Constantly torn between diligent self care, going to bed at 8pm, working out at 5am, having my shit together completely and wanting to stay up all night and be chaotic and smoke weed and be wild and howl at the moon
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NEW SHOP OPENING
after several months of preparation, im happy to announce that i'm opening up my small business on 🌟MARCH 21st!!🌟
ill be selling various fandom merch, and plan to expand to different types besides stickers (like button pins or....keychains??) im super excited to finally announce this and have spent so much time planning everything.
if you're interested, set a reminder! see you soon! https://shummysscribbles.bigcartel.com/
look out for updates on the shops twitter account! https://twitter.com/shummyscribbles
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do you like notebooks?
of course you do!
whether you like to collect fun and unique designs or you use them to write down your ideas, these journals with hand-crafted art are perfect to inspire your next project
hand-embroidered by yours truly, these bad boys (and others!) are available in my shop now! these A5 notebooks are lightweight and perfect for travel or just keeping in your bag to jot down thoughts. the 60 pages of college ruled paper are a cream/off-white, so they're easy on the eyes.
these notebooks are also extremely tactile. run your fingers along the stitches and feel the art (very relaxing, if I do say so myself).
if you're interested in checking out these or any of the others I currently have, check out my ko-fi shop here!
I'm a small, one-person shop just getting started, so even if these aren't your jam, sharing this post with friends and followers would also be a huge help 💜
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You often talk about budget in your answers, so I was curious about something. Is it possible for the company to run out of budget before devs could complete the game as they initially planned, so that they have to wrap up all the pending storylines as best as they can even if incomplete? Talking specifically about massive story driven games with a lot of important characters having long storylines such as The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the Mass Effect series, etc.
It has certainly happened in the past, though not necessarily specifically the narrative part of the game. Many games are pushed to launch without development being as far as they want it to be due to reasons like hitting their budgetary limit and needing to recoup some of the investment. Our estimates are only estimates after all, sometimes we run into unforeseen problems and things take longer than expected. We can't stop paying the developers when we hit snags like that, so certain features end up more costly than others, which eats into the budget that was earmarked for other stuff instead. Most games in this situation have a lot of other launch issues too for the same reason - when you're pushed out the door to make the deadline due to running out of budget, things that should have been fixed are often not.
When World of Warcraft launched in 2004, there were several entire world zones that were incomplete and (mostly) locked off from players. Some players were able to sneak in through various exploits and take screenshots of those areas. Most notable were that the zones were primarily unpopulated by anything - no mobs, no quests, empty towns and buildings, just environment geometry that had been built out. This accompanied other incomplete bits of the game like quests that still had XML code in them. It would take years before players would finally see the incomplete-at-launch zones in some form or other.
Cyberpunk 2077 famously launched after multiple delays with numerous bugs and weird issues. Notably, the dev team also completely cut the multiplayer mode of the game that they had been building in order to consolidate resources to ship the single player game. The game came in super hot and had a huge number of launch issues that were eventually (mostly) ironed out, but the multiplayer mode was never resurrected.
The most famous example of this is probably Knights of the Old Republic 2. The publisher famously moved the deadline up and Obsidian scrapped the in-development ending since they didn't have the time to finish it. Instead, the story was wrapped up super quickly to ship the game. Notably, the partially-finished original ending was left on the disc and modders eventually discovered (and later restored) it.
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Crosshair only became "evil" because of his chip activation and the mindflayer machine, yet instead of discovering that machine's creation and restoring his reputation, he has to remain the "incurably evil monster" because...
CX-2's body type, movements, and mannerisms all scream that Tech might not be dead after all, yet instead of showing his face and proving that he needs help, he has to stay in the shadows because...
Echo had THE right idea all along by vocalizing his need to help the other Troopers; yet instead of acknowledging his good will and wishing him luck and safe travels, he has to be sighed at and accused of never being satisfied because...
Wrecker SHOULD have been given the chance to tell Crosshair all about his own chip activating and what it did to his emotions, yet he was relegated to armor delivery duty and not much else because...
Because...why, again...?
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Hi! I will open my sticker shop in just a few days where you'll find a lot of the illustrations I posted here in sticker form :D
The shop will launch on my ko-fi page on September 7th (1PM UTC+9)
All stickers are printed on a matte finish semi waterproof sticker paper and are hand-cut by me 💖
International shipping is available (with the exception of a few countries) and all orders are shipped from Japan 💌
Thank you so much for all the support so far. Being able to sell my art someday has always been a dream of mine since I started drawing (little teen Sara would be screaming if she knew haha) and I definitely wouldn't have had enough courage to open a shop without all the nice encouragement and lovely messages/comments/tags from you guys so really thank you!! 🥰
If you have any questions/suggestions I'd love to hear them so please let me know 💌
See you next Thursday for the shop launch! 💖
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