>>338879
THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PERSON YOU CAN BOUNCE IDEAS OFF OF, SLINK

I'M JUST SAYIN' :B

>>338880

Like me! My ideas are always great!

>>338880
>>338881
Heh... maybe I will~

Venji's start date is being moved back to the 10th, so it starts on a Monday and not a Saturday, among other reasons.

Now that the thread has started, I can point out that there was a paperdoll and nobody "ironically" did a Steve shirt.

Tgchan, I am proud.

>>339235
If no one did one seriously, then I am disappointed.

In an effort to keep my pace and art/writing quality up, for the rest of thread three I'll be taking fridays off. Since I thought of this just now and not yesterday, I'll also be taking today (jan 15) off.

I'm hoping this will help prevent what happened in thread 2, where the art and poses became more limited and I was skipping days left and right from tiredness.

We'll get through this thread together *opens arms in a gesture for hugs*

Hugs! :B

Anonymous 2011/01/16(Sun)13:23 No. 29575 ID: 2563d4
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>>338587
Since there's some confusion over the fabric path. Yes, it needs a degree of fudging to work, but it's a low degree for something made out of a sheet that isn't just a toga.

Venji's paused for a couple of days.

TLDR: VENJI WILL UPDATE MORE OFTEN WITH FEWER IMAGES HURRAY

As you probably noticed, Venji had a session a bit ago. I decided to try it to make up for not updating for a while, and it worked out fairly well. I can't really do long sessions because the images take forever to draw and I don't really like spending ALL DAY on the quest.

But I also can't keep doing giant updates that take all day to draw, so compromises.

For the rest of the quest, the updates will be a bit more dynamic. Rather than a daily update of ~6 images utilizing the Queue system, I will do smaller updates more often, resulting in more suggestion points and hopefully a smoother plot flow.

This also means I'll be more likely to at least post SOMETHING every day, instead of having days where I don't update because "FFFFFFFFF 6 HOURS ON DOING NOTHING BUT DRAWING VENJI NOOO."

The intended par will be two updates a day that are ~2 images in size.

>>340945
Four images a day? You slacker.

Give or take for copy-pasting. I'll amend it to ~2 unique images an update~

>>340945
Hi slinko it's rosque don't kill yourself please

Venji is taking one week off starting today (Feb 21).

I need to focus on other things, and the lapse in updates despite drawing fewer images kind of underlines how worn out I am.

All I can promise at this point is that Venji will reach a normal ending. It won't be abandoned, and rocks will not cause a huge massacre.

I have some plans which I believe will make up for this pause. I think you'll enjoy them a lot, and I'll enjoy doing them. WE HOPE.

>>341397
But you forgot to leave the cast sitting a freezer first! :3c

I've been feeling much better, so Venji is still on track to continue on Monday.

BUT FOR NOW THINGS TO PONDER:
If I decided to run a short, easy, quick one-shot on saturday or sunday (sessioned?), is there anything in particular you'd like to see (No, not BL2)?

ALSO:
Some people tried to read Tezakia Quest, but the general limitations of the Flashes combined with how huge the quest is made it hard for them.

If I 'remastered' the Tezakia Quest flashes with a Save/load function and maybe some other features (Seeking? A button to see unused replies to the quest?)... would that be enough for some of you to reconsider reading it?

I guess I'm basically asking for an interest check on making them easier to navigate. The REMASTERED FLASH VERSION would be worked on during the Hiatus following Venji.

>>341895
Beyond Lunch 3: :3 Edition

>>341895
I have no idea what you should do as a oneshot but the idea of a oneshot sounds fun???

Also I can't help with redone flash thingies.

The deal with Roz's boosts/cascades Slinkoboy 2011/03/01(Tue)15:44 No. 32419 ID: d6ae01
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Venji's quest might not have done a very good job explaining this, so I will do so here!

Roz can boost a stat (or multiple stats now!) for a time, making it stronger. Roz will vanish while a boost is in effect, but it can be canceled any time and his bar will start filling back up from that point.

If Roz boosts himself, or rather the ROZ stat, he creates a ROZONANCE CASCADE. This allows him to turn into any form that's on his or Venji's mind, and presumably lets him do awesome things. A ROZONANCE CASCADE cannot be canceled, and will run until he is out of energy. He will then require more time to recover.

While the speed of the bar's draining and how fast he recovers is more or less done by feel, I try to consider how many upgrades Roz has had when determining how fast the bars do either. Generally more roz = slower drains, faster recovers

Roz boosting himself and then boosting other stats will result in the stat being boosted a whole lot (or a greater boost on multiple stats), but the same rules apply that it can't be canceled and Roz will need a full recharge. On top of that, Venji will take some damage when the boost is complete. But until then you could in theory boost everything and have one super powerful big-boobed goddess!

Boosting or CASCADING multiple stats will cause a greater drain on Roz's energy. It will also reduce "overload damage" on Venji if a cascaded boost.

>>342219
>Putting points in Roz keeps him going longer and reduces his refractory period
And that's why that's where Venji wants to allocate her upgrades~

[04/17/11 23:35:33]<LawyerDog> You're going to have to show nipples in an update before that will stop
[04/17/11 23:35:49]<TestPattern> >implying that would stop it
[04/17/11 23:35:52]<LawyerDog> I'm talking to Slinkoboy by the way
[04/17/11 23:35:56]<Slinkoboy> me??
[04/17/11 23:36:07]<Slinkoboy> venji's like out of updates to be naked in!
[04/17/11 23:36:20]<LawyerDog> Venji is the real reason people think Penji doesn't have nipples
[04/17/11 23:36:30]<LawyerDog> Test has drawn Penji with nipples, you have not drawn Venji with nipples
[04/17/11 23:36:49]<Slinkoboy> this may surprise you but venji isn't exactly canon!
[04/17/11 23:37:44]<LawyerDog> You know the precedent for Deep parodies is that you show the vagina

Venji Post Mortem and future plans Slinkoboy 2011/04/22(Fri)11:41 No. 35605 ID: d6ae01
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This is long so I'll underline the important stuff.

Venji
It started as a joke, then turned into something waaaay bigger than I expected. I got ambitious with the plot and forgot that I was supposed to make a tiny little goofy one-shot.

This is likely because I felt like Venji was a rare chance to get people who couldn't care less about Tezakia a chance to see my questing style. Then I realized they probably wouldn't like it any more with Venji than they did with Tezakia. Whoops!

Venji tried a lot of things. Some of them worked, some of them didn't. In a sense, it really is the spiritual sequel to Tezakia, reviving the Queue system and trying some similar story elements.

It also showed me the flaws of the Queue system, especially when you don't have sprites and pre-drawn backgrounds to throw around. I've learned a lot from Venji, and while I don't feel I did a fantastic job with it, I don't regret running it. The lessons I learned will make Slissa Quest that much better.

To those of you who stuck with it till the end, I thank you. I really hope you enjoyed reading and/or participating in Venji. Through the entire thing, my goal was to make something you'd like, and if you liked it then I did my job.

Above all else, Venji has shown me that I still have much more to learn before I do Slissa Quest. What to do, what NOT to do, how to keep tones and characters consistent... and most of all I learned not to use stat bars because holy cow that's hard to keep track of.

I should also thank Testpattern and Seal for not strangling or perma-banning me (respectively) for completely ruining their canon.

Speaking of which... this should be obvious, but nothing in Venji is considered canon in the Deep/Tozol universe. Its canon is completely self-contained.

Hiatus
Starting now, I will be taking a hiatus. The soonest Slissa Quest will begin is in 2 months. Depending on how kind the job market decides to be, I may end up running a few short one-shots before then. But even if I somehow get a job tomorrow, I'm still taking 1 month off.

Of course, if I don't get a job in 2 months, SQ will be pushed back as will any one-shots. I think you all can understand that survival is a little bit more important than drawing quests for Internet, so SQ simply will not begin until I have some money coming in.

That said...

Current plans
Despite the hiatus, I will still be drawing pictures. Someone has paid for spiders, so I will be drawing spiders.

Someone else paid for an Amiel.dll, so I will be making an Amiel.dll. I somehow felt that needed underlining. I'm not going to lie and say it'll be the sexiest thing ever, but I will be playing it straight, so to speak.

I will be accepting any other commissions people might have, and I will still do ITQ (assuming people ever have anything to ask my characters in ITQ). Technically I'll go from "not really checking ITQ" to "sometimes considering checking ITQ" so the hiatus might be your best bet to ITQ it up!

If you have questions or comments, feel free to post them. If your comment is "I hated X in Venji and you suck!" then you can rest assured that I'm most likely aware of where I failed and that I'll be working on improving for Slissa Quest. Also, there's no need to be mean :(

I will keep you guys posted on anything that comes up. For now, I hope everyone had fun and I'll see you next mission.

>>345405
What is the Queue system?

Venji Quest was awesome, I loved it.

Venji quest needed more murder and less whiny, clingy sharks and corny romance jokes. How does a socially retarded shark attach so fast and strong to a stranger? And everyone obsessed so horrifically over a dumb relationship, Jesus Christ, it was like that entire facility raised it's experiments on 50's moral values and romance... that wasn't Venji.
Fun though.
Giant Ponies should demolish more buildings all the time.

Titzi was by far the best character.

>>345418
The theory of the queue system is I take a larger number of suggestions than the norm, and weave them into the story of a larger update. The end result is a whole lot of work for me, and an often... bi-polar flow of events.

The method has some huge flaws, so Slissa Quest will not be using it. It'll be acting more like a typical quest with 1-3 image updates, rather than the 3-6+ Venji had.

>>345421
I'm glad you liked it!

>>345423
Murder just isn't my style, really, and a lot of people don't like the combat in my quests. I might experiment with a combat-heavy one-shot in the future, though.

Titzi attached to Venji quickly because I didn't want to spend 3 threads having her do it slowly. I could have had her be extremely reluctant, not trusting venji until the very end, but I sped it up so the quest could be lighter and funnier (and because I didn't expect it to be nearly as long as it was).

>>345424
Titzi and Tayza... I guess I should write that kind of character more often!

Too bad Kliss is going to be super nice instead...

>>345424
This man is 100% correct.

Bahu 2011/05/03(Tue)18:22 No. 36084 ID: d6ae01
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>>345405
>"I hated X in Venji and you suck!"

>>345437
Venji quest was awesome, except for the part where it ended.

Tezakia 2.0 and slumber party Slinkoboy 2011/12/26(Mon)20:50 No. 47715 ID: d6ae01
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For those who were curious about Tezakia Quest but didn't want to deal with the bulky flash version or the obnoxious livejournal version, there is now a new, convenient web page version!

The text has also been cleaned up so overall it's an easier read.

Thanks to Guindo for helping me go through it, and Dylan for doing all of the coding required to convert it. I couldn't have done it alone, and thought it was impossible.

http://tgchan.org/archive/tezakia/ Enjoy!

Also Slumber Party discussion can go here. Slumber party is a one-shot that will be updated 2-3 times a day.

Oh right drawing a ton of people is super hard. Make that 1-2 times a day.

There will not be an update new years eve, though.

>>357589
Going to be too busy getting horrendously drunk and drawing porn, eh?

>>357596
y-no of course not what gives you that idea I mean there is absolutely no precedent for me doing that less than a week ago.

>>357515
I saw this splash screen and it looked like everyone was sitting down to play a really angry console game together.

Well, just finished reading Jiniki's Journey, and found it a pleasant expansion to Tezakai Quest. Looking forward to seeing a true second Tezakai Quest. One that I can actually play a part in! I'll settle with the Slumber Party for now.

Sorry for recent delays, but Things keep coming up. As usual, you have my promise that I'll finish the quest in relatively good speed, and I'll get back to daily updates as soon as Shenanigans stop happening.

So don't think I'm getting tired of the quest. I'm really happy with Slumber party and I'm glad so many people seem to be enjoying it. Just... shenanigans.

>>357934
I liked slumber party and I'm sad that it has been completely abandoned.

>>357967
>:| oh it has not.

Slinkoboy 2012/02/19(Sun)06:50 No. 49468 ID: d6ae01
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Oh I forgot to make a postmortem for Slumber Party!

Um... I made some goofs in tone but in general I felt pretty good about it. TGchan surprised me with how insightful they were, especially near the end.

I bet some people want me to go design Amiel's finalized majibeast form, huh?

Slumber Party didn't do a great job being accessable to folks who haven't read the original Tezakia, but I was surprised at how many folks not only read the original, but remembered things about it!


As for future plans, right now I'm going to go back to drawing Hugs (as you have probably seen!) for Typo. I might run something short and goofy for April Fools, but I'm not quite sure what yet. I'll worry about it later-- I have sergals to draw!

sentences i never thought i'd type for 400, alex.

>I bet some people want me to go design Amiel's finalized majibeast form, huh?

Ye.

>>359268
You bet we want to see that majibeast form!

Wait!

Slinko!

Before you post that image that you are inevitably going to draw because all of us including me request it, remember that you might have a sequel to Tezakia Quest. You might other piss thousands of people off or make people itch in anticipation if you wait to post it until you are ready for that quest.

Agreed? No? Yes? Maybe? Perhaps yes or no? Both? Tired of these options?

>>359292
Yeah you should totally wait on posting it.
If fact, if you're gonna start a sequel, you should just wait until that starts.
Then you should have Amiel not making a direct appearance in it. Instead she's always talking to someone through an intercom or some convenient one-way mirror.

>MaximumtrollingSlinkoing.jpg

>>359292
>>359298
A sequel is pretty likely after Slissa Quest... I could certainly save it for then and have a more modern design........

A sequel is not likely to star these characters since Slumber Party ended the last character arc Tezakia had with 'em, but they'll definitely be showing up from time to time unless there's this huge decision to skip WAY ahead to adult jiniki quest...

ALSO BOATFACE Slinkoboy 2012/05/22(Tue)16:04 No. 55119 ID: d6ae01
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BY THE WAY YOU CAN USE THIS THREAD TO DISCUSS BOATFACE IF YOU WANT.

Boatface is meant to fill in the gaps in Fish updates, or otherwise be updated when I feel super productive. Fish is on a temporary Hiatus, so it'll be updating more quickly for now, mostly being slowed by me also working on a huge comic commission on the side.

In general it's a NO WORRIES quest. All the things I refused to do, even in Venji, because they were "just too silly" ... well, that's not stopping me this time.

Let's see how incredibly dumb this ends up getting.

>>55119
So this is going to be the porn quest, then?

>>55122
I hope not! There's a child on board!

>>55122
Not that kind of no worries!!