Hi Backers! A quick February and March cheeky double update. Well it's really an update for what we've been doing for the past few months! We've been pretty busy the last few months and settling into a routine with projects and things, which is exciting - the winter malaise is giving way to spring energy.
Projects
Commissions
These months we did some custom pixel art for our friend's Minecraft avatar!
You can check out their gaming blog here at Kinkymal.se!
ManyNames
We're rewriting it! Well the interface at least, since it's currently implemented with Python and wxWidgets which only really supports desktops and ManyNames is the kind of thing that would be amazing on mobile, so we're planning on porting to Python and Kivy framework, and have started redoing the GUI with this.
That said we have released two new versions of ManyNames in the past few months! Check it out:
https://aldercone.itch.io/manynames
SoundWell
Our drone music generator SoundWell has received some love these months, and is better than ever at generating drone noise and ambient music continuously. We've got some fun plans for more user control over the emergent tunes that we've started working on, but it's already so, so enjoyable.
https://aldercone.itch.io/soundwell2
K-23
Speaking of noise and/or drone and/or ambient, our NoiseAmbientDrone band Kilo-Two-Three has released its first album! Our very own Cassowary carefully herded and crafted the audio experience for this Roadside Picnic inspired eldritch adventure An account, with recordings, of anomalous event BRIGHT TEMPLE 1987-05-23 available on BandCamp here:
K-23's second album LEVIATHAN GATE, an aquatic adventure, is set to release in April!
Grants!
Here's some grants we applied to, maybe they are relevant to you!
Hit Point Press has a TTRPG grant available! Check out the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtsJhBPmeTon1s_2yKJiu5m6NRIbX9eXneb2ugm8XYojmSaA/viewform They especially want hear from us BIPOC / Queer / Trans folks! Deadline is 30 April 2023
Games Devs of Color Expo has their application up for their 2023 event
Game Dev Interviews
Gradient Convergence
The GDoCExpo Direct
Webgames Showcase
Game Dev Grants
Astra Games has application for their yearly Astra Games Fellowship open: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeffYKjzW40pe-XSQpm311-zTbPn1krx0XH7smDSc1min7mlw/viewform Deadline is 5 April 2023
That's all for now! <3