HOMEBREW DEVIANTS NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 2020

Happy December, everyone- and welcome to the busy month of holidays! Here’s the December 2020 edition of our newsletter! Please feel free to use this thread as a discussion board- while we love having the nice, instant conversations of Discord, keeping things talked about here will allow outside people to participate and keep easier-to-read logs for us to reference for later!

If you missed last month's, you can find it here!

CHANGELOG 

 

 

 

What did we work on in November?



Mortis’ main work for November was finishing Ashtray with Comorant, and took a significant period of time off for Thanksgiving, landlord nonsense and housesitting/dogsitting adventures. Felid Factor is well on its way and has 6/52 intro updates completed. The rest of their time off was spent making content for the petsite 4dopt (whoops), and it’s a great hobby for them. Really, it is. Commissions have been completely cleared out for November aside from some system-based ones purposefully put aside for December, and everything regarding raffles and bounty boards is on schedule.



Comorant has wrapped up Ashtray alongside Mortis and all that's left for is public releases to catch up to the Patron chat. The final updates will be released in December. He also has launched two new Winter specials: One based on Crankshaft Rafflesian featuring a cryptid hunt and the value of found family through close friends, as well as one based on Masa con Papas featuring Charon and Geezer taking a roadtrip together to get to their grandmother's house. These two specials will continue updating until late December. In addition, Dopple Effect has updated twice and a Masa One Shot featuring Arabis' past has also gone up.



The Winds are back from their hiatus, and have started producing content again! The plot structures for both Hypnagogia and Waterlogged have been mapped, and they now have a work schedule- so they hopefully will get their content out regularly.

Pear has been up to more commission work, and revealed some characters from a future project last month!



Ari released a ton of Prismic Sanctum updates, and worked on the design for bonesaw chorosy with Rin- they’re incredibly spooky, but very cool! Roux was also designed with Rin for Prismic Sanctum, making them the second designed chorosy character to exist!

What are we working on in December?

The bounty boards (both species and TCPdex) are still up and running, monthly raffles and sales are up, and the overhaul will continue!

Mortis is mainly up to management work this month, and is running the TCP Advent Calendar for all of you to enjoy! They’re also up to their neck in holiday gifts for friends, so a lot of secret design work is happening behind the scenes...Felid Factor is going to be worked on still in between wiki work, which is the main focus for this month as part of the HD Overhaul. Adopt stock will also be worked on this month alongside the usual commission work, and ideally in January we can start releasing occasional stock drops for people to enjoy!

Comorant plans to continue updating Dopple Effect at least twice a month and continuing the run of the two Winter specials launched in late November. There are also plans for a few character one shots, and possibly character design art streams with Q and A in the chat.

The Winds are helping on the TCP Advent Calendar for a special day, and are getting all of the Modician species and gods up onto the wiki.

Knux is going to try and get Arcade Session back up and running, while also working more on the TCPdex update.

Pear is working on commission sheets, as well as some new fan species commissions.

Ari will continue to work on Prismic Sanctum, but wants to focus more on major projects such as Patchwork Kernel, Tethered and oneshots- there will be a lot of stressors for them this month, and delays/complications may happen.

Zenthis has been working on designing a new species this past month, they are expected to be completed by mid December.

Community Involvement

For this month’s worldbuilding topic, we’re looking at something festive, but not directly related to any one holiday- gifts! You can take a look at the thread here, and ask us questions about anything to do with gift giving and receiving, and anything else you can think of!

We didn’t get any responses on our suggestion request last month, so we’re going to pose it again: here’s the quote from the last post;

The feedback we’re looking for this month is regarding character enrichment and fan involvement. One of the main things we’ve gotten input on recently is a sense of character oversaturation- everybody’s got fan characters at this point and we need to find ways for people to use these characters and get a richer experience out of having them. We want to find ways to let people take all these characters that live in Morbit and help them start really fleshing them out in ways that make them feel more fulfilling to have, be that through roleplaying, forum games, anything that people can suggest. Along those lines, we need to start encouraging fans to be more involved in the community and providing resources for them to set up their own events and activities- what do you need to help get things rolling? What features would help you enrich this community? Let us know!

Thank you all for supporting us, and we hope to hear from you in this thread!