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Ideas for Navigator Patron rewards

Hey everyone, how're you all doing?

Good, I hope!

I wanted to ask those of you subbed to navigator and the tiers above something. Namely what would be a reward you are interested in seeing in the Navigator tier?

We've settled into a bit of a rhythm with the other navigator perks, and so I've gotten a better idea of their effect and how they play out.
Thing is, I like the idea of it, but in practice the times where I can make a poll and safely leave decisionmaking outsi...

Snake Character - Navigator Pack

Hey everyone,

hope you are all doing well. I'm melting just a little bit, so apologies if the images are dripping with melted dog. In here we've got the psd file for the recently added snake character.


And of course we got the 25% print coupon :  PUWFQ5
Usable over here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/nomax/

And of course for you navigators we always have the scene suggestion box ope...

Bathhouse - Landsman pack

Hey everyone,

hope you are all doing well. I'm melting just a little bit, so apologies if the images are dripping with melted dog. In here we've got the highres and wallpaper versions for both versions of the bathhouse image. Neither of them is really a good fit for phone crops, but with the Samuel one I at least gave it my best shot. It works...ish...

The communal bathhouse of course including a bunch of our generous Maritime Menagerie supporters!

And of course we got th...

Snake Character - Able Seaman Pack

Hey everyone,

hope you are all doing well. I'm melting just a little bit, so apologies if the images are dripping with melted dog. In here we've got the step by step process for the recently added snake character, as well as the expressions that have been added for him so far.


And of course we got the 15% print coupon : IKKQIU
Usable over here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/nomax/

I hope...

August Q&A/TMI/AMA thing!

Huh, I guess I forgot about this last year...

Anyway, usually it was a bit of a tradition of mine on FA to make a Q&A every august. So since plenty of you are following me over here as well by now as free members or subs I figured why not? Might as well post it here.

It's warm here, i'm melting, and a bit bored ngl. So if you ever had some burning questions then now is your chance. Of course doesn't have to be art related and can be pretty much anything! That's the fun of it a...

A new Character!

Not a main one, mind you. But we needed a dedicated character for a role and so here we got him. :)

Snake boi, because they're fun and why not? We haven't had too many reptiles yet.

Enjoy!

20% off Annual Subscription

Hey everyone!

Today is already a bit of a busy day (sorry for the flood of notifications) with both the Work-in-Progress and the public release. But to make it even busier we've got a special offer running currently.

Since it's my birthday I always try to time something around it, and so currently we have the Annual Subcriptions for all tiers at 20% off. And the offer will run for a week.
This is for both new and existing members, so if you'd like to lock in your support for ...

Work in Progress Update 20 is now available

Hey everyone, 1st of August and to start my Birthday Bonanza we'll begin today with the WIP update for Update 20.

As always for WIP updates first thing's first: !!!DO NOT SAVE IN THE NEW SECTIONS!!!
They are still unfinished and subject to change, so it's very possible that you might end up on wrong paths in the final update, might be missing variables or, in the worst case, the save might just straight up break.

The cheat code for this version is: jackal

Opening for some more quick sketch commissions

EDIT: All Slots are taken! Sorry!

Hey everyone,
Last time worked pretty well, and by now they have arrived at the destination as well. So time for round 2.

These will be experimental graphite sketches. Meaning it'll essentially be you chucking your ref at my head and the rest will be artist's-choice.
And of course, since they're a bit experimental it might vary just how they turn out.
Though they will be different from last time! I've since adjusted the...

Yena Feedback July

Feedback video for Yena for this month. We're continuing our talk about lighting and how to go about it, plus some ideas on what perhaps the next addition could be to push it further.

I hope you all can take something from it as well. :)

Update 19 Preview - Our first custom piece of Music!

One of the coolest additions to Update 19 is no doubt that it's the first time we have a custom piece of music included for the very first time. Courtesy of the one and only: Mando!

Of course don't want to say too much since it's so silly and don't want to ruin the moment there, but we've already ran it past Julian, and let's see his review of it.

There we go! It's got Julian's approval. That'...

Wolf Ruins & Communal Bathhouse - Able Seaman Pack

 Hey everyone,

hope you are all doing well. Middle of the month so we got one of these little packs again. In here we've got the step by step process for both the communal bathhouse picture and the Wolf ruins. 

And of course we got the 15% print coupon :  GCYNHMAR
Usable over here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/nomax/

I hope you enjoy it, and thank you very much for your suppo...

Wolf Ruins & Bathhouse - Navigator Pack

Hey everyone,

hope you are all doing well. Middle of the month so we got one of these little packs again. In here we've got the PSD for both the Bathhouse picture and the Wolf Ruins. With the bathhouse of course being mostly about the communal bathhouse being finished this time around, but it of course also includes Samuel still. Since it's the same psd file.

And of course we got the 25% print coupon :  KDUE3II
Usable over here: 2025-07-15 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Bioluminescence Sam & Julian - Landsman Pack

Hey everyone,

hope you are all doing well. Middle of the month so we got one of these little packs again. In here we've got the highres and wallpaper versions for the second bioluminescence variant. I've also finally updated the resolution to newer phone screens... and especially the height of these bad boys. So yeah, just a taller vertical format so that it hopefully should fit a bit easier on phone screens for the next couple of years.

And of course we got the 10% print coupo...

And already have to close the sketch comms

Since so many of you reached out i think this is the easier way to let everyone know that I've made my picks for now and sent a private message on patreon.
I stuck a bit closer to my comfort zone for now, since they're the first ones I'll do as commissions. But yeah, there'll very likely be some openings in the future.

But yes, for now thank you everyone!

Opening for some quick sketch commissions

Hey everyone,
I'm opening up for some traditional sketch commissions. I'll have a bit of a thing going on at EF and want to put in a couple of training miles beforehand.

So these will be experimental graphite sketches. Meaning it'll essentially be you chucking your ref at my head and the rest will be artist's-choice.
And of course, since they're a bit experimental it might vary just how they turn out. I've attached some examples but you can see that they also vary a bit in styl...

Blink and you'll miss it

Got a new addition coming to Update 20!
Animations had been fallen off a bit when i realized with the tails just how taxing they are in Renpy. That engine does not like having to load animations unfortunately...
With that, they were pushed to a lower priority. Where we now have to be a bit more considerate with what we animate to avoid things slowing down or becoming difficult to handle for mobile devices.

Of course we do provide the option to turn them off if they cause problems...

Feedback videos - June

Hey everyone, I've got two June feedback videos for you today. Bit late but they hardly go bad, do they?

The embedded one is for Yena where we're talking about some adjustments we might do to the background, and the second one linked below (since it's nsf-youtube) was made for Djano, and we're talking a bit about lighting and cable management! :D

https://drive.g...

Early Bird - Wolf Ruins

They got done pretty close to the release of the update, so i figured I'd just leave it as a little bit of a surprise rather than pushing them on here and then the update a few days after.

But since the update is out for you all now we might as well get to the Wolf paintings! Enjoy :)

Update 19 is now available to paid supporters

Hey everyone, just doing a quick notification post that Update 19 of Conway has just released to supporters. :)

In it we're continuing on our Morocco adventures for Samuel & Wolf where we left off last time. Risk of getting steamy, but perhaps it's just the hot water.

Conway Update 19 is now available!

Hey everyone and happy melt-day...
This one needed a good bit of overtime to get over the line in time, but at least I think it was very much worth it. So don't mind me just sleeping through the heatwave over in the corner there after this has been released. (Honestly, quite glad the worst part of the heat wave is starting now and not when I was still trying to get things done. So I'll take it.)

As far as new writing goes this is actually a surprisingly chonky one. We decided to ho...

Early Bird - Maritime Menagerie Bathhouse

Incredibly busy with the update preparations currently, so I don't have the energy to write much. Here is the Maritime Menagerie version of the Bathhouse scene.

Including, left to right our generous supporters:
Vorrel - Warrener - Julian - Ace Skystrike - Haru

Biblically Accurate Wolf

Unveiling the most important addition to Update 19. Finally we have ascended and can enjoy some biblically accurate Wolf.

(Actually was weirdly annoying to make, since renpy doesn't enjoy you using duplicates of the same image file at the same time. So this is not quite as elegant of a solution as it could be, but it does the job.)

Navigator Poll: Writing Priority Update 20

Hey everyone! With us reaching the tail-end of Update 19 I've been thinking of what I myself should take on as writing duties for the next Update? This Update has been very art heavy for me, so I absolutely want to do some writing again. But what exactly? Well that, I think, is perfect to toss up for a vote to you Navigators!

We've got two options that need to be tackled sooner or later:

#1 is continuing the route that deals with leaving the ship. It's been laying dormant for a...

Samuel Bathhouse - Able Seaman Pack

Hey everyone,

hope you are all doing well. Middle of the month so we got one of these little packs again. In here we've got the step by step process for the Samuel Bathhouse picture, along with two previews for upcoming picture. One being an entirely new one, and the other the WIP of the Bathhouse version with the Maritime Menagerie cast.

And of course we got the 15% print coupon : YGTHVAE
Usable over here: 2025-06-15 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Samuel Bathhouse - Navigator Pack

Hey everyone,

hope you are all doing well. Middle of the month so we got one of these little packs again. In here we've got the PSD for the Samuel Bathhouse Picture. And since it's sharing the same file, the current wip of the Maritime Menagerie version is here as well.

And of course we got the 25% print coupon :  G33LUM
Usable over here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/nomax/

And of cour...

Update 19 Preview

My work for Update 19 is mostly focused on art, which does make it a little bit more difficult to come up with interesting previews at this point. Since nothing much actually changed about the game just yet. But let's see, maybe a bit of a crop will do as a tease-preview?
The WIP version of it is used in the support banner on itch already, but this one's based on the actual final painting. :)

Early Bird - Samuel Bathhouse Artwork

We got some art for Update 19. As last time, putting it into the attachment area so it's not immediately displayed in the post. Just to make sure those of you who prefer to see it in its intended environment, once the update releases, don't just stumble over it.

But yeah, first of a couple of pieces for Update 19. Enough to where i'm not actually sure i'll make it in time. We'll see. Samuel in this case, and very much on the spicier end. Perhaps not unsurprising given the bathhouse env...

Update 18 is available now

Hey everyone! Hope sunday is treating you well so far.
If it's a little stubborn then maybe we can help out with Update 18 of Conway, titled "Blue Seas."

And well, what can I say? I think it's a good one!

So yes, it's available right now. You can play it at the link below, and if you'd like to see the changelog for this update you can find it here:
https://nomaxart.it...

Work in Progress Update 19 is now available

Hey everyone! 1st of the month so I'm torturing myself through getting things ready on a sunday for you all.
Part of it is my fault tbh, at least the Patreon and Substar posts I could have just scheduled ahead of time...

Oh well...

As always for WIP updates first thing's first: !!!DO NOT SAVE IN THE NEW SECTIONS!!!
They are still unfinished and subject to change, so it's very possible that you might end up on wrong paths in the final update, might be mi...