may the Bread Wolf bake you

me:

MaM - Modern Art Museum in a smaller version. This time with actual art inside.

Starry-eyed and Pile of Stones.

Bright-headed Woman & Man.

Yellow & Red or Blue & Purple? next to Bear with Flowers.

Exclusive exhibit of White Silence.

Portrait of Lady with long-nosed mask, unknown artist.

there is a fully illustrated map of hallownest that team cherry did and you can find it on the wiki, but the lake of unn part of greenpath is drawn with all of this brilliant golden sunshine streaming in even though it's underground, and i said "wow thats gay" when i first saw it. this, too, is yuri

anyway no worries if you dont have time or dont feel like drawing them! i hope you have a nice day full of good bugs :)

the most unexpected way to experience my save's first pink soup

And just like that... (sorry, I couldn't resist) I made a short in-universe episode that explores the ups and downs of dating in Downtown.

You can watch the video here:

Big thanks to @antisocialbunnysims for recording Carrie's narration <3

I’d also like to give a shoutout to @thefourthrabbit for the amazing lots he’s shared with the community - several of them made shooting this video so much easier for me! Especially his LaBella Department Store, which, by the way, plays a very unique role in the video.

I suddenly remembered how much I enjoyed The Aracana (that phone app), so I reinstalled it and found out it was sold to another company.

It is so disappointing. I remember it was created by a small company called Nix Hydra. They also have/had an itch io account, and they started a very successful kickstarter campaign to create a visual novel dating sim videogame.

(link)

The game was successfully funded, and some of the rewards for the pledges were:

An artbook

A PC VERSION OF THE ACTUAL GAME

For a while the company was ignoring the pledgers regarding the artbook:

They later replied that they were working on sending the artbook, so I think that was finally shipped but not everyone seemingly received it.

And of course, the pc version...

The pledgers got a discount code for certain routes only.

The game was supposed to be a steam/gog/pc game, a full on visual novel. But unfortunately greed won:

You can see here a bit more about how much more they ended up earning with predatory mobile app practices.

Basically, they knew they had a hit, and locked all the romance content behind pay for play. When you play the game on mobile (mind you: this is a romance game, a dating sim), you will be able to play a non romance scene for free, and a romance scene only by using a coins/keys that you can win (with high difficulty) or purchase with real money.

Nix Hydra was mainly owned by:

Nikolai Ladizinsky, Dana Rune... the rest of the employees at Nix Hydra seem pretty hard to find.

It looks like a lot of people went to work at Red Spring Studio just to open a new kickstarter for a new videogame.

The kickstarter is from 2023, with an "estimated delivery" set to 2023. The owner and workers at the company all use nicknames so it is hard to know who they are, but they do credit "The Arcana" among their successes, in their website.

Funnily enough one of the rewards is an artbook and the comments are...uhm... very familiar.

Luckily, this time there is a steam entry for the game but the game is still "to be announced" three years later, which is not promising. And after three years what is currently available is still Chapter 1, which can only be played on Patreon. Updates of the game are also locked behind paywall (for patreon and backers).

And what happened to The Arcana, in the meantime?

In 2022, as soon as it stopped making money (I suppose) it was sold to some predatory mobile app called Dorian, which follows the same rules of having a dating sim/romance story where the romance scenes can only be unlocked through payment of difficult to earn coins. Dorian allows fans to create their games, using AI art etc.

Tycho’s Baby Book, he’s very loved