Character voting for August's monthly picture is now open!
Please vote for who you would like to see for August's picture! (picture for visuals of each character in case you need a visual reference is linked as an attachment in this post).
If the picture remastering vote wins, the theme poll will be dedicated towards choosing what picture Annika will remaster!
Voting will end Thursday, August 14th at 11:59pm EEST
After much, much coding, the very first alpha for our game is finally finished!! Below you will find the download for the game. We both hope you will enjoy!
Do keep in mind this is a veeeery bare-bones alpha. There really isn't much right now other than two levels for you to explore, some fun animations and movement, characters you can talk to, and collectibles you can collect in the bigger level (the one that looks like ruins). Everything, including the 3d models and animations, are subject to change as I just wanted to get something playable out and didn't focus too much on making things really pretty!
When you boot up the game, you'll be at the main menu, and upon pressing Play, the game will load the Hubworld. There isn't much there right now but it serves as framework for what's to come.
Talk to Eri in the Hubworld to go to the ruins level!
Right now there's only a windows version as I am trying to figure out how to package for Mac (Mac wants me to do some extra cartwheels apparently) and after that I'll try to package for Linux... so if you use Mac or Linux, please stay tuned as I'm trying to figure that out right now!
For everyone else, thanks for your support, and I hope you enjoy what's available right now!!
Hello all! Thank you for following and supporting out game development journey - The most fun part as a developer is now at the doorstep: Release of the first build!!!
Antsu has worked tirelessly to implement character controls, gameplay features, animations - you name it - and we are very proud to announce that tomorrow (8/8) we will be releasing the early alpha playtest to all our patrons! This means, if you're reading this - you're one of the first people to get your hands on our brainchild: A puzzle platformer, with vorish mechanics baked into the gameplay...
Control both Antsu the Raccoon kitsune, a high-energy, nimble and animated little rogue that double jumps, bounces off the walls, sprints and makes his way vertically around the levels to aid Annika the Dragon, who excels at horizontal leaps, has the height and size to get across platforms, but also puts her hunger to good use by eating her husband so he can be spat back out onto higher platforms! More abilities for combat are coming at later patches, but for now our aim is to have people test out the platforming capabilities so we can improve on them before we start adding more features in!
Last important notice is that we'll be implementing a CREDITS section to the game, where Patrons on the Bountiful Offering and Eri's Favored tiers will get their names added to the credits for supporting the development process! This means that if you do NOT want your name to appear on the credits, or if you would want a specific name or "anon" written in place, PLEASE message me either here on Patreon or in Discord (Annika)!
(We will implement the first credit sequence as a patch to the game a week from its release, just so we give people enough time to omit their name if they so wish. Please let us know as soon as possible, as we cant guarantee removal of credits later in development!)
We will make another, proper announcement for the game's alpha release tomorrow with more info, so stay tuned! And thank you everyone, for all your support and love. We hope you're as excited as we are for the future of the game!
Character voting for July's monthly picture is now open!
Please vote for who you would like to see for July's picture! (picture for visuals of each character in case you need a visual reference is linked as an attachment in this post)
Character voting for June's monthly picture is now open!
Please vote for who you would like to see for June's picture! (picture for visuals of each character in case you need a visual reference is linked as an attachment in this post)
Im finally getting back to commissions and owed work, and wanted to stretch my drawing muscles by getting this done! Winner of April's patreon poll, my long overdue new ref is finally finished, with the added booty ref :D! Thank you for everyone's patience!
Character voting for May's monthly picture is now open!
Please vote for who you would like to see for May's picture! (picture for visuals of each character in case you need a visual reference is linked as an attachment in this post)
Picture voting for April's monthly picture is now open!
We're doing things a little bit differently for this month where instead of voting for a character, you'll be voting for a previously done picture to be remastered.
Please vote for which picture you would like to see redone for April's picture! (picture for visuals of each picture in case you need a visual reference is linked as an attachment in this post)
Below you can also find a link to each picture to view them directly:
We're doing things a little differently for this month; instead of focusing on a character, this month's picture will be focused on remaking one of Anni's older works... So if there was any picture she had done way back then previously you would like to see remastered, this'll be the month for that! (This is not an April Fool's joke, we specifically waited until after April 1st for this)
Commission pieces and monthly patreon sketches previously drawn for patrons are excluded from this as we want to keep the options towards her personal works on (for example: Noob 101) and off patreon (fA, bluesky etc.).
So!! A bit different. How are we playing this out?
The character suggestion and poll posts will instead be for choosing which picture Anni will remake.
The theme suggestion and poll posts will instead be for choosing a minor tweak or theme for the picture (bigger belly, snowy background, etc.) or choosing not to have any tweaks to it at all!
With that being said, the character suggestion post will be going out to Eri's Favored in a bit. We're hoping this will be a welcome change of pace just for this month. Thank you for supporting us!
Poor Janine has somehow gotten herself roped in to be the model for a very indecisive sculptor... She may be too kind to say tell them off after hours of trying every imaginable pose, but how long can she stave off a missed lunchbreak?
Janine won March's poll! Here's the suggestions cooked up by Eri's Favor and Bountiful Offering! We usually only have 5, but there was 6 suggestions this time so we decided to have all 6 available.
Please vote for what you would like to see~
The vote will end on Monday, March 17th by 11:59pm EEST
Character voting for March's monthly picture is now open!
Please vote for who you would like to see for March's picture! (picture for visuals of each character in case you need a visual reference is linked as an attachment in this post)
Voting will end Monday, March 10th at 11:59pm EEST
Annika and Antsu as a Suicune and Umbreon are the chosen subjects for this month's picture! Here's the suggestions cooked up by Eri's Favor and Bountiful Offering! Anni and I also had an idea that could be fitting for a comic for Valentine's day, so we popped that in for one of the suggestions :3
Please vote for what you would like to see~
The vote will end on Monday, February 17th by 11:59pm EEST
Character voting for February's monthly picture is now open! Brecause valentine's day (or friend's day (Ystävänpäivä) in Finland) is this month, we opted to add some pairs where both characters would end up in the same pic. The other options by themselves are quite affectionate on their own.
Please vote for who you would like to see for February's picture! (picture for visuals of each character in case you need a visual reference is linked as an attachment in this post)
Voting will end Monday, February 10th at 11:59pm EEST
Character voting for January's monthly picture is now open!
Please vote for who you would like to see for January's picture! (picture for visuals of each character in case you need a visual reference is linked as an attachment in this post)
Vesi overstuffs herself with grog (and probably some other winnings from their latest raid :3) but she's too dummy thick in the brain to realize she can't fit through the door.
How kind of her crew to be so supportive in her time of need <3 (two views here; one without the wall blocking her face, and one where its faded)
Vesi the Vaporeon won the poll, so here is some suggestions we picked out and a one we decided for ourselves! Please vote for what you would like to see!
The vote will end on Sunday, December 15 by 11:59pm EEST.