SNAAAAAAAKE

[davidn]

It's so strange having such long evenings, now - I can come home, pick Whitney up on the way, doze about for an hour and a half then get up and realize that I would normally still be waiting for a bus underground somewhere. I'm beginning to see the advantages of dragging oneself into the office at a normal hour.

Anyway, I've been using that extra time well - do you see these bastards?



This is how they work.



Now I'm not opening that group of events ever again.

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[kjorteo]

Well, there's also the glasses.

Admittedly I'm not very far into CT2, but I have yet to see something I couldn't actually handle! (Spike pits, obviously, but boots really wouldn't help with those anyway. As for normal walking around, though....) As always, the only thing close to a hangup I've yet seen is my ironic fear of the soft and unassuming green grass, just because living in New Mexico too long has taught me that's where the goatheads live. Any hard, rocky terrain that at least isn't deceptive about it is still fine, though!

(And because I have nothing better to do than suggest more things you should put into your game you're obviously eager to just be done with, there should be a specific challenge for the bootless furry coyote character selection you're clearly also going to implement, where the fluffier patches of grass like you see directly between me and the turtle in that edited screenshot are suddenly hazardous. You know, like the WCA level with the BEEEEEEES.)

[davidn]

I had to look up the plant with the curious name of "goathead" - what kind of Mother Nature is vindictive enough to come up with something like ? It resembles some sort of cheap military anti-infantry weapon that's used in place of a landmine. I wonder what it tastes like.

Clearly, there's always so much more that I can do with this! That was my downfall when writing it - now I've got to fix myself to a list and stop adding to it. But I'm determined to do a furry-related adventure platformer next, if I ever do another game of anywhere near this scale.

I attempted glasses... there just weren't the pixels for them!

[kjorteo]

It is somewhat telling that "goathead" is but one of the colloquial names for the thing (and by far the most widely-used one around here,) with others including "puncturevine" and "caltrop." Basically what I'm saying is it should be an Etrian Odyssey enemy.

Gravel is fine, though. Gravel doesn't get you with anything like that, unless it happens to be a gravel trail that's right next to a stretch of grass or something.

And I eagerly look forward to the sudden furry takeover in CT3, then. :)

Oh, and would you mind if I went ahead and gave this lovely edit of yours the Teogifts treatment?

[davidn]

Please do, I'd love to see it up there :) Give me a minute to attempt some feet.

I think a better name for that plant would be "F***myfootaaagh".

[kjorteo]

Can do! I eagerly await, then.

I prefer to call them the reason why I'm avid enough about barefoot running that I laugh at hard surfaces and even things like gravel, and even a half-marathon on horrible chipseal-esque rough pavement (though that probably could have been handled more wisely in hindsight) but even I will absolutely never go anywhere near soft, inviting-looking grass.

(Their utter omnipresence anywhere there isn't a trail and even some places there are is also a bit of a problem for local bicycling enthusiasts, just as an aside.)

[davidn]

Well... all things foul and dangerous, the lord God made them all.

I can't really draw feet (but this doesn't make them unique among my artistic ability). Here it is!

http://www.clickteam.info/davidn/images/games/bernardkjorteo-feet.png

[kjorteo]

Fantastic. :) Thank you!

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

"My, what pink feet you have."
"All the better to prance gaily with!"

[kjorteo]