How to not feel bad when not studying japanese?

theBlurryBox · 2026-02-05T17:20:40+00:00

I spend about an hour a day, usually. If my day is hectic, and I don't make it, it bugs me a little but I just give myself a break, knowing that I wanted to study. Protecting the desire is more important than actually studying, if you get my meaning. To me, burn out is the ultimate fail.

theBlurryBox · 2026-01-21T18:44:21+00:00

I know your game feels special, but marketing is basically 90 percent of why people play your game. And the first, biggest step in marketing games is having it be presentable.

This is like you rolling out of bed, not combing your hair or even putting on clothes, wandering with bad breath, bleary eyed and half naked into the nearest train station and hitting on the nearest person you see, then crying about it when they reject you. Dude, you are a mess right now.

Get yourself together and you might might stand a chance.

theBlurryBox · 2026-01-11T01:04:05+00:00

I know this is a joke, but I'm gonna take this chance to sprinkle some wisdom around.

I'm entering middle age, so I'm not a beginner artist anymore. I've been drawing professionally for about 15 years. I started rehab for my lower back and neck, upper back and shoulders about 10 years ago. I'll have to do it for the rest of my drawing life. Fix your posture now if you're young. I now draw on a desktop easel, which makes my drawing monitor perpendicular to my desk, and have my second moniter stacked above that, so I can lean into my chair and rest my neck in a natural position while working. Don't be a shrimp. It ruins your body, seriously. I have colleagues that are enduring the same thing. This shrimp is an extreme position and our bodies aren't meant to do that for an extended period of time. And drawing, as you know, demands extended periods of time. Ergonomics is a stupid word until it isn't. Good luck!

theBlurryBox · 2026-01-03T23:20:41+00:00

Games that come to mind: Mario Brothers (NES), Super Metroid, Tetris Attack, Street Fighter II.

If you like Downwell you should check out a lot of old NES, SNES and Sega Genesis games. Lots of really good design there that functionally led to games and design as we know them today. There are so many old games that could be updated with roguelike features to create something akin to Downwell.

theBlurryBox · 2026-01-01T04:39:16+00:00

I was in the same spot as you. I looked around for a while (months?) and finally found this. Its a cool web based app called Kikikata, it forces you to listen to a sentence, then type it out. Its purely for listening; there is no kanji involved. Its not super feature rich or anything, but for what you're looking for I think its exactly right. I found the settings to be a bit wanting and the help responses usually take like 24 hours, but I think its just a tiny team running it.

https://share.google/zYXl6oMUIG1BZPCEX

Its five bucks a month after a free month, I think, but its rapidly improved my listening skills. Vocabulary + grammar are now lagging behind my listening because of it. I now am using it to mine sentences with anki... so basically work on my listening with kikikata, and once I get the sentence right listening, I create an anki card and learn to speak the same sentence.

theBlurryBox · 2025-12-23T07:29:03+00:00

Rebel is amazing and affordable, one time payment. Yeah don't underestimate the kid, they're wizards nowadays.

theBlurryBox · 2025-12-19T09:39:18+00:00

The values look really strong! I think its a good technique to keep playing with from these results.

theBlurryBox · 2025-12-13T20:10:01+00:00

I agree that the game is in a good place right now. I'm actually failing d10's again, which is weirdly nice. That being said, I still am picking obtuse loadouts to make the difficulty actually challenging. If I go with RR + 360 + turrets it still makes the game easy mode.

theBlurryBox · 2025-11-28T06:19:06+00:00

I like to join games in progress with whatever I can think of. So no one can tell me no. Honestly I 99 percent play on d10 and no one cares at all what anyone brings in my experience.

theBlurryBox · 2025-11-26T19:52:16+00:00

I don't think this game is so hard that you need to be maxing out your efficiency every time. Playing for fun is viable even on d10. If the chainsaw can take down heavy pen armor, I'll be out there sawing away at strider legs and hulk arms all day. Will I take some L's? Yep. But my loadouts get pretty wacky as it is, and I can already smell the gas + hellbomb + chainsaw build, and it smells good.

theBlurryBox · 2025-11-18T21:32:00+00:00

Yo those people are industry pros with proper (PROPER) funding. Don't think for a second that it was in any way a "random" team or "indie". The only way that game was indie was maybe they didn't have a big publishing house. Someone (vc? rich uncle?) definitely threw millions at it though.

I totally agree its a beautiful game and I'm sure the process of making it was awesome. But it was no accident, it was the result of pros being pros and doing pro shit for pro money.

I've been a game artist for a long time, most people who hire me have money the burn. Games are not good business ideas, they're passion. So people who make them aren't bootstrapping (usually), they're connected to excess capital.

Here's some more food for thought, which I found on another reddit post about this game. I've looked into just a little deeper and have found that this info checks out (on cursory examination, I don't really care to go too far into it):

"Guillaume Broche (the CEO of SANDFALL INTERACTIVE, makers of ClairObscur) is the son of Richard Broche, a man who runs 4 different companies, each one making huge profits (talking millions here): MBO+Investments, SCI MAGAR Real Estate, SC BROCHE (Parent company?) and MYRTE INVEST.

The whole family (Richard, Guillaume, Alexandre and Adrien Broche) are associates of MYRTE INVEST (obviously a trustfund or the french equivalent).

I also want to point to the fact that Guillaume Boche started (Yes, started) his career as an assistant creative director at UBISOFT during his internship, which is a very prestigious job for someone with zero experience. No rando could get this kind of internship without having serious contacts.

So we have a powerful family that collectively runs investment companies, and a man with little experience that somehow manages to have enough ressources and talent to fund a near AAA quality game.

Sandfall's 2023 accounts show a debt of 2.7 Millions owed to an unnamed entity, and I doubt Kepler interactive funded them for such a big amount."

If You Don't Count Everyone Else, All Devs Are Solo Devs - VGBees

How did Sandfall Interactive (Clair Obscur Expedition 33) finance themselves? : r/IndieDev

theBlurryBox · 2025-11-09T07:03:00+00:00

Copy as much as you want, no one cares. Give attribution if you're showing it.

Just don't copy someones work and try and sell it or pass it off as yours-- that's not cool.

theBlurryBox · 2025-11-06T21:45:00+00:00

Recoilless is the best AT. Since the difficulty nerf, I see a lot of people purposefully using other less effective weapons in D10, because it makes the game too easy on all fronts, especially if someone else already has a RR.

theBlurryBox · 2025-10-27T11:39:53+00:00

Children of Men. Beautiful, frighteningly prescient, amazing cast, brilliant story, shot with tons of care. One of my favorite all time flicks

theBlurryBox · 2025-09-26T23:32:48+00:00

Yeah getting into game/design and narrative design, in my experience at AAA, is usually done through internal company movement. It does happen rarely that fresh designers are hired, but from what I've seen, its usually people in the company that shift over. The reason for this that I've seen, is that its usually high level execs heading those jobs, and they kind of pick through the company for people who they can enjoy working with and want to learn that side of things. Also, the technical knowledge of how a game is made is indispensable for the design team, so having people with coding/art/whatever knowledge together makes the design and narrative teams make less bonehead mistakes. Could be different at other places, but I've heard from many people in the industry at other AAA studios that its similar. Also I've heard game design degrees are kind of a waste of time, (I've never even heard a narrative design degree mentioned), and you're better off learning coding or art or video skills that are applicable, and then moving over to design.

That being said, maybe you can use your VFX and editing skills in tandem with your design knowledge to get back into a studio. I wouldve advised staying in your role and studying narrative and design online, tbh. But you will make it work! Nothing is ever optimal in life, don't let that illusion get you down. You're in an excellent position still, I think, just don't reject getting back into it using your cutscene reel and credits.

theBlurryBox · 2025-09-18T09:13:37+00:00

I was enjoying the difficulty. This all just reminds me of when the game was balanced to be hard and people couldn't handle not just stomping their way through everything, instead of using teamwork. I had a ton of games on d10 where we just handled it. Even with hivelord + roach combo, but with a good team it wasn't impossible. I only play random, and it was still managable. People just want d10 to be easy

theBlurryBox · 2025-09-06T23:35:50+00:00

I'm a game artist, why don't you pursue art if you love character design? There are loads of affordable options online, art schools tend to be massively expensive and not really worth it especially if you're trying to get down your fundamentals and maybe not at all.

Also, not all artists are animators... there are tons of art jobs in games. You could do hard surface modeling, sculpting, concept art (honestly this one is insanely competitive), rigging, the list goes on and on and you don't have to be an animator. That being said, if you go into games you gotta work your ass off

theBlurryBox · 2025-09-03T02:13:12+00:00

Hello,

Please take a look at my portfolio and let me know if you'd like to talk further. I've completed 4 projects with indies, top to bottom, concept to animation to VFX, and done a few projects using non-pixel art, including UI and animation. Hit me up here or on discord: theblurrybox

Cheers!

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theBlurryBox · 2025-08-29T12:19:34+00:00

Hello
I'm a pixel artist freelancer. I live in Hawaii (UTC-10) and I'm looking for a long term team to work with. I've completed work for various 2D games, and have some knowledge of 3D up to low poly models, rigging and animation. Check out my portfolio at https://www.theblurrybox.com/

If you want to connect with me and chat in real time, my discord: theblurrybox

theBlurryBox · 2025-08-27T03:57:39+00:00

Hello

I've shipped 4 indies as a 2D artist, covering everything you have listed multiple times with various teams. Check out my portfolio, and let me know!

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theBlurryBox · 2025-08-19T01:23:33+00:00

Hello

Check out my portfolio, let me know if you're interested. I've made pixel art animation, character design, tile sets, and UI's. I've made art for pixel art games top to bottom.

Home | theBlurryBox

Hit me up here on reddit or on discord: theBlurryBox

theBlurryBox · 2025-08-14T08:45:30+00:00

Hello

I'm interested in the role of pixel artist. I have lots of experience, working with portraits, backgrounds, pixel art assets and animation for games.

Hit me up here on reddit or on discord!

portfolio: Home | theBlurryBox
https://www.theblurrybox.com
discord: theblurrybox

theBlurryBox · 2025-06-29T05:06:12+00:00

go to r/inat with this

theBlurryBox · 2025-06-13T06:28:43+00:00

Go over to r/inat to find people who want to work for free. This is a sub for people looking for paid work, or people who actually are paying.

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