HOMEBREW DEVIANTS NEWSLETTER
FEBRUARY 2021

Happy February, everyone- hope everyone’s doing well! Here’s the February 2021 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 (Including December’s for the changelog specifically also considering we didn’t put out a newsletter then, whoops)

 
What did we work on in January?

The overhaul and website project have been mostly halted for now due to internal structure issues- we need to rework our plans for how to handle and approach this before going any further, and it’s not likely that we’re going to make any headway on it soon. However, we are going to focus on enriching what we have now, and making our projects that exist on the forums and wiki (as well as the sites themselves) as best as we possibly can for the time being! 



Mortis worked on Felid Factor more in January, though less than they wanted to- a lot came up this month and December system-wise, and they’re still trying to get back into it. However, they have begun work on an official soundtrack with Heike as well as getting back into writing updates! Intro updates are currently 7/52 completed, with 2 other updates done as well writing wise. No images are made up yet though, with a lot still up in the air- patrons will be kept up to date on that. Commissions were completed at a steady clip, as was wiki work, though focus on the latter was changed to a new project meant to convey wiki information in a new and exciting way...more information on that in the next section! 
Maybequest also came back in January, and has updated consistently since. 

A new project has been in the works since December focusing on Rin’s new character, Wilson, though it has gone unnamed so far- it will be a mature, psych horror project in the form of episodic twine games and focusing on sexuality and relationships, released on itch.io for a small fee. Aside from that, Mortis has been focusing on figuring out Morbit roleplay and character enrichment, along with the usual personal work on Petz and 4dopt on the side- now with Second Life being added to the pile of hobbies.



Knux brought back Arcade Session last month, and has been updating it since! He also brought a couple of barebones morphs to the table, expanding the species significantly!

Mraof has been very busy with moving, and is currently in an extended stay hotel while looking for apartments.

Pear started developing the crob fauna species, as well as an unnamed plankton species- more to come on those eventually! She’s still working on making a new Morbit commission price sheet, which will feature all of her options available for species and fauna designs. She also helped with Maybequest anatomy and composition redlines, assisting Rin significantly. 

Zenthis did 3 TCP designs, and worked more on their species, which they showed off in the patreon chat. 



Ari updated Prismic Sanctum four times in January, as well as getting the initial species design done for the volare, a new addition to the Morbit canon! They also got a few new character designs done up by Rin and Twinsharks, both of which have art posted in the Patron Chat on Discord. There were also a few character art pieces done by various folks for their projects, all of which are in the patron chat.



Comorant has Updated several projects including the main Masa con Papas comic, Crankshaft Rafflesian's seasonal arc, Dopple Effect, and has begun a project in fleshing out the visual aspect of various regions, starting with precipice. There were also a couple of Crankshaft related one-shots released.



The Winds updated Waterlogged and Hypnagogia a few times, and began internal development on a late future project. Unfortunately, they had a pain flare for two weeks, which is why they haven’t been able to update as frequently. Waterlogged is still open to suggestions, though!

As for Molasses...



What are we working on in February?

The bounty boards (both species and TCPdex) are still up and running, monthly raffles and sales are up. As mentioned, the overhaul plan has been mostly halted for now in terms of website work, but we will be working on fixing up the forums and wiki a bit here and there. It’s hard to say just how much will be done and in what ways as of right now, as everyone is dealing with life matters and their own individual project work, but we are doing our best to figure out what would be best for the community and are absolutely open to input on what you think our community needs for growth and making it the best it can be.



In February, Mortis plans on keeping up more of the same schedule- Felid Factor, commissions, Maybequest, wiki work, roleplay/character enrichment, the Wilson project, and personal work. Felid Factor will still get regular soundtrack and writing work, with a hopeful output of one track a week and two written updates a week. Commissions are still done on weekends when possible, and Maybequest will still update weekly provided delays don’t happen (which, as always, they might.) As for wiki work mentioned earlier, a new project will be coming out soon that will introduce wiki information in a new, in-universe way. Information on the project can’t be revealed too much yet, but we think you’ll really like it, and the new character here to show you information about the exciting world of Morbit. The Wilson project is in the middle of being written, and Mortis doesn’t have an estimate on when the first episode will be released, but they’re hoping for late March at latest- subject to change, of course. 

Knux is planning on doing more of the same, as well as work on the TCPdex. 

Pear is working on a color and height reference page for several characters, which Lucy has been helping her with design-wise. In addition, the two of them have been working heavily on character development for their projects!

Zenthis’s unreleased species should be completed this month, and they also intend on returning to Egress updates.



For February, Ari is going to continue with Prismic Sanctum, and is also hoping to get a major project update out as well (ideally PK or Tethered, but we’ll see). They are also working on a thing with Como, and hope to get that out this month. They have a potential new interactive project in the works, but it requires a lot of planning, so they might get something out for it in February, but We’ll See. They might see about giving volare their own species page on the forums, as well as some other fun surprises! They’re dealing with some real garbage in their personal life right now in the background, so they can’t really make any promises about consistency, but they’re really hoping to push through things to increase content output in February. 



In February for Comorant, there's a plan to release a couple of collaborative one shots, as well as continuing to update comics with a Dopple Effect and Masa con Papas update planned for the first week.

Community Involvement

This month, we’re discontinuing the team worldbuilding threads- they were a lot of fun, but gathering the team together was a bit stressful, and difficult to do! We’re going to try to have people run their own individual Q&As both on forums and on Discord as they want to, so keep an eye out!

We’re still sifting through the recent RP/character enrichment feedback thread, and working on results from that, so we’re not going to start up another topic on that either. Thanks for bearing with us on that front!

Thank you all for supporting us, and we hope you have a nice February!