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lethrial · 1 year

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My Work on FNF Ghost Twins

Decided I'm gonna use Tumblr as an actual blog rather than a proper social media account (unless Twitter completely dies out, that is). So I'm gonna start making super long posts about the FNF projects I've worked on and stuff like that! There's also a severe lack of rhythm game charting content on here and I'm adament on fixing that. So, let's start off with the first mod I ever charted for, Ghost Twins!

Intro

I can't really believe my first mod was Ghost Twins. Granted, this wasn't the first time I'd created FNF charts, but this was the first time I'd worked in a large group to create a mod from the ground up. The director, nld, needed an extra charter for the mod, so I sent them my charts and patiently waited for a response. And voila, I was accepted! My crappy Hex recharts did wonders, apparently.

There was something I was a little concerned about going into the mod, though. If you've played the mod, you'd know about Echo difficulty, which includes the use of chords. Chords (in 4 key charting) refers to the use of multiple notes at the same time. They're sometimes referred to as doubles and triples. They look like this:

This kind of charting is often referred to as mania-styled. Before Ghost Twins, I had never touched this kind of charting. I'll talk more about how I went about it later in this post!

My Charts

I got to do quite a lot of the charts for the main week! This mod came out around the time people still remembered what easier difficulties were, so I did quite a few of those too.

Hat Tip (Normal, Echo)

Spectral Spat / Spooky Splits (Normal, Echo)

Scuffle (Easy, Hard)

Illustrious (i forgor 💀 (wasn't Hard or Echo though))

Yuletides (Normal)

Because this came out ages before the godsend that is Psych Engine's chart editor, I used the hit new Kade Engine 1.4.2 for almost all of the charts in the mod.

Echo Difficulties / Mania Charting

As stated before, this was the first time I had charted using chords and whatnot, so I was a little worried going into the mod. Luckily, I already had a background in Beat Saber mapping, so I took an approach I was familiar with; use chords for emphasis! They feel weird when they're used on beats that really don't need them.

In this case, I used them mostly on drum kicks, but they don't have to be limited to that! Just use 'em whenever they feel fitting, I guess. I've recently seen a lot of modern mods use chords randomly, and they can hurt the quality of the charts as a result. A really good example of well placed chords is Hotline 024; the charters on that mod did a fantastic job!

I'm pretty happy with how my Echo difficulties came out, although I do have some gripes.

Mistakes I Made

Hat Tip has an accidental jack hammer on the Twins' side. My bad! Genuinely don't know how I didn't catch it. Funnily enough, the jack is fixed on Boyfriend's side for some reason, so I guess it doesn't matter all that much. Sorry to Funky Friday & Friday Night Bloxxin' players, though.

One large mistake I made throughout the mod is how much I copied and pasted certain sections. Play through Scuffle on Hard and notice how much I reused the chorus' chart. If there's one thing I'd change about these charts, it would be the variety in patterns.

Of course, it's perfectly fine to copy paste parts of your chart, but if copy paste the same part more than two or three times, it might be best to switch it up a bit!

Abrupt Outro

I'm really grateful that I was able to work on this mod; the team was super great throughout all of its development! It was an incredible first experience in my FNF charting journey. It was super surreal seeing content creators like StickyBM, Flippy and more play through my charts. There'll be plenty more mania-styled charts from me, don't worry! (and they'll be in mods you may recognise…)

I hope you guys thought this was a good read, I'd love to make more of these posts! If you have any questions, my AMA is completely open.

If you want to play VS Ghost Twins yourself, here!

#fnf #fnf ghost twins #ghost twins #rhythm game #rhythm game charting #rhythm game mapping #friday night funkin #4 key #lethblog

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theangrypokemaniac · 4 years

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Baby Vulpix are born with a solitary white tail, which reddens and splits as it grows.

Given the conversion to Ice we must forgive the lack of colour, but the ends sticking together is inexplicable.

Perhaps it's tangled with perspiration, as a furry fox embellished with fluffy pouffes is not best equipped to deal with a simmering climate.

When Fire, and thus possessed of an inner furnace, such outer decoration is easily borne, but losing his type means it's nothing but a burden for these endless summer days.

If he became Ice to cope, why not shed such bothersome apparel? What benefit is there in retaining a fur coat?

Perhaps the transformation is yet to reach fruition, and we are witnessing merely a stage midway, before it drops off.

The correct crown plumage is three tight little curls above a small fringe, but here we find a most dishevelled appearance.

It smacks of a want of propriety.

Why any creature should don a toupee of albino pubes shall remain a mystery. Clearly they are no longer of sound mind.

I blame the diabolical influence of those wicked polyps sprouting from his ears.

Polyps grow in the cavities of a cat's head like the toadstools of Satan.

If they aren't removed they bore into its brain!

Are you blind? What's that there then?

I thought Ninetales had nine tails.

A matted bush with seven straggling ends wafting in the breeze.

The lack of separation is less of a concern when one realises the billowing quality equates to having no solid form.

He's lost his bloody tail bones, man! That bastard sun butchered him!

Like Parasect, the parasitic colonisation is complete, with polyps responsible for Ninetales's degradation from vindictive lunatic to feeble-fannied pacifist.

Remember Normal Ninetales? The regal reincarnation of nine noble saints who, were he offended, delivered eternal curses upon the perpetrator?

And it wasn't just a temporary punishment? It wasn't even for your lifetime?

It doomed generation after generation of your descendants, lasting ONE THOUSAND YEARS!!!

How does Alola Ninetales compete?

He'll douse you cold water.

No! The last thing I need is a cool down!

Well, if he's annoyed, if he's really, really, thoroughly ticked off, you'll be frozen.

And instantly thaw.

He's got that skin. Or fur even.

Meowth don't brown in sunlight. He greys. What was brown bleached to white.

Last year, when Sadism and Masochism still ran, I was up to me teef in posts praising Velma's mutant pussy, because Team Rocket can do no wrong, apparently.

A creature of alien grey, with a smug, squashed mush and Betty Spaghetti limbs, carved from the rubberiest lump of Kraken ever washed up on the shores of Siberia, was treated like a treasure, a faultless jewel we are honoured to behold.

However, as the S & M sesssion finished, I discovered that approval of Alolan Meowth is an extreme minority view.

Well yer could've fooled me!

What did we learn?

A. T.A.P. is in the majority at last!

B. Tumblr gives a really skewed idea of the wider fandom.

This hot stuff's a bitch eh?

Soon as touching the innocuous cat, it dived in his back and reorganised his spinal column, bipedal abilities serving as such a fine defence against sunburn, which is why fat-headed Persian loses it again.

I hope Game Freak did remember that our Meowth is the exception, and the breed aren't meant to walk upright.

It's very sloppy record-keeping otherwise.

Forget silly notions of black felines browned by prolonged sunbathing, what really goes down is cream darkening to grey, whilst any ruby gemstones they may possess becomes royal blue, obviously.

Persian was drawn in an identical stance to the real one to assist identification. I can't say I'd know without that visual clue.

Grey and blue? Has Persian, playing by his own rules, developed hypothermia?

He's a maverick, man! Petty laws of nature are meaningless to this cool cat!

As for his unfortunate face, it has swelled to painful proportions in the sizzling environment, like a woman's lower extremities.

It shows why a certain representative of the race lashed out by beating up Litten, besides intentions to eat or mount Popplio.

His features group together under the gravitation pull of the Ultra Wormhole secreted inside his skull, caused no doubt by baleful polyps.

Yer gotta watch 'em!

Ah, and where is the ambulance service striving to cure every Persian of this double malady?

There isn't one, 'cause they don't care.

Yeah, well he'll have the last laugh. That loaf is still a-growing, and one day will explode, unleashing said cosmic damnation upon the heartless savages, atomising all before it.

Sandshrew mate, yer getting hefty.

And then they'll be sorry!

I'll have you know I'm retaining water to survive.

Retaining pies more like.

Sandshrew can't abide damp, choosing to reside in dry areas well away from any substantial precipitation.

How exactly it crossed the sea to small series of islands surrounded by more sea is a mystery, but happen it did.

A creature of such taste should head inland, far from the shore, to a dusty landscape, the sort found on Akala Island.

What did it do?

He clambered the peaks, where much moisture awaits, snow being water, and stayed until ice colonised his person.

And got ears like an igloo.

Makes total sense for a Pokémon with an aversion to anything cold and wet to rush straight for the source.

Plus, that girth suggests piling on the fat to cope with a habitat it selected.

Oh no, that's a coat of steel. Definitely not ice. It's just bluish white and shimmering, like ice.

On an Ice Pokémon. But no ice here.

Shivering in a blizzard compelled it to develop a thick metal hide? That'll be useful when Alola goes to war and needs ammunition for the cannons.

A freezing, inflexible suit of armour not only works wonders against frostbite, but Sandshrew will sweat to death should it descend to the places it used to live.

The eyes are partly on its old face, but now overlap onto the ridge, meaning his eyeballs are bent in half.

One does expect sand and sand-related features from a Sandslash, such as Ground powers.

But a pangolin's gotta avoid the Chinese somehow, and so up he went, climbing them thar hills, whereupon his spikes, previously a natural fibre, transformed into steel stalagmites, and over that came an icy epidermis.

Trap up there forever, and blind!

Roasting conditions suffice to make mischief by melting rocks, so what befalls types weak to heat?

If Sandslash goes to sea level, his back will vaporise in the first blast of said dread inferno, leaving him vulnerable, just as the wet markets like 'em.

Worse, his upper limbs are not affixed to his body. Via the flimsiest joint, they're glued to the ice thanks to its adhesive effects.

It's as one often sees when scamps, walking to school, lick a lamppost upon a winter morn.

And soon regret.

Whence comes the thaw, his arms is gonna fall off, and then what defence can be mustered against the People's Republic?

AND, given his head is also majority cone, as it breaks, his skull will crack open and his brains tip out!

No wonder they're goin' extinct!

#Pokémon #Vulpix #Ninetales #Meowth #Persian #Sandshrew #Sandslash #Alola

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