art update - I have the power! (Patreon)

Hey beautiful people! Time for another art(ish) update. Actually it's more like the art of figuring out why my pc was breaking down and I think I know what was messing with it and caused a bsod (blue screen of death) amongst other oddities.

Last time it fixed itself after a time delayed reboot and since I didn't know what happened, I was very keen on discovering the cause of it. Working on a drawing and not knowing when shit can go down is a bit too suspenseful for my taste.  Of course my system ran completely fine for awhile afterwards as if the gods of stable systems had blessed it   ...buuuuut that only lasted till yesterday.

I was working on a new scene when all of a sudden *poof* the power went down and my pc rebooted itself. I'm not seeing any digital clocks in the house which have reset themselves to 0:00  which means I'm pretty sure my power supply had been playing hide and seek with the power. 

I think I've already told you guys I'm usually the person people go to to get their stuff fixed. Don't imagine anything too fancy. It's mostly the "in the land of the blind, one eye is king"- sorta thing. Which also often means I get people's pc's when they're old and decrepit and they buy a new one. I have a horrible habit of not throwing things away,  but that does mean I could now use those oldies as donors!  

Soooo armed with a phillips head screwdriver I've been trying out older power supplies I had lying around and I swear to god, I felt like Goldilocks after awhile.

Every single one had something wrong with it. Some had missing connectors, some cables which were too short, some didn't physically fit etc etc. Luckily  I also still had a "new" power supply which I bought a couple of years ago but for some reason never used... Actually I used it once but decided it was  too loud so took it out again after which I played the equivalent of goldilocks for awhile again.

I ended up putting that "new" loud one in again and so far so good. Here's hoping it stays that way. The slightly loud noise is something I generally don't hear anyway because of my headphones and taste in music, which is mostly... really loud. I'll listen to anything but my prevalent taste is one reminiscent of demons screaming at the top of their lungs accompanied by the sound of tombstones grinding against each other...  The kind of background noise which can be heard over THAT has to be pretty crazy.

Anyway now that my hardware is less likely to take my work with it during a crash, how is the art for the next build progressing? Pretty much done!  It was a lot of work. Especially because I had to add the art for a scene you can completely and easily miss.

In essence I'd like for everyone to see all the scenes, but yeah.. some need to be a little less easily accessible for reasons...   With all of that done, (although I could always use another month to add the dots on the i's and strike the t's) the coder won't need me anymore for this build. I'll naturally (and happily) provide him with anything else he wishes for,  but in essence I can drop off the planet for a month and he won't have to notice.

The last scene I've finished is close to 3 Mb in size. That probably sounds so small it's funny, but I usually aim for 1 Mb. It'd be nice if I could really cut loose with these scenes, but I'm always very conscious and limited by their size. The game is already many times the size we thought it would be when we started all of this

Btw. I wouldn't mind if we'd take a short break. Not so much for my own sake but I feel like the coder could use a breather to allow his creative juices to replenish themselves fully. I suggested doing so repeatedly, but he has a more than healthy resistance to those kind of suggestions. Honestly I'd probably  end up using any sort of free time to put in more work anyway and he might just be the same. Here's hoping he knows his limits better than I do.

I was sorta considering not sending him any art and force him to take time off.. but yeah.. that's not really something you want to do unless you have more than a strong hunch.  I'm still totally going to tell him "told you so"  if anything which rhymes with "burnout" happens.

I'm personally really looking forward to the next build. Not gonna say why, but the coder will have plenty of opportunities to do some pretty funny stuff with the new art. In fact.. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he'll end up needing more than a month for this one, but we'll see. 

I'm rarely concerned about cease and desist notices taking FET down, but some builds make me think: "if only we can get THIS build out before something like that happens". And to me, the next build is one of those builds where that thought pops up in my mind.

And this is where I'll have to leave all you fellow pervs once more, because the days where I don't work on FET are days when I have a fever and today is not one of them. PEACE (and butts)!

 ps. Oh, and I'm trying to lessen the size of the butts in my drawings(a bit!) but that's more of a very recent thing so expect a few of those in the next build when it's finished. You have NOOOO idea how difficult it is for me to not draw them barnyard sized... but I'm trying my best.