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Claudia Ink (With Video!)

Claudia is the last major character to appear in Chapter 1, well, the last one designed anyway. She's a member of a religious order who was tasked with researching the monster population around Trannadar. Is there more to her than that? Well, yes, but you have to play the game to find out what.

Hund also made a video of him inking her. I've got a bunch of other sketch/ink videos waiting but I want Rune's coloring videos before I post them, so this will have to do.

2017-05-03 12:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Rilmani Sketch w/ "Colors"

Here we see the Rilmani who will be appearing in Chapter 1. This is the "generic" Rilmani, the named characters will have unique images.

Chicken jumped at the chance to make a gothic lolita design. The ears were her original idea to make them less human, and Hund's inked version floofed them up even more.

The hat is very tiny.

Mei's Alraune Sketch

And here we have Mei's Alraune form, as a followup from the previous form posts. These have been inked but not yet colored, so I'll post the colored versions when Rune gets 'rauned to them.

Mei Form Sketches!

Since the colored versions are taking longer than expected, I've decided to post some of the sketchwork for Chapter 1. Here's Mei as a bee, as well as Mei's TF scenes to slime. 

Due to brain problems (Chickenwhite would forget to breathe if not for her brain stem...) there are no process videos for these sketches. Stinkehund, due to his brain problems not including poor memory, did not neglect to record his inks, so those will be released once the coloring is done.

Adventure Mode Prototype 20170403 Release

This blog post contains all the information you will need:

https://hopremastered.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/pandemonium-adventure-release-20170403-release/

This is public for everyone, because I don't have enough patrons to act as a big enough base for testing. Depending on how this goes, future prototypes may or may not be patron-locked.

I don't norm...

High Quality Title Background

Comrades! This is the new background image for the game, made by Stinkehund. The in-game version is at a much lower resolution, so patrons can see all the gritty details without a title overlay.

Darius Blythe - Inking Video, links to images

Bit of an odd situation this time, as neither Chicken nor Rune recorded their process for this character. As such, it's only Hund's lineart video you get to see.

Instead, you can look at the finished copies with your regular old eyes.

https://hopremastered.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/captain_blythe.png

2017-03-25 06:30:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Adventure Mode Demo is Soon

I've sent in my specifications to the artists for what we're going to need for the first Adventure Mode prototype. You can find some details on the blog post.  For those of you currently acting as Patrons, the first prototype will be a full public release since I need help from the general community to bug test it.

For future releases that are Patron only, you will re...

Update to Rewards Tiers

So as a notice to all backers and all those considering backing: We will be doing periodic public releases once we have more parts of the game completed. I expect the first one will be this month, but I can't promise anything because I do contract work and can't guarantee I'll have the needed amount of time in any particular week.

When we do these public releases, it's mostly to help sort out bugs, locate oversights, or get balance testing and suggestions for improvement. During these times, t...

(Public!) Enemy Art - Slime

As a preview for those of you considering becoming Patrons, this is the enemy art for the slime enemy which will be appearing in Chapter 1. Chickenwhite really wanted to do this one, so she went ahead and did the inking and coloring herself. Unfortunately she didn't make a process video, so this will have to suffice.

Slimes come in multiple colors, changing with their emotions or just whenever they want to. Many slimes have no personality whatsoever, and remain as formless masses. The ones tha...

Process Video - Alraune Coloring

And now, Rune gives a coloring video. I wasn't expecting a blue skin tone, but I think it worked out extremely well.

Process Video - Alraune Ink

This is Stinkehund's inking of the Alraune monster. In retrospect, she looks a lot like Poison Ivy from Batman: The Animated Series.

Process Video - Alraune Sketch

So this is another of the new monster species that will be appearing in chapter 1. Some of them are friendly! Most aren't.

Polling Results

All right everyone, our first Patreon Pal Poll has been completed. In this poll, the 5+ patrons voted on which monsters they wanted to see in Chapter 1.

The results? Well, Werecat took 1st place, so that monster will definitely make an appearance.

In 2nd place was a five-way tie between slimes, nixies, draugr, naga, and yuan-ti. I asked the artists to cast a tie-breaker vote, and they voted for slimes. Slimes will thus be the other guaranteed enemy in Chapter 1. Both forms will also be a...

Democracy - Optional Monster Species in Chapter 1

Yes that's right, it's time for you to exercise your right to vote based on how much money you have - just like America!

In Chapter 1 of Adventure Mode, we have several monster species who appear as enemies and can transform Mei, but are not crucial to the plot or theme of the chapter. We can only do a few, so I'm laying them out here to allow Patrons to vote on them.

We will take the poll results under advisement. I can guarantee that the top 2 most popular will be implemented, but afte...

Process Video - Breanne Coloring and Shading

The coloring and shading video of Breanne's process. Once again, I didn't select or specify this color palette, Rune and Chicken did that.  Her final color scheme is quite earthen, which suits her personality and traits very well.

Process Video - Breanne Inking

Wherein the Hund inks Breanne's sketch while some classy music plays. I know Hund personally. He is not this classy.

Process Video - Breanne Sketch

What's this? A new character? Breanne is one of the new characters to appear in Adventure Mode, and is important enough to get her own unique sprite and artistry.

I didn't specify in my description that she was a country girl, but Chicken liked that angle and ran with it, so here it is.

HoP:Remastered 2.00b Released

Version 2.00b has been released to everyone, please see the accompanying page for more.

Patrons (that's you guys!) can expect to see something of an Adventure Mode prototype in March, but I can't say exactly when quite yet. We're still hard at work getting all the art done and getting the game's basic engine in place. Rune has been doing midterms so he's a bit behind on coloring. Once he catches up, there will be some more patron-only videos and art to see.

Meet the Team - Urimas "The Spaceman" Ebonheart

Urimas is our spriter, so I had him put together a sample sheet of some of his work. He's got quite a variety there, including a lot of work for projects that were cancelled, unreleased, or just never existed period.

Urimas is, like me, "From the streets". He is not professionally trained at some art school, he learned to do what he does the old fashioned way - failing a lot.

Recently, I manged to convince him to update to more advanced tools like Paint.net and GIMP, because he was using...

Process Video - Bee Girl Coloring and Shading

Hot off the presses, here's Rune's coloring and shading work for the bee girl, along with the final copy. Now all I have to do is ship these to our spriter and then, you know, actually code world-enemies into the engine.

And then I have to code the cutscene sequence for the player getting defeated.

And then we have to draw character transformation sequences, ink them, and color those.

Lots of work left to do. Enjoy the video!

Process Videos - Bee Girl Inking

Here we have Stinkehund's video of his inking process. When Rune gets around to coloring the bee girl, I will also post that (assuming his recording software works).

Process Videos - Bee Girl sketch

Comrades! I asked the artists if they could record their art process. They did, and now you get to see it. This session was recorded by Chickenwhite a few days ago. Enjoy!

Meet the Team: Rune MFB

The team's colorist and shading artist, Rune MFB is the one I have met most recently. He contacted me in October after version 1.00 was released and wanted to work on the game's art. Looks like he got a lot more than that!

After a sketch is made, Rune provides feedback on the design before it gets sent off to Hund for inking. Once inked, Rune makes any last-second modifications, then does the coloring and shading. After that, I get it and run it through my suite of compression programs to make...

Cultist Character Art

Patrons, this is the first piece of art finished using our new pipeline. Chickenwhite did the sketch, Stinkehund did the inking, and Rune MFB did the coloring and shading. Later this month, once some more art is completed, 5$ patrons will get to provide voted input on the direction of our design choices, so stay tuned.

These cultists are worshippers of Glozrototh, a deity older then the universe itself. While normally a fringe group on Pandemonium, in recent years their membership has been gro...

Meet the Team - Stinkehund

Our resident inker and background artist, Stinkehund has been drawing assorted lewd images for over a decade. I first met him in his capacity as a background artist on my first major project 5 years ago, and we've been good friends ever since.

Hund will be doing the inking work on sketches produced by Chickenwhite, in the interest of making sure the art style remains consistent. He's also going to be making some title and loading images for the game so I don't have to use royalty-free images.<...

Meet the Team: Chickenwhite

First on the introduction posts is sketch-artist Chickenwhite, who will be making our sketches before they go for inking, coloring, and shading. She's the front-line of the development process, working with Rune to develop character designs for the new monsters in Adventure Mode and Enhanced Mode.

Chickenwhite is a major enthusiast of the Lovecraftian mythos, spiders, and snakes. She's been an amatuer artist since her highschool days and started working with me (Salty!) about 5 years ago on my...

Teaser: Sanya's New Design

As a teaser for upcoming content, have a look at one of our designs for Sanya!

This concept was made by incoming artist Chickenwhite and returning artist Rune MFB. We noted that Sanya has consistently landed at the bottom of popularity posts, and decided to revise her design to emphasize he nature a bit more. She's wearing more ribbons and is showing off her friendly, sociable side in this pose.

Do you like this? Hate it? Five-dollar Patrons will have the opportunity to vote on design ch...