The World of Far Tomorrows Dev Blog is active now!
by Maxx Feral
It's been a busy last year and it wasn't as if this project was not worked on. Rather we have been pooling our resources, establishing our possibilities and working on LVP options. I got a bunch of new HARDWARE I'm drooling to start using - 3D printer, CNC machine, High Volume printer that can do CARDSTOCK
I'm close to finishing a concept game - "Damn Ye For a Coward!" which is a micro game designed to be portable AND 100% manufacturable in my home so as to not rely on China for anything other than materials. There are plenty of materials maker so I can shift between those as long as I can print, make, mold, 3D print and assemble. The game is an abstract "Pyracy in a Skurvy Age" but Far Tomorrows has treacherous seas and pirates so there - it COULD happen as a "Far Tomorrows" - this is more to create something easy to expand and modify to make games based on my content more directly but if I decide not to push for it no writers block for a lifetime stress (vs based on dear personal characters like Rexx Rhyder, Dominick Wytchburner...) BUT if it gets big I could sell it off without selling off vital personal IP and make other games in a different but similar components (Cards, D6 Dice, custom mini plastic pieces)
We will continue to use a mixture of Human and AI art - the latter esepcially for what even "Pros" often refuse to make; Detailed BACKGROUNDS which it excels at but the "Halp me ah'm a pro illustrator!" types decline or find clipart to put through a painter filter but charge like they painted every leaf on every tree...
The big companies are going to use it and already are using it and firing real illustrators. I a creative but in Storytelling/writing then music then sub-professional illustration must use this new tool. Also my writing is my own since my "Pulp" style gets me BANNED from the commercial chatbots and I'm too busy to try to train one on my computer or a rented server. So my sloppy, crazy PULP is 100% my own FYI...
SO - we'll use a mixture of real art and AiArt.
And to a point I'll GLADLY pay for physical art!
Such as - THIS!
This is via Alexy Gorboot!
-Paid Commission - of the Cruel Emperor Tzon Chon-
A public domain character (one setence in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep") I chose to adapt
ALSO - a "Future History" tends to SUCK. The near history is always wrong, adding to the suspension of disbelief. So the Cruel Emperor as predicted by HPL is kind of the eraser to the bridge between now and then.
He wanted history to begin with him like many Autarchs before and after but his was so brutal, thorough and of course cruel that he nearly succeeded. The first man on the moon, various religious movements, etc. are as legendary as Atlantis are to us. In defiance of the horrors of the man and his long shadow being felt even in the far-future the Agnost Orthodox church still cites the beginning of history to be five thousand years before the beginning of the Reign of the Cruel Emperor, which is the date the Increate himself walked the Earth in the form of a Man.
Now to anyone new to this no you will NOT be burdened by some horrible long "Future History" of a thousand, thousand years - the core will be a couple pages and can be skipped over really, mostly for the DM. And it's meant to be fluid and flexible so if someone else's table plays it but it's different, that IS the point!
Anyways - there are two entries on him in this DevBlog - Here - and an update on him and his concubines who are the first "Flower-Women" a large type of Monster-U in the world.
SO welcome back old and welcome new - the Far-Tomorrows project is active again!
After the Reign of the Cruel Emperor there was "The Second age of Wandering Heroes" now legendary as it is before the Third age of Technology and Space-Flight, before the Second Destruction of Earth's surface, the Age of the Dragon's bale-fire and the Rise of the Wizard-Lords and the creation of Magic. All of this way before the modern age in the realm of the Far-Tomorrows!
--footnote---
Again I'll gladly commission human art - but I already have a few who do work with me and that's after wasting a YEAR ish during prime time lockdown of "Artists" who got cold feet when they had a chance to work on a TTRPG... They were afraid they'd be blacklisted by big companies for helping competition and a lot of them were posers who used photoshop to TRACE over googled images and could not do backgrounds to save their lives. So "Fantasy Art" isn't just orcs and dragons and short people with furry feet - it's completely NEW stuff.
Poetic Justice then AiArt came out and the big companies have FIRED 90% of their artists using cheap 3rd world hacks to use AiArt and correct fingers. Ahem, can you say recent releases of books for a "Draconic Game" - as a user of AIArt I notice all the artefacts and small corrections for fingers, weird angle swords... I'll say "One Man's Opinion" because the giant private equity behind it could pour a million dollars into a lawsuit like I can buy a soda pop and not care if they lose.
Anyways I've hired some human artists who work with me but not going to flush many thousands. Gula at least CAN do backgrounds but I prefer his figures and just do AiArt for backgrounds. Anyone applying at this stage had better be on the level of the pictures above. And I won't "Cheapen" but I do expect professionalism - no $300 in 4 weeks maybe for a flat 2D non-colored "Anime like Elf Chick" with a 15 page list of Won't Do's. A pro can charge decent BUT if I hired them for a day they'd do more than the former type could do in months during that day, ask comic book companies even in the Bronze age where they sometimes lived in their office.
I can do art too - I'm just "Sub-professional" and working on Asian brush styles and physical mini sculptures for one of my other projects.
---footnote 2---
---Serious, there was one person I considered hiring BUT on top of being VERY expensive for really just sketches (done with software, a tablet, had (pronoun) ever TOUCHED a pencil?) there was a 15 ish page list of "I won't do this" which kind of was a shattered mirror of how messed up he was. INCLUDING - and this is why I'm referencing it, middle of the thing was "No Amputees"... Now I don't just mean he meant No Amputee fetish which is a weird niche but yes it included Pirates and Peg legs.... Holee FRUIT of the Gawdz... What if he was slightly better to justify his high price and I hired him? (well pronoun here, I'm not directly naming) See how this post began? What if he was the main artist AND I got around to PIRATE adventures or as now the mini-game as a spin-off...!?
Long rambling "No Brown M&M's" lists are for ROCK STARS who don't want to play on wet ice hockey stadiums with half-inflated devil balloons drooping over their drummers, then being sued and losing even if they win when some kid gets buried in a pile of chairs as the angry audience riots... They are not for snowflakes. "Artists" tend to be flippant snowflakes which is why so many of them die poor then vultures make huge $ off of them, buying their paintings with worker's pension funds and then running with the company bankrupt. "Professional ILLUSTRATORS" who want to earn a LIVING from their ILLUSTRATION need to be PROFESSIONAL...
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