2023 was a weird year where Instagram desperately wanted to become Tiktok, Tiktok still did Tiktok best and now also is the better platform for artists to post image albums on. Twitter died and Tumblr continued its resurgence. If not for Tumblr doing so well I'd feel pretty bad about the year social media-wise. Art-wise though I'm very happy since I managed to significantly upgrade many of my old favorite designs (to use for merch and finally my own site) but also was able to push forward on new illustrations and test out many new series ideas. My goal for 2024 is to keep the momentum going, since there are a few other longterm plans I want to do. Thanks for following!
If you're curious you can see the last couple of years of Top9 posts here
The Broadcast Bazaar is a black market hidden amongst an old studio and the surrounding industrial sector. It won't be explorable for quite a while, but it will feature prominently in the opening cutscene of the public demo.
There still a lot of details and NPCs that we need to add into the space, but things have been coming along quite smoothly this month, so I wanted to end the year on a bit of walk through.