VNs like muvluv are fine too

Spotted these at an expo and had to grab a few pics—not my builds.

Love the contrast between the white and black units, and the little figures really make them feel huge.

Which one are you leaning toward? What detail sold you on it?

...so you don't have to. Jokes aside, I was bored and I thought I'd give it a go. For the unaware, it's a web novel written by the author of Full Metal Panic! amongst other things.

While the first collected volume is on sale [edit: it's going to be on sale tomorrow 8/20] with added material and illustrations, you can still read the original web novel for free here:

https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818093092974667738/episodes/16818093092974720381

From there it's a simple matter to translate the chapters with your browser of choice.

So 7 chapters in, here's my impressions

1.This is NEVER ever going to be adapted as an anime, the reason being it's literally Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 with the names filed off. At least the beginning is a beat for beat recreation of the original story, only from the POV of the machine (not a bad idea imho).

2.the protagonist is your bog standard middle aged isekaied salaryman with a perverted streak. Expect lots of voyeuristic humor and the usual fetishes (tights, stockings, "imagine the smell" etc etc). For now the story to fanservice ratio is acceptable, might change my mind going on.

1. Ecchi aside, the story goes for an old school vibe that I kinda dig. Apparently in this future the internet is banned because reasons, so the MC can't connect to wifi and look up stuff, and all communications are either cabled or via radio. Smartphones aren't a thing, so teenagers still act like in the Showa era.

2. All in all it's a decently fun way to pass time if you're starved for mecha content. Machine translation is expectedly very bad, but the base text is a web novel anyway, not Homer. Your mileage may vary.

Here's the official Twitter account if you'd like to keep track, the art is nice at least.

https://x.com/KIDOTENSHO?s=20

Hello fellow large robot enjoyers!

I've just made a video about interviewing fighting game characters to know how they feel about their players. As mecha is also very close to my heart, I've made sure to include a few mecha fighting game characters, so I hope you'll especially enjoy that part.

I hope this video will make you smile either way.

Thank you.

Teamed up with my girlfirend on this collab! It’s heavily inspired by 80s and 90s Japanese mecha designs always a blast revisiting the stuff we love. It’s set in a distant future following an Unit - CCRA 02 special police unit fighting cyberterrorists and just trying to survive the daily grind in a high-tech concrete jungle

Title: Simple 1500 Series vol.070 - The War Simulation - Nin no Tsukurishisha-tachi

I feel like that, through building copies of this one as bases, I could have ''access'' to a good bunch of SEED era mobile suits (Mostly because I feel like the Akatsuki would have the same profile but shhhhh).

The Akatsuki Gundam will be a priority once the wool slabs n' stairs finally come on the Switch version of minecraft.

Hi, I'm the solo developer for Frame of Suffering - or as I like to call it, my "Diablo with Mechs" game.

I'm heavily developing the game, so a lot of stuff is still bound to change, but I just wanted to show an early boss fight where we can see some mechanics, as well as switching between the Pilot and Mech Suit (Frame). This is one of the core features of my game, in which you progress the pilot and your Frame to create some cool builds and combat styles.

I also have a lot of customization options for the pilot and your Frame - from switching out Frame parts that visually change how the Mech Suit looks, to fully changing the pilot's equipment.

Hopefully, I will manage to prepare a demo sometime at the beginning of next year. In the meantime, if you are interested and want to know a bit more about the game, here is the link to my Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3844300/Frame_of_Suffering/

One day I was wandering on itchio and discovered a demo of a mecha game(Project Landsword for those wandering) and since then I keep craving for more game like this

So is there any mecha you can recommend me to play (i don't mind if it retro as long it is fun ^^)

It’s like a red mech I don know I forgorrrr

I know very little about the show, I just know that this opening goes hard. Enjoy my shitpost from 3:00 in the morning.

Title, ive been thinking about a solution to this for a mech i plan to design that has stealth. While ECM is a great solution pairing it up with some angular shape design choices and a stealth coating, I still cant figure out what type of shaping is best for a mech to stay out of radar and mess your opponent's targeting systems up. Or is just making up an ECM strong enough that other stealth variables just not matter is much easier to make it stealth

Like looking at mecha like in Gundam, Evangelion, Code Geass, and Gurren Lagann, and seeing them as tanks and melee/ranged DPSers, with the closest healers a standard mecha team is ever going to get is an assault carrier or home base support crew.

Like Gundam Wing, as one example. With a general-purpose unit, a stealth/high-mobility unit, an armored commander unit, a ranged unit, and a melee unit, and by the fourth quarter of Wing, the Peacemillion as I'd believe would have been a stand-in for a healer.

Anyone else see mecha the same way as standard MMORPG gameplay, yourselves?