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poppetsisters · 15 days

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Cancelled Poppet Sisters Game

Like so many projects of mine, most of them never reach the finish line, however I want to share with you a game I had intended to make after Planter's Diary. It's a point and click life-sim called PK ULTRA!!

The premise of PK-Ultra was that it took place in an alternate history where "brain-compatable technology" has been around since the 1970s. In the modern day, this meant that you could purchase cartridges (or plug-ins) for your brain that could assist you with any number of things. Below are a collection of advertisements for "Brain Plug-ins":

You play as Wesley, a trans boy who's looking for work in the fast-paced tech world.

Using your trusty smart watch, you have an assortment of ways to manage your stats.

But this life-sim isn't the cozy escape you expect it to be. This is a survival game about managing your hunger, paying your rent, and working in a gig economy.

How will you ever manage all this on your own? Well remember, this is an alternate universe with brain enhancements, and take a wild guess what the main gimmick of the game is:

Yep! Throughout the game, you'll be required to purchase these plug-ins to performance-enhance your life. Anything from Hourglassy: the encyclopedia for your brain. Znoose: the sleep aid which lowers the amount of time you have to rest. TURBO BRAIN: a super duper safe plug-in that overclocks your brain. or even PAWS: which teaches you wholesome American values such as racism.

You'll be able to explore a semi-open world full of weird and wonderful side characters. One of them is a programmer named Edith, who's working on a modded Znoose which can instantly put your brain to sleep with the push of a button.

Her ultimate plan is to enter the astral plane by essentially locking her consciousness out of her body using this tech. Whether her plan succeeds or fails is... left to interpretation.

The villain of the game is Leon LeMain, the CEO of a company called Hourglass which produces Rightaway. He ends up being at the centre or a grand mind control conspiracy (who would've guessed) and it's all up to you and a small group of friends to tear the whole operation down.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed what was essentially an art dump for a no longer in-development project. Maybe someday I'll salvage these ideas for something in the future. Here's a bus ticket if you ever want to visit this setting again.

#game development #gamedev #indiegamedev #indie games #cancelled video game #cancelled project #pk ultra #poppetsisters

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burningexeter · 9 months

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WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN:

There was going to be a mo-cap animated kaiju film called Calling All Robots that was to be produced by Robert Zemeckis under ImageMovers Digital and written/directed by Michael Dougherty (Trick r Treat, Krampus, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters).

But they ended up choosing Mars Needs Moms over.... this.

The premise was this —

In a world where giant monsters have been in conflict with humanity since 1958, Ray, a young boy seeking to avenge his father, seeks to become part of the giant robot program that defend humanity, even though his paternal grandfather warns him not to become bloodthirsty against the beasts. Eventually, Ray and his new friend Yuriko discover that the rise in monster attacks was manipulated by General Parker, the narcissistic General in charge of the robot program, as a means of becoming a war hero and the monsters' aggression was manipulated by tracker tags invented by Parker.

Soon, Ray and Yuriko seek out to expose Parker and allow humans and monsters to peacefully co-exist.

#Calling All Robots #godzilla #kaiju #cancelled project #michael dougherty #trick r treat #krampus #pacific rim #monsterverse

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rottedsoulx · 8 months

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Since the Traveller's Tea Zine is cancelled, I thought I'd share the pitch sketches that got accepted for the zine. I want to be able to share the finished pieces eventually, maybe in a future project if I chose to. :>

#ninjago #travelers tea zine #sketches #unfinished zine #cancelled project #ninjago au

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haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted · 4 months

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Breach Project by Fred Augis

#Breach #Cancelled Project #Concept Art #Fred Augis #Sci-Fi

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paledoptera · 3 days

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I must know!!! What is your process to creating and composing melodies? What do you use as inspiration for some of your original tracks? The Flipside Blackbear OST you made all those years ago is a great example! Your melodies are so complex and creative and I can only dream of writing some that well :)

https://youtu.be/CoKbd6kG9rc?feature=shared

This one is the style I try to aim for, I just gotta know how you come up with this stuff!! 🙏🙏🙏

im actually gonna split this question up into two parts because HOLY SHIT i am surprised someone remembers flipside so flipside pieces was this fnaf world fangame i was working on years ago. it went through a lot of weird changes over time. first it was gonna basically be a fnaf world 2, then it was changed to like a world-hopping thing, then it was gonna be closer to like a mario & luigi style, etc. (the only remnants of flipside i have left are these two videos)

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anyways so, blackbear was gonna be a mini teaser-game involving a glitchy version of fredbear. if i remember correctly it was gonna be sort of like princess quest from help wanted. flipside pieces was the full game i was making, blackbear was more like a tiny demo.

(i've always liked the purple-black missing texture aesthetic. i just think it looks kinda cool!!!) anyways i cancelled the project a while ago because of Reasons. when someone reuploaded the soundtrack i had posted for flipside pieces, they accidentally attributed it to blackbear because that's what the game page looked like at the time. if you want to listen to the old flipside stuff, here's a playlist of reuploaded music i made!!! (a lot of these i've actually remade or repurposed for other projects!)

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ANYWAYS SO PART 2: HOW I WRITE MELODIES

answering a question like this is quite difficult. it's like a hair away from "where do you get your ideas", which the answer to is just... think of them. i dunno?? it's hard to teach creativity for a multitude of reasons which i won't go into here but i'll give this particular branch of the question a shot: when i'm writing new material, more often than not i actually start with instrumentation. i'll flip through different samples and see if i find something i like, then try and dot down a few notes. from experience i find having some baseline knowledge on music theory helps a lot with trying to write music, you have some basic guidelines to follow. i've actually been trying to write simpler melodies lately. complicated melodies are more fun to listen to, but they don't really stick around in your head. when melodies are TOO complicated, they can become kind of muddy in a way. like it's all being blended together. i think it's also more interesting to me when styles are being blended together. listen to a lot of different genres of music and try and see if you can put some defining elements of them into something you're writing. apart from all that, most of it just comes down to practice. write a bunch of melodies and eventually you'll naturally get some kind of style of your own!!

i hope this was vaguely helpful!!

#lost fangame #cancelled project #fnaf fangame #music writing advice #music advice #asks

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cure-mercearl · 18 days

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A cancelled attempt at a ARG video that I made when I was around 14.

#alternate reality game #arg #cancelled project #digital horror #analog horror

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emilio-860 · 2 months

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Hace cosa de dos años inicié un proyecto muy ambicioso para mí: hacer un Hack ROM o fangame del Mega Man original. Sin embargo, la cosa se me complicó, principalmente porque no tengo ni la más remota idea de programación, y en segundo lugar, porque me llevaría una eternidad hacer los sprites (y eso que llegué a hacer algunos sprites decentes, en mi opinión).

La imagen que veis es básicamente "la portada" que habría tenido el Hack ROM en cuestión: la misma que la portada japonesa del Mega Man pero con los personajes de Doraemon adaptados para la ocasión.

Decidí mezclar Mega Man con Doraemon a modo de broma, y porque si lo piensas bien... ¡Tiene sentido! Doraemon es un robot futurista con máquinas futuristas. Mega Man también es un robot futurista que destruye a otras máquinas futuristas. Entonces cogí y puse al señor Kaminari de Doraemon como el protagonista. ¿Por qué? Muy sencillo, es mi personaje favorito de la serie y me parece el mejor en todos los aspectos.

Para entendernos, la trama del Hack ROM sería casi igual a la del juego original, sólo que cambiando a los personajes de Mega Man por los de Doraemon, siendo, por ejemplo, Nobita el malo principal y el Señor Kaminari, el protagonista jugable. Estos son los cambios que me propuse realizar:

-Mega Man: Señor Kaminari (Mega Nari)

-Dr. Wily: Nobita

-Guts Man: Gigante

-Cut Man: Tsuneo

-Elec Man: Dekígusu

-Ice Man: Doraemon

-Fire Man: Shizuka

-Bomb Man: Dorami

-Entre otros que no recuerdo o de los que me da pereza hablar.

¿Qué os parece este proyecto? Yo por lo menos le sigo guardando mucho cariño, pero sé muy bien que los videojuegos no son lo mío. Y bueno, tampoco es que sea muy bueno dibujando.

#mega man #doraemon #hack rom #proyecto cancelado #sr. kaminari #gigante #tsuneo #shizuka #dekígusu #dorami #nobita #fan art #cancelled project

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theartoffrozen · 1 year

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Visual development by Marcelo Vignali

#the snow queen #cancelled project #marcelo vignali #concept art #visual development #deleted scene #gerda #the snow queen (2000)

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victoria-pegacorn · 6 months

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Severus Snake AU (Harry Potter x MLP crossover, Creepypasta)

For Cringetober days 24 and 13

If not cringetober, I would have never told this shit I fear myself to anybody. invented this when I was 12. started considering it as cringe at 15 years old.

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HP x MLP crossover. In this AU wizarding world and Equestria are parallel universes, and their inhabitants can move between worlds through portals (but nearly anybody doesn’t know about another world existence). All characters are ponies!!! (Harry Potter characters are ponified)

Major events happen after the last Harry Potter book “The deathly hallows” and after last season of MLP gen 4, but just right after the “Rainbow road trip” before the main 6 aged up too much.

Warnings: violence, graphic blood, extreme cringe.

Cringefic, trollfic

*I barely remember the scenario of this mess, some plot points have different variations and when I stopped working on this, the story was unfinished and still has plot holes.

Messy brief retelling of the whole story:

After the battle of Hogwarts, when he have already mourned and burried perished friends, Harry Potter sleeps. When he wakes up, he remembers that he have forgotten about a very important person. He informs his friends but wants to go on his own. Harry enters the Shrieking Shack and…Snape’s body is not here. “WTF?!” — Harry thinks. HP thinks kinda “Nevermind” and walks to Hogwarts.

The next day there is news that one Hogsmeade pony-farmer has disappeared without a trace. Ron and Hermione say: “Nevermind!” But Harry is worried, because he remembers Snape’s body disappearance. On the next day, the magazine reports about new missed Hogsmeade ponies. And next days — the same. And some ponies told they saw a sinister beast on the villageside. Harry and friends decide to go there and figure out WTF is going on (they couldn’t miss such fun).

Eventually they went to the Shrieking Shack and… the cellar hatch opens and… “ — Surprise!” The trio sees white pony with short black mane with snake teeth, smiling and staring at them. Stallions mouth and teeth were covered with blood and…he had bloody wound on the left side of his neck. His Eyes had red snake-like pupils. It looked like too positive and snake-like Severus Snape.

— Severus Snape? — Harry mumbled.

— Severus Snake! — the freak answered. — Happy to see you kids, come in!

Everybody went to the cellar. It looked like torture room. There was a lot of knifes, poisons, torture tools and even the wall to fix ponies in there (like in Cupcakes)

Snake joyfully tells them how he came to life after death, how he thinks that his ‘old’ behavior was dumb and how he would treat Harry and other good guys that he knows well, how he is positive and funny now.

Harry carefully asks him about the torture room and briefly hints, that he wants explanation why Snake’s mouth are in blood.

Snake at ease tells them that now he has a snake-like stomach and has to eat meat. Also he explained, that he tortures only evil-bad ponies, in general former death eaters. After the battle of Hogwarts a lot of death eaters went hiding in Hogsmeade and nowadays pretending to be usual local folks. And Snake fixes this issue by torturing them, in this way he implements their karma.

The trio even don’t know what to say, so they quietly say “Bye” to Severus Snake and go out to digest all what just happened. Snake joyfully says, that he is always happy to see them.

Harry, Ron and Hermione decided not to tell anyone about Snake and just wait and see what Snake really is, because they know nothing about his nature and reason why he is so visually alike to mutated Severus Snape. Next few days they regularly visited him and tried to convince him not to kill ponies and not to torture death eaters, but Snake said that it’s his kredo and he won’t change. Besides everything, Snake treated the trio as dear guests and friends and never got mad at them, always smiled and ignored the fact that kids obviously don’t enjoy his company and consider him as evil force. Severus Snake was nearly emotionless — his only emotions were smiling and laughing. It seemed like he considered world as one big joke for him.

*Note: from this moment I can’t really remember the order of scenes and the plot has many variations and in most of the parts I interpret.)

One day trio came to Snake but he wasn’t home and left note on the cellar hatch: “Went to teach Malfoys how to live properly, see you soon!”.

— Oh no! — Harry said. “Malfoys have got enough, we mustn’t let this freak torture them! ” Harry remembered how Narcissa Malfoy saved him and what Draco went through under Voldemort’s leadership.

Trio goes to Malfoy Manor.

As it turned out when they arrived, Harry and friends were late but not too late. Snake has already intimidated the whole Malfoy family. Now Snake was standing with Draco, forcibly holding him with magic, in front of them Lucius and Narcissa standing terrified and begging Snake to stop. Snake said that he is gonna take Draco with him and educate him properly (he wasn’t going to torture him, no, just wanted to teach him how to be a “good guy” which Snake now in his own eyes was).

Harry interrupted and with all the courage told Snake, that if he doesn’t stop, Harry will stop being his friend and be telling all wizards about his crimes. He also plainly told Snake what trio thinks about his behavior and how he is disappointed in Snake. Snake listened to him calmly. In the end of his speech Harry tried to manipulate Snake by telling that Snake’s threats were the best lesson for Malfoys and he better let them go because if he takes Malfoy with him and teaches him, his arrogant parents will perceive it as your service. Moreover, they will be proud of it: such person treats their son as a student.

Harry’s words had affection on Snake. He didn’t take the last part seriously, but he stopped smiling. It was the first time he looked sad and serious. Pony was upset about Harry’s real attitude towards him and such furious threats. Snake exempted Draco. He said to trio:“I thought you are my friends. I thought you understand me.” He turned away from them and apparitioned (teleported back to the Shrieking Shack).

Harry and trio talked to Malfoys a bit, and then went back to Hogwarts. They wanted but were afraid to visit Snake. But after all ventured to do it and…heard Snake talking to someone, someone they didn’t know. They sat calmly for awhile, eavesdropping. Another voice said something about another world, portals. Then everything stirred up, strange noise, wind and light arised. Then everything began to spin around, trio were moving somewhere in mess… Then they have fallen on the ground. They were in some sunny place…

End of the first part

On this point I will explain some lore things regarding Snake, retell the prequel of all events — give you author statements to explain everything unknown.

Lore / Backstory

The voice trio heard belongs to pony named Tiatara. This mare is the real main antagonist and culprit of the whole Severus Snake situation.

Tiatara:

Appearance: black coat, fuchsia colored mane. Sized like princess Luna, unicorn. Magenta colored eyes. Wears necklace same to nightmare Rarity’s.

Backstory: Tiatara is from Equestria, she dreamed to be a princess. She studied in Canterlot school even before Twilight, she was a bit older than her. Tiatara tried to be politician, but career failed. Then some bad things happen (I didn’t come up with it) and she is forced to leave Canterlot. She was angry with ponies. Tiatara accidentally met witch pony who lived in the forest (don’t know her name). Tiatara lived with her and that mare teached her another type of magic, especially dark magic, potions and something else. Witch told her about another world with another laws and politics. Tiatara liked it more than Equestria, forming her opinion based on tales. Also witch sometimes used portal to that world but forbade Tiatara to doing it.

Tiatara was jealous of Twilight when she became princess and for a long time just watched the world change. After Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow were defeated, Tiatara thought that it’s good chance for her to become important for Equestria. She killed old witch pony, now she can use portal she made to move to the another world. That world was wizarding world.

Tiatara started spending more time in another world. But one day, while walking in the Forbidden Forest, she found beautiful red stone… She took it to her shelter to discover and keep it. That stone had special affection on Tiatara. She became obsessed with it. Pony admired it, slept and ate with it and took the stone everywhere with her.

One night Tiatara had a dream. She was in a dark black and red forest with bloody moon and dried trees. She walked there and soon met spooky creatures. They all had injuries which make usual ponies dead, but the creatures were alive. They scared her on purpose and acted like crazy. Tiatara woke up.

On the next few days she had common dreams. But she soon stopped being afraid of that forest and walked calmly there. One day she met the ruler of that place. His name is Aburzuy.

Aburzuy is something like satan or aid. He is the higher creature, rules hell (that forest in Tiatara’s dreams is actually hell). Hell has two sections. One for dead sinners, second for halfdemons.

Halfdemons are creatures made by Aburzuy based on dead persons. Halfdemons are like zombies but they are consious and have personality. Their personality is combination of dead person’s traits and new traits added by Aburzuy to make them creepy and ‘evil’.

The stone that Tiatara found is called “demonic stone” and it’s used to create halfdemons. Halfdemons use dead body of the person they are based on. Aburzuy modificates the body too to make it creepy.

Severus Snake is alive halfdemon. He is based on Severus Snape, but he is not Snape.

Aburzuy told Tiatara about the use of her stone. One day she found Snape’s body and decided to turn him into halfdemon. She wanted him to be her tool for usurpation of Equestria ponies. She observed him for weeks, and after he returned from Malfoys, Tiatara saw strange changes in him. Snake was sad. So she decided to manipulate him.

Tiatara started talking with him. He said that he is upset about Harry not liking him. So Tiatara began to manipulate him by pretending to be his real friend and saying that she loves and needs him. She also told Snake that she brought him back to life and told his that he is halfdemon. Snake agreed to go to another world and kill, torture and eat lots of stranger ponies there.