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Needs More Monster.
It's been a long while since I updated this thing.

Recently I've been venturing out of my usual hunting ground of the GD and instead poking around a bit in the Breedable/Changing Pets forum (for which blame the talented folks over at the Forest of Noctua). I must confess that I find myself tempted to get involved - the idea's cute, I like drawing critters, and it'd be good to find something that'd provide a change from the soul-destroying h0rr0r of GD.

I do note, however, that most of the pets in there seem to be some variant of the usual Charismatic Mammals - wolves, cats, horses, and various imaginary beasts based on them, all invariably very fluffy, adorable, charming, aesthetically pleasing, sparkly, lovely, cute, pretty, graceful. There's a lot of skill on display, certainly. But I kind of wonder if a bit more variety might not be a good thing.

Because seeing that much cute stuff makes me want to draw monsters.

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Is there a market for this kind of thing, do you think?

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Rayinte
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commentCommented on: Sun Feb 10, 2008 @ 11:58pm
There's a market for anything so long as the art is good and the shop is organized.

Especially if you make limited custom pets in character costumes from popular Anime or Gaia NPC's.


commentCommented on: Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 07:31am
I've got a hyphenated word combo for you: Pre-Orders!
Provided there's nothing in the Breedables forum rules about shopping for pre-orders...?



mr_smite
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Zahir
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commentCommented on: Mon Feb 11, 2008 @ 11:58am
Aha, that works. I might have to have a look at that pre-order thing.

The basic idea I've got is for a kind of mix-and-match monster shop, so there's the basic monster body, and there's a range of eyes, ears, teeths, claws, tails and suchlike appendages and mutations to pick from, or just assign randomly. That way there's room for a decent level of variation beyond just colouration or whatever. biggrin

Also, what's this RP thing that the B/CP forum seems to be full of? People RPing as their sparkly rainbow foxes and stuff? Is that kind of de rigeur nowadays? Most of the stores I've peered at have some kind of RP section, but I'm not sure whether I want to include something like that - I'm doubtful as to whether I can dedicate the time to running a minishop and organising RP stuffs on top of other things. Hm hm hm.

It's all food for thought, anyway. 3nodding


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