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Pack Poll #3

Dub's Bad Hygiene will be tested hopefully by the end of week, so hopefully we'll see the release on Friday! So to that, let's pick the next pack! Also, if you have suggestions on what you'd like to see in the next poll, let me know below!

So the mods are:

Anthrosonae by Avery (2023-05-04 23:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Big Changes Post: Please Read!

Hi everyone! I hope you're doing well.

So, it's been about, what 8-ish weeks since I released Portraits of the Rim? We've had updates, laughs, bugs, you know, the usual. In that time, I've also landed a job helping to co-found an indie game studio (largely thanks to the attention from Portraits of the Rim, so yeah, thank you all). Because of the amount of work that leading a te...

Weekly Update #9 - 4/28/23

Hey guys! Gonna be brief on this weekly update because, well, I wanted to take a breather now that the Alpha Genes update is released c: Go check it out! I’ll be working on the Dub’s Hygiene and sending out a poll for another mod to add next week to get us back on our regularly scheduled weekly updates!

Have a good weekend!

TwoPenny

Penny's Journals: Hiveling

So this was an interesting one that I kinda found difficult, to be honest. I want to portray the xenotypes in Rimworld with as much empathy and humanity as possible. Hivelings are in an interesting intersection of having been a people who escaped violence from the Empire, but in turn have enacted violence upon others with their parasitic stingers. I didn't like the idea of making them this pure...

Penny's Journals for Social Media

Hey guys! Just wanted to touchbase about sharing the journal entries on things like Reddit to help promote the release of the Alpha Genes update (which is on track for release this Friday!). Right now I've been keeping the journal entries as a Patreon-exclusive thing. This would basically be a one-time post on Reddit just to promote the release. That being said, if you want it to stay here, I'm...

Weekly Update #8 - 4/21/23

Hey everyone!

Hope you've had a good week with good weather. It's been really busy on my end between Alpha Genes and standard work stuff. Alpha Genes is definitely taking a fair amount of testing, but I think I'm about halfway done at this point in the testing phase, so that's good! I'll probably hold off updating the mod until I hit completion for Alpha Genes (and maybe Dub's Bad Hygiene...

Penny's Journal: Taukai

Almost done with the Alpha Genes-exclusive xenotypes (I'll do the sub-types like Ocularkin and all that as well). The timing actually kind of works out super well because I hope (fingers crossed) to have Alpha Genes released next weekend?? 

Anyway, to the Taukai - this one was really fun for me because I got to flex with my dietetics knowledge (my professors would be so proud lol). H...

Weekly Update #7

Howdy friends!

This week has been a "meeting busy" kind of week, but I did manage to get some assets done. I figured since the cyberpunk set is pretty small, I'd just hold off on releasing it until the next update. I'm hoping to finish Alpha Genes next week? Might need one more week just for testing, but I'm optimistic.

LIFE UPDATES

Not much. I think I got a cold. Oh! I saw th...

Penny's Journal: Wretch

I think this is my favorite one so far. I loved the idea of "wretches" being a people who are historically marginalized, leading them to create roving communities that are found families. The idea of self-referencing in the third person I wish I could claim as my idea, but it's actually from one of my favorite anime - Shadow's House. In it, half of the cast are literally faceless anthropomorphi...

Weekly Update #6 - 4/7/23

Hey all! 

Hope you've been having a good week. Allergy season is in full swing here, so if you're feelin' the pollen...well, that just kinda sucks, and I hope you have some meds to help. Just put out the update for the week with Roo's Hairstyles (Glasses). Not much else to report! Just did some bug fixes and wrapping up the generation of Alpha Genes (hoping to test and release in a c...

Pack Poll #2

Roo's Glasses will be released today, sooooo onto the next poll!

So the mods are:

Anthrosonae by Avery (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2902258418)

Time Expected: This is going to be on-par with Alpha Genes, so several we...

Penny's Journal: Lapis

I wanted to take a left-turn and make basically a sagacious gym-bro culture for the Lapis. I love the idea of them being just, like, upbeat himbos with rocks for skin

Weekly Update #5 - 3/31/23

Hey hey!

Hope everyone has been having a good week. So, for this coming week, I'll be repeating a lot of the mod choices for the upcoming pack. If there's another that wasn't previously brought up/you found something you would like to add to the pile, please feel free to share below! Other than that, Alpha Genes is in the final part of the generation phase! After that's done, I just have ...

Style Notes: Cyberpunk

As a challenge for this one, I tried to keep it all to the Core assets already there. I think the only one I deviated with was the gas mask. Also, naturally I had to reference Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and best girl, Becca.

Penny's Journal: Mind Devourer

This one I've been wanting to do for a while. I love Eldritch motifs c:

Weekly Update #4 - 3/25/23

Hey there!

Sorry this is a little late (well, I'm trying to hold myself to the Friday updates at least). Just pushed the update on Steam, so people should be able to play with the impid fashions and Persona hairs c: It's been a busy week in non-mod related ways, hence the later update. Truth be told, I've been pretty anxious, so trying to take care of mental health stuff (especially as it...

Penny's Journal: Animusen

In their description, Sarg described them as "better" tempered than the Yttakin, which I love as a dynamic, so I made them socially adept and empathetic, but kind of snooty. I'll have to figure out how to draw the different fox people as distinct groups as these notes continue. Oh well, it's a problem for future me.

Pack Poll #2

Hey there! Hope everyone's having a good start to their week. We'll be wrapping up Erin's current mods this week, so let's vote on what we'll be working on next! I'll try to provide some context to how long I expect them to take in case that's something you're worried about. I think having two packs going at the same time is a good pace, so we'll keep it at that! Also, I'll keep this list going...

Weekly Update #3 - 3/17/23

Hey hey!

Happy Friday! Hope everyone has been a good week, and if it wasn't a good week, I hope you can take some time for yourself in the near future <3 And welcome new patrons! Please make yourself comfortable.

I 1000% bit off more than I can chew (which is kinda my brand these days, I guess). The Auronya took, no joke, like ten different changes (and reboots of Rimworld to tes...

Weekly Update #2 - 3/10/23

Hey hey!

So as you can see here, I'm a goober and didn't read the fine print for Erin's other xenotypes outside of the Auronya, but they're still running with Humanoid Alien Races (HAR) which I don't want to mess with right now, so they're gonna sit on the shelf.

The good news is that this gives me more time this week to work on actual asset generation, so I'm going to try and tackl...

Anime Overhaul (Concept Head)

Hey there! So, I'm trying to brainstorm a style for the anime overhaul because while you guys have seen that my style is pretty cartoon-y to begin with, it's kinda anime-lite and we're goin' full anime for the overhaul. This is what I'm at thus far for the Abrasive trait and Lackland hair. 

The big inspirations were from Trigger animations, Demon Slayer, and a healthy dose of 80s ani...

Penny’s Journal: Helixien

I swear I spelled this name like four different ways throughout this. It was actually weirdly super fun to draw all the slug-ness.

Pack Poll #1: Erin's Mods

All right, gonna wrap up Erin's Hairs 2 this week, so let's pick what the next pack of Erin's will be! Since she was super helpful in getting PotR released, I wanted to put her mods in first as a "thank you", but there are several, so you guys vote on what you want to see next! Once the mod is finished being drawn, I'll upload it in the (hopefully) weekly update. 

After Er...

Style Notes: Impid Fashion

So, I love this book called Cool by Greg Foley and Andrew Luecke. Basically it talks about 20th century counterculture globally, and the subgroups that formed in protest to the various systems at play. Anyway, it's great, and it breaks all of the subcultures into pages like this, which I shamelessly stole the template for to make this.

In my mind, Impid fashion would largely follow simila...

Weekly Update #1 - 3/6/23

This is much easier to read, so I'll switch over to this version. Sorry about the double update!

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Hey hey!

It's the end of the week, so I figured this is a good time for recap as any (also looks like people want a weekly recap, so here we are c:) I'll break the updates into things in progre...

Penny’s Journal: Fleetkind

I loved the idea of a xenotype that had difficulty relating to baseliners because of how physiologically different they were to what we consider “human”. I feel like a lot of times we see those kinds of tropes in media and associate it with aloofness, but I wanted to make it so that Fleetkind are just as social as baseliners, they just communicate differently!

Auronya Concept Art

I kinda want to make a series of notes that work both as concept art and a fun flavor thing where Penny Painter is writing down their journey across the Rim, so expect more of these!

The mod in reference is: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2908837535 by Erin 2023-02-28 15:58:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Question: How often would you like to see update logs?

I figure a regular update is helpful for everyone to know what to expect and provide some feedback, but also I know that it's super annoying getting emails from Patreon all the time, so let me know what you want!

The Mod is Out!

Hey everyone!

So touched to see the warm reception for Portraits of the Rim. Genuinely, it's been inspiring. Not to go too down the rabbit-hole of "art and expression" pretentiousness, but I wanted this mod to make people feel like they could connect to their colonists, and I'm so incredibly happy to see people feel that way. That's kinda the big goal as an artist, and, like, it's genuine...

Alpha Genes Sketches and Notes

Just some WIP notes for the Alpha Genes update! Let me know if something looks off or you have an idea for how something might look! This is suuuuper early draft, so likely some of it is going to change.