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[mythauragame]

Development Update - July 2022

Hey everyone, here’s this month’s development update!

Faction Leaders

Our faction leaders have had their banners and dialogue expressions created. These characters will be pivotal in your journey through Mythaura.

Reine - Vanguard A young Griffin who was recently ordained into leadership.  Even though he is comparably young to the leaders that came before, Reine is fiercely devoted to the cause of The Vanguard and is often looked upon as a great mentor. He is seen here against the Vanguard stronghold seated in a sprawling Spryhawk Valley city.

Esris - The Call A battle-hardened Dragon who was exiled from her previous life and raised a call for an uprising. Her influence and tenacity quickly earned her many followers and soon became a beloved leader. She is seen in the cavernous underground stronghold adapted for The Call beneath the mountainous Spine of Ere.

Forest Biome & Wild Areas

Wild Areas are procedurally-generated explorable dungeons that players can take a party of beasts into in order to gather resources, earn loot, tame monsters into companions, and defeat challenging bosses. Wild Areas will feature online multiplayer capabilities, allowing you to party with your friends and explore the world of Mythaura together in real-time. We will have a lot more to unveil about this in the coming months, but for now please enjoy this illustrated graphic of the game’s first area - an unnamed forest!

This illustrated piece will be used during battles as a stylish arena, and can also be unlocked as a background that you can equip to your beasts or feature on your profile.

Breeding Predictor

A new demo showcasing our breeding algorithm has been added to the site: A breeding predictor! This tool will accept two import codes (which are generated using the beast creator) and predict some offspring that those two beasts could create. We would love to hear what you think, the current calculations used are a starting point that may be changed as we collect feedback from this demo.

Ko-Fi Sponsorship & Rewards

Now that we have settled into a good workflow, we are opening up sponsorship tiers and rewards for our amazing supporters to enjoy. There have been a lot of questions about Ko-fi and how this will impact previous Patreon supporters, which we hope to answer with this update. We hope you guys will enjoy what we are offering!

New Sponsorship Structure

Our Ko-fi has been updated to offer four membership tiers, each offering different kinds of benefits.

Sponsor - $3/mo

Sponsors gain access to the Sponsor Discord channel & role, exclusive WIPs & time-lapses of art assets, and Ko-fi’s asset shop.

Bronze Sponsor - $10/mo

Bronze sponsors will gain previous supporter rewards as well as the ability to join discord streams and participate in polls related to the game's features. You will also get a 10% discount on all shop items and an exclusive Molten Bronze skin for Dragon, Unicorn, and Griffin.

Silver Sponsor - $20/mo

Silver sponsors will gain all previous supporter rewards as well as a secured beta access code that can be used when the site is in closed beta. You will also get a 20% discount on all shop items and an exclusive Molten Silver skin for Dragon, Unicorn, and Griffin.

Gold Sponsor - $35/mo

Gold sponsors will gain all previous supporter rewards as well as a shout-out on our monthly updates and an exclusive banner for your profile. You will also get a 30% discount on all shop items and an exclusive Molten Gold skin for dragon, unicorn, and griffin. You will also get an additional Gold-sponsor exclusive Solid Gold dragon skin and an exclusive companion.*

*This first month’s gold sponsors will have a hand in helping design this companion!

Starting today, active sponsors will get immediate access to a timelapse of the forest background featured above and Bronze+ sponsors will get to help us name that forest region & vote on the early sponsor companion concept. All rewards except for the discord streams can be accessed directly from Ko-fi and do not require Discord to enjoy.

Skins, the companion, and beta code are rewarded for the first month's payment and are not revoked if the subscription is later canceled. Additional months will not reward extra copies of the skins or companions.

Asset Shop

We are also opening an asset shop where you can sponsor an item, apparel piece, or skin. This is an experimental take on the monthly rewards previously enjoyed by Patreon supporters, allowing more supporters to be able to make their unique mark on the game while better controlling the workload it causes. These come in two different types…

Themed Asset - Sponsor an item of a specific theme for a discounted price. This will allow you to sponsor an item or asset for an area of the game we are actively trying to develop and fill out. Sponsors will get to purchase these at a discounted price and with fulfillment priority, but they are available for anyone to purchase even without one of the above membership tiers.

Custom Asset - We are also offering the ability to sponsor completely custom assets separate from any theme. These allow you to get just about anything created officially in the game as long as it doesn’t break the continuity of the world. Only active sponsors can purchase custom assets.

For each type of asset, you will receive five copies of your sponsored item when the site goes live. You will also be credited as its sponsor.

Please note that we may temporarily make certain items unavailable if we need to catch up on our fulfillment workload.

Early Sponsor Companion

Sponsors of at least Bronze tier that subscribe any time between today and Halloween will also receive a limited-time early-bird sponsor companion when the site goes live as a thank-you. Enjoy the first concepts for this special companion. Bronze, Silver, and Gold sponsors will get to help vote this month on which concept we should move forward with.

Patreon Supporters

All Patreon rewards will be honored - once we have beta signups available our Patreon supporters will receive their codes and additional banners that have been promised. As of now, Patreon supporter roles have been deprecated and Patreon supporters will no longer have access to the “Supporter” discord channels unless they also have a Ko-fi supporter role. However, their roles will still exist as a badge of honor for being such an early bird supporter - thank you!

Welcoming Miya

This month we brought aboard Miyazaki as our lead production writer. She will be working behind the scenes on lore, world-building, continuity, and all the important narrative aspects we hope to offer.

Thanks everyone! We will be back next month.

[mythauragame]

The Mythaura Beast Demo has been updated with three new hybrids! The Peryton, the Basilisk and the Ryu.

>> Click here to go to the Beast Demo! << Share your creations with the #mythaura tag! Found a bug? Send us a message on tumblr or click here to join our official Discord server and report what you found in #🐞bug-reports.

[mythauragame]

Hello everyone!

First things first, I am so very sorry for the lack of updates and the silence from me. I have a few things to address on that front as well as progress we’ve made over the past few months. Under the cut:

Why so quiet?

Changes to Patreon, Weekly updates and the road ahead.

Progress with development!

New Hybrids.

Inventory, Beast Breeding and NPC previews.

Other art developments.

Demo update - Special marking Hood & base edits.

Keep reading

[ink-bird]

My submission to Mythaura’s art contest including a B/W version because I thought it was neat :3

[grifblog]

grif-rising > griffiling

just a heads up that this is no longer an FR centric blog! don't wanna limit it to a particular fandom, more original stuff here from now on. \o/

[mythauragame]

Hey all! Welcome to our monthly development update. We have quite a few new exciting things to share with you today. Here is what lies under the cut!

What’s new?

Demo V3 released!

Sneak peek at a new Hybrid!

New  Patreon Monsters and Items.

Keep reading

[mythauragame]

Hey all! Welcome to our December development update. Here is what lies under the cut.

What’s new

NPCs on Mythaura

New Monsters and New Item Patreon Illustrations

FAQ

Community spotlight

Keep reading

[mythauragame]

Hey all, we are ready to open our creation demo to the public. Try the Mythaura Beast Creator demo here!

This is the work of our incredibly talented coders - Front-end coder Chimeric and Back-end coder Kredgons! As well as the creation demo, you will also have an early look at the game’s UI - you might notice all links are inactive, they are placeholders for now. We hope you enjoy the preview none-the-less!

Working with the Beast Demo Select your options via the drop-down tabs, then click generate to create your Beast. Specials are layered bottom > top. Your first special will be layered on the bottom, and your forth special will be layered on top. You can save your creations via right click or the small arrow on the bottom right! You can randomize beasts by clicking the randomize button, and discard your selections by clicking the trash can. Share your Beast creations We’ll be following the #mythaura tag on all social media platforms, if you want to share your creations, be sure to tag it so we can see your handy work!

Bugs and errors Found a bug or error? Let us know via message, dm or email [email protected]!

Thank you all for your support thus far, and we hope your enjoy the demo!

Keep reading

[gwsfr]

Donate to help build a library in Ethiopia and win awesome art prizes!

There is also a free bump raffle to help make the raffle more visible - bump and get a chance to win valuable items!

If you’re an artist interested in helping with the raffle, ping Rhea at this thread to discuss details - you will be paid in dragon money for your kind efforts through the GWS bank!

Want to win your own Sisay? Reblog this post with your username + ID and you may win your own Alstroemeria Fox! Giveaway ends August 31, noon FR time.

[mythauragame]

Hey folks!  I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on whats been happening behind the scenes and what’s to come with Mythaura! Beast Creator Demo Our front-end has been hard at work developing a beast creator demo for the public. This demo will give everyone a chance to play around with the variety of beasts, colors and markings that we currently have made for the game. The demo is temporarily using javascript, whereas the game will use back-end methods to generate beast images. We wanted everyone to get an early look and hand over the reigns create your own beast! This is a small taste of what is yet to come - the demo will be updated over time to include new markings, fixes other new ideas. You can expect this demo to be released within the next few weeks!

New Markings Top Fade and Husky Special markings have been created. Top Fade gives beasts a fading color over their Top Color sections (eg: Dragons wings, Unicorns hair) and Husky gives beasts a marking similar to the popular dog breed. It will appear over your beasts face areas, belly, legs and tail. The provided examples show the new markings in action, as well as the previously announced markings - Ocelot and Wilderbeest.

Layout Development Mythauras layout is also being developed. Responsive design is one of the most important aspects of the games UI, and our extremely talented front-end coder has made some awesome progress.  I will have more to share with you all soon - in the mean time here is a sneak peak of the log-in page.

That’s it for now. I will be answering all questions in the ask box soon, apologies for the delay! And thank you to all your support and kind words thus far. Every tag, ask, comment. I read every single one and it is incredibly humbling and motivating to read ♥

[grifblog]

I’ve been working on some things.

[grifblog]

Batch of recent sketch commissions!

Commission info here.

[covvend]

A work in progress but posting it anyway because I won’t be working on it for a while.

[grifblog]

Batch of recent sketch commissions!

commission info here.

[grifblog]

Batch of recent sketch commissions! Commission info here.

[grifblog]

Batch of recent sketch commissions! Commission info here.

[shitpost-senpai]

Artist: Hey guys i need money! Commissions are open!

me:

Artist: Lineart:: $40, Fullbody: $60, Colored: $120

Me:

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Look man either pay them or learn art yourself to feed your fat fetish.

[dark-alleys]

bitch 40 for lineart should be the standard, art is a damn luxury and some of these artists need food

[shitpost-senpai]

@ whatever greyshades is these days, Like I said, they’re kids who don’t know how to haggle.

[tammdraws]

>Lineart - 2 hours for pencils, 1-2 hours for lines = 3 hours at $40

>$40/3(aprox) = $13/hr - paypal fees and bank transfer fees = 10/hr

>Colour - 2 hours for pencils, 1- 2 hours for lines, 3-6 hours for colour = aprox 9 hours at $120

>$120/9 = 13/hr - paypal fees and bank transfer fees = 10/hr

Art is an extremely specialised skillset that takes anywhere from 5-20 years to develop, costs around 500 minimum entry to be able to create digital art due to requiring a tablet and software, along with enough RAM to run high-layer drawings depending on your program. Thinking you have any reason or right to haggle with someone because you don’t like their prices is some entitled shit my friend. You don’t walk into an autoshop and try to barter with them for their hourly wage and their parts cost, why the fuck would you do it in something else? It’s capitalism, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it but don’t think you have a right to special treatment.

I guarantee you we’d charge hourly if that was a possible standard but because the industry has no standards peope have to charge what will sell and that is ultimately much lower than it really should. Especially considering most of us have standards against drawing furry mpreg vore.

[swedebeast]

People don’t realize just how cheap commissioned art online actually is. Most of the time you pay the artists minimum wage.

Just think about that for a second.

[swedneck-blog]

>500 bucks for a computer used for drawing

Since when do you need an RX 580 to draw? And i really doubt you’d need more than 8GB of ram either, which is standard.

[tammdraws]

Alot of artists work off shit laptops, myself excluded. The issue is tablets, a good one of which will run you 250 minimum, and the cheapest monitor tablet on the market is a 9" for $520CAD. This in addition to between 50-200 for drawing software, if not included with your tablet can be prohibitively expensive. CSP goes on sale semi-frequently but is still an investment and investments in your business need to be factored into cost of the service provided. In addition, programs like SAI use line smoothing, a CPU intensive process that depending on how much of your computer is working on a streaming program as well as 30+ layers on a 4000x3000 canvas can cause harsh slowdowns and make such tools worthless without a powerful enough computer. Once again ignoring rendering times for 3d artists.

Realistically most artists are working well below minimum wage depending on their country of residence and need things like Patreon to survive, or to keep a steady job on the side. This isn’t a skill you go to school for four years and are workable and hireable, this is a skill that is unique and takes decades to develop into something that you can pay the bills with. Artists are an extremely specialised field and skillset and should be treated as such.

And once again, you don’t like it, don’t buy it you entitled cunt. We get to deal with manchildren and entitled babies that we often don’t have the luxury of saying no to. Do you really want to compare asking for a used table at a swap meet to asking someone to spend ten hours drawing your furry OC taking ten cocks in the ass?

[psyk323]

I rarely reblog but this stuff is true.

I started from scratch with a shit computer, shit tablet and shit screen, and have slowly worked from there thanks to commissioners a small few who gave their goodwill to support me and get where I am right now. Most of the time I get paid slightly above higher than the minimum wage for portuguese standards, which are very low, but I would never survive in other countries outside Portugal. EVER.

PS: You do need more than 8gb of ram to draw nowadays without wanting to have your computer shit itself with photoshop alone.

I don’t have anything else to add. Tammdraws dropped the mic on this.

[pikminpedia]

Thought I’d add my own two cents into this.

As a professional artist, I can attest to the time and effort it took to become “good at art” (as friends and family tell me). It took even longer, 5 years minimum, to actually start getting people who wanted to commission me for my style of art.

It’s as the saying goes: “It takes me 10 minutes to an hour to draw you a sketch, but it took 5-10 years of my life to be able to get to this point in which you’d WANT to buy a sketch from me.” (Well… that saying is worded differently everywhere, but the point still stands!)

As everyone else said, art is a luxury. It makes life more appealing and can speak with more words than a regular body of text (which, as an author, I can attest to this. (Not saying authors do not have merit. They’re quite astounding in how they formulate words to create a story.)) Both of these art forms took time to perfect. It took a tenacious attitude and constant support from friends and family to become the artist that people know them for.

If you, or anyone else, wants to tell an artist that their hard work is worth LESS than the gold they see it for, then I suggest you look in a mirror and punch the person staring back at you. Clearly, whoever is in that mirror needs to understand common decency, social etiquette, and the basics of human kindness.

Artists are not pitiful lowly creatures that do your bidding. They are living, breathing people who deserve respect for doing something you cannot do, and doing it WELL enough to be paid the price they have their art set at.

FINALLY: Let the artist decide what their art is worth. If they want your opinion, they will ask it. Don’t assume you’re right in your judgement of price, because you can only speak for yourself, and NOBODY else.

[patchworkheart-deactivated20200]

The highest price I have for my art is $25. But that’s my buisness. Artists charge what they do for a reason. Either oay them or fuck off.

[grifblog]

Batch of recent sketch commissions!  Commission info here.