The Bunny-Chan Piknik Thread
Usually when you go onto the forums (to post a shock site for lulz), you get into discussions. You talk about Brawl, watch your friend’s new poop, or even talk about what’s going on in your life. Even when you aren’t discussing things, you’re random and posting funny images. Perhaps there is a theme. But what’s usually lacking in the usual threads is a sense of unity and creativity. The recently popular Bunny-chan and Liquid Snake Piknikk threads show how forum members enjoy creating stories and working off of others (kinda like a Poop Tennis, but with a plot and pictures).
Pullahoko: Well, Cortes has the honor of making the first thread. I made the newest threads because when we changed servers, people weren’t interested in Brawl piknikks for one reason or another. The purpose of the Piknikk is really just a way to have fun drawing without worrying about the programs you use or any kind of quality control. . . We have some really cool artists that go to the piknikks, but we also have people who use MS Paint and a mouse, and it’s all good.
The thread basically starts with a random plot, and people who post in the forum usually post an image they made that follows (or enhances) the plot. The original Bunny-chan Piknikk got over 37 pages of posts before the plot fizzled out, opening up a newly designed Liquid Snake Piknikk. Liquid Snake was chosen due to images of Liquid Snake created by GameCubeHero in the Bunny-chan Piknikk.
theHappyFungus: . . . for me its like a living comic that keeps growing.of course this comic has no main plot line and multiple illustrators, but you get the idea. most of the time its just plain awesomeness, but occasionally . . . too much shit will be going on at once, and it just breaks down. thats when another piknik is created i suppose. . . you dont have to be a great artist to contribute. you just have to scribble something down that gets the point across, and see what happens.
The evolving plotlines of these Piknikk threads start to include many popular characters, “fan” characters, and plots that are meant for comedy.
FMK: From a viewer stand-point, do you think it’s daunting to join and participate?
heartlessmushroom: No, its fun , isnt that whaat piknik threads are all about?
The Bunny-chan Piknikk began as a quest. Bunny-chan had lost her commerative dildo and asked others for help. Then, it appeared that Bunny-chan’s druggie friend, Kiri-chan, had stolen her dildo. As other friends appeared (and Robotnik plotted a plot), a dark figure watched the excitement below. It appears this figure wanted the dildo for its magical properties. However, out of nowhere came Liquid Snake riding a jeep. After getting sick of things, Liquid Snake began crushing random characters in his Metal Gear. The dark figure, having died, still plotted revenge on the entire gang. Meanwhile, Scrooge McDuck and a Platypus fought in epic proportions. In a side subplot, Liquid Snake offered to rape Pimps, but sadly had to leave before fulfilling his wish. Pimps then turned to Deepercutt, but their love could never be. After a fight between furries/non-furries and GCH; it appeared that Cortes, Aru, and FMK banded together with the others to find Tetsuo. They purchased a ticket on a Robotnik plane and flew to Giygasland to pick up Giygas-chan. Also, a demon appeared but died… and the plane also crashed into the Pentagon thanks to Liquid Snake (and possibly boozing pilots). FMK, Murakami, and Bunny-chan died and went to the underworld, where they had a walking adventure. Luckily, strong414bad’s yellow man appeared and ate/spat FMK out into the surface, where Liquid Snake was having a barbeque. At this point, the thread began to derail and the Liquid Snake Piknikk appeared.
Cortes: There is no single post that works best. The ones that usually DON’T work are probably spam and attempts at forcing something.
In the Liquid Snake Piknikk, Liquid Snake was fighting steak. For dinner (maybe). Hades, who appeared in the previous Piknikk, also plotted revenge. Also, someone spit on some steak (it was me, lol). Soon, Murakami needed a medic and Medic-chan appeared. After some class-rolling, there was a group of powerful warriors who ascended to the floating castle for an adventure. A monster appeared, but the team of increasing members fought hard against it. Liquid Snake appeared to mess up things in a helicopter. The thread still continues, with more characters joining and Hades being mean.
The thread still continues and it’s easy to see its popularity. Though at times silly, there are many great artists who use tablets, a mouse, or whatever they can. The user-created storylines are funny and participating in these threads is addictive. Hopefully, the Piknikk will live on and grow from here.
Cortes: For me, a piknik is all about spontaneity. You get inspired, make a drawing and then some sort of narrative comes from that. It’s not just about following the loose story, but about trying to develop a character. I find the funniest drawings are made when there is some sort of purpose behind them, however insane it might be.
Article by Full Metal Kiwi.
This is my game making program, Multimedia Fusion 2. This is where I make Conrad the Slaterhog games, and pretty much every other game I want to. The space in the center is the main canvas and it’s where all of the objects and stuff go. The two bars on the left are also important- one of them lets me go to different levels (or “frames” as they’re called) and the other lets me control the properties of different objects, which includes stuff like movement and transparency. You may notice it’s pretty blank at the moment, but don’t worry. There’ll be stuff there soon.
This is the animation editor, another vital part of making games. I added in a new Active Object now, which will be Mario’s Pants. Most of the work you do in game making is done with either Active Objects or Backdrop Objects. Active Objects can move, can be programmed, and have a lot of animations while Backdrop Objects can’t move and don’t have any animation but take up less space than Active Objects do and require no programming. Basically, all I did to get animation for this Object was make sprites of Mario’s Pants in MS Paint and paste them in, adding a transparency color as I went along. Mario’s Pants will look like this in-game.
In this picture, it’s the same scene as the first but we now have objects! You can see the Pants sprite we added before, and I also added Conrad the Slaterhog himself. I also made Conrad move. There are two ways to make things move- you can use the movements the program provides for you, which are usually really glitchy, or you can program your own, which is very labor-intensive and confusing. Since this is just a demonstration, I used the Platform Movement the program gave me for Conrad. Doing this is very simple- all you need to do is pretty much click twice and your character will have basic platform movement. Some minor programming is involved later, but it really isn’t much compared with what you’d do for custom movement.
Speaking of programming, here’s pretty much the amount of programming I have to do for this simple game. Programming in Multimedia Fusion 2 is done with an “if-then” system. Instead of having to type in a lot of seemingly meaningless code, all you have to do is right click on objects and make “sentences” with them. For instance, the sentence formed by the one I highlighted means “If you press control, then Conrad shoots Elmo really fast”. It’s relatively simple, but with stuff like alternate and global values it can do a lot of complex things.
The game is now finished. It’s completely playable and actually pretty fun. It even has music and stuff. This game is simpler than, say, an actual Conrad the Slaterhog game, and it takes much less time to make, but to make something really simple like this isn’t hard at all. I hope this gives you some insight on to how I actually make Youtube Poop games, and thanks for reading my probably-too-technical article.
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