke traditional fantasy stories through their elements and ideas/ideals, but which are mainly constructed through the lens of science, technology, and reason rather than magic, superstition, and prophesy—kind of like historical fiction in an alternate world. Magical and supernatural elements are not necessarily completely absent, but are in general not a major force in shaping the world and the way people live.
So, it would basically be about worldbuild
Note for watchers: quality refsheets resubmitted
Yesterday and today (because I started late in the day) I resubmitted a couple of my Stablehand pictures.
Why? Because deviantART's submission page was being stupid and wouldn't let me just change the files on the other ones since I wanted to swap the exported images out for my original xcfs. (My rationale was that if my story is released under the BY-SA and I want you to use and edit my images, it would be better to upload the raw layered version as well as the flattened version with a huge "watermark" that's actually just my signature on it.)
So if some of my recent submissions look familiar, that's why. If you have Gimp, you could try do
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