So this is yet another game project. I'm not going to go into great detail about it as it's basically just a toy I'm playing with. Long story short, last year I drew (on paper) a picture every day, and I got really into drawing puffins, and it was mentioned that a game about puffins might be fun. This jumbled around in my head until, for some reason, I got the idea of puffins in hats stuck there. (I actually wrote about this almost exactly a year ago, as it happens.)
Some months later I decided to learn how to use a digital paint package (Krita, seeing as you asked), and soon I ended up with a bunch of pictures of puffins wearing hats.
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| I don't know much about art but I know when it's got puffins in it. |
Actually, that's a lie, or the "soon" bit is anyway. It took bloody ages. I have even more respect for jobbing illustrators than I had before.
Anyway, I did actually have the foresight to do the art in such a way that I could separate the hats from the puffins, made some cards (adding in some cats -- this time using stock cat icons as placeholders -- because the game also needed cats, natch), loaded them into Tabletopia along with some coins and stuff, then managed to gull some innocent bystanders into trying the game.
As expected the game wasn't good, but I got some useful feedback and have tried to tern things around a bit.
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| The mark 2 e-prototype, now with a First Player Puffin. |
