Bubbawheat

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Exploring the Architect #1: Whack-a-Mole. A bit more advertising on this one, but hasn't gotten a whole lot of reviews just yet, like 3-4.

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Mission 1: OK, pretty clever. I only got 4, but I wasn't playing one of my quicker killing machine toons. Oh, and I failed! How many do you have to kill to win?

Great idea, and very nice of you to use it as a training tool in the City Scoop.

5 stars for the community service and for the unique idea.

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I've been so busy promoting my arcs (only midly successfully, generally positive, but only 8 and 17 ratings) that I'm losing track of things like this. I'm glad you liked Whack a Mole! It was fun to make and I spent more time on it than I expected to. There are 5 moles, it's supposed to count them down, but it's currently bugged. My next one is coming this fri, same ID #, check the Scoop.

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3369: Matchstick Women - 3 missions, one AV/EB (standard diff w/no defense sets) Story is about a strange group of women arsonists and their leader. As told by a mysterious flame. A variety of mission objectives with hopefully nothing too annoying.


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Mission 1: I haven't seen a story arc start quite like that before. Interesting. As for the mission, bizarre, yet pretty cool. First of all, I don't ever remember seeing that map before, it is very cool. It sets the atmosphere for the mission.

Mission 2: OK, You did one thing great and then another not so great. First, you did an EXCELLENT job of making the hostages easy to spot on the outdoor map. Everybody who creates missions should run this, just to see how it should be done. However, after rescuing the hostages, THEN you get another objective, to kill the boss. I found him right away but I could see issues where once you feel you finished the mission, then you have to go back to places you already were to find the boss. Not a huge issue, but I would rather see the hostages being held captive by 4 different recruiter bosses. That is just my opinion.

Mission 3: Wow. That was a great 'twist' to the story. This story was like no other I have tried in MA.

The arc started out a little bizarre, but it has a very cool custom vilaain group, a unique contact, and the story evolves nicely in the 3rd and final mission. Terrific job.

5+ stars!

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Mission 1: just a matter of looking for maps "on fire", I'm pretty sure it's from a villainside arc, but I don't remember which one. And as for the first objective, I didn't realize it was going to look quite like that (you should see it on a big team), I can't take it out now, it's just too funny. (for those who haven't played it, first objective is a bomb "guarded" by council with the "Fire Marshal" animation, which I thought would have the extinguisher backpack. I didn't realize it also came with the large group of extinguisher backpacks next to him, and he's whistling loudly. On a large group, every mob has the large group of backpacks next to them)

Mission 2: I've had one other person mention the respawn on a large map, I think I will change that. Though I don't think you can add a boss to a rescue, can you? Just a group.

Glad you liked it, I hope my next serious arc turns out as well. Must decide if I want to try and do a fim noir style pulp crime story, or one of my character's origin story.

Limits tend to increase creativity, not decrease it. You learn to work with what you're given to create great stories. I've seen plenty already. I agree with working on more tools, but what we're given is an excellent start and gives plenty of freedom.

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20,000 searchable arcs?

that's a lot of content.

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75% of which are farms.

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I think you just need to learn to search better. I've seen hardly any farm missions in any of my searches (which aren't similar to my silly searches listed in the first post).

AE System
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Welcome to Architect Entertainment -- Neutral
Death for Dollars! -- Neutral
Bare Knuckles of Rage (9304)
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Character/Supergroup Origins
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Birth of a Fossil -- Heroic
Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V (42221) - Heroic
Noah Reborn -- Heroic (2370)
Jumping in Feet First - Heroic - 1345
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Classic Super-Hero/Super-Villain
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THE BOMBER --- Heroic --- 16607
In The Shadow of Statesman --Neutral--1160

Comedy
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The Extadine Lab -- Heroic
MacGuffin Delivery Service (1567) -- Villainous
ParaCon -- Heroic
The new and improved Lord Recluse Strike Force -- Villainous (though I wouldn't recommend against a hero )
The Fire Bunnies - Neutral, They are only bunnies after all...
You Say It's Your Birthday! (3630) - Neutral
Trademark Infringement -- Heroic (2220)
Hail to the King Neutral (34640)
Walk On the Wild Side - Neutral - 3580
Shirley You Jest (25474) -- Neutral
The Invasion of the Bikini Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space! - Heroic - 61013
Gnomish Madness (30204) - Heroic
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Comedy/Drama
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A Super Team is Born -- Heroic
Cause of How Some Silly Stealed My Wings #1481 -- Neutral
How to Survive a Robot Uprising -- Heroic (12669)
Dr. Duplicate's Dastardly Dare -- Neutral
It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding (9059) -- Neutral
TURG FICTION: Ghost in the Machine, Act I - Heroic (althoughs romantic villains could try this too )
Rum Runners of Bloody Bay (3691) - Heroic
Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids! (2019)
The Toypocalypse! (49280) - Heroic
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Crime/Gangs
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The Bravuran Jobs -- Villainous (16809)
The Monstrous Regiment of Lesbian Hellions -- Heroic (27178)
Win the 2009 Freak-Lympics (2150) - Villainous
Ninja Crimewave! (2142) - Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
The Internet is for Crime (53385) - Villains
Plastic Pistol Peril (1135) - Heroic*

Drama
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The Conciliators: Simone -- Heroic (4010)
The Fan Club -- Heroic
Matchstick Women -- Heroic -- 3369
Of Mentors and Legacy - Heroic - 1589
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Global Domination
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Axis and Allies -- Villainous (1379)
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Heist
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Celebrity Kidnapping -- Villainous (1388)
Easy Money -- Villainous (31490)
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Historical (Realistic)
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Historical (CoH Lore)
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The War on Superadine - The Regulators in their 1980's drug war (Heroic) (Arc 7959)
Origins - Volume 1 (57077) -- Heroic
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Holiday
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Horror
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Astoria in D Minor (41565) -- Heroic
Dark Dreams (3615)
The Amulet of J'gara (1709) -- Heroic
Project: Perilous - Into the Chthonian Pit (#3586) - Neutral (Unless you happen to be a mad cultist, in which case, go nuts!)
Small Fears -- Heroic
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Large-Scale Crisis
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A Hero's Halo -- Heroic
This Is War, Part I - the Revenge of Hro'Dtohz -- Neutral
Win the Past, Own the Future - Heroic
A Warrior's Friend - Heroic
The Clockwork War -- Heroic (18672)
Flight of the Valkyries - Precursor (20272) -- Neutral
The Human Hive (#1632) - Neutral
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Magic
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The Magical Miss Fitz (5079) -- Heroic
Chains of Blood (5492) -- Heroic
A Deal with Destiny -- Heroic
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Military
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Redoubt Operations #1: Fires over Kalago -- Heroic
Red Storm Rising (Arc 4912) -- Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
Axis and Allies -- Villainous (1379)

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Misc. Adventure
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The Portal Bandits (3326) -- Heroic
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Mystery
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Blowback (18575) -- Heroic
Dream Paper -- Heroic (13030)
Dream Paper 2: Restless Sleep -- Heroic (16797)
Dream Paper 3: Broken Dreams -- Heroic (13064)
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Mythology
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Atlantis Attacks! -- Neutral (30898) -- Click for Promotional Poster
Anactoria's Descent Into the Underworld -- Villainous
The Seelie War -- Heroic
The Unseelie War -- Villainous
Tales of Cimerora, volume 1 : Of feathers and fur -- Heroic
The Aegis Affair - Heroic
Witches and Warriors (53006)- Heroic
The War of Fate(12220,46722)- Heroic
<a href="/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13328874" target="_blank">Rites of the Maenads (61159) - Heroic</a>
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Nemesis Plots
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Brass Reaver: Part 1 -- Neutral
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Player-Chosen Outcome
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Hunting the Dark Dragon -- Heroic
Playing Gods -- Heroic (51106)
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Sci-Fi
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Adventures of the Space Marines -- Neutral
Adventures of the Space Marines 2 -- Neutral
Above Mars - Part 1: The Wellington -- Neutral (13215)
The Final Nemesis
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Un-themed Survival/AV/Time Challenges
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The Meatgrinder -- Neutral
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Puzzles/Riddles
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<a href="/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13292909" target="_blank">Grim Riddles (#1396)</a> - Heroic
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Found by playing with the search function for a little bit.

Total searchable arcs: over 20,000
Arc IDs: well over 60,000
over 2/3 of all published arcs are being unpublished for one reason or another.

Arcs with "Smurf" in the title or description: 5
Arcs with "Cullen" (Twilight) in the title or description: 3
Arcs with "Where's Waldo" in the title or description: 3
Arcs with "Snork" in the title or description: 0
Arcs with "Jedi": 0
Arcs with "Buffy": 1


List your own fun searches, remember the search function isn't the best, so it's sometimes hard to find a good search term to find only what you want. Like "Oz" comes up with lots of partial word matches.

I typically only send a "thank you" reply if I happen to get one while I'm online so that way it's much more likely that the person will get it right away.

*has a feeling these type of posts will be pounced on as much as someone in the art forum announcing free art*

I'll toss out my arcs too if you're queue's not too long still.

3369: Matchstick Women - 3 missions, one AV/EB (standard diff w/no defense sets) Story is about a strange group of women arsonists and their leader. As told by a mysterious flame. A variety of mission objectives with hopefully nothing too annoying.

2711: Exploring the Architect #1: Whack-a-Mole A bit more advertising on this one, but hasn't gotten a whole lot of reviews just yet, like 3-4.

Mission name: Matchstick Women
Arc ID: 3369
Morality: Heroic
Length: 3 missions
Description: A mysterious flame tells you a story about a group of women arsonists and their strange leader.
What you were drinking when this was created?: Pepsi

oooooh, that look's awesome. Want!

I've got a sketch I'd love to see colored. Color references

Nice collection.

How many "on fire" maps are there, I've found four so far. Arachnos base (on fire), Arachnos warehouse (on fire), Hellion, and Burning Forest. Are there any others I've missed?

Now I know I've seen a lot of really good animal character designs, and I'm not that imaginative with mine. I'd really like to impress with it. Right now I just have a red half helmet, goggles, the samurai mempo, plain brown tights, and a shovel. I can probably come up with a fair amount of inf, either Pinnacle blueside or Liberty redside. Thanks for the help!

I find it amusing that my intention would be to first work on a story arc involving one of my character's backstory. But instead most of my time has been fleshing out a fun little game of Whack-a-Mole! But I'm not that great at designing animal costumes, but I know there are many out here that do great jobs. So my contest here is to design your best Whack-a-Mole mole. There will be up to 5 winners, and their prize is to have their design be in my Whack-a-Mole arc, with credit in the boss description and possibly a shout out to their arc id# in the description.

If you want to check it out first, it's arc # 10227.

Text adventure?

I'm in the mood to get another Burnt Matchstick. You may take your pick. And thank you in advance.

My vote is for Xertul, really love the pose, would love to see it finished.

Close seconds are Tartyrsauce and Juggertha.

How about this one:

Burnt Matchstick: She's hot!

Has sister flame gotten a hold of open beta's mission architect yet?

Arc Name: Whack a mole!
Arc ID: 10227
Faction: Moles (Winter Horde)
Global: @Bubbawheat
Difficulty Level: Easy
Synopsis: Come one! Come all! Tired of playing arcs with long boring stories? Want to just play a quick game? Then Whack a mole is the game for you! Step right up, grab a mallet, and whack some moles. Watch out! You never know where the next one is going to pop up! Enjoy!
Estimated time to play: 5-15 mins
Link to feedback: Feedback here

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That explains the mystery of the invisible Juggy.

And, a very awesome piece, too! The toe tag got a chuckle.

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..ack.. I cant read the toe tag.. whats it say???

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Name: Jack Emmert
Cause: 9570
DOD: 01, 14, 2008

edit: *looks up* dang, too slow. "Cause: GSW"? *googles* ahh, gun shot wound.

Gratz!

I'd commision ya, but I already got two freebies from ya. Mwa ha ha!!!

Well, that and a lack of cash. Best of luck to you, I really love your style.

There's a mission I ran a while ago where you save "Dr. Scott" from the evil plan of "Dr. Frank N. Furter" and when you walk up to the Dr. Scott hostage, the enemies say "Dr. Scott!" "Dr. Scott" "<playername>!" "Dr. Scott!" and when you rescue him he says that they were trying to steal his time warp technology and it all started with "a jump to the left".

My first basic concept




This is just an example of what I've come up with already, and no, this is not a masked attempt to bump this thread and give it one more run to see if it garners any interest before letting it die... no really >.>

Are there any? All I have available is Paint and I'd just like something for maybe a little beginner art stuff, and minor photo manipulation. I thought this would be the best place to ask around here, is there anything out there halfway decent that I can download for free? Preferably legally free, but I could also be willing to look the other way if you know of a something something

Thanks for your help!

Ok, I made a slight alteration and I think it's looking pretty good, but I'd like some feedback on her:

Front, side close, Right side, Left side