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Hello friends! It's a little later than intended (sorry about that!) but Ain and I worked together to finish this year's spring postcard design: Drama at Dot's Digs! It's a little different than the original draft because it's been so long since it was first conceptualized that the whole game world

Season's greetings and warm wishes from the Moonshell Island crew! Please enjoy this special holiday illustration by our postcard and character artist, Ain! Thanks for all your support throughout this challenging year of rebuilding Moonshell Island. We accomplished a lot for the circumstances, and w

Hello friends! Now that the postal strike has changed to a rotating strike, our new postcard prints are finally in! This adorable design I shared in my third milestone update is by our brilliant character designer Ain, who has taken over as postcard artist while I focus on rebuilding Moonshell Islan

Hey friends! It's long overdue, but I can finally reveal the new postcard I'll be mailing out to all qualifying tiers this month! This one is extra special because it's a collaboration between myself and our character designer Ain. Based on my rough sketch selected in the postcard poll, Ain did the

Season’s greetings, friends! Winter has arrived (or will soon if you're reading this early as a paid patron), and it’s time for our final progress update for the year 2024. Now that we’re doing quarterly updates, we won’t be doing the Moonshell Island Annual Retrospect this year. Sometimes a new app

Hey friends! I've received the prints for this month's postcard, which I'll be sending out to all qualifying tiers (Shooting Starfish and up) this week! In the six months since the last postcard: Bryan Depuy has joined the team as Moonshell Island's programmer! I've wrapped up my series of demo art

Ahoy friends! As cozy season sets in, it’s time to share the spoils of a busy summer voyage. Heads up: This post includes animated GIFs which are best viewed on your browser! Demo Artwork Update: Timelines can be completed early?? In my Summer Update I celebrated completing my Character Sprites spri

Hey friends! As we cross over into a new season and pass a new checkpoint on Moonshell Island’s demo production, the time is ripe for another progress update! Heads up: This post includes animated GIFs which are best viewed on your browser! Artwork Update: Timelines are motivating! In my Spring Upda

Hey friends! I've received the prints for this month's postcard, which I'll be sending out to all qualifying tiers (Shooting Starfish and up) this week! In the six months since the last postcard: I've wrapped up the demo planning stage as best I could and have begun a series of milestone sprints lea

Hello friends! I hope spring is off to a rejuvenating start for you all. I know I’ve got a bit more spring to my step, because I have some Moonshell Island progress to share thanks to a couple things I’ll be talking about today! Heads up: This post includes animated GIFs which are best viewed on you

Hey friends! Check out the prints and completed design for next month's postcard! It was fun to finally finish the "Secret Snack Time with Dot" design, so thanks for voting for it! I'm so excited to write and send these out to all qualifying tiers (Shooting Starfish and up) for October. If you've ch

Hello friends! November already... where did the time go? Time flows weird when life's eventful, and mine certainly has been that. As I've mentioned before, over the last year or so I've split my focus across studio matters, my day job, and working toward selling my house and moving back to my provi

Hey friends! Can you believe summer is already upon us? Time sure flies when life gets busy. Life has been getting very busy for me this year, and especially recently. So it's been a little quiet here lately, and I appreciate you sticking around! Earlier this month, I updated the Moonshell Island tr

Hello friends! I hope you've enjoyed seeing more Moonshell Island content lately, because that's what you'll be seeing here from now on. We'll leave the existing Santria content up for the foreseeable future, but life has taken Schotti another direction and he will no longer be as involved with Chee

Hey friends, Sam here! While we have managed to post some VIP Sneak Peeks and maintain our postcard and pin rewards over the last months, it's been a while since we shared the status of our projects to our Patreon community as a whole. I just happen to have some noteworthy announcements, so now seem

Hello friends! It's Sam again with a new colour palette to share! Last year, I wound up having to break the limits of my SPF-80 palette when I implemented a big visual upgrade to Moonshell Island, adding colours which gave it a more dreamy aesthetic. I have finally gotten around to organizing the ex

Hello friends! We just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you for your incredible support! We've reached $300/month a lot faster than expected! To celebrate this and a few other milestones, We are thinking about doing another stream soon, probably sometime after the Moonshell Island demo is rea

Hello friends, Sam here with a Moonshell Island sneak peek at a new NPC and a couple of speedpixel GIFs! You will meet this local in the Moonshell Island demo, and her name is Harriet, but everyone calls her Hattie. I forgot to record her sprite creation, but here is a speedpixel for her little serv

Hello friends, Sam here! It's been a long time in the making, but I'm finally reaching a point where I am content with the ocean tileset for Moonshell Island, though I do intend to polish it more eventually. Now that I've reached this milestone, I want to share the steps it took to reach this result

Hey friends! We hope you are all doing well and staying safe in these times of uncertainty. The COVID-19 situation seems to be effecting the lives of all people right now, and it is especially nice to have a great online community like you guys to keep us company when everyone is isolating themselve

Hello Cabana friends! In case you missed all the craziness on Twitter over the last few days, I've written a summary going into detail about some rather cool stuff that has happened! Please check it out! :) Look forward to a postcard poll coming up soon! Massive News! (Cheekynauts)

Hallo friends, Schotti's here! In the second episode of the making of-series I will explain the creation process and features of AcornEdit, a sweet content editor designed for the Cheekynauts games. Above: AcornEdit logo designed by Sam. Developing an RPG with all the necessary features and framewor

Hi friends, Sam here! The complete Moonshell Island title screen speedpixel video is finally done, and to make it more interesting, I turned it into a little devlog discussing the inspiration behind the game and how the first year of development has gone. To say thanks, I've included all patrons as

Spooky greetings! Sam here. Recently I completed the Cabana Club area in Moonshell Island, and the speedpixel is so long that I want to turn it into a video with commentary, so it will take a little longer to share. You can check out the reveal in this tweet! However, the Cabana Club has undergone a

Hello friends! Lately I have struggled a bit to find a balance between working on the Patreon overhaul, working on Moonshell Island and Santria assets, the Cheekynauts website and content, and a lot of personal life stuff. While I have shared some progress on our Discord server, I haven't been posti