211 - Direct, Work and Merch.
Hello dear bros. How is everything? Wonderful and peachy? No? Oh well, life doesn't give a damn does it. It just keeps going. Monday Posts are the same in that regard: no damn is given -- it's Monday so it's time for another post :)
The Direct. FE: Three Hopes looks decent. But I will need more information before I know if I want this game or not. The fact that this will be basically a reboot is weird. Also they only showed female MC. If they kicked male Byleth out of the story I will be skipping the game for sure.
Xenoblade 3 looks bad. Character design reminded me of Scarlet Nexus characters: bland, uninspired and sterile. I can say right away that I won't be playing XC3. All I hear on the web is how happy everyone is that XC3 is not fanservicy like the first two games were, but we will see what the sales numbers will look like when the game is out.
The rest. All the other games featured on the direct we alright. A lot of old remakes and re-releases which is always good in my book. (Chrono Cross ^_^). Mario Strikers looks interesting. But all in all there were no games for me to get excited about. Which is a good thing this time since I can't spend too much money on games anymore.
The merch. First half of this week was spent on designing t-shirts and looking for a store to sell them with. Majority of the stores I have checked looked so normie it's scary. Eventually I settled on SharkRobot since they seem pretty lax and already feature stuff by Dmitrys and Shadaman. But when I contacted the site they replied with: "Thank you for your interest in our store, but we will have to pass." So that's that.
After that I contacted another store and they made an online appointment for me with one of their managers next week. Yeah, this time I will be the one passing I think. All this official shit always makes my blood curl, so if I can avoid it, I will.
Eventually I decided to go with Teespring. Seems like another normie website, but maybe if I keep the designs safe they won't kick me. At least I didn't have to do a fucking Skype interview just so that I could open and account there.
All in all the merch thing proved to be extremely tiresome for me. All I want is work on my games T_T. But in any case, here is my website: https://akabur.creator-spring.com If you feel like supporting me, you know what to do.
The work. I am back to writing. Working on Iris' story arc. It will be a lengthy one so it's probably gonna be a while before I get back to drawing again.
That is all. Thank you for your support.
-Aka-
Comments (24)
I can advise you to make pictures (these or other) bigger for the T-Shirt to make it more interesting. It could be the reason of decline from Sharkrobot. Currently only mugs seems to fit nicely.
Hm. Noted. Thank you for the advice.
Have you thought about just selling Merch off your own website, you have a large enough fan base I would think that would be more successful than using some third party vendor!
Do you suggest I manufacture it and ship it myself? 0_0
Hm, if I can scrape some cash together.... if nothing else I'll spread the word! And yeah, there's a lot of people that will whoop and holler about games 'not being fanservicy' but I get the feeling they still won't buy it. Sigh
*Sigh* Indeed. Oh, well, I guess I'll have to do everything myself as usual, and make sure my next game contains enough fanservice XD
Good luck with the merch! I really like the mug design. I hope you have fun writing as well! Keep safe!
Thanks. You too, my friend :)
Can't wait to order premium trainer hoodie, tho this will have to wait for next paycheck.
No rush. :)
Yep, this is that I was afraid of, bland square on the front to paste your image, no full art on the whole shirt, no sleeves. Hope you at least tried contacting represent.com, even though I guess that is out of your reach.
Heh... At my limit as it is.
Next pay will see me order something something. After all the playthroughs I definately feel like a Professional Trainer, time to look like one too ^_^
Thanks. If everything will go well I will add more stuff eventually. Maybe some SFW prints :)
It would be pretty funny if you start selling your stuff on vsemayki - the website that many Russian youtubers often promote :D
Heh...^^
Premium "Professional Trainer" Hoodie ordered. The friendly family content will now spread even more when I'll wear it at work !
Thanks, man. I will let you guys know when I will get paid for the first time. And you must let me know when you get the thing :)
Epic mail, sorry about the tshirt sites, that sucks but my life is always more peachy with your updates, let us know once you're selling XD
Thank you, Ace. My life is always more peachy with your support :)
I can’t wait for the Chrono cross remake brings back nostalgia from when I first played it as a teenager on the PlayStation one system
You and me both, brother.
I read that as Tree Hopes at first and wondered why they made a game about hippies.
^_^