Comic Artists Are Waging a War, and We Joined the Frontlines

[@PeopleMakeGames]

The final comic submissions for this season of War For Rayuba have now been submitted, meaning that the tournament is officially over! If you're interested in competing in the future, keep an follow @Orbitaldropkick on Twitter.

[@DuBstepAnDa98]

Ah Damn. Wish I knew about this sooner this looks like fun. Kinda reminds me of RHG stick fights I watched as a kid.

[@cubic_skull]

@@DuBstepAnDa98 Eh round 9 and still gonna happened tho, join anyways

[@vilostrike2187]

So, this is like Dojo Duels that is hosted by Hyun's Dojo.

[@tximistarissole]

@@cubic_skull Round 9 has now closed, just FYI

[@Phoenix_638]

Anyone know what Annie used for making the comic?

[@TheDeadmanTT]

"artists are having a war" - - Yeah, I know about tumblr.

[@MALICEM12]

Yeah at first I thought he meant the culture war too

[@geraldbal7945]

i thought this was 4d chess

[@Bazilisk_AU]

I thought it was “Artfight”

[@alexdietz7362]

I thought this was going to be about very bad professional comics vs. underground comic artists.

[@ezraho8449]

Yeah I saw this and thought, “who is trying to fix art now?”

[@RADimation]

These types of 'artist wars' happen across the internet, though usually not to this scale, and I've seen some of the craziest most original and inspiring artworks come of it. Fantastic.

[@FatherTime89]

Care to share with us some cool stuff you found?

[@RADimation]

@@FatherTime89 One of my very favorites was a tournament called Law of Talos. A few of the artists animated their rounds and others had full blown comics with their parts, it was really impressive!

[@pouncelygrin6699]

@@RADimation Let's fvcking goooooooo! Law of Talos!!! Wooo! Hahaha man, the nostalgia is real!

[@123goldenlily]

@@RADimation unfortunately a lot of the older tournament entries are kind of being lost to time, but some of them are still left

[@RADimation]

@@123goldenlily True, and yeah, it's sad. Some spectacular stuff has vanished. At least bits and pieces are still around.

[@mikedrop4421]

They are about to get some really ambitious stick figure comics submissions as soon as I'm done with this video.

[@SurnameName]

that actually happened in the previous tournament that was also run on that server, the ring of power our lady of anguish, a stick figure, was one of the contestants

[@radical_dog]

@@SurnameName Honestly, could make for a good tournament elsewhere. Make part of the judging criteria, "most pages, lowest effort". Would certainly be fun.

[@dr.eckschwein1062]

@@radical_dog But wouldn't people just add a whole bunch of empty pages to their comics in such a contest?

[@Manie230]

@@dr.eckschwein1062 not if the rule also states that the pages need to still contain drawings that do advance the story of the comic.

[@kevinthiago413]

I think it would be funny to have a character that is a scientist that wanders around with a morbidly obese woman in a supermarket car that sporadically gives birth to mutated babies that the scientist use to trow at other characters, use as weapons, eat for healing properties, use as bombs, and to feed his cat ._.

[@quovadis3220]

"history is written by the victors" - winston churchill imho the losers storys should be collected in a "forbidden dark book" 😉

[@drafezard7315]

Meanwhile the English monks in their monasteries chronicling their defeats from the Vikings: You sure about that?

[@olivercharles2930]

History is written by the victors. Except all the times it isn't...

[@dextorinator973]

A what if? Book

[@LCTesla]

so there's the canon outcome, but also a whole range of parallel universes that (barely?) didn't make the cut. don't forget to check out the underdogs.

[@Yal_Rathol]

which, if you know the lore of KSBD, is extremely fitting. maybes and half-truths sprinkle the story.

[@firebreathingguy561]

@@Yal_Rathol KSBD?

[@Yal_Rathol]

@@firebreathingguy561 kill six billion demons, the comic war for rayuba is part of. the current arc is actually set on rayuba, hence why this artist game is happening now. to give the short version, YISUN, the paradoxical omnigod, contains all that is, isn't, can, can't, will and won't be. so an alternative timeline where things happened differently is fully possible, because that timeline is part of YISUN and we're just not seeing it right now.

[@silvertrimhill9844]

Your not ventrue

[@patrikcath1025]

This is genuinely so cool... It's like roleplay, but in a graphic form. I love it.

[@militaryzoned2964]

I'm in the tournament and the whole server is going nuts about this video. Thanks for your video!

[@charlieterry8506]

There must be countless numbers of people who want to or try to join. how do the judges ever manage something on this scale with this number of creatives?

[@militaryzoned2964]

@@charlieterry8506 the number of newcomers has indeed exploded since the video. However, the battles work by rounds and since a new round has already started, new characters cannot be submitted until the next round. Also the attacking team can only attack up to 25 different tiles per rounds, dispatching up to 25 artists, and with the 25 artists sent to defend there's a base of 50 "combatants" (some special tiles will host bigger battles instead of the normal 1vs1). This is what the judges go trough in details each rounds. It is capped because of the 25 tiles maximum. However to not exclude the "non-combatant" artists each rounds will see two zones designed as "Grand Battles" which have "less" impact on the overall contest (but will still be canon.). Here any artists can participate, either by submitting character development comics, fighting NPCs, or making their own collaboration matches with the other team. Instead of designating a winner like in tile matches based on a comic against another, Grand Battles are judged by team effort. For example I'm not fighting for a tile during this round, but I'm doing a "3vs4" collab for the Grand Battle. Apologies for the whole friggin page answers

[@charlieterry8506]

@@militaryzoned2964 Thank you. This was thoroughly informative and answered a lot of the questions I was wondering about. Also, no need to apologize for the "whole friggin page" answers, I do the same exact thing actually, and it's a bit confronting to know that I'm not the only one that does that. Have a good day Internet stranger, and I hope your artist endeavors will be awesome.

[@arthurnorcome3967]

@@militaryzoned2964 that was very helpful and probably more my speed anyway. Just wow

[@freddman0135]

dude.... i want to join but it doesnt allow me.... can you help me please?

[@TheArtistKnownAsSIR]

This was an incredible video! I count myself among the lucky few who were a part of this project's predecessor: The Ring of Power, and both OCTs have allowed me to meet some truly skilled and gracious people. Thank you for making such an expertly presented video to bring some much-deserved attention to all of their incredible efforts!

[@MoiderahOfVideos]

Eyyy

[@pouncelygrin6699]

YOOOOOOOOOO, WHAT THE FVVVCCCFKKHAKDGEJWHSI!!! I didn't know you were in it! That's awesome dude 👍👍👍

[@Squidco-lg2dg]

I never thought I’d see kill six billion demons on KZbin, let alone on this channel and definitely not about war for Rayuba, I’m glad to see it get the attention it deserves, especially from such a high quality channel as this.

[@PeopleMakeGames]

That's lovely to hear, thanks Squidco. We hope we did right by the Rayuba community! -Chris

[@starmaiden1362]

Ik right? K6BD is so underrated

[@matthewlyons6544]

@@starmaiden1362 recent couple of pages are really ramping up. Gog Agog is one of my favourite characters.

[@Resuarus]

I don't know how Quinns finds out about all these cool things, but I'm glad he's sharing them with us.

[@sownheard]

Probably people telling him about cool stuff they found and others voting it up

[@ryufromleupus]

This reminds me a lot of the Korean Roleplaying Campaigns way back in 2010s. Instead of written roleplaying accounts that were favoured in the western fandoms, Korean fandoms had campaigns done (usually original themed), and instead of writing, artists join and have their characters interact via comics. I found out about it from a korean classmate in art uni who was active within the sphere. It looks like fun!

[@tximistarissole]

My character for War for Rayuba is Long Arms the beetle at 1:12, and it was absolutely wild to find out that Quinns of all people was interested in making a video about War For Rayuba! I hope that even if you didn't participate, you'll have fun reading everyone's comics, they really worked hard at it!

[@MrBizteck]

This is amazing ! Ive no talent and in awe of this.

[@xuannguyenpham939]

Aww so cute! Hope ya character can win the war!

[@jooot_6850]

bug ahead be wary of bug

[@tximistarissole]

@@xuannguyenpham939 He's doing his best! It's a non-elimination thing so there's not going to be just 1 winner, but instead one of the sides will win as a whole.

[@xuannguyenpham939]

@@tximistarissole Survive to the end!

[@zoidsfan12]

8:50 "it's like watching your kid grow up and leave home" YES! YES! This is the exact feeling I get seeing someone else draw my babies. This is why I commission art of my characters before I draw them. Also I'm really really bad at translating my mind's eye to paper so it's a short cut for me to have another more experienced artist transition from text to paper so that I have a reference to draw from. I think my way of doing art only works in this modern age lol. It's almost like I'm having a surrogate parent for the characters.

[@kelzangtobgyel3887]

oh wow don't mind me, just going to yoink that idea.

[@JackRackam]

How do you guys continue to find these unique and inspiring games? It feels like every time I tune into your channel I walk away feeling like I've just caught a glimpse of the most feel-good once-in-a-lifetime event

[@Broeckchen]

It's actually a very old concept and used to happen all the time! Look up "Original Character Tournament" and you'll find a whole bunch of those, although most are smaller in scope because most are organized by groups of like... 5-10 people tops.

[@xymaryai8283]

if 100 people make a once in a lifetime project, then you've got 100 lifetimes worth of projects to enjoy assuming they all make it within your lifetime and a lifetime is 100 years old -my annoying scientist brain who has to qualify the variables even if i was just making a fun observation

[@Alfred_Leonhart]

I did not expect too see you here.

[@03noro63]

I thought absolutely the same. I watched this video with my mouth open, burning inside, and wanting to be part of this amazing stuff.

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

Do Nestor Makhno

[@CiDK]

Reminds me a lot of those old stick man animation where every animator has their own character and they battle each other

[@KillahMate]

Kill 6 Billion Demons is a masterpiece, by the way, and Abbadon is a genius. The fact that the whole comic is available to read online for free is borderline criminal. One of the best fantasy stories of the last decade even _before_ you consider the breathtaking art.

[@DeniableWhistle]

Seriously it's so fucking good guys. It's A Lot to get into at first but believe me it's well worth it.

[@MWAY3000]

Did they serialize it? I remember reading it a couple of years ago.

[@KillahMate]

@@MWAY3000 K6BD started as a webcomic and is still going as a webcomic, though the artist has announced the current arc will be the conclusion and longer than the previous ones. Image Comics does nice large-format 'remastered' print releases for it, one for each arc, but those are lagging a couple of years behind the webcomic.

[@boi-august5959]

Fr ? Dude , saw the title and I was like , I gotta fking read it.

[@balouthebear2942]

Where can you read it?

[@ComradeCorvus]

I love the idea of a porcelain sword at 9:30, there are a lot of talented people involved in this, not just in the art itself, but in the character design and writing.

[@123goldenlily]

I LOVE Temurin's design, does anyone know where her entries are (if she has any)?

[@draganie]

Original Character Tournaments used to be huge ten to fifteen years ago-there were probably hundreds of different ones run by different judges in a wide variety of worlds and scenarios. It would be amazing to see them rise in popularity again; it was such a magically inspiring time and shaped my childhood a lot.

[@ceronull5900]

Abbadon was a huge participant in the OCTs of DeviantArt's heyday and directly inspired him to run this Tournament and the prequel one, The Ring Of Power

[@prankhan3097]

I remember spending a lot of time with Electric Ferret over a decade ago probably and having a lot of fun. A couple characters actually made it decently far!

[@Lucien_M]

I have dreamed of something like this being a thing

[@theclovercross]

I'm amazed that sites like entervoid is still running, 20 years later almost. 2003-2005 was epic with dumas, james et al. though I grew tired of all the voilence so stuff like j.j was a breath of fresh air.

[@mattiascrowe2549]

I loved them!! In so glad other people still think about them lel

[@olympiannerd]

I regularly come back to this video because its so cool to see all these artists working towards this crazy story spanning an entire war. It gets my brain going with all these ideas on how i could make my own. Idk maybe one day

[@SurnameName]

"In pitching a professional artist against Eris' artist, were we the bad guys, after all?" There are other professional artists competing. War for Rayuba attracts a lot of different folks. Every contestant has a certain chance of going up against a professional.

[@birdbird5337]

Yeah, this - there usually is an attempt to make sure that people of similar skill levels get matched up

[@charlieterry8506]

This sounds like something straight out of an anime and I love it.

[@SurnameName]

@@charlieterry8506 the author of kill six billion demons, the comic war for rayuba is based on, is a bit of a weeb

[@charlieterry8506]

​@@SurnameName I got that sense form back when I found our about and promptly backed the Lancer RPG because I saw giant robots holding giant swords. I'm just surprised they pulled it off and actually managed to make anime a reality. It's funny... I wonder how the author feels knowing that, in a certain sense, they are now the finale boss in someone's life story? Now *that* is a life goal.

[@thesquishedelf1301]

I’ll be honest Anni’s comic wasn’t as artistically impressive as their opponent’s. This was pretty clearly won through creativity and exploiting the opponent’s character flaws, not on sheer art quality. Septi’s splash page of Eris dodging Peggy’s lasers is beautifully composed.

[@z-beeblebrox]

I remember waaaay back in the day, on the SomethingAwful forums, getting involved in art-only flame wars. It was basically the unrefined, unregulated proto-form of the OCTs that eventually gained popularity on deviantart - a period I missed completely. Great to see there's been a revival

[@hellatron1475]

This is dope. Thanks for covering it. W4R has been the single most rewarding artistic endeavor I ever embarked on. In four rounds I have made nearly 80 pages.

[@cobalt2672]

6:39 oh my GOD this is teleports-behind-you level tryharding, it's beautiful

[@thacoolest13]

Reminds me of animators Dojo duels. Animators create characters and face each other. Animating a fight between their characters with the winner being chosen by both judges and popular vote

[@pukai_kiska]

too bad duelists don't really affect lore and it's only written by a bunch of unrelated folk and there's no end goal or a turf war, so it kills the whole premise

[@suncanny1418]

I remember that as a kid i used to watch a lot those dojo obstacle course collab videos

[@DEEZ_N4T]

Hyun’s dojo was the bomb for stickman animation collabs

[@LARADEKA]

*_Art Fight is still ongoing now._* *_And yes, this seems to be a competition about art styles. The best part is that you CAN learn from the others about how they did their work so smoothly and why it beats yours._* *_At least in those fields, we have fun... Not sure for art contests though._*

[@Karagna]

This tourney has been a lifesaver for my mental health, being able to communicate and draw alongside so many others with the same passion as me has done wonders and has given me so much motivation to continue on. ELEPHANT BOYS!

[@SurnameName]

chair emoji

[@pingpong5877]

Don't notify manga artists about this game, their main characters will dish the competition.

[@rajavlitra]

We'd want to go toe to toe with Araki, that would be an honor. Also we had people like the Baba is You creator last tourney. It was great.

[@kyvilfongkot6372]

Maybe japanese artist

[@warclock3224]

@@rajavlitra i feel like his villain is stronger than the main char ngl, take pucci for example

[@myeyeshurt9328]

Manhua artist must never be wokem from their slumber

[@KizilXD]

If Araki joined he'll probably make a character that will *only* kill dogs and nothing else

[@mal8455]

Hey everyone! I'm so glad this tournament is getting more appreciation. I encourage y'all to come check it out, there's professional artists working alongside relative newbies and the atmosphere is fantastic.

[@arcticbanana66]

I remember watching this as it happened, unfortunately I wasn't able to participate. There were a lot of great characters, from angels and demons, to wizards, swordmages, and gunmages, to a massive space battleship crewed by sheep. One of my personal favorites was A Gorilla, who was literally just an oddly-clever gorilla.

[@MiruninOath57]

everybody is talking about how cool this concept is but why is nobody mentioning that this man uses light mode for discord like an absolute animal 4:16

[@EmperorJuliusCaesar]

Ikr like who uses discord light mode XD

[@magiv4205]

I use light mode for tons of shit, but DISCORD!? He is not to be trusted.

[@tyronecastillo3822]

Ikr

[@Daniel-go6sw]

I was unable to watch this part because my screen just became white

[@uzi_spaz379]

“His goals are beyond our understanding”

[@ClintonMatos]

Oh wow this really reminds me of "Pokémon Tournaments" they used to have on DeviantArt. A bunch of artists would make trainers and their teams and then be paired up. Each artist would draw their comic and then judges would choose the best one to determine the winner. This went on until someone won the tournament.

[@luin6788]

I COMPETED IN THIS!! it was such an artistic challenge and everyone was so supportive and amazing! it's a lot of work but it's worth it!

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

This so cool! It really reminds me of the old artist battle tournaments that used to be popular on Deviantart back in the day!

[@yungoldman2823]

This whole war project is really interesting, I absolutely love any sort of massive collaboration effort, especially when it involves all these talented artists

[@kocokan]

"hundreds of artists are waging a war... a Summoner's War!"

[@josephausberryii3926]

It warms my heart that OCTs still exist in some form these days ❤️

[@atfruitbat]

This is amazing, looks like great fun, and I don't know who wouldn't root for Peggy, a literal underdog in a mecha! It seems that no matter who wins or loses each round, there's a wonderful spirit of bringing each other's characters fully to life in an encounter, and that's lovely to see.

[@Millistudiosyd]

As someone who grew up drawing webcomics in the early 2000s this is just so cool to see and hope that it thrives. Definitely going to submit something

[@fergalharte]

Really thought this was gonna be about NFTs, but this is far more cool!

[@georgewl]

Well, anything is better than NFTs to be fair

[@TheGIGACapitalist]

INB4 people sell their winning characters as NFTs

[@iankniel]

That was the previous video on the channel! 😂

[@narwhal8113]

This is one of the few reasons I still think people can be creative, and that we’re not out of ideas yet.

[@Tclans]

She invented Gato Roboto, only with a dog. So Perro Roboto essentially.

[@RWD130]

I'd just like to thank you for pointing me at this thing, I'd been following Tom's work for over a year and this video gave me the last push i needed by just laying out what the hell was going on a little. This 'little' community has helped me a tonne, and made me proud of my art again which as been a true boon. so thank you so much. ELEPHANT BOYS PYRE PRIDE WHEEL WIDE

[@hydre39]

We, at Pyre, break a chair for all our future recruits

[@captainspaghetti8406]

Chair emoji

[@adamofblastworks1517]

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[@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179]

@@adamofblastworks1517 🪑

[@ShonicBurn]

As someone who spent too much time making comics this sounds like fun. I'm in no mental shape to make a good comic right now though.

[@old_account189]

Dont worry man, i can send you some links to comic competitions for next year, keep your head up.

[@ShonicBurn]

@@old_account189 if you could that would be awesome.

[@mariavilla.]

hope you’re doing a little better now !

[@old_account189]

@@ShonicBurn youtube deleted all the comments with links i sent. But i wanted to send you TEZUKA, CLIP STUDIO PANT and Poland 2022 comic fest links and a few other i have laying around.

[@ShonicBurn]

@@old_account189 I'll look Into that.

[@Raptor-tooth]

Oh man I haven't seen a big oct in YEARS!! I used to see them on deviantart as a young teen but wasn't really on par with my art skillset yet to join in. I could probably do one nowadays and might even consider jumping into this one if it's still accepting participants.

[@alvedonaren]

It is.

[@carloghirardini4693]

Will there be more rounds After this 'round 6' Is done?

[@alvedonaren]

@@carloghirardini4693 There will be a total of 9 rounds.

[@captiancardshark]

There is a rather large one on Twitter rn that's gained a lot of interest from the old OCT crowd called Splinter City. They're accepting auditions till august :L

[@ZedAmadeus]

"Anni failed to see the statement I was making with my outsider art, so we decided to go with her character as the safe option." AHAHA lmao that line is so good

[@chaosfire321]

Oh hell YES! I'm so glad Tom, KSBD and War for Rayuba is getting more mainstream attention! Dude is an absolute beast of an artist and a storyteller and it's great seeing more love coming his way.

[@michaelnelson2976]

Having just found this channel now, what I love is how they're able to cover relevent and topical games, like War for Rayuba and Baseball. These were both reactionary and that's excellent

[@MoiderahOfVideos]

No joke this tourney's made me draw 78 pages in a little over four months and I'm about to draw 18 more for the next round. There's something infectious about OCTs. My character's name is Elena Hellfire. She's a seven-foot-tall awful preacher woman who's made of lead, bleeds mercury and uses a massive gun that weighs as much as a car. I can't describe how much fun writing this awful person is.

[@arno3796]

ayy!!!

[@suziekeuls7582]

do you have a link ? I am really curious how she looks like

[@kaboomluong9373]

made of lead and bleeds mercury kind of... *metal*

[@MoiderahOfVideos]

alright update, by the end of the tourney I had made around 164 pages of comic, and worked with a team of three other artists to deliver a clash comic that was around 63 pages by itself. Holy fuck.

[@th3crazyguard1an85]

Its been a good while since ive last seen this video, and I have to mention something I want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for making this video, It introduced me to OCTs as a concept and got involved within the community. Ive made more new friends then I can count, Drawing for me went from a dumb hobby to a genuine passion, these last 2 years ive made more improvements in my skills then ive done in the 10 years beforehand, and all of it thanks to this video It has become a meme within the community, or at least within the branch I found myself in, someone only needs to mention "artists are waging wars" and at least 3 people will finish the sentence. but all things considered I cannot thank you enough

[@willmorr]

I was obsessed with Blaseball for a month, then fell off and stopped paying attention, and now you're telling me about another incredible collaborative fanwork project? Quinn man, I need to go outside eventually.

[@changer_of_ways_999]

Nothing is as bloody as the western comic vs manga war. Currently it's more of a slaughter than a battle.

[@Stalkerpanda1]

This is really cool. I'm not an artist but I'm definitely going to drink some wine and read some of the archive tonight!

[@Born2DoubleUp]

this is actually a very cool idea. they should find away to monitize it so they can get all the artists some kick back for taking part. 😁 either way I know they do it for the love of the art.

[@vwin9112]

As a artist...yes, it seems like a awesome thing to join...but on the other hand...need to work on comic panels and OC works at best. But this gives me dungeons and dragons vibe.

[@darkdragonfiendtamer]

so this is like those DeviantArt OC Tournies of old. Neat. Always loved these and am happy to see a return on such scale.

[@reedjos08]

What tier is the bonus video of making the comic?

[@PeopleMakeGames]

All tiers! You’ll find a link in the post for this latest video. -Chris

[@Polyglot_English]

Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙 🤙

[@dve4059]

what the

[@zhankazest]

@@dve4059 what what the

[@mrmonkeybond9838]

@@zhankazest what what what the

[@tempest_dawn]

Just discovered this channel recently. Pleasantly surprised to recognize a face from the Blaseball roundups!

[@nintendo101ish]

A Good Person will always be in my heart, as a member of this community this is an amazing contribution and i will never forget the influx of new people inspired by this video! you guys are awesome!

[@summonfish]

Maybe I shoulda hopped on this train huh. Next year for sure.

[@SurnameName]

@@summonfish Rotp gang! Rotp gang! Anyway, Fish, WfR is still going, it's not too late

[@nintendo101ish]

@@summonfish tried to tell ya man. Tisk fuckin tisk

[@hellatron1475]

@@summonfish AInt to late. We are only just past the halfway point. COME JOIN THE WAR EFFORT.

[@lunah33]

HI PROM

[@MemeL0rd13]

Plot twist an new group of artists rise up which are basically like a revolution to stop both sides and let anarchy do it's thing. (namely Antarctic Empire.)

[@Adalore]

It's legit hard to keep up with all the art being posted. For sanity reasons it's down to 50 artists per team in the main round. That's still best case 100 comics. It's so much to keep up with when you are also participating. Other nice things, it isn't a bracket so you can bow out for a round without being excluded later. Now everyone else, the people not selected in the roll call for the main event, are able to go about in a less structured thing that does have an impact for "Grand battles". They don't need opponents, but you are encouraged to arrange one with the enemy team. IT's very good for lower stakes character building. Turns out it is hard to go "HERE IS CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT" when you have an active fight main round with a bear! Also dealing with the canon situation stuff my last round I asked for my opponent to have a story beat so that it'd be canon regardless of outcome so I can set stuff up later. It's a whole thing.

[@1nown]

Sup, sorry for letting koto cut some fun plot scenes involving your waman and furry pals - CSJ

[@TheMasterEpicness]

This is essentially "Rock Hard Gladiators (RHG)" from the old stick figures animation hubs of early 2010s. So it's really cool!

[@MrBizteck]

This is possibly the coolest thing Ive ever seen.

[@FrankLightheart]

I've done contests kind of like this before. Never anything THIS large-scale and organized, but I've done story-based tournaments pitting original characters against one another. But Rayuba is on a WHOLE OTHER LEVEL!

[@MrHarryGray]

This is fascinating and I never knew this existed! This is why this channel is awesome

[@autistictyranitar414]

This is like Devianart old OCTs (original character tournament), brings back hood memories

[@ceronull5900]

Was hoping to see my Fisher of Men crab in here. Eitherway it was pretty neat seeing the server and tournament mentioned in a "mainstream" way

[@Arjay404]

In Septi's version Eris just left the dog without mech limbs, so the dog is unable to move and likely unable to get out of the mech, meaning that the dog is just going to sit there unable to get food, slowly starving until it dies. O_O That's scary.

[@spookith]

but the dog can eject from the mech and please dont reply bc that is the only way im rationalizing it to myself

[@jedfromyourlocallibrary]

Big fan of Kill Six Billion Demons, so super cool to see you cover this!

[@adityabanerjee_1899]

Love this concept. Imagination is the limit

[@TheBaxes]

This sounds like a great idea for a game jam too. Each round make a minigame where you have to beat your opponent in any way that you can imagine. Could be an action game, a puzzle game or anything experimental that you want to try. Would be pretty interesting to be honest. Even better if it had some standarized stuff so it could be possible to join all winning games (and losing games for the alternative side) into one massive project.

[@F4R207]

Oh, sounds like a very conceptually advanced version of the narrative art roleplaying that took place on /tg/ a long while back along with the several tactical play by post JRPGT art games that was played.

[@fridgemann5308]

I’m in comics hell here and I like it that way. I believe in Pyre supremacy!

[@felixfoster3983]

this video brought in roughly 400 people (or more) into the tournament, which is now about to begin it's final round. so ya know, thanks for this fantastic video, and an even bigger thanks for introducing me to this war along with those 400 players.

[@nakenmil]

I've been following Kill Six Billion Demons since around 2015 or so, and seeing it get this coverage was really cool.

[@CrysiCrysis]

Genuinely thought this would be about art fight but this is so much cooler.

[@ITR]

Ooo, I remember seeing people do this a decade ago and thinking it was really cool. Nice to see stuff like this still happening! Though I think it was usually a lot less people, and usually a FFA format, I think.

[@1nown]

This OCT was started in part because Tom made his start in them all those years ago! Many of us older contestants remember watching and/or participating in them as well!

[@Icolorimutevoli]

Yeah! I too remember reading him for the first time when he was blindknight in the DA tournament. His artstyle was sketchy but his storytelling and characterisation made it such that I never forgot about the adventures of Ophelia and Domo for over a decade and have been a fan of his ever since

[@Vyruz64]

I remember loving these kind of "artist battle tournaments", this one takes it to the max.

[@rajavlitra]

Proud W4R artist. Vitaspa, Lavash and Mehr represent!

[@EphemeraProductions]

dude you know if they still accept people or do we need to wait for the next war

[@rajavlitra]

@@EphemeraProductions just hop in. No limits. You can join the grand battles if you like.

[@daniwalmsley611]

This is brilliant, its made comic creation competitive. Competition produces innovation and increases the quality of product produced. Also, it's friendly and collaborative bringing peoples ideas together. This has the potential to be one of the biggest most influential events on the comic industry since its inception

[@captainspaghetti8406]

I'm participating! Cecil and Mr. Green represent!

[@bachpham6862]

This reminds me of the 2000's era community of stick figures flash animation: the idea was that each animator would create their own unique stick figure (with personality, appearance, skill set, and weapons) and would do solo 1v1 battle with each other; both animators would submit a choreographed animated fight between the two stick figures, and then the community would then vote on who won based on style, choreography, ... It was called RHG fights and if you are active on the internet during 2000's then I am sure you have seen at least 1 of those.

[@NeerajLagwankar]

I'm so glad KZbin recommended this video to me. Subbed.

[@PeopleMakeGames]

Welcome!

[@CosmicFishFaced]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE, WHY ONLY NOW I KNOW OF THIS?

[@DrunqRussian]

About to send them a drawing of my cat wearing silly clothes.

[@ArkayeCh]

This strangely reminds me of stick figure animated fight tournaments from the early 2000s. A ton of ridiculous OCs and dream matchups in a larger universe. Even the judge-to-canon format and underdog storytelling is exactly the same as what happened on places like Stickpage.

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

6:10 What!? You're telling me the plot of EVERY Anime fight ISN'T a wildly original concept??

[@DaMoniable]

I would love to jump in on something like this, but im more of a writer rather than a doodler. Really sparks memories of them olden days back when i did a lot of RP on places like RPGC or the incredibly hit and miss and often tedious and confusing IMVU scene. The problem i had back then was the lack of talent, or the total rule nazis over totally ambiguous and questionable rules. I think it would be incredibly neat to pull any of my older characters, and carrying over battle damage from the plethora of battles they would need to face. Would be neat. And i think an event like this, but for writers, could be incredibly neat and would potentially solve many of the problems i had, since in this, both sides win, and the judge chooses whats cannon. The rules are the ones that are placed by the judges, etc.

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

At first, watching this I think I can join the war but when I see all the weirdest characters that I had never seen before and never know how strong they are make me want to step out of the war.

[@TheManOfMyriad]

This looks like the most fun thing imaginable! Once i get going into my animation course and resurrect my old art & drawing abilities, I 100% wanna see how to participate in stuff like this. Give it a year or two however.

[@craigkingdon4424]

Yay, a new upload!!

[@NauyaIsOnline]

This reminds me of back in the day when stick figure and maple story animations were huge, where people animate against each other in VS matches and then the community votes on who's work is the winning/canon version of the fight.

[@NihlusN7]

I wish I could participate in something interesting as this. I used to draw comics all the time as a teenager but nowadays if I draw a stiff posed character once in a while is too much. Also Lancer is one of the most interesting RPG books I ever read. It's a shame my friends only play D&D

[@Dyllon2012]

Back in the day, I used to RP on forums and it was always interesting how people shaped the narratives together. I like the idea of having multiple people compete to come up with the canon scenario!

[@ianalvord3903]

Original character contests have been a thing on DeviantArt for years.

[@Lightscribe225]

Yeah but now people judge which OC donut steel is best

[@SwitchbackCh]

This reminds me of these old forum art battles, I think it was called EnterVoid! It'd be awesome if they also had the "Lost Tales" version which has the other 50% of battles who lost instead, it'd be a shame to have them be lost to history.

[@lord9026]

My imagination eats once again, my brain will feed on war for rayuba and it will just give me another series of my fantasies. Sure i can't draw but i still have my imagination lol

[@a-klashinkov-4755]

this really made my day, it really put a smile on my face seeing people get organized for something like that

[@sampeters5589]

I love the sass you were giving Quintin in this