It's Friday– again!

I have three more days left in the bushveld before returning to civilisation. I've got a bit of a tan, and the little one is loving the wild bucks, babboons, mangooses (mangeese? We just call them "muishonde" or mouse-dogs as a literal translation from Afrikaans) and monkeys to the extend that I'm interrupted every few hours to go on walk to look for some wildlife.

I've been making solid progress. I know it's not super interesting reading that I wrote more content each week, but that's what it is for now. We're chipping away at the work that still needs to be done for the next public release.

In the meantime, Tae has been drawing more portraits from our newest Captain tier patrons. (They get to add their portrait to the game, either of themselves or their OC, whichever they prefer.) If you've ever wondered what that process looks like, wonder no more!

The process is really simple. Once a patron signs up to the captain tier, I usually reach out in a few days to get some references. References can be selfies, random photos off the internet, mixing and matching your OC, we've even had references from Sims, like the example below.

Once we have the reference, Tae takes a day or three to do lineart:

We then contact the patron, checking if they are happy and if we need to make any changes.

After that, we do the colouring and shading, giving the patron another chance to request any minor changes.

Once that's done, the portrait gets added to the game's next release.

I'm speaking out of turn, but the team is arranging a Halloween themed Infinite Stars fan art competition where the winner wins a portrait commission for Infinite Stars. The announcement will probably go out on our Discord in a few days.

That's it from me for now.

Stay safe, be kind to others and enjoy your weekend!