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#femaleprotagonist

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Xanathon

Creating art is my coping mechanism for the state of the world. Here I have control.

And I guess that's the reason for my choice of genres. SciFi, Fantasy, Cyberpunk, I did those already before the world went nuts. SciFi offers glimpses into bettter futures and better societies. Cyberpunk often describes how heroes stand up against overwhelming odds in a dytopian future, never giving up hope. Fantasy often does something very similar. Aside from creating pretty images (at least I think they are pretty) I draw strength from it.

#render #renderedArt #3DRender #CGI #CGArt #3DArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #FemaleProtagonist

Description by ChatGPT: The image is a sci-fi 3D render of a woman in advanced, armored exo-suit standing in a dimly lit, futuristic metallic corridor. Her face is painted with a striking white skull design, contrasting against her dark skin. Her head is shaved, giving her a bold and intense appearance. The exo-suit is sleek and high-tech, featuring metallic plating, glowing circuitry, and intricate mechanical details in a mix of white, bronze, and black, with illuminated blue accents. Her shoulders and arms have additional reinforced plating, possibly enhancing her strength or durability. The background consists of dark metal walls with glowing blue lights, suggesting a spaceship or space station environment. The woman gazes forward with a calm, focused expression, exuding confidence and resilience. The combination of the skull face paint and high-tech armor gives her the look of an elite soldier, assassin, or special operative in a dystopian or cyberpunk future.
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J M Berntson

#13 (2024-11-06) #TheCosmicWheelSisterhood

Part #VisualNovel, part card-crafting, and part divination simulator. You play as an exiled space witch, Fortuna, who out of desperation makes a pact with an otherworldly Behemoth after 200 years of her 1000 year sentence.

Once you take up your trade again with fresh cards, you meet witches new and old and get dragged into the coven's politics.

Only you can tell what the future will bring.

The title screen for the video game The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. On the left side is the menu and the game's logo in front of the star-speckled vastness of space. On the right side is the protagonist, Fortuna, sitting on the window sill of her little crimson brick house. Fortuna is a divination/seer witch who lives on an asteroid since she was exiled by her coven leader some 200 years ago. Fortuna wears a black, witchy hat with what looks to be lavender stuck to it, and sneakers in the same color as the flower. She wears black pants with the legs ripped partway up her calves, and black, fingerless gloves. Her white top is very loose around her wrists/lower arms.
Fortuna meets one of her two best friends, Dahlia, for the first time in 200 years and is greeted by large woman with a hug and the a happy cry of "FORTUNAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Dahlia is an alien Warrior Witch who lived her mortal life on the Daemonic Desertlands. She has a powerful build, brown skin, darker brown hair that is almost like thick tentacles (with daggers or short swords in it), and glowy red irises She wears a red two-piece dress and most of her body seems to be covered in tattoos. Dahlia has a very healthy disrespect for authority, with an anarchistic and democratic view of how things should be run. She wants the coven to be based on mutual trust and good-faith, amicable conflict resolution.
A flashback scene where Fortuna visits her older sister's grave, presumably on the night after the funeral. Flowers are strewn over the grave, and there's a full moon visible in the night sky. Fortuna, filled with regret over missing so much of her sister's life, laments: "I'm sorry I didn't come and visit you after I ascended..."
A divination test with Àbramar, the behemoth. Fortuna (the player) has just placed a card named Nirvana on the "board". The card features a red door beneath/behind enormous, cascading waterfalls, plus a series of urns pouring water in the mouths of flying fish. On the left is Àbramar's character portrait, explaining aspects of his past: "At some point the universe you live in grew around me and I was subjected to its rules."
#VideoGames#FemaleProtagonist#LGBTQ
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J M Berntson

...I don't like my odds as far as finishing my list of Halloween Month games goes. Too much life stuff has gotten in the way.

With that said, I'm actually considering just playing some #SteamNextFest demos tomorrow to see if I want to add some more games to my wishlist for future purchase.

There are at least a few interesting-looking ones with #queer / #sapphic themes, and a few more that just have a #FemaleProtagonist and look interesting.

#VideoGames#LGBTQ
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J M Berntson

D#22 (2024-09-09) #Supplice #demo

Supplice is a GZDoom-based #FirstPersonShooter. Assets are made from scratch rather than recycling from other #Doom engine games, but you can still very much "feel" that it's #GZDoom. Has freelook but no jumping.

The game takes place on a people's co-op space colony that comes under attack from bio-mechanical zombies, and it's up to the #FemaleProtagonist to rescue off-screen civilians and blast through the attackers with some fun weapons.

The Supplice (demo) title screen with its... very questionable logo font, where every character is roughly in the shape of a triangle. The letters are chrome with red outlines. The background is a robotic skull on a metallic and stone surface reminiscent of Alien's bio-mechanical aesthetic. Menu alternatives are "start", "load, "save", "options, "end game", and "quit".
The player is roaming around in a very lush, green environment, fighting what I would describe as bio-mechanical zombies (with guns). The player character's selected weapon is a weird, rotating shotgun, her green armor is filled up, and her health is up at 220%.
The player character is wielding her machine gun (which can be dual-wielded when you pick up a second one) in a cargo area outside the main facility of the first map. Great balls of fire erupt in the middle of the screen as she just fired a few rounds at some explosive barrels to take out the monsters nearby.
At various points in the levels, the player character can interact with computer screens that let her communicate with a science AI that is helping with evacuation and other security tasks, as the colony's regular security AI has stopped responding. This communication is entirely one-sided and consists of the AI monologuing at the player: "Excellent. The backup generator is [online], the power grid is [stable], and I now have <full control> over the facility. This should allow me to monitor the station and prevent future reoccurences, which is very good news. Thank you for your assistance. Now that the mission is complete, I will inform you that our chances of success were, in fact, <suboptimal>. I apologize, but I intentionally chose not to share this fact beforehand to prevent a critical loss of morale, and will continue to withhold the exact numbers for the same reason. They were not high. Page 1/4"
#videogames#FPS
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J M Berntson

D#14 (2024-08-30) #TheLastExterminator #demo

Didn't get any action/enemy screenshots because I'm bad at multitasking, but anyway...

Had a lot of fun with the demo of The Last Exterminator. It's a very blatant homage to #DukeNukem3D, but with a #FemaleProtagonist and seemingly none of the misogyny.

You play as Parker, who (I believe) is an exterminator who lives in her van. Suddenly, Earth's invaded by alien bugs and it's her time to shine with her bad attitude and pop culture references! #fps

The Last Exterminator's title screen. The logo itself is pretty reminiscent of Duke Nukem 3D's with its blocky font, and the background art pays homage to classic promotional art from things like Evil Dead/Army of Darkness and Doom. The art features Parker standing on top of a car, brandishing a machine gun and a shotgun, with cockroach aliens leaping towards her from every direction and the scene illuminated by a red light.
Immediately after exiting the building you start in, Parker watches in horror as her van is set on fire and partially explodes. She responds with: "My van! I was living in there, you roach bastards!"
The game has a lot of cool, Duke Nukem 3D-esque set pieces. This is one of the more impressive one, where you can see an entire building (with a sign that says "Moving Stationary) falling over into a hotel with fiery explosions and shattered glass flying through the air. Parker reacts with a "Holy shit!" Between the scene and Parker is a blue cleaning van with a logo that says "The Sucker" on its side.
In one of the demo level's secret areas, you can (among other things) find a computer desk with the text "Selaco RULEZ" written on the wall behind it. Selaco is another 90s style first-person shooter, and from what I've heard I'm inclined to believe that it does rule. It's nice that the devs decided to show unfiltered appreciation for what can be seen as their competition, rather than the mockery you'd see back in the 90s.
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J M Berntson

#1 (2024-03-21) #RebelTransmute

So this #Metroidvania's been out for a week and a half and, while I didn't have much free weekend time, I've played 32h in the evenings after work.

Moon Mikono, space scrapper, searches for her mom after a rebellion against an oppressive colonizer corporation goes wrong. Crashing on the planet, Moon is later woken up by an artificial intelligence and sets off to explore a world that is now inhabited only by machines and monsters.

The Rebel Transmute title screen with the logo in a kind of purple-white chrome gradient on a dark background.
The save slot screen, with three slots in total and one currently used. Finished the story last night, after 2 AM (oops), with 98% completion rate, and nabbed the remaining 2 after work today. The save slot shows me at 100% with 30 hours and 8 minutes played, but Steam told me I actually have 32 hours played.
Moon and her mother, Wendy -- both black women -- in a spaceship with a bit of narration focusing on the horrors of capitalism. "But if you know the horrors Foray enacts, know the true cost of their stock-holder fueled, ever expanding stranglehold on..."
Moon encountering a legally distinct, blonde space hunter named Samara Sun. She's clad in a blue armor and holding her red helmet with its green visor. The environment is mix of rock with glowing, lava-like pattern, and man-made metallic floors and walls. Also features a destructible wall made of purple bubbles, which Metroid and Axiom Verge players will be familiar with. Samara Sun says: "Don't get me wrong, it's not just about the money. I'm here to save the galaxy, the whole planet federation. But yeah, I negotiated a good pay."
#FemaleProtagonist#VideoGames
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Xanathon

Repost for International Women's Day.

This was a render to promote equal rights for women on german #wikipedia (#wikifüralle - the admins tried hard to make female scifi and fantasy authors invisible) but evolved into a more global women's rights poster I rereleased for international women's day. It is a modern scifi take on a classic motive, you most probably all know the original.

It is available as a t-shirt on Amazon.

amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9CFSY1P
amazon.de: https://amzn.to/3pgjVwC

#scifi #sf #sciencefiction #womeninscifi #render #3DArt #CGArt #renderedart #wikifüralle #scifiart #renderedscifiart #Female #femaleprotagonist #WomensDay #womensday2024 #Womensrights #MastoArt #MastoArt3D

Description by ChatGPT: The image is a 3D render that echoes the iconic "We Can Do It!" poster, reimagined within a science fiction setting. In the center is a female figure dressed in a polished, futuristic suit of armor that's primarily red with reflective surfaces, giving it a sleek and high-tech appearance. Her pose is evocative of strength and determination, with her right arm flexed and her fist clenched near her shoulder in a classic display of power. Her left hand is gently resting on the flexed arm, emphasizing the gesture. The suit covers her entirely, with segments fitting closely to her form, and includes a helmet that leaves her face visible. The face is calm but portrays a confident, resolute expression. Above her head, in bold, capital letters, the text "WE CAN DO IT!" is superimposed against the image, clearly drawing inspiration from the World War II era propaganda poster, suggesting empowerment and a call to action. The background is softly lit and features the interior of a spacecraft or space station with metallic walls and large windows, hinting at a setting beyond Earth. The lighting casts a dramatic glow on the figure, highlighting her and the message she embodies.
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Allie

July 29, 2023 - Day 210 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 229

Game: Othercide

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Jul 8, 2020
Library Date: Apr 30, 2023
Unplayed: 90d (2m29d)
Playtime: 29m

What's black and white and red all over? Tankies on social media. Also, Othercide.

Othercide is a roguelike tactics strategy game with an extremely limited palette. The entire game is in black and white, with shades of red.

The game initially starts out in a instructional level set in a gothic-almost-Victorian-London-by-way-of-Lovecraft 1897 where you play as "Mother", the "protector of the veil" -a warrior with Barbie feet (more on that later)- in a tactics battle with a number of supernatural monsters.

Towards the end of the battle, Mother sacrifices herself, for reasons that are not entirely clear, other than to set up the rest of the game, but she appears to be trying to stop some greater supernatural evil, called "the other" and represented by "the child"; as the child is obviously not Grogu, I have the assumption that it may, in fact, be her child? In any case, kiddo is a bad seed, and he wants to destroy... everything. Destroying the city in the first battle wasn't quite enough.

Then Mother is... kind of... resurrected. Not exactly alive, but... alive-ish? She reforms among innumerable dead bodies piled everywhere, like a naked red Barbie with just as much physical definition, but alarmingly lifelike bare buttocks, and inexplicably, "Barbie" feet that are positioned as if our shoeless Mother is wearing high heels. It's definitely a choice.

From here, you find out that through Mother's sacrifice, you are now in some kind on aethereal interstitial plane where you can spawn "daughters", in one of three roles - ranged, melee, or tank.

The thing is, in the original version of the game, there was only "Nightmare" mode. There is no healing class, because there is no healing... except for sacrificing another daughter after the battle. The game has since introduced a second mode called "Dream", where as each day passes, each daughter regains 50% of her HP back.

Maybe I won't have to sacrifice any daughters. Based on what the game told me, though, that's unlikely. It tells you upfront that dying is part of the game, and you should expect to die. A lot.

Red-Barbie-Mother aside, it's quite an interesting game. It doesn't grab me quite as much as some of the other tactics-style games I've played this year, but I can definitely see myself spending some more time with the game when I'm in the mood for something dark and angry.

Othercide is pretty:

4: Good

#Othercide#Tactics#Strategy
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Allie

July 28, 2023 - Day 209 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 228

Game: Call of the Sea

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Dec 9, 2020
Library Date: Mar 10, 2023
Unplayed: 140d (4m18d)
Playtime: 5h48m

Call of the Sea is a first-person 3D puzzle game, set on an island near Tahiti, in 1934.

You play as Norah Everhart, a woman trying to unlock the mystery of the disappearance of her husband on an expedition to this remote island.

I bought this game as part of an "International Women's Day" bundle, where all the games have female protagonists. Capitalism will find any excuse for a sale, but in this case, part of the money was going to charity, and I wanted more games with female protagonists, so it felt like a win/win.

This is a wonderful game. The graphics are lush and gorgeous, and the puzzles are mostly of the kind that pushed me just enough that I enjoyed them, but not so much that you need to keep a walkthrough open in a web browser. The kind that are satisfying to solve.

The kind that kept me playing non-stop until I'd completed the game. The last game that hooked me into playing through in a single session was Firewatch, which is one of my all-time favourite games, and Call of the Sea comes close.

The game opens with Norah waking up from an odd dream, in a cabin on a ship, which has just reached its destination.

As Norah looks down at her hands, they're covered in small brown blotches, and her voiceover starts talking about her illness. These blotches are symptoms of her illness, and her husband's expedition to this remote -and possibly cursed- island was an attempt to find a cure.

It's Norah's illness that is at the core of this game. While to say more would involve spoilers, I think if this were just a puzzle game, I'm not sure it would have hooked me. But Norah's story, the mystery of her illness, but a smart & capable woman who refuses to let her illness define her, and whose relationship with her husband appears to be one of equals, drew me in, and as each puzzle solution revealed a little bit more of the story, I just wanted to solve one more puzzle.

The call on Call of the Sea is:

5: Excellent* (see next toot - spoilers)

#CallOfTheSea#FirstPerson#Adventure
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