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Just finished my first YCH! Went great and was a lot of fun. Working on more right now! Vague summations of them:

• crystal cave

• gothic lace

• flower arch

• feathers and magic

Happy May, people! Here's what's up!

Creativity Days!

At least once a week, I'll be hosting a group creativity on my Discord! I'll be leading us in productivity sprints and cheering us all on to get our shit DONE. So if you want help getting your projects done, head over to my Discord and join in! I'll be in voice chat with some other folks, but you can keep it to text if you don't want to talk!

Wednesday, the 5th, will be our creativity day this week, and we'll be starting at around 3:00 pm US Pacific Time. In the future, I'll be announcing the time and date for these gatherings in the Discord, and I'll post a status update here on dA whenever we start, as well.

Discord link: https://discord.gg/fsqtaXA

Patreon Rewards!

Nothing major, but I've updated a few tiers with additional rewards! They'll now receive a discount on commission prices! ♥ The Patreon has been fantastic so far, thank you all for the support! Link to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tally

Twitch!

We've resumed our streaming schedule! We've been getting in some Dead by Daylight, and we'll be finishing Bioshock soon as well! I also frequently draw live on stream! Here is the link to the channel: https://www.twitch.tv/tallygames

Streaming schedule is posted every Sunday or Monday in my Discord!

I think that's all the updates for this month. See y'all around!

Can't believe it's nearly November already. And this year, I'm doing NaNo again! In fact, I'll be hosting some virtual write ins via Discord!

Anybody else doing NaNo? Me and my best writing buddy are gonna go for it!

The NaNo write ins will happen here on our Discord: https://discord.gg/fsqtaXA

So if you'd like to joins us for some extra cheerleading and motivation, hop on in! We'll be in voice chat but lurkers are more than welcome, as we'll have plenty of text chat happening as well!

Twitch!!

Firstly, the Twitch stream is going so amazingly! We've got a fun group going and the emotes have started to be approved! We're nearing the end of Dead Space 2 and Disco Elysium is getting WILD. And I picked up the entirety of the Bioshock series to stream!

I'll be going live in MINUTES so come hang if you like: https://www.twitch.tv/tallygames

A video game Discord!!

Twitch was going so well and we've created such a swell community that we made a discord! I've been wanting a good general video game discord for ages. We kept it small at first and did a soft open, but it's doing great, so you guys are invited now!

https://discord.gg/fsqtaXA

Quarantine in Seattle

And finally, I'm here in Seattle, one of the epicenters of this pandemic here in the US. I'm doing okay, staying home, using the opportunity to stream more and get lots of drawing done, but I just wanted to make sure you guys are okay and ask how you're doing. How are you holding up? Let me know!

Firstly, thank you to everyone who has dropped by my Twitch stream while I play Dead Space! (here! https://www.twitch.tv/tallygames ) We'll be streaming again tomorrow, the 24th, at 12:00 US Pacific time!

I went in completely blind to this classic game, not knowing what to expect, but definitely having some assumptions.  And I am LOVING it.  It surprised me in a few ways.  And well…here are five things I never knew about Dead Space:

Isaac is a beast

Dude is stomping steel crates open, stomping the legs CLEAR OFF corpses.  I know these are just game mechanics translating into character for me, but I choose to believe Isaac did not skip leg day.  (And yes, I’ve got it bad—BAD—for him.)

The space zombies will get you in the feels

I knew there were space zombies.  I knew that much.  And with any zombies, there comes the reality that you are killing people when you kill these zombies, and that doesn’t really get to me anymore.  What IS getting to me, is that Isaac has NO WAY of knowing if Nicole is one of them.  Has he killed her already?  How would he even TELL?  Some of the necromorphs are mutated beyond recognition and THAT?  Imagining Isaac realizing that, questioning himself about every necromorph he’s taken down, wracking his brain to ask if any of them looked like her??  That hit me hard.

It was all arranged

I was expecting a tale of human hubris, sure, but the accidental type.  Y’know, where our curiosity and drive takes us into dangerous waters and we unwitting  unleash something monstrous.  And I’m still very early in the game, but I HAVE gotten hints that this?  All this horror?  Intentionally unleashed.  Something religious-based it seems?  VERY interesting.  I can’t wait for more on this development.

The aesthetic is on point

This game knows its style.  The necromorphs for one, which remind me pleasantly of Carpenter’s The Thing.  Pleasantly, because the inspiration is there, but they haven’t just aped the idea.  The design elements of the mutations call to mind that film, one of my favorite movies of all time.  And the environment design!  Industrial, not unlike, say Alien, but again not ripping off the design from that movie.  Dead Space has this delightfully blocky, rusty, ponderous environment design that makes it feel lived in and functional.

The lore is a perfect breadcrumb trail

Did NOT expect to get so drawn in to the lore and worldbuilding of this game!  They lay it out rather expertly for you, providing you exactly what you need to know when you need to know it to create the optimal horror roller coaster ride.  The necromorphs, the Marker, the shadowy specter of a religious sect guiding things unbeknownst to anyone…I MUST know more.

I can't wait to play more tomorrow. :D