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Original oil painting for sale

Heyo, got some rather large expenses coming up, so scraping together what I've got to hopefully make it a bit less stressfully tight. :') Posted on bsky and FA but figured, hey, you all like my stuff, so might as well see if anyone's interested in it over here.

So I'm looking to part with this oil painting of mine for 500$ or highest offer. 18x24 cm in size.

I'll cover shipping on offers over 600$.

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Work in Progress Update 16 is now available

Hey everyone!

Let's tackle this last month of the year, and what better way to tackle it than with some more Conway?! :D

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 possible that you might end up on wrong paths in the final update or, in the worst case, the save might ju...

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Feedback for Djano, November 24

And we got this month's feedback video for Djano. A tricky subject here, namely painting a waterfall and someone sitting under it. So it's less about a specific topic and more just general talk about stuff while painting it.

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A horse, lizard, wolf, painted dog, cheetah and maned wolf enter a TTRPG bar

Alright, let's do something silly and fun.
You DM a table of DnD table of 6, with the main cast being your players. Which classes (and subclasses if you want to get really in depth) would they pick in your view?

Bard Rajeeyah so that she can endlessly roleplay with the NPCs? Maybe a good ol' Barbarian for Sam to just let loose and shout at things?

How would the party at your table look? And which adventure would you bring along for them?!

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Early Bird - Arthur Service

One of the incoming scenes for Update 16 will be the one path that was still left unfinished during the section where you're trying to convince Arthur. And it's one that needs a bit of art to go along with it. So here we got one part already, the art. And come the release of Update 16 you'll get the scene written by Televassi along with it! :D

So gotta sit patiently for a little longer.

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Update 15 sneak peek - tails!

With Update 15 we're at the end of our tail saga, with Rajeeyah and Arthur getting theirs.
So here you go, have a little peek at them. :D

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Arthur nude sprite

Some of you maybe already could have guessed, given one of the options during Arthur's convincing scene that is still unfinished, but there'll be something for the Arthur enjoyers in update 16 (barring any unforeseen difficulties).
So I figured we might as well get you all warmed up with the nude sprite for the big horse!

Enjoy :) 

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A little new perk added to the Above and Beyond tier

Hey lads,

just realized that I can actually hand out gift links nowadays, so I figured I should make use of that in some way.

Going forward the Above & Beyond tier will allow you to bring a friend. Meaning that you will get a special promotion link for a full year of the Able Seaman tier entirely for free.

So if you know someone who enjoys the game or my art in general, well then now you can have them tag along!

That's all for now but perhaps variations of this...

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October 2024 Feedback Video - Djano

A bit late but we got there in the end. In here we're talking mainly about posing and trying to make them dynamic. It's not really one of my strong suits, especially not currently where i draw so little with the game being the focus, but hey, maybe you'll take something away from it.

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Poll for potential Morocco Scenes

Hey everyone!

A little while ago I asked you to send in some suggestions for potential Morocco Scenes. Well, I think it is time to collect them and put them up for a vote.

This won't necessarily a winner-gets-all poll, but rather a feeling for the temperature on each scene so that we then can make decisions of which to give the highest priority when trying to fit it in.

So yes, you have multiple choices, and can pick all the ones you think sound fun!

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A little peek into Update 15

Hey peeps!
Have been doing the posts for the others, and figured that if you already are nice enough to follow me here then I may as well give you a little peek into Update 15.


One thing that makes the style of the VN work is that we're working with some panorama backgrounds, which lets us rotate the viewpoint around. It's actually quite helpful just to switch things around every now and then during a scene so that, particularly in solo scenes you're not just staring at a chara...

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Conway Update 15 is now available!

Hey everyone. Update 15 is upon us. So grab some hot chocolate/tea/coffee and enjoy those autumn days with us!

As always, of course, if you encounter any Bugs/Typos/Whatever, please let me know, so that I can sort them out. :)

Download link for the Update:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/al9dwttfo1xtk/Conway+v15

The cheat...

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Update 15 Preview: Welcome James Kelly

Hey everyone, since it is update day for those in the other tiers, i didn't want to let you sitting here empty handed. How about a little peek into another little thing that'll be coming with it, once it hits the public in another month?

So, the first time you load into into your save in update 15 you will be greeted with this window message:
 

Yep! You'll be asked to pick your last/f...

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Have some panorama backgrounds!

I realize that i rarely actually put these up, because whenever i actually create them they feel very much like a necessity to make the scene work, rather than something cool that is getting done.
But i suppose they might be cool!

Since we introduced the panoramic backgrounds we've added a few more. Here they are as they appear in game. We even ended up having one animated one, for the scene under the row boat, since the rain animation we do already have in the game of course would ...

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Small change to how the passage of time will be displayed

Just figured I'd plop in a post about a small change coming to update 15. During the timeskip screens, we switched from showing just "Day X" to where they'll now display the full date instead. With the 6th of June being the first day in the game.

Initially i went with the counting up of the days because i felt it was was a pretty common way of doing it in the VN space. But i think for the feeling we're going for, actual dates will be more immersive.
Much more fun to have an actual d...

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Poll for James' family name

Heyo Navigators!

Fiddling around with some new feature here that i wanted to bring in for a little while, and that is an actual last/family name for James.

Again one of those things that was hindered by my lack of coding ability and time pressure at the time. So i only managed to implement one name. Now I really want to get away from Arthur just calling you "recruit" all the time, and actually go Mr. Last Name instead, as would be custom at the time.

So, what is the poll ...

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Aryte - 5$ tier

Hey everyone. October time and it's getting fittingly cold, brrr. Gotta get used to that first after all those summer month. Always a great time to go on some walks in the forest though, so that is always a lovely time.

Anyway, in here we got the step by step progress shots for the recently finished Aryte Maritime Menagerie Character.

And of course as always we also have the 15% off prints coupon: IW8AROFA

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Aryte - 10$ tier

Hey everyone. October time and it's getting fittingly cold, brrr. Gotta get used to that first after all those summer month. Always a great time to go on some walks in the forest though, so that is always a lovely time.

Anyway, in here we got the PSD file for the Aryte Maritime Menagerie Character

And of course as always we also have the 25% off prints coupon: 5RQAVZ

Usable over here: https://www.in...

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Reggie - 2$ tier

Hey everyone. October time and it's getting fittingly cold, brrr. Gotta get used to that first after all those summer month. Always a great time to go on some walks in the forest though, so that is always a lovely time.

Anyway, in here we got the high res files for our recent Maritime Menagerie addition of Reggie. Both in full body and in cropped.

And of course as always we also have the 10% off prints coupon: L5BBLJE

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Maritime Menagerie Character - Aryte

And here we got the final version for the character. As usual, neutral and sunshine version, though we'll probably only be needing the sunshine one for these.

Enjoy :)

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Aryte Maritime Menagerie WIP

Got another supporter character in the works, this time for Aryte, as we're beginning laying some groundwork ahead of time, and get some minor characters in and ready for the Morocco portion of the game. :)

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Scene suggestions for the Morocco section

Hey there, Navigators!


We're getting close to making landfall, and so after this day is done, Morocco will be the next section for us to work on.
In prepration for that I figured it'd be fun to let you have a bit of a say in it and so I wanted to open a suggestion form specifically for Morocco. I am looking for brief & general ideas for locations and activities that you'd like to see!

E.g:
Desert - Collecting plants with Nomax
In the city - working, bringing the...

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Djano September feedback video

A bit delayed because of eurofurence, but finally sat down with Djano's feedback video for the month.

In this one it's mostly about color relations as Djano feels that somewhere along the way he lost the feeling of the character actually appearing as if his fur is black and white.

And of course as Navigator+ Patrons, you can always submit scene ideas for Conway over here:
https://forms.gle/g89zwFwESJGegwy...

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Conway Update 14 is now available!

Hey everyone!

Update 14 has just been released to the public for you all to enjoy! We've made it past the unlucky 13 without a hitch, so it should be smooth sailing from now on, right?

As always, you can play it by just updating it in your itch app, or manually download it here: https://nomaxart.itch.io/conway

As always, of course first of all thank you all so much for your support, particularly to...

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Work in Progress Update 15 is now available!

Hey everyone!

Back from Eurofurence and of course got the work-in-progress update at the ready.

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 possible that you might end up on wrong paths in the final update or, in the worst case, the save might just straight up break.

The cheat code for this version is: leopard

You can download the game here:
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Reggie - 5$ tier

Hey everyone!

It's the 15th so we've got our little content pack. This time with the step by step of the recent character sprite for Vorrel!


I hope you'll enjoy them!

And then of course we also have the 15% discount code for prints: GBHQB12D
Usable over here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/nomax/

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Reggie - 10$ tier

Hey everyone!

It's the 15th so we've got our little content pack. This time with the PSD file of the recent character sprite for Vorrel!

No Rebelle used here because I don't actually know how well it would handle something that isn't like a fully covered 4 sided painting. And didn't want to test it on this picture.

I hope you'll enjoy them!

And then of course we also have the 25% discount code for prints: YEXODJL
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Early Bird - Reggie

We have another character from our lovely Maritime Menagerie Supporters. Namely Vorrel's Reggie!
Since we're steering right towards Morocco I figured it's a good idea to start a little ahead of time getting some of the local minor NPCs done. And well, here we are, with Reggie being the first.

So be nice, and say hello to Reggie!

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Fancy New Text!

Lmao, Renpy's recent version includes native text shaders. So here i present you: Conway's new look! lmao :D

Conway, now 100% more groovy

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Update 14 preview - More tails!

As mentioned before, we're aiming for 2 tails for each update currently. So Samuel & Julian will be the new additions for update 14, leaving only Rajeeyah and Arthur coming for Update 15.

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