GreenTaru

GreenTaru

@rtaru.bsky.social

19y/o I live art and my friends main interests are: tboi,db,fnf,sonic,ut/uty/dr (Tboi art might be gorey) nsfw dni 💚 Moving to Newgrounds by the end of the year!! : D 💚

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Alright it's decided, I'll start moving out of here too. The support of ai and just the way bsky runs its platform and promotes it just makes me feel not safe here as an artist and I don't really like it. You'll be able to find me on newgrounds (@RTaru). It's much friendlier for artists and people.

I was gonna stream texturing minegenics pet variants yesterday but fell out of the mood to do that by the time I finished preparing everything, so instead I played through a 3 hour mewgenics run and barely lost at the very end of it and lost sleep 💚

Here comes the point of the update development where I need to not let myself overthink how much there is to do. I finished patching up the holes in newly implemented and reworked systems. There's huge loads of content and cool new features to work on coming up now...

If I don't get burnt out I'll definitely be able to finish it by the end of next month. I thought the breeding mechanics were going to take much longer but I ended up doing the whole thing in one day (i did rebalance it today though)

Alright I put on a thicker sweater and Break His Chains playing, and I don't feel cold anymore. Time to do something with myself

I wasn't gonna post much but I guess I could share what I'm doing and I wanna do it. I got done with reassigning stat increases for classes after stats have been rebalanced and reworked today. And yesterday I made the entire breeding system with inbreeding penalties, stat inheritance and more

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And also since the pets didn't have a gender in game before, and players could assign whatever they wanted to them, it makes it possible for cases of pets becoming transgender once the worlds are updated with the datapack if a pet gains a gender different to what it was previously referred to with

Minegenics is going WOKE. Maybe I should actually change the datapack resource pack icon to have the cat holding a pride flag for the update..

I wasn't gonna post much but I guess I could share what I'm doing and I wanna do it. I got done with reassigning stat increases for classes after stats have been rebalanced and reworked today. And yesterday I made the entire breeding system with inbreeding penalties, stat inheritance and more

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Bisexual cats will be okay with anything. And straight cats will get angered if paired up with the same gender, unless they're gender neutral. Gender neutral cats can still get mad if they're gay and are paired up with a female cat, or if they're lesbian and they're paired up with a male cat.

I wasn't gonna post much but I guess I could share what I'm doing and I wanna do it. I got done with reassigning stat increases for classes after stats have been rebalanced and reworked today. And yesterday I made the entire breeding system with inbreeding penalties, stat inheritance and more

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You'll be able to see their gender and sexuality in the pet scanner item that I'm adding. Also instead of the gayness stat that is in mewgenics, I decided to make the pets fall under more specific sexualities based on their gender.

Male cats can be gay, bisexual or straight, Female cats can be lesbian, bisexual or straight, Gender neutral cats can be either one of these four. Gay cats will get angered after being paired with a female cat. Lesbian cats will get angered after being paired with a male cat.

I wasn't gonna post much but I guess I could share what I'm doing and I wanna do it. I got done with reassigning stat increases for classes after stats have been rebalanced and reworked today. And yesterday I made the entire breeding system with inbreeding penalties, stat inheritance and more

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and it just kinda feels wrong for them to lose interest if you make them fall in love? I feel like I would rather there be consequences for doing this rather than it not being a possiblity at all and removing an ability from the game.

So yeah, the way I look at it is that the pets are intersex as all minecraft mobs are, but not genderless. 90% of them will end up being either male or female, and the rest 10% will be gender neutral/nonbinary. It'll only impact what kind of pairings they'll be okay with based on their sexuality

I wasn't gonna post much but I guess I could share what I'm doing and I wanna do it. I got done with reassigning stat increases for classes after stats have been rebalanced and reworked today. And yesterday I made the entire breeding system with inbreeding penalties, stat inheritance and more

Every pet will have a gender and sexuality now. If you pair up a pet with another of gender that doesn't align with their orientation, they'll start attacking each other and the baby will have their stats lowered. It feels cruel adding this stuff and testing it but it adds depth to the gameplay

and it's not supposed to show any of these things in a good light or make fun of it. Also, two cats of the same gender can have a baby. I was wondering if I should get rid of that, but I'm not sure. I kinda like them fighting more because it brings another feature from mewgenics into the datapack -

I'll move onto working on minegenics after I take a break now. Maybe I could stream some work on it, that'd be cool...

I will still post here until I'm done with art requests and the minegenics update. Unless there's any changes that make me leave sooner! I just wanted to announce it early and start moving slowly instead of the way I did on twitter as an emergency

GreenTaru@rtaru.bsky.social

Alright it's decided, I'll start moving out of here too. The support of ai and just the way bsky runs its platform and promotes it just makes me feel not safe here as an artist and I don't really like it. You'll be able to find me on newgrounds (@RTaru). It's much friendlier for artists and people.

Alright it's decided, I'll start moving out of here too. The support of ai and just the way bsky runs its platform and promotes it just makes me feel not safe here as an artist and I don't really like it. You'll be able to find me on newgrounds (@RTaru). It's much friendlier for artists and people.

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But they're really only a problem when you look through specific spaces like latest submissions. Or there might be mature content on frontpage so I don't recommend EVERYONE to move there, unless they avoid stuff. But ugghhh it's amazing and if you don't mind you should definitely make an account

If any of you do move to newgrounds, pls let me know your handle so I can follow you : D I wanna see all the arts there from my friends, moots, oomfs, anyone : D I'll still post here! I'll finish up what I have to do here (art requests, minegenics), and then fully move

Alright it's decided, I'll start moving out of here too. The support of ai and just the way bsky runs its platform and promotes it just makes me feel not safe here as an artist and I don't really like it. You'll be able to find me on newgrounds (@RTaru). It's much friendlier for artists and people.

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+ to add they host lots of events to engage with the community like art/animation collabs, themed events, any celebratory days. Which can have even monetarily rewards for up to top 10 pieces. It's really insane and I super highly recommend moving there!

I'll say that at most you might stumble upon a submission that wasn't tagged correctly as nsfw/suggestive or didn't put an age restriction label when looking through certain spaces (still tho it's much better than what bsky can do especially with the complaints people had about thr discover page)

Alright it's decided, I'll start moving out of here too. The support of ai and just the way bsky runs its platform and promotes it just makes me feel not safe here as an artist and I don't really like it. You'll be able to find me on newgrounds (@RTaru). It's much friendlier for artists and people.

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They have features that help boost the reach of your stuff. Like weekly takeover tuesdays where supporters can feature a drawing they like on the home page. Front paging, which moderators and the admin of the platform can do to push your art to the front page of the site (happened twice to me : D)

And just the fact it features various forms of art which you can choose to look through. Games, drawings, animations and music!! It's just an amazing platform that makes me feel more supported, safer and like I'm truly in an art space than any other one. It's really a space for people

Alright it's decided, I'll start moving out of here too. The support of ai and just the way bsky runs its platform and promotes it just makes me feel not safe here as an artist and I don't really like it. You'll be able to find me on newgrounds (@RTaru). It's much friendlier for artists and people.

It's ran by independent people and funded by the users. It's openly against ai, and incredibly helpful to artists and the community. They often host events and collabs where people can share their love for their favorite things and media. And it's also orange!

I don't even know how to feel. I'm really disappointed in bluesky. Even if they backed out from supporting this and apologized I just wouldn't be able to trust them, because of a switch up like this even being possible. They just built their platform off of twitter and ai hate, and all they do

Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team, can you explain this? Cause the fact that you first posted this on Twitter and not here is VERY telling

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it go down like that. I was considering just going back to twitter if everything goes to shit on here, since there wouldn't be any other place, but I think I just dislike twitter in general because of the algorithm and just the platform and elon. I'll see what I'll do, maybe I'll try to switch

to Newgrounds, since it's the only trustworthy place, that's independent and ran by people. But I'll see about it. For now I'll post regular stuff mostly here, and post just the art there like I'm used to doing. But I might move completely to that place if things grow to be worse here on bluesky

I don't even know how to feel. I'm really disappointed in bluesky. Even if they backed out from supporting this and apologized I just wouldn't be able to trust them, because of a switch up like this even being possible. They just built their platform off of twitter and ai hate, and all they do

Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team, can you explain this? Cause the fact that you first posted this on Twitter and not here is VERY telling

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I didn't bother with talking about it before but I have seen the small instances of bluesky's weird relationship with ai and I'm growing more uncomfy with how they're slowly giving into it more and more. I don't know what I'll do yet, I might just move again but dunno where.

I'd really like to have a place to talk about things and post my art, and things I develop. But with the ai around it seems like no place can avoid it, and it'll get everywhere soon enough (not like it hasn't already). Maybe there's no point at all in trying to fight it but I don't wanna just let

I don't even know how to feel. I'm really disappointed in bluesky. Even if they backed out from supporting this and apologized I just wouldn't be able to trust them, because of a switch up like this even being possible. They just built their platform off of twitter and ai hate, and all they do

Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team, can you explain this? Cause the fact that you first posted this on Twitter and not here is VERY telling

is stay there and promote the ai garbage : < At least they don't train off of our art, right? Because there's no way they would change their mind about that too!!! I don't know where to feel safe anymore when it comes to posting art and about myself.

Bsky can't resist enshittification and since they've showed a glimpse of it, it'll all start going down. Newgrounds is honestly really artist/human friendly, but that place is just so unmoderated and full of mature content that I wouldn't feel good encouraging people to follow me there or use it

I'm done planning everything out on paper for the minegenics update and the scope got really big. Once it's all written out, it makes it a lot easier to implement so I can do it I think. I'll start implementing it once I'm done with the two remaining art requests.

I'll try not to cut down on any planned features but if I have to I will! Once I'm done with this update I'll probably finally make the datapack public somewhere and make a trailer/video for it.

Here's the character! I made two versions, one based on some sketches you made of the character before that I've seen! I added some of my own little changes so I thought it'd be good to make a version without them in case you'd prefer that!!

ZER0@zer0gamer23.bsky.social

Either one of these two

This one was actually pretty simple with the sketches, I got the pose down and found the coloring and lineart style I wanted on the first attempt!! The most I struggled with was the gun, the hand holding it and the tail perspective that'd match a shark tail

I'll try to get done with the art requests by the end of this month. Then I'll focus on minegenics in november and try to finish the 1.3.0 update by the end of that. And in december if I feel good about it I'll probably just try to set up comms. Make some art examples and finally start taking them

I also got the motovation to do oc stuff again. If I finish the art requests early maybe I'll take the time before november to do some stuff with them or I'll doodle them on the side