Hey everyone! Hope you are all doing alright.
We skipped the middle-of-the-month preview last time around. Being out and about and returning on the 15th or so, it felt like the time was better used on the game itself, and also, I just didn't quite know well enough what the month would even become. The first few days of each month usually involve some planning, some tying up loose ends from the last update, like stuff that didn't quite make it for example. And of course, the character Po...
2023-09-15 11:59:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Hope you are all doing alright?
We skipped the middle-of-the-month preview last time around. Being out and about and returning on the 15th or so, It just felt like the time was better used on the game itself, and also I just didn't quite know well enough what the month would even become. With the first few days of each month usually involve some planning, some tying up loose ends from the last update, like stuff that didn't quite make it for example. And of course, the ch...
2023-09-15 11:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I made some Ship's Biscuits. That's all.
Just was curious and went fuck it, might as well, so here we are!
Not as coarse and wholegrain-y as they likely would have been back then, but I had to make do with the flours they had available at my store.
Tastes about as boring as you expect! Even soaked in a soup for a while still just the hardest, densest, most tasteless bread you can imagine.
Success!
2023-09-14 17:35:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey, hope you are doing alright there?
We got some goodies for you today! PSD files for Diceroll and Schwartz of course, and also for the Wolf redesign. The last one is perhaps not quite so interesting since it's just an even messier version of the old Wolf PSD file, but hey, it's there if you want to get very confused!
And of course we got the print discount too, with 25% for this code : YZHRTU8
Which you can use here: 2023-09-10 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey, hope you are doing alright there?
We got some goodies for you today! Step by step versions for both the diceroll image and the recently published Patreon Character Schwartz!
And of course we got the print discount too, with 15% for this code : M8GZCW
Which you can use here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/nomax/
I hope you'll enjoy this pack and thank you very very much for your...
2023-09-10 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey, hope you are doing alright there?
We got some goodies for you today! Highres and wallpaper versions of both Konrad and the recently released Nomax Cabin image. Well, i mean i guess it was released for quite a while in the game, but now it was time for the world to see it and so fancy highres PNG and phone wallpaper it is. Actually quite like this upright version. I thoguht i might have to do more to it, but when i turned it around i just went "huh, that looks really good in th...
2023-09-10 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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And here we go, #2 of the Supporter Characters, this time we got an Otter to add to the Conway crew called Schwartz.
Actually quite happy with this one. I always really struggle with otters, just their head shape is so difficult to adapt to anthro characters while retaining their otter-ness and not just slip into the trap of having 'em look like a dog and I just think it worked out quite neatly here.
But yeah, this will be the only character sprite this month and I'll be skipping do...
2023-09-09 08:15:24 +0000 UTC
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pulled another character out of the hat this month, and T987-A5256-B85-ZRR won, with their character Schwartz who will be a minor crew character on the ship.
2023-09-06 10:35:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
A bit of a fun thing about this project is just how long-term it is. That means of course, that it does develop and take shape over time, and one gains new insights, perhaps a clearer understanding of the direction one wants to take with it.
And that is especially true for the period from the initial release until now. Those first few months, where you put the building blocks into place and kind of move on.
Now we've reached a point where all in all the game is in ...
2023-09-02 16:13:49 +0000 UTC
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Ohhh, hey folks! How is everyone? Good, I hope?
Well, no matter what the answer to that may be, the one thing that I can guarantee is that I've got a swell treat for you all!
We've reached update 7, and boy, is it one I'm excited about! This just feels like an all-around good one, just a month where everything that was planned worked out pretty smoothly and I'm actually prepping this post on the 30th. So it's all done and dusted ahead of time!
So what is it that I...
2023-09-01 15:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Hey you all. With the next public version being close at hand, why not give a bit of a taste of what to expect?
Art-wise we got a neat change! We had it for Arthur already, but now all the characters have got their own sunlit sprites! So here ya go, a before and after. They're not quite perfect and will receive some polishing over time, but I think it works quite nicely to give more of a sense of place. So be patient for a few more days and you can see them in action. :)
2023-08-29 13:06:33 +0000 UTC
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After having rid the game of the quiet during the playtime, we now also got rid of the quiet during the menu!
With a piece that plays into the longing for the open sea of, in particular, the main character. And also having the feeling of potentially being played by someone on the ship itself, with the slow movement of calm days at sea. No massive orchestra, just a violin first and foremost. And while a piano is included as well, it's enough of a background support instrument that I think i...
2023-08-29 13:01:54 +0000 UTC
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A quick one that I managed to get ready for this update still. Not every piece of art has to be a big character moment after all, and illustrating this dice game I think will do well to just break up the whole "looking at character sprites" thing quite nicely.
I mentioned a new little feature in a couple of places, and this is what I've been talking about. Again it's nothing massive by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm just happy with any new coding effort I manage to figure out....
2023-08-26 13:54:58 +0000 UTC
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I kind of posted this on most platforms of mine already, so chances are you've seen it already. But what the heck, doesn't hurt to post it over here as well? Perhaps you just feel like having it be a bit of a more private circle for your question or something.
It's August and I've had this tradition for years now on other platforms where I'll open up a journal for any questions every August.
So hey, it's warm here, I'm melting, and a bit bored ngl. If you ever had some burning ques...
2023-08-21 07:57:09 +0000 UTC
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A little late to the party. I try to sort these out for the 15th, but with my little mini-vacation occupying me from the 11th to the 16th I just wasn't quite sure what exactly can be done this month.
And all in all the new update will be a pretty simple one. The past two months I've fiddled and tweaked stuff here and there because I let others take over the writing duty as I experimented with that. Yet of course I started this project to be able to do things that go beyond art, to expl...
2023-08-19 06:50:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Hope you are all doing well. Gonna be having a bit of a mini-convention with a couple of friends, so I'll be gone until the 15th. Before that though, I shall bring you the first pack of this month!
In this one, we'll of course round things out with the PSD files for both of these :)
Also, continuing on with our little sales throughout August, next up we've got some prints on offer! Of course usually you'd get the patreon discount, but for a week everyo...
2023-08-10 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Hope you are all doing well. Gonna be having a bit of a mini-convention with a couple of friends, so I'll be gone until the 15th. Before that though, I shall bring you the first pack of this month!
In this one, you'll find step by steps for these two pictures, along with a topless version of Perce because after I uploaded the last one I realized that he'd probably not sit in bed fully dressed, would he? So I had to get that sorted.
Also, continuing on wi...
2023-08-10 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Hope you are all doing well.
Gonna be having a bit of a mini-convention with a couple of friends, so I'll be gone until the 15th. Before that though, I shall bring you the first pack of this month!
In this one, you'll find highres and wallpaper versions for both the Arthur Sprite and the one for The Senate.
Also, continuing on with our little sales throughout August, next up we've got some prints on offer! Of course usually you'd get the patreon discount,
2023-08-10 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Introducing Perce "Oh no, he's hot" Blackborow.
You know, I thought that I shouldn't really make the side characters too appealing? Like, to not cause some competition with the main cast. But then I just sit down and go woopdie-do, let's put in a little bit of that, maybe the fur goes like that aaaaaand ohno, he's hot.
Also honestly the quality of some of these latter characters just is above some of the main cast which is a bit odd, but I guess just the nature of it with me becomin...
2023-08-07 14:54:54 +0000 UTC
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The first of the characters for the Maritime Menagerie tier and above. The Senate was the first who was drawn, and since no background characters for scenes were needed just now I ended up going with a character sprite instead.
It's a bit of a short cameo currently, since it's only at the beginning of the docks, but we'll find spots to get her some more screen-time later on, I'm sure.
So thank you for The Senate, and of course thank you to everyone else who's subbed at the tier ...
2023-08-02 12:10:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey you wonderful people.
I don't really do big sales this and that very often because I always hate advertising them... Feels so pushy. (which is probably why I'm not a great merch artist.)
But with today being my birthday, I figured that may be a good enough excuse for me to make August into a bit of a sale month!
And starting off we do have a sale on the yearly Patreon subs, so if you want to grab a full year of Patreon goodies, then you can do so from now until the 7th of...
2023-08-01 13:19:33 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! It's the birthday update, well at least for all you special peeps. For the others I guess update 5 is the birthday one.
But we did indeed make it!
Leading with the bad news, Story-wise this one is unfortunately a bit light. I had hoped things would even out a bit after the last update, which, honestly was rather packed in retrospect. But unfortunately real-life turbulences persisted and the writing ended up coming up a bit short.
It feels a bit ...
2023-08-01 08:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey, Konrad won the last one and he really turned out to be a treat, so let's see who is next in line of the minor characters to get their proper art treatment.
Same characters in the running of course, just making your choice easier with only 3 remaining.
Torres, our birb, Bandile as bun cooking the buns! And Perce, as the surprise Jackal since he doesn't even have a placeholder sprite yet!
Dear me, what a ragtag group they'd be. Maybe Perce would be invisible ...
2023-07-31 13:47:19 +0000 UTC
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Ah, why not throw these silly things up here!
These have been such dumb fun. Of course none of them take very long, they're meant to be dumb and silly after all, so it's only ever a very brief burst of silly fun, but hey, that's still good!
getting to find the story and feeling for whatever pictures I get sent of someone's little friend is such a treat. :D
These are the Pet portraits for the Maritime Menagerie that I've made this month!
Enjoy those adorable dorks!
2023-07-28 10:26:25 +0000 UTC
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Drew the first one for the background character perk of the 25$ tier. The Senate was the lucky winner, and so Ayllinwe Sabari will become one of the dock workers in the early part of the game. (And then probably some other spots later on, too. Chances are these minor character sprites will find some re-use.)
2023-07-27 07:39:24 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey everyone!
In here we of course got the step by steps and sketches for the recently finished scene of Sam getting patched up. Was a bit of a toughie, and paintings always can be so weird like that. Some just flow so nicely and you get them done within a day or two, and others? Molasses, pure molasses!
I still have to get into a bit of an understanding of what works well for the VN as far as the scenes go, and just finding the flow with the art. But that's al...
2023-07-25 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey everyone!
In here we of course got the step by steps and sketches for the recently finished scene of Sam getting patched up. Was a bit of a toughie, and paintings always can be so weird like that. Some just flow so nicely and you get them done within a day or two, and others? Molasses, pure molasses!
I still have to get into a bit of an understanding of what works well for the VN as far as the scenes go, and just finding the flow with the art. But that's always how it go...
2023-07-25 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey everone!
Actually not sure if this one was in a 2$ pack before or not... it's a bit of weird one where this has been teased publically before, and not has been released properly publically. So I'm not sure if i included it back when i first teased it or not. But oh well, who would complain about having too much Samuel?
So here, enjoy some high quality Sam!
Thank you very very much for your support, everyone!
2023-07-25 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I always named these "early birds" before, but that doesn't really work anymore, does it? They're not really regularly released artworks anymore and their context is entirely different now as well.
So I think a bit of a name change is in order for these art uploads. Conway Scene should work fine I guess, it'll always be artwork for the upcoming release, so people can just easily tell what type of post it is and if they want to open it up or rather wait and see the artwork in the contex...
2023-07-22 11:43:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone.
It's been roughly half a year with the game, I started it back in January with my experimental month, and sure, there was the month where I've worked to collect some funds, but let's just keep it simple.
Are you ready for some rambling? Well, you better! Stream of consciousness time here, so strap in.
For the most part this post really is a thank you post to you all. Especially these past two months it's picked up some steam and we've made very good progress...
2023-07-21 08:33:42 +0000 UTC
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