Hello, and welcome to the first quarterly White Cat newsletter!
In these, I will try and give a rundown of projects in progress and what else might be on the horizon, as well as some fun lore and tidbits.
It’s still new and likely evolving as it goes, so for now I’ll be keeping everything collected under this one newsletter. Hopefully you’ll still see news on the projects that interest you! Let’s just get to it, then.
Spooky time is soon upon us - Haunted Forest asset set coming!
It’s almost October already??
To coincide with that, I’m working hard to soon release my next pixel art asset set for gamedev and adjacent uses, this time of a haunted forest vibe, to contrast with the summer forest already out there. I might release a smaller version of this at first to be more timely, and then update it with more things as time goes!
I’m giving it my best to make a set that will be useful for your own games and other RPG projects out there, so I hope you’ll give it a look and will like it! Here’s some of what has been finished so far – with Ricki as a size reference!:
Not only that, but I’m looking to expand my available asset sets to include monster stockart in the future. So look forward to that!
Artist Alley at Viborg Animation Festival
Earlier this month I went to table at Viborg Animation Festival, displaying my illustrations and games at their artist alley.
The artist alley was grouped with the Game Expo where a lot of indies were showing off their things as well! Among others, I got to meet up with the dev Demented Plant who is working on Godstone – check it out, it looks awesome!
All in all it went well, a good time of mingling and meeting new audiences, that I’d love to try and do more of. I got to show off Eye of D’akess and Burrow Tales as well – speaking of…
Burrow Tales - what came, and what’s next
The biggest thing coming out so far this year from me has definitely been Burrow Tales, my first attempt at a small ttrpg zine of my own.
At only 20 pages, the little game of medieval bunnies digging too deep and protecting their burrow came out in May in digital pdf form on first Itch.io, then Drivethrurpg, as well as a physical release in July.
It also helped spark my absolute excitement at making cool little zines. So I will definitely be making more!
Burrow Tales itself has so far been received well for its concept and simplicity, and I want to make more content for this little universe. The next addition will be another zine with a collection of locations and adventure hooks for what the brave bunnies might find in the tunnels below their home, to demonstrate that their daring adventures can consist of more than just the same tunnels of dirt. And maybe also a small look at the most dangerous place of all – the land above!
So far this only consists of some notes here and there, as well as some sketches of ideas. But now that the business and travel of September is over, I hope to dive into this a little more. Updates to come!
Ko-Fi shop and updates
Alongside everything else, I have also been working on expanding my Ko-Fi to work more properly as the White Cat shop and tip jar.
As part of this, physical products have now been added to the shop. This includes the aforementioned Burrow Tales zine, as well as sticker sheets for Eye of D’akess and beyond. Upcoming little zines and the like will of course be added as well!
Please take a look, and drop a follow on it here for updates!
What else?
I also wrote a more personal blog post about My Love of Key, and the Problem with Magical Illness.
Unrelated to any projects of my own, this is mostly some musings on storytelling and my personal relationship with a popular trope some of these games like to utilize. Maybe I will do more of these in the future. We’ll see!
As the first of hopefully many, this newsletter ran a little long – in the future I will try and keep things more short and sweet!
The next newsletter will be at the end of the year. See you then!
(This post is from the White Cat newsletter, which was originally sent out in September 2024. You can add yourself to the newsletter list here!: https://www.the-white-cat.com/about/ )