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Lorenzo!

Wow such beautiful art! <3

Another warm up paint.  If you’re wondering what’s up with all the green lately, I tend to warm up using paint that’s already on my palettes, so there you go!

A watercolor + pen and ink work. Pattadakal - a historical place in Karnataka. First time I'm experimenting with what i learnt till now #proud #ancient #historical #architecture #watercolor #pen #ink #pattadakal #karnataka #indianartist #artistmichi #artistOnInsta #artistontumlbr #art #sky #clouds #painting

The rat band! Done with watercolor pencils 🐀 yes they're eyebrows.. I messed up 😐 #rat #mouse #band #art #illustration #children #book #sketch #watercolor #pencil #waterColorPencils #guitar #horn #trumpet #drum #play #happy #funny #joy #love #inspiration #artistmichi #artistOnInsta #artistforhire #photooftheday #followme #cute #music #grey #perform #squeak #feature

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Here’s one of the characters from my story - Devataru (originally named Thri Muse) Devataru is a music themed story aimed at children - even adults can enjoy the story ;)

Here’s one of the concept pieces I did for the jungle in the same story -

"Bodhisattva" I wanted to draw a peaceful stag, so here it is, a digital painting after a very long time. A nice change from my usual vector illustrations 🙌 done using Krita . . . #bodhisattva #Buddhism #illustration #artistOnInsta #indianartist #stag #got #baratheon #digitalart #artist #beauty #goanartist #lotus #flower #petals #swirls #peace #spiritual #golden #deer #krita #openSource #love #inspiration #horn #michi #renuka

A nature study in watercolor 😊 my brother thought one of the flowers looks like a cup that a vampire would use 😨 #nature #watercolor #flower #botany #shoot #dicot #pink #leaf #leaves #love #inspiration #beauty #study #garden #reference #art #fineart #water #plant #vampire #cup #peace #botanical #artistOnInsta #artistontumblr #artistforhire #artistmichi

Feedback Really Helps Guys-

I’m so sad. I’m very freaking sad.

Im scrolling through my feed, and I see a person I follow talk about how they want to deactivate their blog. It breaks my heart to see that. I love their art a lot and I would hate for them to stop drawing.

Feedback. Feedback is the one thing that artists need. Good or Bad. We need it.

We love hearing things about our art. It’s stressful for people with 1k-2k followers and only have about 5% of their following like their stuff. Are we too shy to comment? Heck I’m shy as well, but I’m working on getting more out of my shell to talk to more people on here. Sorta get a feel of what kind of people are in my community. I’ve thought once or twice about deleting my aus and find another place to post my art and see how that went. Or maybe even just drawing for my own pleasure. Still thinking about it tbh. But I know I wont. Please support those in the BTS Ask-Community. Feedback would be much appreciated. It really would.

Wooooo!! Look at those adorable buildings and animation!! :O 

Dev Update 2

Welcome to our December edition of the Kingdoms and Castles dev log. Michael and I have been hard at work on all kinds of stuff.

Probably should mention we prepped and launched our crowd funding campaign on Fig.co around the end of November and we’re at 480% funded as of right now. Thanks to all our backers and the fig folks, it’s been awesome and we’re so excited people are digging the game.

We also got greenlit on Steam that same week, so Kingdoms and Castles will definitely be coming to Steam!

Now onto more gameplay side stuff, here’s what I’ve (Pete) been up to:

Siege Ogre - Once the vikings discover you’ve got a castle that can fend off their ground troops, they’ll send invading parties with the siege ogre! It arrives by boat, lumbers over to your castles and tries to take down the walls.

Arrow Tower - These towers now shoot arrows at invaders. Their range increases the higher up on a tower they are placed.

Ballista Tower - Now that the vikings have a siege ogre, you’ll need something to help defend, so we’ve introduced the ballista. It’s a giant crossbow manned by four people and packs the punch needed to deal with siege ogres.

Here’s all three of them coming together in a little weapons test:

Villager Names, Thoughts, and Skills - Villagers can have names now, and we’ll be adding those who funded the fig campaign at the “Noble Noble” into the name pool. Villagers also have little thoughts which sometimes respond to what’s happened or what you’ve done, but other times are whatever is on their mind. They also gain skill at what they do over time:

Tavern - Got some community help from our discord making the tavern. Note the little people enjoying themselves outside!

Road re-do - Roads now include sign posts on three and four way intersctions, and fences on straights and curves. Also ended up changing the tavern roof color as it was too similar to our large houses:

Weather effects - Took another pass on our lightning, rain, and clouds during storms:

Dynamic Music - We’re now working with Aether on music for the game, and implemented a first pass dynamic music system where the music reflects the complexity of your town:

And now for Michael:

Hello everyone! 

This month I’ve been putting together a shiny new resource system. Now, resources such as wood, stone, wheat, and apples have a physical representation in the world. The new system has been hooked into all the existing resource creators (quarries, foresters, fields, and orchards) and well as the new stockpile building. I’ve also extended the concept of constructing buildings by adding Builder jobs. It’s the job of the builders to collect the resources necessary to construct their buildings.

The following GIF gives show a lot of the new resource system features at once, minus Builders fetching resources. You can see: Stacks of wood and stone resources, wheat being picked up and carried to the keep, and stockpile workers collecting stone from the quarry and dropping it off at the Stockpile.

Fun fact: If a quarry or foresters’ production stack is not regularly retrieved by stockpile workers, production will get backed up and halted!

Also, Last month I wrote a destruction effect for buildings that create a spreadable crack-like effect over the faces of buildings. You can see it being used in Pete’s Ogre vs Tower GIF above. Here is a close-up overly exaggerated example of the tech:

That’s all for now, until next time!

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