ASapphicKitsune

They are absolutely tiny (small ant-sized) and a beautiful golden color.

Australia is home to a few species of social spiders that build communal webs they maintain together and help raise each others young.

Sociality is quite rare in arachnids in general, most being solitary.

Forgive me, they were far to small to take a photo.

Here's my artist impression:

I was just in the garden doing extremely important work (rubbing my hands in the herbs) when I noticed something that gave me a bit of a surprise!

A single web cast across from a garden post to a branch of the rosemary, and on it- 10 to 20 spiders all following each other and working on it.

That’s completely fair

My (now) GF got me into it last year and it is quite fun. I know people have the whole copypasta about the free trial but it is genuinely crazy how good it is. No time limit and you get the first 2 expansions free. I'm only just now going through the main story of the 2nd expansion after 500 hours

a hedgehog is standing in the middle of a forest in the fog . ALT: a hedgehog is standing in the middle of a forest in the fog .

Here's a gif from Norshteyn's most famous work, Hedgehog in the Fog.

I NEED someone to make a game in this style

Also:

HOLY SHIT, THEY ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT ONNA GEH, DOUBTERS IN SHAMBLES.

It was revealed that it was artistically based on Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn's work (old soviet animator).

I had known about this for a while now but I'm so happy it's now public!

Also wow a secret third idea? A VR game

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

@icoshrine.neocities.org Just sent me this new interview that actually links to my attempt at recreating the NICO movie with the Spider-man OST that was originally used.

www.designroom.site/shadow-of-th...

But that would be too easy!

It seems for whatever reason, the 1979 edition has 2 variants! One with red stripes on the spine and one without!

It took me so long to find the specific version Team ICO had ;;

I also might have purchased it...

My autism has gone TOO FAR.

I just spent over an hour trying to track down a specific edition of a book just because Team ICO had it in their office.

This is the book in question:

The complete encyclopedia of illustration

After lots of investigating I found it is the 1979 edition.

ステージのスケジュールを見られるのは、とても興味深く、クールなことだろう。 特に慌ただしい状況だったのではないでしょうか。以前、チームが大規模なコンテンツ削減を終えた直後にプロジェクトに復帰されたとおっしゃっていたと記憶していますので。

「ボスが引っかかるから柱を移動してほしい」

なぜかケルベロスを連想してしまうんですよね（笑）

これらの資料は、上田さんとプランナー陣がボス戦の設計過程で使用していたものだったのだろうか。フィールドデザイナーがモデリング時に参照するための資料だと考えていたが、そうではなかったのかもしれない。もう一つ理解すべき点は、丹羽さんと鈴木さんがどのように関わっていたかだ。戦略上非常に重要なデザインである以上、ボス戦の計画段階に何らかの形で関与していたはずだからだ。
将来調査すべき事項...

1ステージあたり2週間！？

こんなに短い時間なのに、ものすごい作業量ですね！

@zackmannx.bsky.social がモデリングしたワンダステージの仕様書はまだお持ちでしょうか。公開されているものが実際のモデル形状とかなり正確に一致しているように見えるので、その仕様書がどれほど詳細で具体的だったのか、少し気になっています。

I don't OVERCLOCK the EE, I don't enable half-pixel OFFSET, I don't SET blending accuracy to full. I EMULATE SOTC WITH BASE SETTINGS, and if it looks awful then I DON'T CARE.

YouTube video by Jibb Smart - Game Dev Introducing Flick Stick in DOOM

Video by the person who invented it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5L_...

Flick stick is an incredible control scheme for controllers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_S...

Somewhat related, XBOX need to get with the times and add gyro support to their controllers.

Once that is done, shooters can finally remove aim assist and the mouse and keyboard vs. controller gap will be smaller and more fair.

Just thought of a potential feature for a hypothetical SOTC PC port that would be incredible - Gyro aiming for the bow.

I NEED IT

Ohmura-san and Fukui-san did such a great job with the ICO cover.

YouTube video by ASapphicKitsune Shadow of the Colossus - Which Spider came last?

New video is up! Today we try to figure out which of Spider's design came last.

This video is also fully subtitled in PT-BR for anyone who wants it!

#SOTC #ShadowOfTheColossus

youtu.be/z9AJP3XJNsY

Oh right! I think the idea of falling into the boss blood to find a surreal landscape came from the scene in Horus where he falls into a very surreal hole (odd description but I don't know what else to call it LOL)

I think diving into a pool of boss blood and getting sent to some sort of location to fight a secret boss would be cool.

I think the visual of a dive then being rotated to become the heroine launching out the "other side" of the pool and then landing on the ground came to me in a dream.

I've created some sort of animated storyboard for an idea I've had stuck in my head for well over a year now.

This would be something I'd put in to my dream sotc mod.

(Wander is just a placeholder since I have him rigged, it would be Mono this)

This started as just me finding everything referred to as 像（ぞう）but then expanded.

#ICO #SOTC

Today I learned that 「石板」 (stone slab) and 「石版」 (lithograph) are two different words that are both pronounced as 「せきばん」 (sekiban).

This makes things more confusing. Now I have to dig through the sheets to see if it's ever rendered in kanji...

I lean towards 「石板」 being the intended meaning though.

It's interesting how her expectation for the game to give a tutorial when something is relevant like it did earlier caused her to overlook a solution to a puzzle.

I said "Well, you also have a bow."

She then said she didn't think to use the bow because she assumed the game would give a tutorial prompt when it was time to use it.

This is true and very strange, the game has no tutorial text for the bow controls.

Finally got my sister to play SOTC.
She actually noticed something that I had noticced a while ago. While fighting the mammoth she asked me if the feet were the weak point and I said 'yes'. She then asked what to do with them since you can't hit them under the sword.