Next week is Christmas, and I'm doing some notable special streams.
MONDAY will be my XMas Gift to all you cool fans. A special Sketch Giveaway Stream which'll just be me sitting around and drawing what you guys want me to draw. Just show up for the stream, make your requests, and I'll bust out as many as I can.
THURSDAY there will be no stream because Christmas.
SATURDAY will be a Christmas Gift Game Stream. See, a number of fans have bought me Steam games off my wishlist as XMas presents, so I decided I would do a stream playing a bit of all of them.
On the list currently is:
Five Nights at Freddy's
Aquira
Magicite
Audiosurf 2
I was also gifted
Legend of Korra and
Tales from the Borderlands, but I can't be sure I'll be able to stream them without problems. (My comp isn't the best in the world) I'll try beforehand and see how it goes.
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The second part of this regards the YCHs.
I've done four now with extremely varying results, so I wanted some feedback.
Even tho it probably seems like I do them one after the other, the YCHs are restricted to 1 a month just cause I have so much else I want to do. That seemed fine.
The first two were resounding successes. The second two, far less so. Thematically, the first two and the second two seem near identical, so I most definitely was curious about what made some people excitedly bid for one and not another. The most recent one, I can probably chalk up to christmas season for the low turnout. And I've been told the one before it was because I associated it with Homestuck, despite writing 3 times than having a HS OC was not necessary.
But I'd like to heard in your own words. What do you guys wanna see more of in future YCHs? Should there be more slots? Fewer slots? What sort of vore should be used? Should there be some nonvore? Tell me everything you can.
Next month's is a nonvore piece involving Alexandra and some worshippers servicing her. One of the bonus slots involved pre-vore prep. That's the current plan, anyway.
So tell me what you think~
-Aesir
Posted by Ome 9 years ago Report
So glad I have Monday off
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Posted by Tsutsukakushi 9 years ago Report
Completely biased personal opinion: Your YCH's have waaay too many slots. While it is a plus in my book that the prey slots (usually) are restricted to non-furry loli characters, having so many means I have no idea what I'm getting and it feels much less personal, so I tend to stay away even though your art is awesome and I'd love to pay for a spot in it. I'd happily pay $100-250 for a prey slot if it's the only and the pred isn't up for grabs, but I can hardly get myself to follow or pay more than $20 if there's 5+ other prey whom I have no idea what is.
My interests center around oral vore only, though implied vore, about-to-be-vored or simply peril scenarios (e.g. tied up and being lowered into the cave of the hungry naga) are awesome as well.
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Posted by DoubleOSnake 9 years ago Report
Whoo! Can't wait for Monday!
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Posted by razorbacknod 9 years ago Report
If I had to make a guess on why certain ones may be more successful than others it comes do a bunch of factors but I will try and mention those of the most importance.
The biggest factor and difference in the first two versus the second two may be the poses of the slots in the YCHs. Looking at the first two YCH's every single character is clearly visible and in the first one particularly there is great variation in the poses. In the second two the poses hide most of the characters meaning that, with the exception of one slot in each, you're paying for only part of your character to be shown; which may be enough for some people but for others this may ruin an excellent chance for part of their character's personality to come through. A great example of this comes from the first YCH, everyone inside of Aelia has a clear expression on their face and their entire body gives off clear body language that tell so much of how their character reacts to being inside of her stomach. Whereas looking to the third and fourth YCH's, everyone inside of the predator's are tightly packed and their bodies are overlapping, and somewhat hidden. In turn; the characters who have the most showing also have their backs to the perspective of the observer looking at the piece. All the hidden nuances of the piece are seemingly lost because there are details that are overlapped.
There is also the posing itself which completely defines the last two YCH's as unwilling (though I am not sure how set in stone the poses are in YCH so this point may be invalid). Which is fine but people who like the idea of having their character devoured and said character to being enjoying themselves inside of the predator are now alienated.
A solution may be to have YCH's with less slots, which would lower the complexity of the piece, thus lower the target bidding to earn the higher levels of completion on the piece. Not only would there be, most likely, more competitive bidding on these fewer slots but you could then feature more of each character. For an individual bidder, this would promise a greater reward for less of a contribution, but with more of an incentive to win a particular slot since there are less of them overall the contribution would come as individuals compete to have their desired place become theirs.
There is more than likely more that will come to mind as I ponder this some more but for the meantime I hope this helps.
Thanks for making rockin' art!
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Posted by CrimsonKirie 9 years ago Report
What about a YCH of a group of adventurers about to enter Cinders lair to rescue a princess, they're too late of course. So it's be like 3 adventurers and maybe one or two princesses.
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Posted by Realmwars 9 years ago Report
Count me in Monday ^^
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