With things being so rough lately, I finally got a chance to get away from it all. My partner is going to be starting a new job this week, so last week we decided it was now or never... and we took the 4 hour drive to Bodie for the weekend, and spent time camping and taking reference materials.
Those who know me, know I have been working on "River of Rust" a wasteland/post-apocalyptic dating sim and I have been dying to go to Bodie for a good half a year now to get material to use to craft the game setting. It's an amazing ghost town up in the mountains with an enormous amount of buildings standing and propped up in various states of decay.
Good reference material being the basis for good design was a point harped on to no end in some of the concept art classes I took, so now armed with over 700 pictures of buildings, landscapes and random bits of metal I feel pumped and ready to really get on the art and design of this game.
But of course with my luck things aren't always good and I am burned to all hell and back from wandering around taking pictures for three days with no sun screen. So I'll be a bit slower to get work out while dealing with the pain.
Thanks to everyone who has commissioned art from me, you helped make this trip possible. I also want to announce that with my partners new job, if all goes well my income from commissions won't be needed as much for food and bills, which means I'll be able to invest it into getting this game done sooner! I'm hoping to get the Patreon details updated as well as get a blog going for progress.
I will eventually go to Kickstart this thing... But only after I have a playable demo ready.
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