Friday Rambles 2023-11-24 (Patreon)

It's the Friday after Thanksgiving, making this "Black Friday." Traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year. But also, it's the Friday Rambles.

Gonna keep it short, because it's Thanksgiving weekend and I have family stuff to do.

I successfully started the two big marketing events that are taking place for me this week. The Steam Autumn Sale, and the Tiger-chan plush campaign.

The Steam Autumn Sale is well under way, and Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines is also on sale. I mean, why wouldn't it be? But this time, you can also "nominate" the game for a "The Steam Award". Of course, only the biggest games or whatever will win anything, but I still found out that having the nomination event thingie up led to people discovering the game through the Steam Awards page, so it was actually totally still worth doing. And who knows, maybe a miracle might happen as far as being nominated goes. 

If you're super cool and want to support the game in a free and easy way, you can nominate the game through the news post: here 

Above: Skye still has hope

As for the Tiger-chan plush campaign, I finished the comics storyline, and started spamming people on all my socials.

Part 3:

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Part 5:

Yes, that's right, it all leads to this...

Anyway, please buy a Tiger-chan plush... https://www.makeship.com/products/tiger-chan-plush 

PS. There's currently a 10% discount on the Tiger-chan plush that will go away sometime after Black Friday. I think it might be the 28th? But it might be sooner. So if you haven't gotten it yet, but are planning on it, you might wanna grab it sooner than later if you want the discount.

Above: And this is the version I used for my Steam news post thumbnail

After drawing the last color panel of the comic, I realized I hadn't really drawn a proper color comic that I might be known for in like, a really long time. I was happy to see Penny and Whiskey again. Even if it was for a stupid plushie campaign lol

Above: thumbnail sketches for comic, for old times sake

Above: Current status of plushie campaign, after 1 day and 7 hours

The campaign is going as well as I could hope, I suppose. It looks like it'll reach the 200 sold goal well before the 21 days, but, in my typical selfish and greedy fashion, I hope it sells at least 400, because I get a bigger percentage cut of the earnings at that point. I'm trying to remember how long it took Blythe to hit 100%... I think it was also around 2 days. In that case, we should be good. Maybe. idk. I'm still kinda spoiled from when Skye sold 400 in 2 days. 

Right now I'm mostly just tired from constantly asking people to buy my stuff. What I want to do is just keep making cool new things for people to enjoy. 

Speaking of making cool new things... After having taken like a 2 week break from gamedev to work on marketing campaigns, I have some fun ideas I want to try out for some hypothetical EMDND DLCs. I'll try them out next week and let you know.

I think that's it for this week. I'll mostly be spending the next few days doing Thanksgiving weekend family stuff and retweeting the same posts over and over til Tiger-chan plushie hits 100%+. At some point if I have time I'll be drawing one more comic related to this storyline that I've already written out.

Anyway, thank you, as always, for your support. See you next week!