He's not crummy - he's extremely well equipped and outfitted...

The cover "art" is made by AI. Not sure if that makes any difference to anyone anymore at this point though, but I just wanted to share.

@@Walter5850 Good. I'll take a "mindless" machine producing art over some pretentious "artist". They think just because they can doddle particularly well, that it makes them hot shit. They tend to get too wraped up in their own hype; high on their own farts. So you can draw good, so what? I turn a wrench pretty damn well, but nobody lauds my accomplishments. Humility is a virtue you'll scarcely find in the "art" community.

sounds like someone who isn't an artist would say. It's about the craft of making something by hand, not the hype surrounding it. Your pfp is Corto Maltese by the way, a work that was made by hand by a really famous comic artist, so whats your point? Do you want the world to lose the artist's touch and be replaced by a machines neural network of image theft? AI draws its database from real artists works, its not original. @@MnemonicHack

@@Ricardo_Belmonte I am an artist. As an industrial mechanic, I maintain and improve massive structures of steel, plastic and rubber; presses that weigh a hundred tons, robotic lines that can assemble hundreds of components an hour, works of art that can drive entire industries. Machines are art. They're a real, useful, powerful work of art that has actual worth and can PRODUCE worth, as opposed to worth simply assigned to a painting that does nothing but sit there and be interpreted. Don't like that? Well I'm also a writer, and have been one for more than a decade. Writing is an artform all of it's own. I also hand-carve wood and onyx. Nothing is truly original. All artists take influence from anything and everything. To the point where we write laws to make sure someone's art isn't TOO similar to someone else's. I don't bemoan all artists. I'm complaining about the _~Artist~_ who thinks they're oh so unique; a practical gift to the world. And I take ebullient joy in them crying about how a machine does what they can do. Yes, the cover art IS art. Art is in the eye of the beholder, and not for you to decry it simply on the basis that it's made by a machine.

Came here to say literally this.

Came here to say exactly the same! I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for weeks now!

Dude, right?!

IKR?!

crossover between what and what else?

I agree. Its rare we get OSR styled art involving a goblin that isnt some tribal pyromaniac. That goblin looks like a fighter who has seen his fair share of horrors of dungeon crawling.

*goblin

​@@bachconneshon7809*Yoda

Top 10 anime crossovers.

Totally Agree the 2 best sites without a doubt...

Thank you, I'm glad, quite inspired by 90s RPGs

​@@cryochamberlabelexample Elvira,Mistress of Darkness,on Amiga Sound,yes. That musik was amazing😊

Alundra 2, Chrono Trigger, Live a Live, FF Tactics, Threads of Fate (Dewprism in japan), Legend of Dragoon... I was born in '91. My first console was a NES, but my favorite was the 64. Although 4ish years after getting my beloved N64 I got the PSOne and goddamnit what a charming console with a more charming library. It's funny how different both consoles were. They're like distant cousins with different personalities and character traits. The games looked different (obviously because hardware features and limitations) and that gave them each a different texture. Miss those times. Life was just a neverending play.

Is it so obvious that I'm an Amiga 500 kid? 😅

Hopefully it sounds a bit closer to my 20+ year old DS project Za Frûmi 😅

Mortiis best is the one where he stands in front of a lake. There are resemblances to this but it’s also different!! There are also Burzum vibes here! It’s very good!!!!! Vinyl please!!

Yeah kind of, this is on our DS sister label Cryo Crypt

90s: Cold Meat/Dark Ambient Jim Kirkwood Depresive Silence era/Dungeon Synth bound to intertwine communities given the niche and further connections to faux occultism or real Esotericism communities.

that's dungeon synth! tapes are pretty ancient

Yess, Love AD&D. WHo needs more than 4 classes !!

The by far best edition of the game. Good old TSR days!

Feast of the Goblyns!!!!

AD&D 1e for LIFE. OSRIC is my go-to rules collection/retroclone.

Thanks, that means a lot and it's not a coincidence, Amiga 500 was the bomb and I used it with tracker software to make music a ton! Definitely a big inspiration for me playing with trackers and playing old SSI CRPGs.

​@@cryochamberlabel That is absolutely amazing, it truly fills me with joy to hear that. I can't imagine the amount of work and effort it must take to work with old trackers. I can't tell if you're emulating the system or if you're running a genuine Amiga 500 hardware setup (still have mine here), but whatever way it is, it was definitely worth it, granted, you captured the soul of that era. I hope to listen to more of this kind of work in the future, here is a lot of potential and authenticity. Thank you very much for your honest reply, best wishes.

@@cryochamberlabel Pour one out for the days of Protracker, Screamtracker and the like. I used to love being able to pull apart MOD files and build my own songs.

@@Bearded-Bastard Definitely not using trackers on this, just taking a few notes from my old workflow and keeping it minimalist in the number of layers used compared to my crazy dark ambient projects

@@samuelrichardson1564 Hell yeah!! Crazy thing, RNGMNN project on Cryo Chamber are using Trackers for his dark ambient work, definitely worthy of respect in this day and age.. He is about to release some new stuff on the Winter Light record label soon too, worth to check it out.

would you believe me if I told you it's ai generated? ^^ EDIT: Maybe, it might not be. Kinda looks like it to me though

@@Nerobyrne it definitely is AI generated. Look at the sword. Also, the right kneecap on the trousers is missing. If you look close enough, the belt buckle is also obvious. It's not a bad AI generated cover, by all means. But I do wish for that sword to be better.

@@accretionist1 yeah I use Midjourney a lot and it's pretty bad with anything people hold in their hands 😅 This one is unusually good though

@@Nerobyrne That's probably because multiple variations were created and then mixed-and-matched between versions that are more cohesive. That's the proper way to use it, anyway. Just getting away with one generation is pretty lazy, what I tend to do is go through at least 30 to 50 variations of each and then heavily edit them in Photoshop to get the best bits and pieces across all variations.

​@@Nerobyrne"I use midjourney a lot" I couldn't find a more insensitive sentence Where is your empathy?

Same

They will either kill the genre or make it better. No in-between.

OR, the internet just jaded us into thinking there are no half-tones, unexpected twists or good mutations. But hey, that's just a theory. A JAAAADE THEORY @@KINKYmustache

@@Professor_Vince You're right but let me clarify: considering CC is synonymous with very high end production, yet one of Dungeon Synth's main quirks is the recognizable cheesy sound, the former dabbling into the latter can either mean an increase in quality high enough to maintain this genre quirk, or they just sterilize the thing with too much production. We'll see. I'm not a great fan of DS, but seeing one of my favorite labels having a go at it is going to be interesting.

the cover "art" is Ai generated bro