May21
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I will be posting a Kickstarter soon featuring a set of 5 – 1 inch acrylic charms of various Alien Dice characters at $6 each and varying price points above it. (My husband agreed to help me pack and ship, which was the main reason I haven’t done one yet, that and they take a bit off the top, but I can eat that.) Shipping worldwide will be included in the different levels.
So who do you want on the charms? They’ll likely have a hole in them and be useable for a number of different things.
One of them, will be a redesign of the Stealth – It’s not FAIR charm.
Charms for Dash, Swiftpaw and Stealth already do exist, even though they’re not all up. I’ll get them all up before I start the kickstarter. I may also use this to reprint a very popular Halloween Stealth charm.
I DO have two designs for Serenity and Sirius that I’ll show off in a bit that are heart shaped, but because they are more detailed, I may want to do them at a larger size and separately from this.
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Star Pirates
It’s been awhile since the last time I mentioned Star Pirates, but I’ve still been checking back on the game on occasion and follow them on Twitter @Star Pirates. Due to just being incredibly busy, I had to scale back on even my casual game playing, but that’s about to change.
Star Pirates just celebrated its fourth anniversary on April 24th! I was amazed to see that I had actually created my account – ShivaeSyke – 3 years and 8 months ago! In that time, I’ve promoted it a few times. It was a nice game from the start, purely text based and undemanding of my time.
I logged in today, after several months away to find the text … has now been complimented with some images and small animations in all the right places! They’re not processor overwhelming flash graphics, which I’ve recently had problems with and that’s with a tablet pc that’s a year old that I run PHOTOSHOP on without any issues whatsoever.
The layout has been tweaked and navigation is even easier to understand than it was before and if you’re a new player, there are a lot of well placed informational graphics as you access each section from commanding your ship from the bridge to attacking other ships (like the pirate you should be)!
Don’t let my talk about attacking other ships scare you away. Yes, If you can attack other ships, you also can be attacked, but it’s not debilitating and typically the other players do not spend all their time going after low level players. Also, you can buy points to cloak yourself with or do a variety of other things. Unlike a lot of games, you can play free and not have a weakened gaming experience or buy the very affordable points and make use of them.
The last new thing I want to mention is the addition of Commissions . These are missions that offer some really nice rewards, like weapons, large amounts of experience, cargo, and likely a lot of other things you can use to modify your ship with that I can’t see at the moment!
If you’re a returning player, you also get these nice little reminders of how to play the game if you’ve forgotten any small details.
So I’m inviting y’all to come join me and play an easy to understand, yet complex game of Star Pirates. I’m playing so look for me!
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Well, after some thought and knowing my husband’s paycheck is -$264 due to illness and taking Kim to doctor’s visits, I need to round up the difference plus some between now and the 15th of May.
Alien Dice will be going to black and white at the end of this chapter so it can continue updating. I’m going to get back to the books, but I’m going to abandon trying to mix the text with the images because it is too time consuming and the outcome has not been worth the time I put into it. (When you have hundreds of people asking about it and then only 20 people buy one and an audience of thousands, that’s a problem.) I have to set up each page individually in photoshop and save it individually due to Ka-blam not taking pdfs. Just thinking about getting back to trying to lay out those pages in photoshop puts my brain in a dead freeze. So to move forward, it will only be text and a separate novelized edition with new black and white art – and likely some edits. Color is extremely expensive to print and when half the pages are text, this causes me headaches.
I’ll add this note as an afterthought, although it’s not a requirement since I will continue to update in some form. If the goals are met, I am able to continue doing the comics in color. Otherwise, I need to take that extra 4-5 hours per page and put it into commissions. Extra updates will continue regardless of outcome.
- Tiff
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