Recreation of part of a panel from my webcomic, Stranger Eons

Loose clothing with mummy-like wrappings

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18425

> A foss jam for federated people. Friday evening (Oct 08 18:00 UTC)- Sunday midnight (UTC). > (A kind of experimental thing i am trying to do with Fedi, comment your feedback!)

Hi! I don't know if self-advertisement is ok in this community, please tell me if it isn't and I'll delete this post. This is a game I've been working on for the last week and I'm not fully certain it'll go anywhere, but it has a small community already, so I figured its worth showing it here

Moloch is a very hard platforming roguelike where health is not health points, and instead, it consists of several conditions that are somewhat simulated and that can result either in a softlock or a death. Yes, being soft locked due to being hurt is part of the experience. It borders the line that separates rage games from the rest.

My idea for the project is to make it be frustrating because of how easy it is to die, and not because of how hard it is to use the controls. I tried my best to make the controls as responsive and smooth as I could, so that the game feels good to get good at.

It is inspired by Noita and Rain World, the former being the one that inspired the roguelike elements and the wands, and the latter being the one that inspired the way I'm handling the difficulty and health.

In any system optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw any other value under the bus for optimized X

Thing I did as a test for a possible webcomic I may start.

A Hexagonal Slab Of Wood is a book written by fictional Baishu player Raokji Cîang, in which he talks about how he came to know the game of Baishu after escaping from his town in Hrastaiqua, and how he came to see the magic in it while learning strategies to make the game interesting, and then to win the game competitively.

I started writing this story after I showed the first version of Baishu to my friends and they liked it. I decided that I had to set it in a world of its own, where maybe it had some kind of importance in the societies in which it's present. It's not finished yet, but I hope it's a good read!

To do numbers like 10 and up, I use the other hand for the dozens place

To start this, I feel like pointing out that Zhanbun gender is not native to the Zhanbun (which I tend to call zhan so I'll do that here). The zhan originally didn't have a concept of gender inscribed in their society, it came to them when some people got obsessed with media from other cultures and from other ages. To make it more analogous to our society: In zhan society, gender is a weeb thing.

Also they're post-scarcity transhumanists on the year 2500, which also has an impact in how their ideas developed here.

So, it originally started with three labels: baoq, zaeq and daaq. These roughly translate to female, male and non-binary, respectively. They didn't have a native intuition for what these labels mean to us, and those who were invested in the history of gender didn't particularly enjoy the concept, so they just went with whatever felt right.

A thing to point out though, daaq, just like non binary, is an umbrella label. It's a slightly different one for two reasons:

Xaiq is another umbrella label that is roughly equivalent to xenogender. It's people whose gender doesn't allign with baoq nor zaeq, and it's not defined by the presence or lack of those. For example, if someone said their gender was ran (fire), they would fall in the xaiq label, not the daaq one. The way the word non binary works, we'd see xenogender as a label within non-binary. This is not how it works for the zhan.

And the other reason:

See, in our society, gender is kind of the default. I mean, at birth the doctor screams "its a boy!" or "its a girl!", and I don't actually know what happens when you're intersexual. Huh.

But this isn't the case to the zhan. Like I said, for the zhan, gender is this weird thing the weeb kids are into. Not everyone has heard of gender and not everyone wants to participate in it.

There's a word for that: gauq

It's easy to translate gauq as agender. But there's a subtlety there that doesn't translate well. Agender is, at least for most people, opting out of gender. A zhan who is not immersed in our history would think of agender people of daaq (or xaiq), not gauq.

To put it simply: agender is an empty box, gauq is the lack of a box.

Here's the flags

Baoq !

Zaeq !

Daaq !

Xaiq !

Gauq !

I'm experimenting with Godot shaders. This runs pretty smoothly even on my shitty computer that can't even run Minecraft. What do you think?

Took me a few hours to finish this.

We have made a space for the Laiqbun community, with a room for the language itself, a room for off-topic conversation and a room for discussion about the fictional culture.

It tries to explain most of Laiqbun basic grammar quickly, and I think it's best used when people can explain you what things are supposed to mean (which are what the discord server and matrix room are there for). I'm pretty proud of it.

I tried out the Searx search engine and searched for laiqbun and found this. I have no idea who made it nor how does it work, but it's pretty cool

I've been working on this thing for a while, and yesterday it reached 100 pages. I copy the format that MSPA uses, since MSPA format is, to me, iconic of extremely convoluted plots that don't make sense at first and escalate a lot

I try to keep the text on each panel short. That way the story doesn't become hard to read. It's got a RSS feed too, to make it easier to follow updates

Updates are usually 6-12 pages, but there have been cases with more or less than that