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[zichqec]

Freeshell "Solar Runes" v1.0.0

A celestial-themed mage freeshell to make your own ghost with! He comes with a ton of expressions and several arm poses, as well as dressups, idle animations, and animated spells!

I made him in ~4 days for Etc. Jam 2026.

Download Solar Runes today and write something magical!

[wiziardry]

Since the booklet’s been sent to the stageplay production team, I’ll post the artwork I did here!! 

Soz for the messy colours + chibis, had to rush this in two days between a 4K word assignment but that’s okay, nothing will get in between my love for TKA LOL Crossposted to twitter >> @ zialialis 

[zichqec]

Freeshell "Lollipop Tanktop"

I made another freeshell! This one's a girl with a tattoo and a lollipop. Her leg moves back and forth, occasionally kicking forward.

She comes with all the recommended expressions, as well as variants with eyes pointing in different directions and some alternate arm poses. (Altogether it comes to ~400 combinations!)

She also comes with 9 premade color options and 9 tattoo options, which you can mix and match to get something you like! You're also welcome to create your own colors and make custom tattoos if you like (there's a psd included).

It's free! Go check it out! Make a ghost! You could take this freeshell, stick it in Simplicity Template, and make a ghost without doing ANY art and no code other than settings and writing your scripts! Writing simple little ghosts is really fun, I highly recommend it.

[zichqec]

The results of 8/20 Hydrate Shell Jam 2025 are here!

Please check out the results page to see each individual entry, and the download links for each one!

I also wrote a short afterword on my blog.

Thank you very much to everyone who participated, and I hope to do this again next year!

[zichqec]

ATM Machine v2.0.0

An update to a ghost that everyone here definitely knew about, because I definitely didn't just not post the original version to Tumblr!

Do you want to work for a bank and service their ATM? No? Well now with the power of ukagaka, you can! Work your boring day job and earn a small but steady flow of cash, while listening to annoying bank advertisements. Or maybe there's another way to earn funds more quickly...?

Changelog:

Added custom artwork for the shell. The original clipart is now available as a separate shell called Joypixels.

Added a custom balloon, called Unyu Bank Notes. If you already have ATM Machine installed, you will need to install the balloon separately from here.

The balloon's 6 color options can be changed between in ATM's menu.

Added 200 dialogues.

Added 2 minigames, which can be accessed after you "log in".

Migrated to the Simplicity Template. As such, the ghost now has responses to various SSP functions, the same as Simplicity.

Updated to YAYA Tc571-8.

Added crime.

You can download the ghost from my website, or read about it more on our wiki!

(Not sure what ukagaka are? Start here!)

It also comes with...

Unyu Bank Notes v1.0.0

A silly money and Unyu themed balloon with 6 color options in 5 sizes each.

Download the balloon here, or read more about it on our wiki.

That's all for now! Happy April Fools' Day, yes this is a real update/release.

[zichqec]

Do you want to hang out with a tired old man in a cave? Of course you do!!!

Made during the month of August, Xander's Refuge is a ghost made with the prompt "a ghost of an ancient deity that always seems tired, and is looking for a safe place to hide". He's a very straightforward ghost, but he has about 100 random dialogues to entertain you.

Besides this, he also makes for a good idle companion! Even between dialogues, he will sometimes change poses so that he's not sitting still all the time. This includes an idle smoking animation! He'll do this even if you turn his dialogues completely off.

And that's it, that's the ghost! As I said, extremely straightforward. But, I hope you will enjoy him nonetheless! There is a fair bit of content here, and my main focus was keeping the scope super small so I could make it all as polished as possible.

Download him from my website here!

(By the way, I overhauled my website and moved URLs! It's not totally finished yet, but you should browse around the indexes. I have many ghosts and related things available!)

Don't know what a ghost is / how to install this? Read up here!

Also, if you want to read more about this particular ghost and how he works, check out his page on the Ukagaka Dream Team Wiki!

[zichqec]

Hello, and I hope today finds you Hydrated! Hydrate day (8/20) has once again come and gone, and that means we had another 8/20 Hydrate Shell Jam in the Ukagaka Dream Team Discord server!

Not sure what that is? Please check last year's event results for more info! In short, August 20th is considered "Hydrate day", so I host an event where folks make new shells for @internetteacup and I's drink reminder ghost Hydrate! The only """rule""" for what a shell can be is that it must be something that could theoretically hold liquid, or it must itself be liquid.

As you can see from the banner above, this leads to all kinds of creative entries! This year, we had 12 shells created by 11 devs. And many of those shells have animations and/or dressups! Definitely download and check them all out, the banner doesn't do them justice.

See all the entries under the cut, and read more about the event on its wiki page!

Also, many thanks to @internetteacup for designing the announcement banner for this event!

fallen umbrella by whataphantasia

Cup of Dirt (hydrate) by SmokyCinnamonRoll

Bubble by Internet Teacup

Zelda Goddess Statue by Kris

Pumpkin Punch by Vita (yuyudev)

I died and turned into a well hydrated hamster by Galla

Turkish Tea by niSa

Spider Web by NoraSpectre

Spigot by Zichqec

The Petpet Puddle by Okuajub

Leaking from somewhere by Zichqec

yours and mine by idk

[zichqec]

It's been forever since I posted art here, and I probably won't make a habit of doing it again, but...

It is July the 4th, and that means that today is the 10th anniversary of the first drawing I posted to deviantArt. And posting to deviantArt for the first time is what really and truly kicked me into doing art all the time, and trying to improve at it.

So, this drawing is a redraw of that.

But a little history. The first time I drew Dialga was actually an art request in 2011:

I did this on a not-art-website, and I didn't even know what Dialga was at the time, really. But I liked the drawing.

Then a few years later, I had gotten into pokemon, and I played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, and I really really loved Primal Dialga. The color scheme, the soundtrack... it's so good. So, I drew Primal Dialga... and I posted this to dA on July 4th, 2014.

Someone left a comment saying it was cool, and that was enough to inspire me to draw a bunch more things and start posting there in spurts. 6 months later, I took tracing paper and fineliners, and made a clean lineart of the above drawing that I could add color to digitally.

I was trying, but whoof this one is rough 😂

Anyway... here we are, 10 years to the day from that second drawing, the first Primal Dialga I did. I've learned a ton, I've grown my skillset, art has opened all kinds of doors for me I didn't realize it would open.

I made a timeline of my art journey, as well. I don't imagine this is going to display well on Tumblr, but, well... view the full size if you can.

It's been an interesting 10 years. Here's to another decade!

(But again, I'm not likely to start posting art here again, besides ukagaka. I'm just doing it now because this is an anniversary I've been looking forward to for a long, long time...)