Saturday Update! (Patreon)

Hello team! The weekend is here and it's time for a Saturday Update!

Last week went fairly well in terms of productivity. I got the last image in the 'sprites' folder done, finalized a set of cgs, went back and edited the welding helmet sprites a bit [ just added some orange highlights ] and I took a bit of time on Friday to update my website.

Current Image Finalization - 561/745 - 75%

I'll go over the website update first since it's the most boring part- it's a practically invisible change because it was mostly back-end. I finally got it connected with a database so that I can store the news updates in it. This allows me to serve them to the front end with code in flexible ways. The main reason I needed to do this was because the page kept getting longer with old hard-coded news updates and eventually that would cause loading problems LMAO Now the news updates have pagination [ the buttons at the bottom that say [Prev] [1] [2] [3] [Next] ].

I used to be able to do that stuff effortlessly but I haven't done any significant web developing for like a decade so I was exceptionally rusty [ and needed to learn updated versions of the code LMAO ] Managed to get it done eventually at least!

I originally planned to store my art in a database as well, but seeing as how I've already hard coded all of it.... meh. Seems like a lateral move for a lot of effort. I'll spend my time on more important stuff.

Oh! Before I get into the YKMET stuff, I also added a couple old images to my Teepublic account:

I had to upscale and retouch the art a bit since the original .pngs were too small to print but hopefully they're good enough now!

The scorpion one prints on the back of tshirts by the way! I figured that would be the more appropriate option [ it prints on the front of everything else, teepublic only offers back printing on the tshirts ]

Now let's get into the art!

 This was the last pic in the sprites folder!

 And this was part of a set of cgs!

You might be wondering why the full screen art with background was in the sprites folder and why the image of Strade with no background is in the CG folder. That's a very good question!

So this preview is the same as the one I showed you last week, but I updated the background [ it's really not changed much from the regular background ] and I also went and added some orange highlights coming from under Strade to add a little razzle dazzle to the scene :)

And I think that's about all I'll show you for this week!

Stay safe and take care guys! I'll have more art for ya next week!