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Astatos: Flippant Academy P26 - With Open Arms

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 26 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

Astatos: Flippant Academy P25 - Their Own Reasons

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 25 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

Astatos: Flippant Academy P24 - The Conflict

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 24 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

Astatos

While there's lots of work left to go, stuff is coming together and it's pretty exciting.We'll be sharing some tidbits in the blogs this month but overall this game has been the biggest engineering challenge we've had to work with. Can't wait to be able to get to the first build out.See you soon (Ish?) - Compymono(Ok maybe like 2 months)

Astatos: Flippant Academy P23 - Sacred Intel

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 23 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

[Background Art] Volesus - Character Design Process

For today's background art post, we're looking at the character design process of the second protagonist of Astatos, Volesus! His character was considered the rival of Vitus but as the story plan has developed, they ended up getting along a lot better.- Studio Klondike

[Background Blog] Designing the Echo Anchor Bracelet

As the second merch themed blog this month, we wanted to talk a little bit about the design process that went into the Echo bracelet we helped produce alongside Pawprint Press and Echo Project.Aanyone who has played the game will know why we picked this, as our first Echo themed item. The anchor bracelet has a particular significance to both the main character and featured as a motif across the game itself.Starting OutWhile this item had a shorter turn-around than the Amicus Plush, it took a lot more revisions to get just right. As with anythin...

[Background Art] Krokos - Card Illustration Progress

We managed to dig through our archives a little bit back to this time last year and found some illustration progress shots for some of the hero card artworks for the Starter Edition of Astatos, so we thought we'd share some of these with you guys starting with Krokos!- Studio Klondike

[Background Blog] Designing the Amicus Plush

If you guys didn't already know, we worked with Pawprint Press and Echo Project to release the Amicus Plush over the past week or so! (store link if you want to check out how it turned out)We're really proud of how this guy turned out so we wanted to write a bit about the whole process behind all the design and prototyping that went into making it happen.Starting OutSo we first approached Echo Project about the idea of doing a plush around the same time as the release of the Likulau Plush and the Amicus Charms at Pawprint Pawprint Press...

About this month's Background Blogs

Hey guys, Compymono here!Sorry about the delay in getting out background blogs recently. The blogs for this month will be both around design work we've been doing with Pawprint Press and Echo Project on the new merchandise that was released the other week. While I know this is a little off-topic from our usual game development blogs, we're busy working on some really exciting stuff that isn't quite ready to be shown yet. (As a consequence we also haven't put out a topic poll recently since we're a bit limited in what content...

Astatos: Flippant Academy P22 - Kyros the Informant

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 22 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

Astatos: Flippant Academy P21 - Counterattack

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 21 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

[Background Art] Astatos Seal Altar

Here's another background location and illustration process from the upcoming Astatos video game. We're making strides towards release of the first alpha build, but here's a sneak peek at some more of the artwork.- Studio Klondike

[Background Art] Astatos Heroes: Veeph & Bramir

With the anniversary of Beek - Familiar Spirit's release this month, here's a look at the full card artwork for the mercenary Veeph and the mysterious hare Bramir (Glutton) from Expansion Pack IV of Astatos. - Glutton

Astatos: Flippant Academy P20 - Request

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 20 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

Astatos: Flippant Academy P19 - The Truth

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 19 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

[Background Blog] Astatos - Preparing for Print

Hey patrons, Compymono here!Sorry for the delay on last month's background blogs and concept art posts but we had some assets come in at the end of last month meaning that my work shifted towards wrapping up the print files for Astatos across all four languages.So for the first background blog for August, I figure it'll be a great time to look over the asset creation process and preparation for the Astatos print files.The scope of the product assetsLast time we talked about the design process for Astatos, we talked about the challenges ...

[Background Art] Vitus - Character Design Process

For this background art we're looking at the character design process for the protagonist of the Astatos video game story mode, Vitus. In his design we wanted a more youthful and animated feel to contrast against the other characters in Astatos.Hope you enjoy this early look at his character design and the process behind it! 👏- Studio Klondike

Astatos: Flippant Academy P18 - New game, new rules.

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 18 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

Astatos Story Design Poll

Hey Patrons,So we were working on the story mode for Astatos and we realised that the design for Mukaki was a bit complex to be bringing into a bunch of sprite illustrations.While working to simplify the character design to create a reference, our concept artist brought forth two different approaches. Since we liked both of them, we figured why not bring it up as a poll.Let us know which approach you like more and if you guys have any further comments or suggestions be sure to leave them below! 👏(more cool stuff about the Astatos story mode ...

Astatos: Flippant Academy P17 - I have a proposition!

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 17 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

Astatos: Flippant Academy P16 - Somebody do something!

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 16 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

[Background Blog] A Sunny Renovation

Hi Patrons, for the second July background blog, we're taking a look at some of the asset production progress in Nekojishi: Lin & Partners.BackgroundIn Lin & Partners, Liao and the cats run a property development company that specialises in haunted locations, making use of "Feng Shui" or in reality, Liao's ability to talk to spirits, to complete their contracts.From a design perspective, this means that each location goes through a transformation as the story progresses.Design ProgressRecently one of these locations we've be...

[Background Art] Astatos Crown Mage Hall

With this month's blog on the story mode for Astatos, we wanted to share some of the illustration progress on one of the backgrounds we've completed so far. We hope you enjoy! 👏- Studio Klondike

[Background Art] Nekojishi Beach Sketches

While we can't say what these are for, we wanted to share these early sketches of the three big cats with you guys! (The release of these illustrations will be a long way away but it'll be worth it 💪)- Studio Klondike

[Background Blog] Astatos: Designing the Story Mode

Hey Patrons!Last time we talked about the Astatos video game was back in April so we wanted to give you guys a bit of a look into some of progress we've made since then.In Astatos, we plan to have a story told in a visual novel format and released in chapters over time. (This is mostly so we can get the game out at a faster rate and also so our writers can swap between this game and the in-development Nekojishi Lin & Partners.)While we're going to keep quiet on the plot of the story mode for now, we can take a look at some of the design...

Astatos: Flippant Academy P15 - The Past and Present

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 15 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

July Topic Voting

Hi Patrons, we've been hard at work on our projects and we want to know what topics you'd like us to write about next! For the Astatos card game, we've received our first production sample now so we thought we'd give you a bit of an extra look into that.In any case, let us know which topics you want to hear about the most! 👏(Edit: we forgot to set the patron tiers when we posted this so everyone gets in on the topic vote this month! 😅)

Astatos: Flippant Academy P14 - Run while you can!

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 14 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

[Background Blog] Designing the Nekojishi: Lin & Partners Logo

Hi there, it's Compymono from Studio Klondike! (I actually write most of these blogs but since this is some of my personal work it feels more natural to introduce myself.) So today I wanted to take a look back at the design process of the new logo for Nekojishi: Lin & Partners. It's a fairly interesting topic as this project has gone back a few years now and it's gone through a lot of changes over that time, so let's begin!October 2018So back around October 2018 was when the initial announcement of Lin & Partners was being plann...