It's Been A Long Time In The Making, But#TheStarlitKingdom Is Finally Finished And Available For Purchase.

The Starlit Kingdom

Many, many centuries ago, the people of Earth co-existed with the people of the Moon in peace and harmony. This might surprise you, as the Moon queendom was a place rich with beauty and full of wonders, not the least of which were its people, who were bles...

It's been a long time in the making, but#TheStarlitKingdom  is finally finished and available for purchase. The Starlit Kingdom is a game about magical girls struggling against tragic fate, and is inspired by Sailor Moon, but you don't have to be a fan of anime or magical girls to appreciate this game. This game tells beautiful, sad stories about the fall of a magical kingdom full of beauty and wonder, and your doomed efforts to save it and the people you love. It is MCless, and runs 2-4 sessions with 3-5 players.

(If you want to pick it up in print, you can get it on Lulu here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/anna-kreider/the-starlit-kingdom/paperback/product-22426269.html)

Catching up on previews for the SEKKRIT PRINCESS PROJECT. Details to be announced on Monday!

Art Update:

Well I certainly meant to be posting art more frequently. But toddler-induced plague put our household out of commission for a few days, which put a cramp in my style.

At any rate, this is the first “finished” spread for Princess Kadri. (Obviously it’s important to note that text and image placement might change, colors might change, etc etc.) You’ll notice that this is a different style from the previous in-progress update that I posted. While the painterly style was lovely, it proved too time consuming were I to use that style for all of the illustrations.

Thankfully, I’m still pretty happy with the new cel style shading. It has the added effect of brightening the colors, which will be great for our youngest readers (my own daughter included).

Part of a post that I did for my blog about reasons why it's too hard to include playable female characters in games. You can see the whole post here.

You can also buy prints here!

Hi, folks! If you want to see in-progress updates of the Princess Charming art as I make it, it'll be on the Princess Charming tumblr.

Hi, folks! Anna here. What with the KickStarter over, I’ve been attempting to throw myself into art production. Unfortunately, I’m facing a bit of a learning curve with my new tablet (I cannot recommend Manga Studio 5 highly enough) as well as caring for a sick toddler. But here’s what I’ve got so far for the first finished spread.

I’m happy with the results. I hope I can find a way to make the coloring a bit more efficient, though…

Anyhow. For future in-progress updates (I plan on posting a lot of them), follow us here on tumblr!

Grinding away at the Princess Charming art.

I always need some kind of noise - preferably a movie or tv show - when I’m working on art. But in order to not be distracting, it can’t be something I haven’t seen or something that is too interesting. (Crime procedurals are fantastic for this purpose.)

When I started working on finishing Princess Charming art, I started re-watching Buffy on Netflix. (I’ve seen it before and the snappy dialogue keeps me entertained without needing to watch it.) Since the KickStarter ended, I’m up to Episode 9 of Season 3. Considering that Buffy has 22 episode seasons, I think that’ll tell you how much work I’m putting in on this.