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[Background Art] Taipei Skyline - Tegu's Office

Here's a look at the concept artwork from Nekojishi: Lin & Partners which is used as the basis of the skybox for Tegu's office in the Lian Shan Property Group, a scene which can be scene in the announcement trailer for the game!- Studio Klondike

[Background Art] Astatos Heroes: Nikos & Caelius

As we get closer to the release of the card game version of Astatos, here’s a look at the full card artwork for two heroes from Expansion Pack II; Nikos and Caelius.- Studio Klondike

[Background Blog] Designing the Likulau Plush

Hey patrons! With the launch of the Likulau plush this month we thought we’d put together a special design blog to go along with it, so without further ado.Starting OutThe first design illustrations for the Likulau plush were drawn up along with the Lin Hu plush which we Kickstarted back at the end of 2019 where producing the Likulau Plush was one of the stretch goals we reached.IterationAt this point we had a pretty big head start compared to the Lin Hu plush since we already had a manufacturer and they could use the design of the Lin Hu plu...

Astatos: Flippant Academy P13 - Interrogation

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 13 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

June Topic Voting

Hey Patrons, we're starting the topic voting for this month a little later than usual. But good news, it means we were able to include a cool topic to go along with the launch of the Likulau Plush today! Be sure to let us know what topics you guys want to see. 👏

The Likulau plush has been released!

After the sneak peek we gave you guys back in April, the Likulau plush has finally made it to full release! (A lot of changes were made since then but most of them weren't visible in the photo from that post)We worked hard to make sure this plush was up to the same high quality standards we set with the Lin Hu one which was crowdfunded last year, so we hop everyone who orders one enjoys them.The 12" Likulau plush is available today from Pawprint Press, with a launch sale of 20% off both Kulau and the Lin Hu plush for the first week.Let&...

Astatos: Flippant Academy P12 - A Storm Approaches

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 12 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 Heroes: Varius & Kyros

As we get closer to the release of the card game version of Astatos, here’s a look at the full card artwork for two heroes from Expansion Pack I, including a first look at Kyros!- Studio Klondike

[Background Blog] The Yaoguai Bystanders of Lin & Partners

For this blog about Nekojishi: LIn & Partners we wanted to take a look at some of our recent work into diversifying the NPC variety in the game and give people a little peek into some of the designs and a bit of the modelling process!While less common than humans, in Lin & Partners Liao will also see yaoguai bystanders mulling about in different scenes. Our character modeller, Lenz, came up with a few different designs, each with different clothes and fur options to give more variety with the NPC generation.All our models begin with a high-poly...

[Background Art] Beek CG 02 Process

To coincide with today’s blog about Beek 2 we wanted to share another illustration process for the second CG from Beek - Familiar Spirit. We often get told this is the last one people end up finding in the game, so enjoy!

[Background Blog] The Early Design of “Beek 2”

Hey all! Today we’re going to be taking an early look at the design plan for our upcoming side project, i.e. the sequel to our short story Beek - Familiar Spirit. Since our team is currently in full production on Nekojishi: Lin & Partners and Astatos this project is sort of on the back-burner, but we thought it would be interesting to write about the early design ideas and prototype of the game.Coming off the first Beek we realised there was a lot of things we could do to improve the game and create something a bit more satisfying in a sequel...

Astatos: Flippant Academy P11 - What the Devil is Going On?

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 11 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 P10 - The Devil and The God

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 10 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

May Topic Voting

Here's the topic voting for our blog for this month! We'll be preparing a blog on Beek 2 next but let us know what you want to see after that. 🎉- Studio Klondike

[Background Art] Astatos Heroes: Zermes & Herclaus

To go with the background blog on the Astatos video game, here's two Heroes from the game with their full illustrations. (A fair amount of them gets covered by the card itself after all) Enjoy!- Studio Klondike

[Background Blog] The Groundwork of Astatos the Video Game

Hello everyone!Today we wanted to share with you an early look at some of the development of the foundational systems of the Astatos video game which is currently in development after we hit the stretch goal for it last year during the Astatos Kickstarter.As you can imagine, there are both benefits and challenges that come with adapting a physical card game like Astatos into a video game. On one hand it's easier to guide the player through the game, on the other we have to come up with lots of ways to handle more ambiguous tasks in the game...

[Background Art] Lian Shan Property Group Office

Our last blog focused on the design of the Lian Shan property group office, which also involved heaps of concept artwork just devoted to asset design so that's what we wanted to share with you today. (This office is too cool)

[Background Blog] The Lian Shan Property Group

Hello everyone!It's been a while but we've been hard at work on Nekojishi: Lin & Partners (and another project which will be the feature of our next blog) so this time we wanted to give you a look at the latest environment we've been working on behind the scenes.While seen briefly in the announcement trailer for the game, the Lian Shan Property Group serves as the main opponent to Liao and the cats in the game.As with all our environments it starts out as a layout sketch which lays out the scene and the assets required to build it. ...

Astatos: Flippant Academy P9 - Lecture Time

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 9 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think.Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

Likulau Plush Sneak Peek

The Likulau plush is well on its way to being ready so we thought we'd share with you a little peek at one of the prototypes. There's still a few things to change so we won't share the final design until it's ready to release. (Along with the Shu-Chi plush which were stretch goals during our Kickstarter for the Lin Hu plush last year) But in any case, enjoy!- Studio Klondike

Astatos: Flippant Academy P8 - All Bets Are Off!

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 8 of Flippant Academy! Let us know what you think. Astatos: Flippant Academy releases publicly every two weeks on the Pawprint Press Twitter and Website.

April Topic Voting

Here's the topic voting for this month! Let us know what projects you'd like to hear more about. 👏- Studio Klondike

[Background Art] Astatos Expansion Pack I Draft Sketches

With this week's background block surrounding Astatos, we wanted to share some early concept sketches of 5 of the heroes from Astatos expansion pack I. You'll be seeing the final versions in the coming weeks so enjoy this sneak peek!

[Background Blog] Astatos Packaging Design - Starter Deck

Hi Patrons!As Astatos came up second in the last Patron poll that's what we're going to talk about this time.Over the past month while the Nekojishi: Lin & Partners campaign has been going on we've also been working on preparing Astatos for printing. This includes finalising card artwork, gameplay text, packaging design, and naming the characters. However, for today we wanted to focus on the packaging design of Astatos as we prepare for printing the physical copies of the game.Starting OutSo back in December we started deciding what...

Nekojishi: Lin & Partners - Last 24 Hours on Kickstarter

Hi everyone, this is just a quick update to let you know about the crowdfunding for Nekojishi: Lin & Partners is coming to an end on Kickstarter! (Still 5 days left to go on FlyingV)Do remember that all our patrons backing or have previously backed at the Welcome Home tier will be receiving a copy of the game on PC/macOS along with having their name in the credits.And that's all for now, tomorrow we should be releasing a second background blog and artwork release for the month so look forward to that! Sorry we had to push back a lot of our ...

Astatos: Flippant Academy P7 - Herclaus Flipped On

Here's the Patreon exclusive early access to part 7 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] Lin & Partners: The Story So Far Artwork Drafts

With our background blog on the production of The Story So Far trailer for Nekojishi: Lin & Partners, here's some early looks at the draft linework for the artwork. We hope you all enjoy this look behind the scenes!

[Background Blog] Lin & Partners The Story So Far Trailer

Since most of you wanted us to talk a bit about Lin & Partners we wanted to share a bit about the development behind one of the trailers we released over the past few weeks of the campaign.So, as some of you may already know, the initial planned announcement for Lin & Partners was back in 2018 after our teaser website went up. Back then we were planning to just announce the project with the trailer you see above. As such, the production of this trailer happened mid-late 2018.Starting OutAt this time, the main scenario and layout for the game wa...

March Topic Voting

Hello everyone!We've had a hectic start of the month with the announcement of our latest game Nekojishi: Lin & Partners but now we're back and ready to keep on updating you guys on Patreon. We have a lot of exciting content in the works so let us know what you'd like to hear more about.Thanks again for your patience while we've been getting everything up and running this month!

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