State of Decay

Sorry about the delay on the State of Decay!

I had a solid idea but between stuff that happened, some edits I wanted to make, and catching up with work it got delayed.

This month i wanted to talk about flexibility and creativity and how i apply em on my work.

You see, as i have said before i have some sort of pipeline for my works, and while i try to stay true to it, some works require me going back and forth on it. Not long ago i made a poll inquiring if you guys liked the text on the animations, and you did! My theory is that it adds to the "narrative" and makes it feel even more "in game".

Perhaps I'm just speculating hard, but nonetheless, this threw a little wrench onto the pipeline bending it a bit thus resulting in me doing my best Mario cosplay and fixing the pipe, which results in TWO different pipes depending on the need of the scene. Basically i have now an alternate path for when the works require text, as i found out that the text are quite frame consuming and leaves little to no room for something interesting playing out as it takes focus out of the scene.

This is where flexibility for me comes into play, you see, while yoga is fun and all, there's only so much flexibility i can do on the work, bending the premise of what won is usually a hard no for me. So i would put on my wiz hat and robe to make some sorcery and allow my mind to do some good ol' mental gymnastics and find a way to make it work without bending the premise that much.

an example of this is the winner we just got: Teaching Healing. While my original idea was to depict Ralsei in a more assertive position and be all flirty about how to teach Susie Healing resulting in a heavy pounding. There were two conflicts with the idea, the first being that it felt a Lil bit out of character and the second being it kinda made no sense narrative-wise. So flexibility and creativity had to come into place resulting in the new one, Magic Learning. the narrative ends with Susie  now knows how to use the MAGIC command and hence, she will be able to learn Healing in the next works.

Basically, I allow the flexibility of words to come into play when the work requires, and i have to get creative to still fit the themes i put myself into or the ones which won.

This ability to be creative and flexible on the fly has helped me so much before, and it still does, it's a skill that needs a hard grasp on the lesh because the mental gymnastics can take a hard grip on you and become a beast that will take you down on the slippery slope. 

Alright, now, let me put on my wiz hat and robe and see what the

FUTURE HOLDS FOR US.

Milestone Poll #2 Winner: Bunker hill's hijinks.

Voice of the Dead #1 Winner: Night Light City Pounding 

Voice of the Dead #2 Winner: TBP

huh, wait, so little? t-that cant be right. Oh. Of course, silly me. Those are the obligatory ones, we have some other pending works that are coming up on "free time"

but having so low "obligatory" work means, I might be able to work on comms...unless, Oh no. Do you see that on the horizon?

Its...its...creeping up, slightly so...slowly...but what is it?...Oh.

Milestone #3 and, huh? Something in flames that might disrupt my entire life? Nah that cant be right. Let us ignore that for now.

ANYWAYS.

That's the current State of Decay

See you at the next one!