u/Megalordow

My game, Dark Lord Simulator: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion is using AI generated images. It is mostly text-based game, which uses 2D images like illustrations in the book.

Sometimes I met people who cry "hahaha, loser noone will play AI slop". Sometimes I met people who with good will tell "I suggest you stop using AI slop, because, you know, most of the people hate it and will not play your game".

But from my empirical experience - it just does not work like that. Since I started using AI images (game had no graphics at all before), its popularity exploded. It has achieved 4th place on the top rated strategy games on itch.io: https://itch.io/games/top-rated/genre-strategy . And for every one guy telling me "umm, nobody will play AI slop", I have at least 3 comments praising art - if You think that those comments are "bots", than You can check them on game site - all of them are written by the established accounts, many of them by the people who publioshed their own games.

BTW, I am looking for testers for the new, unpublished version of my game - I can repay by promoting Your own game, if You are interested, please let me know.

(Here is an audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIWrJ-j-QjQ . It was written as scenario seed for a Lovecraftian RPG).

Modern works drawing on Greek mythology usually make Hades (completely wrong) or Kronos (a little more) the Big Bad, but they forget about Zeus’s greatest enemy – Typhon. After defeating the titans and then the gigants, the Olympian gods had to face the main boss on the way to dominating the world – Typhon. Here is an example of its description: It was larger than the largest mountains, its head touched the stars. When he stretched out his hands, one reached the eastern ends of the world and the other reached the western ends. Instead of fingers, he had a hundred dragon heads. From the waist down he had a tangle of vipers (yay, tentacles!) and wings at his shoulders. His eyes were shooting out flames. In other versions of the myth, Typhon was a flying, hundred-headed dragon. In any case – appearance and stature worthy of the Great Old One. Typhon attacked Olympus, and all the gods except Zeus fled in panic. The supreme god took up the fight… and lost it. Only in the second duel did he manage to defeat Typhon, but not kill him – he only imprisoned him, hitting him with a mountain which is known as Etna. And volcanic activity is the result of Typhon’s anger, trying to break free.

Typhon equaled the lord of heaven not only in strength, but in fertility. His wife was Echidna, about whom Hesiod wrote: „She also gave birth to another creature, invincible, huge, unlike neither men nor immortal gods, in a hollow cave – the divine violent Echidna, half a sharp-eyed young girl, with beautiful cheeks, half a huge snake, a great and powerful, spotted, cruel – in the depths of the holy land. This pair spawned many, if not most, of the monsters found in Greek mythology. Their offspring were very diverse and strange, as befits the spawn of enemies of the divine order, including:
– Ladon, the hundred-headed dragon who never slept and guarded the apples that gave immortality,

– Cerberus – we all know the dog guarding the gates of hell… but not all of us know that, according to some accounts, it had not three heads, but as many as 50, it was also covered with scales, and it had a snake for a tail… so what does this have to do with a dog?

– Scylla – this lady inherited the most from the human, beautiful part of Echidna… at least initially, but eventually, as a result of various perturbations, she turned from a beautiful nymph to something like her siblings, becoming a six-headed sea beast, so hideous, according to Homer, that even the gods could not stand sight of her – she dwelt in a cave, from where she opened her mouth to devour the crews of ships,

– Gorgons – I mean, those ladies with snake hair, not monstrous bulls. Medusa was one of them – the story that Athena turned her priestess into a monster as punishment for being raped by Poseidon is an invention of later poets,

– Lernaean Hydra – a multi-headed monster with many reptilian or human heads. In place of each severed head, two others grew, and in addition, the main head was completely immortal – therefore, after chopping off the mortal heads, Heracles had to burn the stumps and bury the immortal, still hissing head underground. Hydra’s breath was poisonous,

– various other creatures, such as the Sphinx, the dog Ortus, the Nemean Lion or the Chimera.
Each of these descendants has the potential to be portrayed as an Eldritch abomination in its own right. To be precise – according to some accounts, the father of these creatures (and Echidna herself) wasn’t Typhon, but a monstrous, ancient (older than Poseidon) sea god, Phorcys.

How to use Typhon? Well, Typhon clearly has the potential to be a Great Old One, imprisoned by… Nodens? Some other Elder God? Weak gods of humanity? Maybe his cult is trying to free him from Etna? What if he succeeds? What might distinguish Typhon from many other Great Old Ones? I would recommend focusing on his monster progenitor aspect – if he manages to reunite with Echidna, they will immediately start spawning various blasphemous beasts in series.

More Lovecraftian inspirations You will find in the free brochure: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs

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-50%, lasts until 20th May.

It's vanilla+ Expansion Pass 1 which includes the Archmage Attire, the Dragon Dawn content pack (Release: June 20th 2023), the Empires & Ashes expansion (Release: November 7th 2023), the Primal Fury content pack (Release: February 27th 2024) and the Eldritch Realms expansion (Release: June 18th 2024).

Cześć.

Propozycja dotyczy opublikowania zdjęcia cosplayu jednej z postaci z mojej gry: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion

Gra jest narracyjnym symulatorem Mrocznego Władcy/Władczyni, próbujących podbić/zniszczyć świat fantasy. Udało się jej zdobyć umiarkowaną popularność (aktualne staty na załączonym obrazku - obecnie ok. 300-400 wyświetleń dziennie, ponadto znalazła się jako 6 na liście gier strategicznych na itch.io: https://itch.io/games/top-rated/genre-strategy).

Intensywnie promuję grę na różnych subach, portalach i tradycyjnych forach, udało mi się zdobyć pewne doświadczenie odnośnie tego, gdzie można i warto promować. Jeśli ktoś dokona cosplayu, powiadomię o tym graczy, opublikuję, gdzie się da, a także skieruję fanów gry, żeby polajkowali/zaobserwowali Wasze socjale (mam już taką oddaną grupkę, która zawsze działa... oczywiście, publikując zdjęcia też zawsze będę załączał Wasze linki).

Cosplay nie musi być jakiejś superwysokiej jakości, realistyczny, drogi, może być kompletnie chałupniczy lub wykorzystać elementy z innego cosplayu (wykonanie nowego stroju od podstaw absolutnie nie jest wymagane), liczy się okazanie entuzjazmu :)

Jestem też otwarty na podobną współpracę w kwestii fanartów.

Hello,

I can provide many Youtube PERMANENT subs, likes, comments (custom), views. Here is channel I cooperate with, so You can check if I have such ability: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDjiV321dZZ6ZOSge9Y_N4A

Here is my blog: https://adeptusrpg.wordpress.com/

I am writing mostly about video games and gamebooks (including my own), TTRPGs, fantasy/sci-fi worldbuilding and publishing my own dark fantasy/horror stories (text and audio).

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Kiriela is character from the RPG/strategy game Dark Lord/Lady Simulator "Dominion of Darkness" https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion

In the story, she starts as a young, promising paladin. Playe character can corrupt her, using "holy" (actually cursed) sword. She can be corrupted in two ways - as an open worshipper of the Darkness, than she become recruitable character which can be a general and potential love interest. Or she can be twisted as a fanatical, but misguided inquisitor, who starts crusade against supposed worshippers of the Darkness (but is actually distracting people from the real danger, aka the player character).

If she is not corrupted, she will become new Mistress of her Order and can lead armies against the player character.

BTW, I am looking for playeters for the new, updated, unpublished version of the game. This is not difficult or time-wasting - it would be OK if You play this version at least once (which takes max. 1,5 hour) and send me Your opinion plus info about the bugs if You see anyone. If You want to participate in test, please let me know.