User:Cocoron

About
I'm a 21 year old college student studying french. Learning languages and cultures has always been one of my biggest interests. I'm also a hobby artist. I post my art on my deviantart (under the same name as here) but all of my art including sketches is uploaded on my blog. I would really love to draw fanart of Don't Starve!

Before finding this game on steam, I was in kind of a weird groove from the start of December. I had quit my job before thanksgiving so that I could go back to school. However my classes don't start until mid January. So throughout the whole month I was kind of just sitting around playing TF2 and doing very little art. I lacked motivation, and than a friend of mine used a word to describe me that I never heard of before and that word was "jaded" which is "tired, bored, or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something." I thought about it and figured that makes a lot of sense. My life for this past year and a half has been all one thing and stuck to that one thing, it was way too routine and lacked variety. I kind of shrugged this off after first noticing though, figuring I'd wait till school starts again and than I'd slowly return to normal. But than I had an idea. "What if I started playing more games than TF2?"

As fun as Portal 2 was, I beat it in only 14 hours, and that was only a week after thanksgiving. Mucking about in Gmod is only fun for an hour or so and is still using a lot of the same Valve Source Engine stuff. It was still all the same. So I decided to look for something new, and fresh, and thats when I found Don't Starve! It goes without saying for me that, like TF2, the thing that initially drew me in was it's original art style. Something you don't see very often. I love it! The second thing, which im not sure most people would expect, was the music. I have never heard a game use music like this before. And it's very hard to find stuff like it!

Survival Games aren't my usual taste, not that I dislike them or anything, its just that these days most of them fall under survival horror. Which people with Anxiety don't deal well with, haha. But Don't Starve is definetly something I have fallen in love with. It's something new and fresh to me. I love that I'm tossed in a world with only limited knowledge, and the way to get better is basically to learn from your mistakes and experiences as you journey through the games world! I love the amount of strategic planning involved in it! I'm fond of how one simple error could result in your death.

My favorite character is Woodie (my fingers are crossed for more character background development), but I also like Wickerbottom (whom I have survived the longest as). My last 6 deaths in the game have all been from Pengull's (directly and indirectly) as such I have a [] [] [] for them. I love Bunnymen, and try to do my best to avoid having any meat around them (it presents a nice challenge to the game to try and make yourself vegetarian). I typically try to build my base camp a short distance away from the Beefalo heards, in a grassy area usually (because forests kind of creep me out) where there is bee's (so they can make more flowers so I don't lose sanity and turn my journey into a creep fest). I try my best to gain the resources to surround myself in a Bunnyman village, but if I am taking too long to do this, I will just debug spawn rabbit hutches within the same biome as my base camp. There is a sort of constant paranoia and nervousness I have playing survival games where you are the sole sentient being walking around. I even experienced it a bit in Portal 2. This is why I like playing as Woodie, he has Lucy the talking Axe who, even though might not actually be sentient and is just Woodie being a nutter, still makes me feel like theres someone else with me. It's also why I build bunnymen villages. Not only do I have townfolk, but they are nocturnal, so I can feel protected c:

This game has presented me with many stories to tell, and I know that it will persist to do so the more I play, this is why I continue to play Don't Starve! I can't wait to see what they'll add to the game next.