Thinkikg Aboht Dragon Quest 9 And Crying For Real Like. Wow. It Was About Love All Along And Also Growing

Small price to pay for golden goonch

Punk spongebob and squidward

you know you've hit a new low when you become sad and jealous reading about a pair being close and loving together because you would never have something like that

Finding me elsewhere

I'm not going anywhere for the foreseeable future (I enjoy it here! I like being able to receive and answer asks very easily, and keep up with the blogs I follow!), but if you want to cover all your bases, you can find me at:

Bluesky (hpowellsmith)

Patreon (hpowellsmith) (you can subscribe for free to be emailed when I make public posts; I don't have a newsletter yet, but this is the closest thing to it at the moment)

My website (hpowellsmith.com) (you can keep up with the blog by entering the url of my blog into an RSS reader)

itchio (hpowellsmith)

The Choice of Games forum (HarrisPS)

Dragon Quest IX’s postgame is probably one of the weirdest things I’ve ever born witness to, proving that going through the effort of uncovering the DLC was definitely a good idea. Every time I think I’ve hit the outer limits of the insanity, something even crazier occurs.

The Luminary quests: Basically your normal prestige class fare, not even DLC, just relegated to the postgame, which in itself offers up a lot of options for characterization since it’s the upgrade to the main character’s vocation.

The concept of the recruitment quests, even the one ending in literal time travel: Hey, free party members. Not sure how worth using they are when you’ve probably got a perfectly fine party already, but if you feel like putting in the effort to grind them up, they’re yours.

The inn-based mafia: Okay, that’s basically normal Dragon Quest.

The start of the Yore arc: …I’m sorry, you want tools dropped from what?

Will we ever get to see another game set in the Blood Money universe?

Like a gangster IF or something? Have you thought about revisiting it?

I wouldn't say never, but I admit I haven't thought about it all that much. I loved making Blood Money and I do love the setting, but I've been enjoying coming up with entirely new things!

I did publish a short IF piece a few years ago that's a story set in like a... future, post-apocalyptic location somewhere in the Blood Money universe: you might enjoy it!

itch.io

Dead Lake Crossing by hpowellsmith

Lay your ancestor to rest

UNBEATABLE

✰ More indie games you may have missed:

IndieGameLover @ Youtube

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I pretend like I’ve only just noticed you; I smile, appreciative, inviting, like, hey, come on over here.

Of course you come to me. Who wouldn’t?

I am, unfortunately, in need of phone repair money. So I've written a special short story for Ko-Fi supporters. It's 2700 words from Angel's POV, covering their first meeting with 180 and the events of Chapter One of Aegis Project, and you can find it right here.

From up on the balcony, the casino floor stretches beneath me in a multicolored wonderland of vice. People flock to the levers and the dice and the never-ending whirl of the roulette wheel in the evergreen knowledge that this will be the time their luck changes. They bleed money into the house’s insatiable maw, soothe the pain with alcohol, and return again.

It’s the kind of scene I normally love.

I’m bored out of my fucking mind.

Ko-fi

Coup de Foudre (Angel's POV)

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