gaia

Kickstarter for Gaia anthology + making-of and art book

As you know, our fantasy comic Gaia will soon come to an end.

On this occasion, we’ll publish an anthology which collects all 950 comic pages in two massive A4 hardcover volumes. Additionally, we’ll publish a supplementary book which contains a detailed making-of and beautiful artwork by over 50 artists on around 100 pages.

The Sandra and Woo books are available again too! This time as hardcove...

Massive update of download archives

After all the work for the Sandra and Woo Kickstarter campaign, I’ve finally found the time to update all the download archives for Gaia. I did not only add download archives for all the missing months of the last year, but also updated the existing download archives:

• I created files containing the content of each full year from 2011 to 2018 to reduce the number of necessary downloads considerably. The download archives for the original pages are still delivere...
  2019-07-09 00:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post

News regarding wallpapers

I have now written the job application, including a summary for each commission idea. However, the detailed descriptions are still missing. I guess that writing them will take at least 8 hours. I hope I’ll be able to write half of them next week and the next half in the week after that.

News regarding wallpapers

I have come up with 15 wallpaper ideas for Sandra and Woo and also 15 for Gaia. Some of them are based on your suggestions. It will now take some time to prepare the full job offer, including a detailed description for every single wallpaper. I have reserved $2500 for the first batch of wallpapers. I guess that it will consist of around 15 to 20 wallpapers, based on the yet unknown commission rates of the artists I will commission. I will try to commission an equal amount of wallpapers for Sand...

Updating only once next week

There’s been a medical emergency in Powree’s family which is one of the main reasons of our current troubles to meet our release dates. Therefore I decided to update the comic only once next week. I hope this measure will give her enough preparation time to be able to meet our usual update schedule of two pages a week again.

Building buffer

I was able to finish the script of 7 new Gaia pages this weekend. The flow of events gave me a headache for a while, but I think I came up with a good solution. This means we finally have a little buffer again. I'm not sure if the page for Friday will be finished in time, though.

What to do with user posts?

Users are able to post on this activity stream as you can see below. Now I’m asking myself what to do with these posts. At the moment I think about deleting them if they don’t contain a question or something else relevant for a lot of other users. This way the activity stream only contains relevant news about new available artwork, etc. What do you think?

Planned activities

Here is a list of activities that I plan to work on in the near future: High-priority topics: - Create a buffer of comic scripts again: My buffer of finished scripts is currently extremely low since I had to spend so much on preparing the Patreon campaign. I now need to make sure that there are always enough scripts for Powree to work on. - Upload the remaining artwork: It will certainly take me the whole month of March to collect and upload all the missing artwork. But I’m continuously w...

Login widget + editing comments

There is now a login widget in the right sidebar of our website. I’ve been looking into allowing patrons to edit their own comments on our website. But WordPress doesn’t make this possible and I’m not convinced that the plugin I found is a good solution. I may have to program something myself, and I currently don’t have time for that.