>no, you do not UNDERSTAND. LE SOVL. its all about SOVL. le 2001.... sovl. modern games with sovlless pbr don't have it... Im gonna bank in being a le based retro pixel dev with my sidescroller #1608 on steam because i know whats SOVL gayming and how to make it even better than the industry artists who made it. Today I installed blender. YOU WILL SEE.
>tranny dev cooking up new project
>insists it’s got SOVL
spoiler: it’s just another low-poly Unity game with crunchy pixels
"i'm not like other retro devs"
proceeds to slap VHS filter, PS1 fog, and blocky trees in Blender
main character
>The Mapper
>a polygon man that looks like GoldenEye reject
>dev swears it’s not a self-insert
>also dev: gives them their exact pronouns + blocky undercut
>gameplay
walking across flat terrain placing polygons like it’s MS Paint with motion sickness
>says it’s "GIS meets identity"
>looks like bad RuneScape mod
>sovl attempt:
"layers of the map = layers of the self"
"overlaps = dysphoria liminality"
translated: polygons clipping through each other because Unity colliders suck
soundtrack = free SoundCloud ambient loops
claims it’s "bitcrushed on purpose for retro feel"
actually just bad mastering
devlog screenshots:
>foggy cube hills
>240p font saying "who am i really?"
>dev typing paragraphs about liminal spaces
releases on itch.io with tags #Queer #PS1 #Retro #Sovl
>gets 8 downloads, one pity Patreon
every post after:
“numbers don’t matter… what matters is the sovl”
>insists it’s got SOVL
spoiler: it’s just another low-poly Unity game with crunchy pixels
"i'm not like other retro devs"
proceeds to slap VHS filter, PS1 fog, and blocky trees in Blender
main character
>The Mapper
>a polygon man that looks like GoldenEye reject
>dev swears it’s not a self-insert
>also dev: gives them their exact pronouns + blocky undercut
>gameplay
walking across flat terrain placing polygons like it’s MS Paint with motion sickness
>says it’s "GIS meets identity"
>looks like bad RuneScape mod
>sovl attempt:
"layers of the map = layers of the self"
"overlaps = dysphoria liminality"
translated: polygons clipping through each other because Unity colliders suck
soundtrack = free SoundCloud ambient loops
claims it’s "bitcrushed on purpose for retro feel"
actually just bad mastering
devlog screenshots:
>foggy cube hills
>240p font saying "who am i really?"
>dev typing paragraphs about liminal spaces
releases on itch.io with tags #Queer #PS1 #Retro #Sovl
>gets 8 downloads, one pity Patreon
every post after:
“numbers don’t matter… what matters is the sovl”