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Atelier McMutton
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Character Designer, modeler, and animator!

If you use Generative "A/I", I WILL block you.
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emorio357.bsky.social
Look!
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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discopawbs.bsky.social
Chirmuro, a servant girl who was said on a dark night to have fallen under a strange frenzy during the siege of her city...
A brown mouse anthro holds a huge black sword, dripping with red flame. She wears a stained petticoat and dress. Her tail is bandaged at the tip, where a section has been removed.
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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discopawbs.bsky.social
mara, leo and tancred investigating an especially uncursed sword
An anthro rabbit, a short jester mouse, and a tall squirrel stand in a catacombs among skulls and arches. The rabbit places a hand curiously on a large, glowing sword, while the mouse leans on it cheekily; the squirrel looks at it with a pensive expression.
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ateliermcmutton.bsky.social
Stiiiill refining the design

#CharacterDesign
#Fantasy
#Art
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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noro.bsky.social
evil knight propaganda
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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cyberlord1109.bsky.social
Here is my redesign of Mega Starmie ,the best I could do was stretch it even further
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
ateliermcmutton.bsky.social
Update

Homunculus/Automaton revolutionary... Catgirl?

Her starting weapon is an axe that becomes more refined as you upgrade it

#CharacterDesign
#Fantasy
#Art
Concept art of a tall automaton woman. Her limbs and upper torso are pure black segmented armor that glow between the plates. Where armor normally has fan plates on the elbow and knee armor, there are exhaust pipes instead, as well as along her back. She wears a blue shoulder cape/scarf with red lining and white belted bits
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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dettanarts.bsky.social
[WIP] Started work on a new character for the Unnamed Knight Project - another dastardly villain, Satan's Daughter, the dragon princess ! 🐉❤️🐍
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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belgianboolean.bsky.social
Friendly tip for folks. My discord got hacked yesterday and my computer was acting funky ever since. Turns out it was malware installed through a blender file I bought as part of an asset pack on CG Trader. I didn’t know blender files were being used this way, but I figured I’d spread the word.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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justinoaksford.bsky.social
This is adjacent, but @greg.style had a great writeup about the “quests” in chicory and the philosophy of not having a quest log- and how that can add a sense of richness by not tokenizing every interaction. (open.substack.com/pub/gregloba...)
Game Musings - Quest logs
I think Quest Logs are really interesting.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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sanctumsys.itch.io
melos actually discussed exactly this a while ago, saved this from twitter in the pre-bluesky days because it was foundational to my understanding of percentage counts as a potential harm to a game's staying power. two images because the alt text wouldn't fit on one
The missability philosophy comes from wanting to steer the adventure experience away from fulfilling linear questlines, which necessarily require more guidance and hints. While Angeline Era does feature a ultimately linear story, it's not the main focus for much of the game so we only need a light touch with guidance. I'm not sure what inspired the initial desire to have the game track minimal main-quest-related state, but it could have been a response to the very linear Sephonie, but, also, we tend to design games where you see everything, so there's always been an itch to make a game where most stuff is optional. And this game was too late to be a core influence, but I have enjoyed Romancing Saga SNES's approach to missing stuff and every player having a wildly different experience, yet not being as loose as a roguelike, which of course relates to the wide history of TTRPGs/CRPGs and nonlinearity. The imagery in the thinking behind the mixed up/loose historical structure of Kenzaburo Oe's "The Game of Contemporaneity" also comes to mind - he was inspired by a temporally nonlinear mural by Diego Rivera. The Oe is a much earlier influence so it's possible that guided my thinking. I have always loved the idea of creating a world that feels more like a 'book of myths' where we aren't seeing all that's there, but are forced to accept an incomplete depiction of the world (e.g. the collected Tono Monogatari, or something like Miyazawa's Ihatovo, Naohisa Inoue's Iblard, or even Hiroshi Masamura's Atagoul... or Sakura Momoko's Coji-coji), so to be able to lean into that approach with making the levels has been fun. I want Angeline Era's world to imply there's more we aren't showing, but also signal that to an extent it's up to the imagination to figure out what that is. I really like linear stories in that they can give us strong characters and arcs to act as a lens towards the more loose, nonlinear aspects. But not when the linear stories overly dictate the game's design and flow. E.g., I'm not sure I like games as much when they're linear a lot of the time, and the nonlinearness that exists is a kind of choice that feels more like uncovering some 'truth' or conspiracy-esque underbelly of the game - focused around getting characters to say alternate things, etc, replaying sections 10 times just to find one alternate dialogue. I feel that people today are primed to consume work with a compulsive-esque fixation on the 'truth', but I'd like to make something that tries to downplay that urgency. Because the whole idea of singular truth is really out of sync with how the world is full of many contradictions (but we still have to find a way forward, anyways!)
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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moomanibe.bsky.social
I love a lot of things Angeline Era does, but IMO its smartest decision is understanding that Mystery and Full Knowledge Of A Game's Scope are enemies that cannot coexist and its refusal to even _imply_ what completionism looks enhances its sense of atmosphere a thousandfold
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
ateliermcmutton.bsky.social
Homunculus/Automaton revolutionary?

Elbow/Knee fan plates replaced with exhaust pipes?

#CharacterDesign
#Fantasy
#Art
Concept art of a tall automaton woman. Her limbs and upper torso are pure black segmented armor that glow between the plates. Where armor normally has fan plates on the elbow and knee armor, there are exhaust pipes instead, as well as along her back. She wears a blue shoulder cape/scarf with red lining and white belted bits
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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nrcgray.bsky.social
Here's the lineart for that halloween version of my Nekonyancer:

This thing is so late 😅
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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cosmos24368.bsky.social
再掲。そろそろこれも描き直すべきか。
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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huffslove.bsky.social
Silksong!
October 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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jamesrmillar.bsky.social
Gonna try and do #Mechatober2025, Starting with "Recon."

I figure it has big Tharsis-style reverse-feet to stop it tipping backwards.
October 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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othatsraspberry.com
🤏🌟
Hades II comic Melinoë (she looks very cool and powerful) Melinoë when Selene calls her “little star” (she is a cute baby star being held by Selene)
October 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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cyberlord1109.bsky.social
ghost dad and his daughter
October 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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prismagic.bsky.social
A new outfit is up on my [Ko-Fi[(ko-fi.com/s/cfc0c5f10b) and Vgen! ✨🏬
A victorian suit and armor outfit with a long skirt-like jacket. It has three different colour palettes which are labelled raven in black and purple, rose in cream and red, and doe in cream and pink.
July 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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prismagic.bsky.social
A new P2U outfit is up on Vgen & Ko-Fi !! ✨🏬
A long dramatic dress with many fastened layers and a skirt cage that holds many lit candles. The outfit has a long veil with a crown that also has a candle in it. It comes in three colour palettes, celestial which is red white and gold, ghost which is black white and purple, and evergreen which is gold and green.
June 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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prismagic.bsky.social
A new P2U outfit is up on Vgen & Ko-Fi !! ✨🏬
An outfit that is a fur lined jacket with fancy buttons, underneath is a turtle neck with a vest and a simple pair of pants and boots. It comes in three colour palettes, Stars which is black white and yellow, blood moon which is red black and gold, and pinegrove which is green brown and white.
June 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
ateliermcmutton.bsky.social
Banned from Reddit for calling bootlickers 'bootlickers'.

Again.
August 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
#SaveSpeech #CPBC

As we near closer to 4 weeks of sustained pressure, I made this infographic to help focus our targets and to suggest a daily goal that is feasible for most people

more info and phone numbers here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

find reps
www.congress.gov/members/find...
August 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM