This Week in the Forest! #138! (Patreon)

YO FOLKS~! Here's what we've been up to this week~

10/10 weekly update:

Hi floofs! <3 Made excellent progress on the TFOL v2 code rewrite last week! Finished 15 cards in Codecks, and about that many are left to go. Into the home stretch now! :}

This week I expect to finish the remaining cards. Then Carrot and I need to do a couple rounds of collaborative playtesting to make sure things are looking spiffy throughout the game.

Have a lovely rest of week! <3

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On my end, I've been having QUITE A WEEK with revamping my workflow stuff. It's helping out since I'm able to get some work done without exacerbating the wrist/pinky, BUT DANG IS IT NEW and kinda pulling teeth sometimes lmao. I'm straight up like, 4-5x slower with it, and have to now put brain power into all the basic functions I've had completely muscle-memory xD But I'm gettin' a bit better.

Artists get problems with their hands all the FRICKIN time, and the kinds of solutions are pretty interesting. 

For me, pinky hotkeys are straight brutal, and 50-60% of the hotkeys I hit. So my solution is to either, remap ALL of those hotkeys across several programs, and relearn, OR I could stop using hotkeys and go slow-mode (kill me), OR I can get a new device for hotkeys.

I've got a few friends (Vixel does this too!) who use a video game controller as a hotkey hub. SO I picked up reWASD, and an xbox elite controller. The D-Pad and Analog are all mapped to functions, and the shoulder buttons toggle a different set of functions for D-Pad/Analog. PLUS, I've got some buttons behaving differently if I hold it vs if I just tap it.

There's been a lot of breakthroughs with this workflow. The press/hold feature is genius, and really intuitive for certain functions. BUT there's also A LOOOT of difficulty, a lot of mis inputs, a lot of getting used to xD! I'm only on day 2, so I'll get it.

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Anywho work wise, I've been working on more mice! We need some more generic designs, so that's what this round of critters have been. There's another 8 portraits I did. SURELY BUT SLOWLY with that controller xD.

Other than that and some writing, I've just been spending a lot of time doodling and getting used to the workflow. A bit of 3D here and there too.

Here's a redwall doodle!

And some bun!

And a snail! 

OK! That's it for me. I'll be fuckin' around more getting this workflow down this week. I think I've got some sound design for some act 3 shenanigans to tackle too.

That's it from us! See ya folks!