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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This rules. Have you seen Lizard in the preschool Spidey and his Amazing Friends series? He's great, he has a potion for everything, and a pink shirt with vials on it.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looking at Yasushi Nirasawa's godtier Volfoss monster designs and wishing I could make something like that. Then I realize I already kinda have with the Twitchy Morrison Shooting Range book. Not comparing it on any level to Nirasawa's work of course, but it's a thing and I made it. buff.ly/ko26pFK

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Update: I like the idea of just doing talking heads around the puzzle. Sounds boring but the puzzles will be interesting pictures themselves, and I can do some fun things with the talking heads, like sometimes they bust out of their boxes. Let's see how the characters look drawn this small.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One reason I like making puzzle books is because I don't have the chops to draw proper comics. Trying to lay out a practice page here and the sequential stuff around the puzzle is just coming out super bland. I gotta make it more dynamic or change the whole approach, cos I quite like the dialogue.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I really like the gore in The Citadel, not cos I'm a sicko (not an ero-guro sicko anyway), but for the reveal. All the enemies are covered up in armour and flowing robes and sick masks, and every one of them is an anime girl underneath, and it's a thrill to blow them to bits and reveal the unknown.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Imagine tracing the correct path through the dots to explode a mad max goon's head, you'll feel like a Hokuto Shinken master.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The idea for the new book is to use 2 different notebooks, dot paper for the pressure point connect the dots puzzles and graph paper for the nanomachine number puzzles. Will it work, I don't know, my biggest concern is not having enough space.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some initial character designs for the pressure point and nanomachine masters. Maybe need a few tweaks, but I like em.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like this yoga class, I'm 250 hours in and I never saw NPCs doing this before today. Oh to live and die in Rockay City.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More Crime Boss. These clips are funny, but Rockay City really does feel alive, I notice new things every time I play.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who needs GTA6 when we have Crime Boss Rockay City?

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of my favourite things in Umamusume is when you win in the Champions Meeting and you get an epic photo of the finish, I wish they did this for every race.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Anybody get the reference of the Warp Saucer numbers in Tardy Morrison? augustandeverythingarmbar.itch.io/tardymorrison

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things need to go horribly wrong for our hero referee Stripey Morrison to end up in jail, and it's going to start with this underwater boxing match. Shark design could use some work but I like her head.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry horse girls but the best homescreen birthday message is from Raven.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I had to pull for Yamanin Zephyr, the windy horse girl who can't go 2 sentences without talking about the wind. I like to headcanon (horsecanon?) that she's one of the Winds of Destruction from Metal Gear Rising.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sylvester Staclone. aka Copy Balboa. aka Shambo. aka Fauxbra. Drawing people who resemble real people is not my forte at all, but maybe this is alright.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Jailed for impersonating a religious figure, racketeering, robbing his worshippers blind and other cult leader crimes. He told his followers he was an angel from heaven, but he got his wings done at the same place the warden got his cat's eye implants.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Jailed for taking bribes from auto-manufacturers to falsify crash tests for shitty baby seats, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of toddlers. "You don't know what it's like to be a crash dummy! I had to get out man!" His body is modular so he can fire off his fists for rocket punches.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This guy started as just a gimmick name but I like him so much he's become an important supporting character.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I still feel I'm light years away from producing any finished pages, but every day I'm making some kind of progress, whether it's a character design or a name or a story beat. This guy dips his butt into sticky sap and broken glass (fists were not allowed, it's not that kind of boxing).

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's only so many ways I can possibly draw people punching each other, so the real test is if I can come up with interesting boxers.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You'll start with reffing proper boxing bouts, but you end up going undercover as an inmate in a space prison so you can referee the prison fight club matches to uncover a bombmaker or something.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I want to do a sci-fi space boxing thing, but the main character is the ref. You have to count all the punches on the page, maybe deduct points for fouls, and then you work out who the winner is.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thinking about a new gamebook, very early design stages, this is Stripey Morrison.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Did you ever see him as a cowboy in Lonesome Dove?

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I put together a little trailer for my new puzzle book, I love making these things.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 4 mechs. The first 3 are from last year's puzzle book Scrappy Morrison's Coolantsport, and the last one is a design for the book I'm working on now, Tardy Morrison Set Your Controls (title reveal!) augustandeverythingarmbar.itch.io/coolantsport

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Do you have Cardinal Syn? I love it, 20 unique fighters and they all have an opening and ending movie. All time great intro too. And it has fighting I guess.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Stayed up late working on a tough page, meant to go to bed hours ago but I just couldn't leave it without at least solving the big problems. And solved they were, there are mistakes but they can be repaired. Had the drk/threedogg Metal Gear marathon on to give me strength, man I love Peace Walker.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A few pages left to do in this book but they're big ones.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

KA-CHOW! Playing bouncer game No Entry by Jeistar, how great is this screenshot?

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Colouring! Marker fumes are getting to me.

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August And Everything Armbar @augustarmbar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

this looks so awful and I already inked it on the final page and it looks even worse than this why didn't I just redraw it what was I thinking and it's on graph paper so it's not like I can just redo it that will mess all the lines up well now I kind of like how ugly he looks he's a freak baby

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