Friday Rambles 2024-05-17

It's the third Friday Rambles of the month, and the final one of this overseas trip. That's right! I'm heading back home next week. Sad... but glad...

While in Seoul I met up with some old internet artist friends. We hung out, talked about work, and drew Tiger-chan together. We ate burgers. It was good times. I'll have to meet more old internet artist friends next time I'm in the neighborhood.

Above: My quick Tiger-chan sketch

I had no time for gamedev or anything this week, but I wrote down some more notes in my Story Update brainstorm doc. It's been tough deciding on what to put in and what to leave out, basing my decisions on what the players want or like + keeping the scope reasonable, but I think at this point I just need to trust my experience that if I like it, my audience will also like it.

I'm beginning to bring back Skye as my main online presence mascot character again, partly because I missed her, and partly because I want people to remember she exists, because I'm going to be selling Skye plushies soon. lol.

 Above: very silly meme that I can't get enough of

I drew it out in a couple hours, because I wanted to have fun with this meme going around twitter this past week, where someone or something licks a lemon and has their face cave in into itself, like some kind of sphincter. idk. it's fun and stupid. i used to have fun on the internet like this. himmel and i used to participate in the general online community once...

Well, next week I'll be back home and will be able to get some real work done.

Another meme I kinda wanted to do last week but didn't have time to think about til now when it's no longer relevant is the "the indie game we are making and three of the inspirations behind it" thing going around in gamedev circles. I mean, I had some reservations about things like this because I like to think that my game is completely original even though that's clearly not true, so it's nice to see people being up front about it. I'll just do it now, as a Patreon Exclusive!!

Above: It's a good way to tell people what your game is like, because people are, like, more likely to play things that are like other things like what that they know they already like. Is the word "like" looking weird yet? Although... there's not really any courtroom drama or cyberpunk bartending in Endless Monday... Not pictured is general internet artist life and culture, which led to my characters, and was probably the single most instrumental inspiration behind the game existing in the first place. Also not pictured is Incredible Crisis, which taught me games are allowed to be stupid, and Helltaker, because art friend making it big in games is so damn inspirational but also there are so many cool artists that inspire me online.

Also Above: I know that nowadays FAANG is an outdated concept, it's about the "Magnificent Seven" now

Anyway,

I have a bunch of stuff to take care of before leaving, so the next week will be pretty packed. I probably won't have any drawings or whatever. I'm actually leaving for another thing right now actually, so I gotta post this real quick.

Thanks for your support, as always! See you next week.