carpetwurm

Patreon Overhaul - New Tiers!

I've been planning to do this for a while, so I figured now would be a good time to overhaul the way my patreon will work from here on out. I do have more plans for the future (mainly, sending out physical rewards) but they'll have to wait until I have more time, so consider this update 2.0 alpha.

New Tiers

The tiers now range between $1-$20, instead of $1-$8, and (hopefully) have been more balanced to reflect their prices. (Eventually, I want to add more to the $10 a...

Life update, Tailbound, etc.

I haven't really written here in a while- nor have I really had time to honestly, but I figured I'd write about what's been going on and my current plans.

Back at the beginning of March, my boyfriend's dad passed away and we inherited some of his land to live on. It took us until May to really get set up, but now we're living here (more or less) comfortably, albeit with far worse internet speeds. Aside from how busy we've been with that, I also had to go back to Detroit for a while to v...

Small Update

Wanted to say that I know it doesn't seem like I've been doing a lot since finishing Checker Chains, and need to explain what's going on. Basically, I've been developing new comic ideas while doing some soul searching, in order to make sure I'm really doing what I need to be doing creatively.

I've come up with a good idea that I want to pursue as a comic, and have its plot and characters outlined so far. I've decided to really focus on drawing the sort of stories I want to draw, no matt...

Commission for Korin

pog

Karma

drawing of the antagonist for the next comic

Fen

artwork of the protagonist for my next comic

Traditional Inks

I know this isn't a lot, but I've been spending the last week learning traditional while writing the next comic. Still trying to get the hang of using a g-pen in real life

Commission for Taylor

joe joes crazy quest

Checker Chains (19-31) [END]

Welp there it is, my first ever finished (sfw) one-shot. I think it has (allot of) flaws, so I hope to fix the things I personally see wrong with it in my next comic. Leave any criticism/advice in the replies if you wanna.

I'll probably upload a collected version w/ the raw manuscript and rough script for $4+ tiers tomorrow.

Checker Chains (6-18, Cover, Author Notes)

I forgot to upload these beforehand, but I've been posting the comic online now on Webtoon and e621. I'm aiming to finish the rest of the pages on the 23rd, but I'm not 100% sure if it'll happen.

Checker Chains | WEBTOON (webtoons.com)

Pool - Checker Chains (Carpetwurm) - e621

Happy Lonely Home

i told my twitter followers i'd draw my favorite ac character if they could guess them (in poll format) so here's that

Checker Chains (1-5)

First 5 pages of the new comic I've been working on, thinking about when to start posting pages publicly. I want to start publishing them soon, but I also need to do a cover page first... I'm planning to just upload these pages to e621 in full res, since it's a SFW comic anyway.

Anubis

death doggy

Like a Dragon (Quest)

tried tapping into my inner toriyama on this one

DOG NINGEN

fanart of: https://mangadex.org/title/43521/

Richter

What is a Belmont? A miserable little pile of wall chicken.

EASY BEACH

basic t-shirt design for my big brother's band, though i dunno if he'll actually use it

https://easybeach.bandcamp.com/

(Hopefully) Last tier update for a while

As mentioned in the last announcement, I wanted to tweak the tiers one last time. Hopefully this is a bit more balanced, and generally, it isn't that much different than what was there before. (Largest changes being the price of the Discord server, along with a flat $10 commission discount instead of nulling additional fees. Since really, there were only two additional fees to begin with...

The Plan

You can't please everyone, and at this point I feel like I can't please anyone, so I did some thinking and listened to myself for a change. I'll be focusing solely on the JoJo doujin, and once it's done I'll be changing some things a bit.

First of all, I probably won't do another porn comic for a while, it depends on how this current one plays out. Instead, I want to start focusing on doing more commissions, rather than long-term porn projects or trying to somehow get patrons v...

Opinion Poll

i can't really tell what you guys want from me, so here's a poll. feel free to comment with your thoughts if i'm missing something

Switch Act CH1 (Pages 3 and 4)

thought i'd start uploading these pages here in full res since they aren't available anywhere else, though i'll stop if you don't want me to

Switch Act CH1 (Cover, P1, P2, +Clean Cover Art)

Here's the beginning of the next chapter of Switch Act. You can catch up on the comic on Tapas, QuestDen, and now Webtoon as well! (As a bonus, here's the uncropped and clean cover art as well.)

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/switch-act/list?title_no=534255

https://tapas.io/series/Switch-Act<...

Freelance Police

Not suggested by anyone, I just wanted to draw some fanart

Moontide Reveal Trailer / Alpha Build

The reveal trailer for the game is finally finished!

Also, I've changed the tier rewards a little bit. All patrons for $1 (or more) can now download the game's alpha build here: https://carpetwurm.itch.io/moontide/patreon-access

Since I only plan on selling the game for five or ten bucks, I lowered the pre-order copy tier to $4. To make up for it, $8 patrons will now get their names in the c...

July Devlog

Alright, time for the first full devlog since... What, April? Christ...

Anyway as most of you probably know, I spent the entire last 3 months working in the first real island of the game. This included new tiles, NPCs, enemies, mechanics, characters, and even a new crewmate! It'd be kind of boring to explain a lot of these things in detail, so I'll try summarizing most of the major things added. (Also, I might've shown a few of these things off already on here, so bear with me if I end ...

July Update

Hey everyone, sorry again for the lack of updates last month. I've been incredibly busy trying to finish up the first area in Moontide, and have mostly been keeping to the Discord server for small updates. Development has been a little slower than expected, but I still aim to have the playtest build ready sometime this month. (Hopefully before I turn 20 on the 15th.)

The game is really starting to come together now in terms of mechanics however, and things are beginning to take shape. L...

May Development Summary

Just writing a quick post to update everyone on what's currently going on with Moontide's development.

This month has been relatively slow compared to the previous few months, now that I'm working on adding the first real island to the game. No new mechanics or anything have been added (yet) and the new maps, while tiled and laid out, don't have collision mapping at the moment. Howev...

Discord

Since the game is nearing the alpha-phase of development, and I still feel bad for not being able to offer much, I opened a private Discord specifically only for Patrons. This server will be open to anyone who pledges anything, and on top of that, I won't be kicking those who pull their pledge. (Well, unless you get caught in a prune.) This is due to the fact that having this Discord will also help me keep track of who has pledged in the past, making the delivery of Moontide keys for Patrons ...

April Devlog

Hey everyone! As you guys know, I've been pretty wrapped up in developing Moontide this month, and I've got a lot to share with you guys.

I focused mainly on adding sailing to the game this month, as it's one of the larger mechanics in the game. This was a bit tricky at first, but I eventually got it working similarly to how I initially envisioned it.

Sailing works like a proceduraly generated shoot 'em up, where randomized sets of enemies will spawn in front of the player as they...

Fore Shore

Another piece of concept art for the game. This might(?) be the last one I do, since I am pretty happy with how it depicts how I imagine the game.