Fixin’ Up Some Refreshments For A Tea Party

I really like buying stuff in Artist Alleys or ordering from artists online, and I’m SUPER excited when there are bonuses like adorable packaging! These are all double-sided acrylic charms from laughingbear. They’re awesome and I will definitely be buying more stuff in the future! Probably some more charms and some stationery c: 

I put these guys up on my cubicle wall. The horde of small adorable things in my cube is growing. I’ll post some more pics of it sometime and do some posts on other merch. 

Store is here with all kindsa goodies!

Today was cool! And terrible.

Today was cool: 

Hey again! I still live. Still working on getting my work/life/etc balance in order, sorry I haven't been posting much at all for a while. Recently apartment hunting's been thrown into that mix, so. Someday I will be on top of my shit. Someday.. 

Got news today that tomorrow I'll be put onto my first instructional design interaction prototyping assignment! For Google?? I'M SCARED AND EXCITED. I'M HEAVY BREATHING CAT REACTION IMAGE. I'm real stoked to try my hand at it and it's awesome I'm being shifted towards more instructional design stuff in addition to the scripting, QA, and revisions I normally do. I also was part of some client conference calls this week and that was cool. I like my job a lot and I'm horribly fond of my co-workers. Today an email/im highfive chain made its rounds in our studio. I got a couple ims that just said "/highfive!" followed by an im instructing me that my new top priority was to send Tim an email with the subject "/highfive!" and paste this image into the body. Basically, I work with a bunch of kawaii as hell nerds. 

To people who follow me for game/otome stuff, azaraih and I have been getting pumped to work on the selkie game again, and I know tiny-shout's been doing some writing for Prince route on and off. 

There appear to be some new folks here who seem to maybe have been lead here by AFA? Hello? Haha welcome. Uh, like I said and as you can see, I haven't been posting much. Thanks for checking me out though! :]

Uh, sad stuff under the cut. Not related to anything else I said here, but..

Today was terrible:

Well, in the middle of writing this post I found out an amazing professor I had, Adrianne Wadewitz, has died. Prof. Wadewitz was such an awesome person that I honestly just don't even know how to believe that she's gone. She was seriously fucking cool, and brilliant, and nice. And I really don't know what to say, but this news is just...so incredibly awful that I felt it'd be somehow...really strange to post about cool things that happened to me today without mentioning this truly terrible thing that happened. So if you'd like to learn a little about (and maybe in some small way honor?) an incredibly smart and cool woman who did great things with digital and literary scholarship, and for whom I once helped build a rad website about the New England Primer, this was Adrianne Wadewitz. 

Me? About to read 270 Miles and More from the beginning again just so I can drown myself in your beautiful writing? YOU BET! Obsessed. Thank you for sharing. 😭

Omggg you are the sweetest thank you and bless you!! :’] Haha I gotta read it all again myself so I can remember what the heck I’m writing as I pick it back up for Ch 6 writin’. Wish me luck! 

Made this guy from stuff around my cubicle as a side project to give me something to do with my hands when taking a break from staring at screens all day at work. 

World’s Okayest Gay | What an honor! You should be proud, always. New design in honor of Pride month 🏳️‍🌈 I love this month. I love the feeling of community, self-reflection, gratitude, and joy I have during this month. The struggles we face don’t disappear. But to me, Pride’s a chance for us all to put celebration that we’re here, fighting, loving, living, at the forefront for a bit. It’s a release, an exhale, a delighted shout. I do feel proud. I’m a queer nonbinary Filipina and I wouldn’t trade any of it. To all my trans, nonbinary, bi, pan, ace, aro, poly, genderqueer, genderfluid, lesbian, gay, queer friends: I love being together in this life with you ♥️💛💚💙💜

If you like this design and are interested in getting this on some stuff, find my @threadless Artist Shop at somonastic.threadless.com. Thanks for your support as always! Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈✨💞

At last night's Glitch Immersion workshop, we each rolled a D20 to generate a game pitch for us to sketch quick concepts for. I rolled: fast + dark + Street Fighter. Went for literal dark w/cave stages that darken over time during a round. Attacks landing briefly light up the cave. If the round times out and there's no victor, the stage goes black and the weird beast lurking in the background emerges to chomp ya.

Hey friends! Managed to do a fair amount of sketching today but nothing really to post at the moment. Reblogging this since we'll be wrapping up the rating period on 4/15. Here is my jumbly chaosblob of an entry for the design contest. If you dig the design, haven't yet rated it, and would be down to leave a rating, I'd much appreciate it if you left a rating on welovefine! Reblogs much appreciated as well.

Oh, and I guess if anybody wanted to see a larger version of this, I've got it up on da as well. 

To any homestucks, happy 4/13! :] Hope you're keeping busy during the gigapause. I'm pretty stoked about paradoxspace. 

My entry for the Homestuck Design Contest over on welovefine! If you like the design, please go rate it here! Ratings/reblogs/spreading the word is all appreciated :] There are a ton of entries so check all of them out!

I had fun doing this. Thanks for having a look!

K is great at making cute games! Stay tuned for our pleasant robo game

making a robot game!

I decided to do NaNoReno this year since I’ve been getting back into working on Ren’Py games recently and thought it would help push me to finish a project. I’ve decided to work on a cute little scifi game called Grandma June’s Robot House since I love robots haha. So here’s a little info about my project so far. Good luck to everyone else who’s working on NaNoReno games!

Synopsis June is an old lady who has always loved robots and has collected many of them over the years to help her around the house. You play as the Artificial Intelligence in charge of running the household and wrangling the other robots. The game takes place one day when June tells you she’s expecting a special guest and wants you to prepare everything so the evening will be perfect. But a lot can go wrong when you have to manage a whole house of robots with a wide range of ages, talents, and personalities. Team I’ll be working on art/writing/programming, @somonasticwill be helping with some things too, but I’m not sure yet how we’ll divide things up. I haven’t done much with music/sound so I’d probably find some free stuff to use.

I’ll update once I make some progress on this!

Just rewatched Pacific Rim, I LOVED it the first time but hadn't had a chance to see it again since. Ugh just as good second time around. I have a lot of feelings about Pacific Rim and how much I appreciate it but I won't really get into all that at the moment. I'll just say I enjoy it a ton :] Watched some of the special features including the drift space which was really interesting (although I wish we'd seen some drift facts about the Kaidanovskys, the Wei triplets, etc) and the bloopers (which solidify the fact that everyone on this film is super adorable.)

Watched the digital artistry feature too and it was awesome seeing del Toro's thoughts and input and creative process and how teams worked together with him on making the film. I always love watching this stuff on special features - production stuff, concept art, art direction, all that goodness that goes into making films and games and comics. That's why I'm so into "art of" books! I've been thinking about this more often lately so I think I'm gonna try to look more into this kind of development stuff. This stuff is fascinating to me and I wanna soak it up like a sponge.

How many white people will there be?

In our selkie otome you mean? Hm well pretty much all the characters you’d interact with have been posted so that’s about it. I’d say the Storyteller is white. You could possibly read the Seamstress as white but I didn’t decide she was? We didn’t really situate our game in a specific real world or historical context so racially they’re a little ambiguous. I mean Teen Alchemist’s fam’s got purple eyes which isn’t exactly grounded in anything. I’m not quite sure what you were looking for in this ask so if you want to know something else more specific let me know.