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Creature Creation Station is now available on Steam!

Please consider leaving a Steam review - it helps immensely in getting the game shown to more people!

The more people that know about it and support the full release, the more I can continue to update the game on a consistent basis. Bug fixes and new features will continued to be worked on for a while. :>

New Features Summary:

🐈 Layered patterns for head, torso, arms, legs, and tail! 🐈 Movable and scalable patterns for the head 🐈 Hair!!! 10 types to start~ 🐈 16 new body parts

View the full patch notes on itch: Steam Release! & Version 1.0.1 Patch Notes

Thank you so much for your support! I'd love to see your creations made with the new update, so don't forget to share those creature codes!!!

💜 Xenon

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Main Blog | Apron Strings Blog

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Gonna take better pictures outside once I've built the stands ^_^

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Ohhhh they look so cute together

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THE LONG-AWAITED WEBSITE!!!!

It's not perfect- Strawpage's design tools are... not great- but I did my best to bring you all a Tumblr-free transcription of all my lessons. This is probably the most labor-intensive thing I've done for this page (next to the character polls). Four months of blood, sweat, and tears... and now, she LIVES!!!!

Some Notes:

I created it with the intent of Desktop use, so Mobile might have some issues. If it's not working on your phone, try desktop.

Out of the multiple browsers tested (Firefox, Google, Edge, Brave, Safari), Firefox had some issues sporadically.

I'm still going to post lessons on here, first. This page is priority to me, and the website is more of an archive.

The fonts are normal past this opening page.

I will be adding a portion to send funds soon, if'n you are feeling kind and generous.

Thank you all for your patience while I worked on this. It was a labor of love and I hope that it shows. 🙏🏾 Happy scrolling!

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Reminder that if you get sick of Tumblr but still want to create Black characters, I have a website 👍🏾

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Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

💬 2 🔁 715 ❤️ 1008 · Part 2: shape, style, and length with femme styles!

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tomodachi life should have a morality slider in character creation. so you can create characters who are jerks, to create more friction and have more interesting interactions. and if they meet the right person, an evil person can have a change of heart, or a good person can be corrupted to the side of evil

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* if they ever add more little quirks to tomodachi life this is my wishlist

- stands with hands behind back

- stands with raptor arms

- stands while scratching butt (like wiping sweat / adjusting glasses where it happens occasionally)

- stands uncomfortably (constantly twitching or itching or looking around)

- walks with hands behind back

- walks with raptor arms

- eats in a panic (scarfs down food as if someone's gonna steal it from them)

- i also want all the pet voice modifiers as little quirks . or at least the bee and bubbles ones

* Also i lied i want the concert hall back please please i need my songs

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Xenon will be showing off Creature Creation Station at one of our local libraries! There will also be several other local game developers from Society of Play showing off new, experimental, & existing games.

It's gonna be a great time for playing games, chatting about game dev and learning more about the local game dev community in the Dallas area! Plus, it's a free, all-ages event so I hope some of y'all can make it out!

Society of Play presents GamePlay at the Carrollton Library! Saturday, May 2nd 12:00 - 4:00 PM Carrollton Library at Hebron & Josey 4220 N Josey Ln, Carrollton, TX 75010

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"try a putting out an ad or something."

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suddenly had a want to make one of the shitty paper looking meshes i used to make, but im adding extra detail for this one

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Cute tropical look 🌺

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Cornucopia Raw Dev Log #1: GPU Instancing, or How 2,583 Plants Became 3 Draw Calls

Walking on my treadmill while writing this. I have ADHD so if exercise isn’t the first thing I do in the morning, it’s just not likely to happen, lol.

Our 3D modeler kept asking ‘how much vegetation can I add?’ and I kept thinking about the GPU. 2,583 individual plants, each their own draw call. On PC that’s fine but we’re also on console and lower end hardware.

The breakthrough: these plants are all non-interactable decorations sharing the same texture. So I built a tool that combines nearby ones into big meshes. 2,583 plants became 3 draw calls. 99% reduction.

The best part? They still sway in the wind individually thanks to vertex color painting and a custom shader.

Full technical writeup with code details: https://cornucopiavideogame.com/devlog/

-david

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