THE squiddle project (ART DESPERATELY NEEDED)

**Tren** · 09-07-2011, 04:12 PM

ANNOUNCEMENT: We are seriously in need of artists. That's all we need to finish updating. We have written SO MUCH STUFF, guys. You won't even believe it. BUT WE NEED ART.

This project is an attempt to collaboratively plot, write, draw, and animate the adventure of the 48-player Squiddle session. You know, the one that Hussie jokes about in formspring and tumblr Q&A sessions? (Ctrl+F "squiddle" on those pages.) We are making an actual fan adventure out of it. With a plot, and everything. It is a standalone story set in the Homestuck mythos, with everything you would expect from a squiddles story: adorable fun and happiness, slowly turning into unrelenting horror and cruelty by the end.

CURRENT STATUS:

As of January 4, 2012: We need more artists! Acts 1 through 3 (out of 4 as of now) have been outlined. The adventure itself is up to page 41 (aka it has barely even started), but we have at this moment another ~60 pages written out and waiting for art.

HANDY LINKS:

Squiddle Session google docs collection
Planning + Organizing (READ THIS DOC FIRST)
The Hub (AKA, Everyone Lurk This Doc When You're Around) <-- This is where 99% of the action takes place!
99% of the action now takes place in our Skype group! Just ask to be added to it and one of us will add you. Probably within hours.
And several other docs not important enough to link here

Forum Adventures thread
Adventure mirror

**techloveArtist** · 09-07-2011, 04:14 PM

The entire descriptions. Then art can come later.

**RedCapAvenger** · 09-07-2011, 04:24 PM

We should look at making all the aspects and classes as that will take a while to straighten out. We have 36 of each to try and come up with. Including the canon titles, that will give us 48. After that we need to come up with real names of the characters. I know we talked about the continental US states, but is that going to be the names or their symbols? Following that is coming up with the personalities, interests, and strife specibus, of each character, and associating them with a class and aspect based on that. After that we can look at doing art.

Here are the canon Classes and Aspects.

**Tren** · 09-07-2011, 04:32 PM

Okay we need to get 36 more of each of those, then number them and put them in a random number generator. Then we can just match them to each other.

**RedCapAvenger** · 09-07-2011, 05:06 PM

Ok, I'm just going to start trowing out ideas

Classes:

Well that's 48 classes right there (not including the second option regarding some that are gender based, which i only counted once), we don't need to use all or any of these. They were just the things that i could think of using various references around me.

**conceptualWellspring** · 09-07-2011, 05:18 PM

I've been trying to think of some original classes for my own huge session project, so here's ten more of each.

**conceptualWellspring** · 09-07-2011, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by RedCapAvenger

Ok, I'm just going to start trowing out ideas

Classes:

Well that's 48 classes right there (not including the second option regarding some that are gender based, which i only counted once), we don't need to use all or any of these. They we just the things that i could think of using various references around me.

Jegus. Beat me to it. But aren't they all supposed to be monosyllabic, with the possible exception of Seer?

**CaptainKirby** · 09-07-2011, 05:28 PM

A long while back before anybody thought of the squiddle session, there was a thread with a similar premise. Here's the list from there:

**RedCapAvenger** · 09-07-2011, 05:52 PM

Ok and 51 Aspects to look at too. We should come up with more, because I know some of the ones that I came up with are crap but I wrote what I could come up with. But we should really start deciding which ones we like. That way we know how many more we should be coming up with.

Aspects:

Edit: I think I am going to go back and bold the ones that I like. We can make a consolidated list next.

**Mythee** · 09-07-2011, 07:09 PM

The second list (Kirby's) is great because all the Class names are somewhat short and easy to couple with other words. ovo

How about these for Aspects that have not yet been listed?

Rock
Roads
Travel
Triumph
Ground
Gaze
Thunder
Windows
Doors
Grass
Beasts
Struggle
Flight
Text
Color
Curse
Poison
Psyche
Escape
Current
Fossils

**Tren** · 09-09-2011, 06:01 AM

Looks like we have a ton of symbols and aspects.
Let's start choosing which we want to use.

Obviously the canon ones are staying.

**Edo Nagori** · 09-09-2011, 11:38 AM

I'd totally participate in this. My brother can help out with the art, he'd probably be estatic about it.

First, however, what parts of the title do we need more now, the class or the aspects?

**Niklink** · 09-09-2011, 01:19 PM

I just want to note that all classes and aspects are monosyllabic. It's just the way it is. So, don't use aspects or classes with more than one syllable.

**Mythee** · 09-09-2011, 01:44 PM

I have no clue what kind of project this is, but cephalopods of any kind are wonderful squishies deserving of our love and artings. If this is a project involving the creation of Squiddle characters, I would probably like to join with an adaptation of a squid character of mine. Hehe.

In any case, here are the alphabetical lists of monosyllabic ones so far.

Classes (59)

Aspects (57)

So with 36 players, 23 classes and 21 aspects must be culled.
With 48 players, make that 11 classes and 9 aspects to eliminate from these lists.

**Tren** · 09-09-2011, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by Niklink

I just want to note that all classes and aspects are monosyllabic. It's just the way it is. So, don't use aspects or classes with more than one syllable.

Thanks for the tip!

Originally Posted by Mythee

I have no clue what kind of project this is, but cephalopods of any kind are wonderful squishies deserving of our love and artings. If this is a project involving the creation of Squiddle characters, I would probably like to join with an adaptation of a squid character of mine. Hehe.

In any case, here are the alphabetical lists of monosyllabic ones so far.

Classes (61)

Aspects (57)

So with 36 players, 25 classes and 21 aspects must be culled.
With 48 players, make that 13 classes and 9 aspects to eliminate from these lists.

Yes, we're making 48 Squiddle players.
So that makes 13 classes and 9 aspects.
LET THE CULLING BEGIN.

Originally Posted by Edo Nagori

I'd totally participate in this. My brother can help out with the art, he'd probably be estatic about it.

First, however, what parts of the title do we need more now, the class or the aspects?

Neither. We have more than enough.

**Mythee** · 09-09-2011, 03:54 PM

Oops, I forgot to take Player out from the list (the rest is monosyllabic, I promise! xD)

Mebbe we could cull these 9 Classes to start with: Tank, youth, Rouge, slave, Host, Fool, Cop, Corpse and Child.
Youth/Child is kind of redundant here as a role seeing as all players are kind of a youth/child. If you have those, why not add in mom/dad. Lol. xDD
The rest just doesn't fit in as well as the others.
And Corpse is not a role or profession. o-o

As for Aspects, uh... all of them are great... xD

Edit: Edited Player out of the list, and number of Classes to cull is now 12.
Also, now I've got 11 cullings to suggest! O: (I marked them in the list.)

**Derp.** · 09-09-2011, 03:57 PM

my friend and i thought of this concept a week ago, but we decided we were too lazy and if no one did it soon, we would suggest it, and look what's being done with saying anything

i can't wait for this

also i must say ink-kind strife specibus is required.

**Tren** · 09-09-2011, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Mythee

Rouge

That would be Rogue.
As in Rogue of Heart?
We're not getting rid of Nepeta's class.

**Mythee** · 09-09-2011, 07:21 PM

Actually both "Rogue" and "Rouge" are presently on that list as separate items, so your worries are for naught. But yeah if "Rouge" was a typo, I don't even need to suggest its removal. *Culls!*

Ink-kind strife specibus would be adorable. And has so many uses. OvO

**Tren** · 09-09-2011, 07:34 PM

Oh damn, I missed it on that list. Nevermind.

**Reecer6** · 09-09-2011, 08:52 PM

I don't have any attributes or classes to share, but I would like to say that the Greek alphabet including uppercase and lowercase is WAY better then using the continental USA.

**BlueRaffeKin** · 09-09-2011, 10:22 PM

This looks really awesome. What symbols will we be using? The greek alphabet does sound good... Also, how are we supposed to find 48 distinct colours (or we could just use a few colours for all of them. I don't like that idea much, but it's probably sensible.)? Maybe if we used dark, light, pure and greyish variants of 12 different hues... That would work...

Something like this? (Some of them are almost identical

Sorry, I missed them when I checked over it to see if you could tell the difference between all of them or not. not that it matters I guess.)

Sorry, I'll shut up now.

Edit: At least one character should have bubblekind strife specibus.

**Edo Nagori** · 09-09-2011, 10:34 PM

Yeah, knowing the symbols would be sort of helpful. However I don't really see it coming into play until we start creating the characters themselves.

As far as Aspects go, I say cull either Depth or Death. They sound a little too much alike. I'm leaning towards Death mainly, because we already have a Doom aspect.

**Mythee** · 09-09-2011, 11:01 PM

Why are we worrying about symbols?

The possibilities are endless. BD

edit: Also, yeah. Depth is kind of. Eh. o-o
HURRAH WE CULLED AN ASPECT
Those are so hard to get rid of xD

edit again: Culled Pope because it suggests a specific religion and that's kind of odd given the context

Classes ( 48 )

Any opinions on above list?

**BlueRaffeKin** · 09-09-2011, 11:29 PM

@Mythee

Yeah, You're kind of right. It would be cool to use something that actually already exists, though. So I still think we should use the greek alphabet. And I wasn't worrying about symbols, I was worrying about colours. (if we don't want to have just 4/8 colours and have more then one for each colour, which maybe we should do.).

I'd prefer to cull death, because depth is original. I'm not so sure about a few of them, but it's hard to come up with enough titles as it is. I liked "Slave", which you culled a while ago but oh well.

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