m. tarah henry @Lobst@scalie.club

#introductions

Hi, everyone; I'm tarah, otherwise known as lobst. I've drawn a few comics that people have seemed to enjoy, and programmed a game demo that won 10th-place in a 140+ entry game jam despite having no sound. My ability to finish any individual project has been stymied by mental health problems for over a year, but I've been seeking treatment and making progress. I've also been streaming videogames on weekends. Watch this space!

https://lobstworks.com/
https://lobst.itch.io/

Back home safe and sound from BLFC! Both Phen and I had a great time; thanks to all the cool people we saw along the way! 🔸

Sunday afternoon at BLFC: just saw the roommates off to the airport, bought some books in the Den, and got lunch. I'm in the creators' lounge now (feel free to drop by); it's hotel-silent, there's a wall directly behind me, and I am psyched to be here🔸

Nothing "happened", I think, it was just a series of one-off social encounters with kind and wonderful people. I keep catching myself asking "did I do right?" as though it's a competition I'll get graded for at the end. Thankfully, the world doesn't work that way.

Little-known yet also indisputable fact: I have anxiety

Artist lounge update: After giving the doorknob a jostle, it seems the room is currently open and unlocked! I'll keep it in mind for later tonight and tomorrow 🔸

My kingdom for a quiet room with tables, chairs, and accessible electrical outlets! I'm making do in the main stage hall until at least 1PM, feel free to swing by and say hi.🔸

Made it to BLFC on time! I'm wiped out from the long trip, but I will be attending today's Mastodon meetup at the very least 🔸

That said: Slippy is still voiced the entire way through, and that's more than enough for me; he says the most obvious things possible at all times, and this is the exact kind of content I was hoping for here

I just finished 5/6ths of the mission where you pick up capsules containing motion-comic biographies of the Starlink folks, and the entire time I couldn't help but imagine how much better it would've been if, paired with the exact same gameplay, Ubi's OCs had been completely excised from the story altogether and these comics were deep-dives into characters from the Lylat system instead

Having played it in greater detail -- this is well-made, and the campaign is substantial and detailed, but this is also definitely not a game to buy JUST for the Star Fox elements. Every cutscene assumes you're interested in the lives and personal details of the Starlink crew, who are barely removed from the standard Ubisoft cast of original characters (skinny/fashionable teenagers and young adults, all with distinctive haircuts)

Played a bit of the intro, and I've decided Ubisoft's concept of the Slippy Toad character boils down to this:

1) He's a master engineer
2) He wants to be helpful
3) He is just, the ABSOLUTE most irredeemable dork imaginable

They seem to have put a lot of voiceacting and production value into this; hopefully this keeps up throughout the campaign