Who is this sexy lass?

Just a sneak peak at something for my Patrons and to show you guys that I'm not just rolling around naked in a pile of patron dollars.

One of my biggest struggles as a game developer is that I'm not a particularly great artist. On one hand, that's not been a huge hurdle because of the rendering technology I use being good at math is a better asset. However, I've always wanted to flesh out the game with some custom art work for various scenes that you may encounter in the game. 

To that end I've been going out and commissioning cheap character designs sketches from various artists to sort out a couple of things:

• Who's easy to work with
• Who can handle the load
• If I like their art or not
• Will they draw NSFW scenes?
• Can they draw backgrounds?

And a bunch of other concerns, including price. 

The screen shot above is a rough sketch from one of those artists to do a concept of a mascot character for the game. I've asked for this because I've also spent some of the Patron funds on getting a domain name (http://www.queenoftheseasgame.com) that currently only points to this Patreon page.

The immediate goal while I suss out these guys is to leverage them to create art assets for what will be a permanent home page for the game, ultimately including our own message boards for QoS  and any other games I may write and probably also hosted versions of the game that people can play online.

Once I figure out what's going on, what stuff costs, who can do what, etc, then I'm going to broaden my horizons and start bringing these art assets into the game including a modding system that will allow you to share your own content packs - an idea that came about because I've seen people already starting to try and do this and I'd like to support my players in this endeavor if I can.

Point being here - I'm an industrious sort of seadog and if you shove doubloons in my hand I'm going to make stuff happen!

Cheers,

Mal