To continue off Wednesday's commentary, the Dragon at the top is basically an egg timer attached to a small motor. Every twenty minutes or so it Awakens and shakes the mountain. If your player token falls over you can set it back up where it lays, even if it moved you up a space. But if it falls off the mountain entirely, you go back to Start. The black squares are magnetic and hold your player token in place during Awakenings. There are cards that positively and negatively alter the time between Awakenings, as well as Tool and Trap cards that can save you from falling off the mountain, which Selkie has pointed out here. Plus Amanda still has one Lasso and a Bear Trap...
Thank you everyone for all the game suggestions in the previous strip’s comments. I didn’t expect the previous strip to generate such a large amount of tips and ideas for card and board games. I’m really intrigued by some of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I basically chose to make up a board game for this strip that called to mind some of the board games from my childhood with slightly over-blown design gimmicks. The Treasure of Dragon Mountain is won by being the first player to climb to the top of the mountain, defeating Monsters Hazards and Traps along the way. The six player tokens each have an advantage against one a disadvantage against a second and are neutral with the third, so climbing to the top is a lot of luck with a little bit of trickery in applying the Tool cards everyone gets to hold. The Dragon at the top is also... well I'll discuss that on Friday. >:D
May as well get the competition urge out. Fanart Update! I got this drawing of Keisha living her jazz ballerina dreams from Victoria: Thank you Victoria!
My family has never completed a game of Monopoly. We all reach the two hour mark and call whoever has the most properties the winner.
In the initial draft of this arc Amanda was putting up the sweet and innocent act to the adults faces while being a royal shit to Selkie in secret. I chose not to pursue that because I don't want to create a narrative where Amanda is portrayed as some master manipulator or prescient mastermind. She's not above using the batted-eyelashes don't get me wrong, but I feel a route like that leans a bit too one-dimensional.
It’s all fun and games until the war paint comes out. Fanart Update! I got thi awesome alternate fantasy sequence drawing from Theresa: Thank you, Theresa!
So, I have to be honest with everyone: Today’s strip was a last-minute add-in. I improved it after reading commentary on yesterday’s strip, more specifically comments on the Semi-Secret Director Commentary. I mentioned that it had occurred to me to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had I gone ahead with media references anyway, Amanda probably would have been Disney's Cinderella.
So tempted to draw the first panel of the next strip in a Star Wars lightsaber duel mock-up, but I don't think it would fit Amanda's personality. Selkie'd love it though.
Color coded mayhem!! I don’t normally do this because I’m silly and forgetful, but by request I thought I’d share here the beta version of this strip that was up as a placeholder while I got the coloring finished.
Was going to say "Sharpie" instead of marker, but (A) I dunno if that brand name is used outside America and (2) I've got a pattern of parody-brand-names I'd like to stick too but didn't want readability of the joke to get obscured. So, "marker".
