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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 12h

3rd Voice 1st Passage BOOK is AVAILABLE NOW topatoco.com/products/ed-...

3rd Voice is an ongoing fantasy graphic novel It concerns a world in a state of apocalyptic crisis, and the precarious lives of many people therein.

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Casper Pham @ Shortbox Comics Fair (The Luminary Lark-Mirror) @marcheriest.bsky.social · 1d

hello my new followers. if you like my art you may also like the 52-page full color comic I made for Shortbox this year!
comic here: www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

Dice Legends, a RPG deckbuilder we've been developing for the last 7 months will finally release in just a few days - on October 10th 🥳

we've put lots of blood and sweat into it, so I hope you'll check it out:
store.steampowered.com/app/3112170/Dice_Legends/

more about the game 👇

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

I was more frustrated that the other boss died to a stupid mcguffin. The post-game is written rather cringy, cause literally everyone goes "why are we still doing this", I'd skip the dialogues haha

the gameplay is astonishing though, and it was cool to play through early access and see it expand

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

yeah, I can see your point and I've already read better endings that people have proposed. But to me it was rather straightforward, no subversion whatsoever - the game established that the bad guy is unkillable so I thought character assassination would be the only way to murder him

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

that'd be cool, Milo! be sure to tell me what you think of it 🙂

Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

all in all, I hope you'll check out the game in a few days!

the free demo is still up btw, although it's missing tons of stuff we've added since then 🙂
store.steampowered.com/app/3112170/...

Dice Legends on Steam

Dice Legends is a roguelike deckbuilder with RPG elements in which you become one of 3 heroes, use unique dice to activate cards, and unleash lethal combos to defeat hordes of enemies. Explore the wor...

store.steampowered.com

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

it started out as a simple "face-lift" for an indie Ukrainian game and turned into a fully-customized deckbuilder with people all around the world contributing pixel art, 2d art, sound design, etc. There's still a room for improvement (and we're working on it), but it's crazy how far we've come

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

Our heroes are our main draw:
- a tanky lion that can fortify himself and deal ridiculous damage
- a sneaky frog that can split dice and play multiple debuffs per turn
- a powerful wizard with 3 different Imps that create ridiculous combos. he may be a crow, but he's my GOAT, very fun to play

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

Dice Legends is a StS-like with dice rolls and RPG elements - over the course of the production we've added character stats, random events with dice rolls, and a sprawling storyline written by Rafal Jaki of Cyberpunk Edgerunners fame 🙂

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

Dice Legends, a RPG deckbuilder we've been developing for the last 7 months will finally release in just a few days - on October 10th 🥳

we've put lots of blood and sweat into it, so I hope you'll check it out:
store.steampowered.com/app/3112170/Dice_Legends/

more about the game 👇

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 2d

personally I thought the ending was good, it made total sense to me, but the post-game narrative kind of falls apart and all the good plot points ultimately lead nowhere. The Hypnos storyline is the main offender

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 3d

I love lettering phone messages lol

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Bri 🔪 🫀 @ghostbri.bsky.social · 8d

gift of fire

A digital illustration of the character Prometheus from the game Hades 2. The figure is depicted as a shirtless man whose torso is covered in bandages, with orange eyes and blue hair. The figure holds his hands apart as blue flames are summoned from within them. The flames curl around the back of his head. Additionally, there are purple flames near the bottom of the composition.

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Seth Jacob @sethjacob.bsky.social · 4d

Smaller publishers should consider accepting written series pitches from writers without fully finished comic book pages…otherwise you’re putting a huge financial burden on writers and you’re selecting for people who can afford that

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

self-publishing is punk rock

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

it simply doesn't provide ANY value to the readers. I'm not saying people shouldn't crowdfund their books to start out, but maybe they should think how they want to proceed from there, cause it can't be the definitive way to put out stories

and also I might be completely wrong on all fronts, lmao

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

...c) supporting the creators campaigns again, cause they can't break away from the fucking platform (which contradicts the KS initial goal btw)

tl;dr imo the crowdfunding approach stagnates the growth of comics as an artform and shreds our ever-shrinking readership even more.

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

I'm calling it a mousetrap, because I feel like you can have "a successful campaign" with a very low amount of readers. And in the long term, it won't help creators or artform in general if the readers would get bored with a) paying more money; b) receiving the book SOMEDAY or never...

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

...so printing 3000 copies might even cost the same as printing 100. But you cannot change the price mid-campaign if you want to print more (it would be unfair), so you're stuck with it, stagnating the reach of your book.

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

What I'm saying is that KS encourages creators to get as much money from a backer as possible in order to make the project a reality when imo comics should be more accessible. Non-creators don't know this, but the cost price of printing books goes down the more copies you order...

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

it also encourages you to produce useless promo fluff that artificially inflates the pricing of different reward tiers. And by "produce" I mean lots of creators actually put a lot of money into them when they have no guarantee their campaign will succeed.

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

so in order to hit The Number, creators usually up the prices of their books - it's easier to convince less people to buy your stuff, and you have a goal to reach. If you put a low price, you might not reach your goal even if more people are interested. Think of it as a Balatro score

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

it's many different aspects, I probably won't do a good job of combining my thoughts properly. The main problems are pricing and scaling. The platform encourages the creators to "hit a number", instead of "selling more copies". The readership amount doesn't matter

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Andriy Lukin • [commissions closed] @andriylukin.bsky.social · 5d

crowdfunding is a mousetrap for indie comics

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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