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TL;DR: I'm not leaving tgchan, but I'm certainly reorienting away from the site a little. No full-art quests, but I'll still run small-scale occasionally-illustrated text-quests. I've got a bunch of stuff in development, and I'd like some feedback on what I'm to run next, and whether or not to bring SCDA back as a text quest instead of killing it completely.
Wall of text incoming! This is the most obscenely long post I've ever written here, I can't find a way to clip it down and I'm sorry in advance to anyone that decides to read it.
>I, for one will continue to suggest until its forgone conclusion. The graveyard is not a suitable place for a piece such as this, especially with the prologue archived.
If worst comes to worst, you can always railroad/cutscene it to the end.
Thank you! I'm glad you're willing to ride it out, even if it's only to it's abrupt conclusion.
...IF that's what's actually happening to it. There's a chance I won't have to kill it. Read the voting stuff for details.
>Will you be planning on making any new quests in the future, or are you planning on doing other projects?
Alright, I feel like I'm confident in what my future plans are to answer this now, so here I go:
----WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW----
I guess I'll start with what I've been up to as of late. I've mostly been settling in over at furaffinity and various other places, getting a gallery up and running there. I need to bring in some sort of funding or income if I want to actually do anything of consequence as an artist, and hopefully I'll eventually be able to pull in at least an adequate amount of income from commissions over there, if I work hard enough at it. Producing images independent of a larger narrative has given me a lot of room to experiment, which in turn is allowing me to improve quite a bit. I expect my art will be much better by the time I run anything fully illustrated again. Gallery link here, for anybody interested: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/draconicmentalist/
That said, I have no intention of giving up questing completely. I adore the format, and I want to take it with me anywhere I go. Nor do I want to abandon this board completely. So, here's what I have in mind:
----FUTURE PLANS----
-ART QUESTS-
Unless miraculously I find a way to modify my art style to operate at Weaver-level speeds, it's unlikely I'll be running one of these for awhile. And when I do, it probably won't be here, at least not exclusively. I can't justify that kind of time investment without at least the possibility of growth and eventual funding of some sort. Which, let's be honest, tgchan is not capable of. We're pretty tiny.
That said, I do have a clear idea of what I'm doing next, even if it's a ways off:
- Burrow [working title]: This has gone through a hell of a lot of iterations, from folk-tales to post-apocalyptica to harsh telltale-styled survival, and may yet go through a bunch more. Here's where development stands so far: It will be a Beatrix Potter/Lovecraft styled 1910s period-piece, with art nouveau-styled art and some level of fairy-tale influence. More details will be worked out as time goes on, such as what the damn thing is even about, but I think that it's a pretty interesting place to start, at the very least. I have a lot of research to do.
- Sunder: Even farther off, with even less definition. Post-apocalyptic fantasy with a bunch of floating islands and cute monsters.
-TEXT QUESTS / VOTING-
This is where the voting part of this monster-sized status update comes in. This is a vote for what I'll run FIRST, as SBURB and Magical Realism are both slated to be done. The only one I'm possibly cancelling is SCDA, which will simply ride out like it was originally going to, depending on what people have to say about it.
- SBURB: Basically, an interactive SBURB session with a bunch or wrenches thrown into it. Would be a good chance to test the logistics of cross-site suggesting before rolling it out on something with actual stakes attached to it, since homestucks are the one group liable to play along with a quest without already being already invested in my art in some way, so I could run this on Tumblr and the MSPA Forums as well without worrying too much about people not participating. I'd have to do some cultural research on the latter, though, since I ordinarily do not hang out there.
- Magical Realism [working title]: A quest about various fantasy races living in a modern-day-styled magitech setting, and what their lives are like. It's certainly something that might be a lot of fun to run, I think, even if I'm not quite sure what shape it will take.
- SCDA: If I'm not sure if anyone wants this; hell, I'm not sure if I want this since SCDA has problems outside of just pacing, but given how long the thing ran for, I'd feel bad not at least opening the idea for discussion, since I'm running text quests anyway. Without the high overhead of complex art holding it up, it would be able to progress more-or-less how it was intended to. Lots of exploration and character interaction, a metric shitton of characters to meet and battle with, and a highly customizable team of characters. Basically, it would be able to sprawl out into the giant JRPG-styled monster it was structured to be. With occasional illustration at varying levels of detail, I wouldn't even need to cut out fanservice completely. Basically, it would shrink into what it was initially intended to be: a fun side-project.
Note: just because these are text quests, doesn't mean there will be no art at all. I would be the an idiot not to make use of my art skills for at least light illustration and visual aid, so there will still be a least some artwork involved here.
So, um, yeah. That's where I stand, and those are my future plans. Any comments?
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