What the hell, I guess. I'm doing great. A bunch of my favorite dress up games (MMOs and RPGS) have new entries this year and I'm excited for fathoms, because their body plan looks like it'll be straightforward enough to practice UMAs without getting lost in the weeds.
I am genuinely glad you're working on a headworld with all your ideas. Knowing when it's time to move on to something you actually like is so hard, and it feels like a lot of the FR playerbase doesn't know when to call it quits, and it's wearing me down a bit.
Hopefully theres a pose that's got the wings spread out, I think that's one of the main reasons wildclaws became such popular skin/accent canvas? At least even above other popular breeds. You can fit anything in there, so if fanthoms have something similar theres gonna be a ton of real estate for umas.
What mmo/rpgs are you playing? All i know is wow and the final fantasy one (mmo wise), but I feel like thats surface knowledge on the genre. Glad theres more stuff releasing though, you should share some of your favorites if you feel inclined to :)
It's been super fun! I had to drop it out due to terrible mental health back in the covid era, but since 2022 I've been picking it up and working on it with friends. It coincided with me leaving fr (though I left less due to the breeds and more because the gameplay was flaring up my wrists, and I got kinda afraid. Art is my job and I don't want to be out of commission because of a game, nor develop carpal tunnel) and it's been my main focus ever since. We are even planning on making an art rpg thing, but I feel like explaining how those work would take five billion years LOL.
Yeah it definitely is, I think, and it makes making new skins for WCs so intimidating. Somehow starting fresh with a new breed feels less like I'm competing with everyone on the scene. I've considered doing some ridgeback skins for the same reason, that big wing canvas.
Wow is kicking off a three expac cycle which means they've planned a longer story arc than in the past (and they're making more headway on unionizing thanks to Microsoft being surprisingly open to it?), FFXIV is starting their new era of story, and GW2 is releasing something new later this year that's adding player housing so I'm pretty happy about that. Dragon Age 4 went from being vaporware to actually coming out later this year, which is also exciting. It's been long enough that all my personal complicated feelings about dragon age have faded away into acceptance. If the companions are engaging, I'll be happy.
Art RPG like a visual novel? I'm glad you've got friends to do it with you, because it sounds like a fun way to go forward with your ideas in a collaborative space with no restrictions.
I never used to get how FR hurt people's wrists... and then I tried leveling my own fodder. Wow. Absolutely a valid reason to drop the game. I keep hoping the someday pvp revamp will rework how that all works.
Can't believe I forgot about dragon age, considering my dash got filled with people hyped for it. I hope you guys have tons of fun with the game!! I never played a DA game but they sound super fun, might jump in since the series is back from life support haha.
Art RPGs are more like old deviantart groups. You create your character by designing them (or having someone else do it if you're not an artist), and then you can play the game by submitting prompts with art/writing/any artistic media you want! Their concept was always fun to me, but a lot of them were never managed well or felt unfair/too restrictive, so I wanted to make my own for my friends, where we can develop our characters, do plots, roleplay, get items for it etc. We even have a site on works >:) The development is my main hobby because it takes a lot of time, but it's nice to delve into something that's made just for you and your tastes (+ my friend's tastes).
And yeah, I know there are other ways of making money on fr, but none felt fun/made playing even more of a chore, so I decided to cut my losses and move on and take what I developed/discovered about my own tastes with me. I only really got back to talk about fanthoms because it reached my dash from an artist I followed, oops!
I should probably finish my work for the day, but thanks for the chat. I know drama blogs are for drama(tm) but I like winding down and talking to the folks around when there's an opening. We are both humans behind a screen and it's nice to remember that :) good luck with with your mmos rpgs!
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Re: FR Art Direction thread
(Anonymous) 2024-06-12 12:23 am (UTC)(link)I am genuinely glad you're working on a headworld with all your ideas. Knowing when it's time to move on to something you actually like is so hard, and it feels like a lot of the FR playerbase doesn't know when to call it quits, and it's wearing me down a bit.
Re: FR Art Direction thread
(Anonymous) 2024-06-12 12:33 am (UTC)(link)What mmo/rpgs are you playing? All i know is wow and the final fantasy one (mmo wise), but I feel like thats surface knowledge on the genre. Glad theres more stuff releasing though, you should share some of your favorites if you feel inclined to :)
It's been super fun! I had to drop it out due to terrible mental health back in the covid era, but since 2022 I've been picking it up and working on it with friends. It coincided with me leaving fr (though I left less due to the breeds and more because the gameplay was flaring up my wrists, and I got kinda afraid. Art is my job and I don't want to be out of commission because of a game, nor develop carpal tunnel) and it's been my main focus ever since. We are even planning on making an art rpg thing, but I feel like explaining how those work would take five billion years LOL.
Re: FR Art Direction thread
(Anonymous) 2024-06-12 12:50 am (UTC)(link)Wow is kicking off a three expac cycle which means they've planned a longer story arc than in the past (and they're making more headway on unionizing thanks to Microsoft being surprisingly open to it?), FFXIV is starting their new era of story, and GW2 is releasing something new later this year that's adding player housing so I'm pretty happy about that. Dragon Age 4 went from being vaporware to actually coming out later this year, which is also exciting. It's been long enough that all my personal complicated feelings about dragon age have faded away into acceptance. If the companions are engaging, I'll be happy.
Art RPG like a visual novel? I'm glad you've got friends to do it with you, because it sounds like a fun way to go forward with your ideas in a collaborative space with no restrictions.
I never used to get how FR hurt people's wrists... and then I tried leveling my own fodder. Wow. Absolutely a valid reason to drop the game. I keep hoping the someday pvp revamp will rework how that all works.
Re: FR Art Direction thread
(Anonymous) 2024-06-12 01:07 am (UTC)(link)Art RPGs are more like old deviantart groups. You create your character by designing them (or having someone else do it if you're not an artist), and then you can play the game by submitting prompts with art/writing/any artistic media you want! Their concept was always fun to me, but a lot of them were never managed well or felt unfair/too restrictive, so I wanted to make my own for my friends, where we can develop our characters, do plots, roleplay, get items for it etc. We even have a site on works >:)
The development is my main hobby because it takes a lot of time, but it's nice to delve into something that's made just for you and your tastes (+ my friend's tastes).
And yeah, I know there are other ways of making money on fr, but none felt fun/made playing even more of a chore, so I decided to cut my losses and move on and take what I developed/discovered about my own tastes with me. I only really got back to talk about fanthoms because it reached my dash from an artist I followed, oops!
I should probably finish my work for the day, but thanks for the chat. I know drama blogs are for drama(tm) but I like winding down and talking to the folks around when there's an opening. We are both humans behind a screen and it's nice to remember that :) good luck with with your mmos rpgs!