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i think meredith gran should take her existing game concept story and engine but re-skin all the characters to be cartoon bugs from the 1930s
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Is that a reference to something because that sounds awesome
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Pyroclastic posted:Nah, it's incredibly uncommon for Kickstarters to get that far in their first two weeks and fail. Most projects have a big influx at the start, then drop down for a few weeks before spiking again in the last couple days. The rare few that make it to 50% and don't succeed are usually smaller creators who don't have the networking or pull of someone like Meredith Gran; they exhaust their reader pool, and can't draw in enough new blood to finish things. Even though this an entirely new thing for her (also, she's never done a Kickstarter before), she's got a big enough fanbase to pull it off. Well, good to hear. I didn't know Meredith Gran was such a big thing, so I assumed that she was one of those "smaller creators" set up to fail (which is why I panic-backed). Hopefully you're right! The world can't have enough adventure games.
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they're loving
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they're all loving
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I think you're missing the point; it's getting specific about your shipping that's fun.
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Feb 14, 2018 15:27
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PMush Perfect posted:Is that a reference to something because that sounds awesome nah i've just been watching cartoons from the 1930s. they're full of bugs!
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Feb 14, 2018 17:32
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Seems like Broodhollow might be coming back. Kris Straub paused his regular patreon and started a new one exclusively for Broodhollow.quote:My goal is to return to Broodhollow comics on a regular basis!
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Feb 14, 2018 18:14
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Man, I really want to be excited for this, I was a huge fan of Broodhollow and backed the kickstarters, etc. But after two different false starts on the same chapter, each preceded by a hiatus then a "return", I'm not feeling particularly hopeful.
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Feb 14, 2018 18:43
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This patreon is set up per page, not per month. You can look at it as a good thing, or a bad thing, I suppose. The good thing is that he only gets paid if he puts up pages, which is certainly a motivation. (You can set a monthly patreon maximum, fwiw)
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Feb 14, 2018 19:28
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Pierson posted:Three or four years at this point I think? It started in 2012, so it's going on six years.
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So in order to not lose casual readers, would it be better in going for short chapters as oppose to long ones? Or it doesn't matter?
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punk rebel ecks posted:So in order to not lose casual readers, would it be better in going for short chapters as oppose to long ones? Or it doesn't matter? I don't think anyone actually cares what arbitrary point you decide to call a chapter break, except the guys who will whine and whine and whine about it but still read your comic religiously regardless Breaking up your stuff into more granular segments does make it easier to archive-dive, vs. the guys who will lump 700 nameless pages under the same one-word "chapter"
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Feb 15, 2018 20:50
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Frequent updates are good for retention: people come back regularly and make it a habit. Decompressed storytelling is bad for retention: people stop having fun and decide to come back at the end of the chapter, and then they forget to. Chapters are a made-up idea that don't matter. The pace at which plot elements are introduced and resolved matters. My advice to you is to imitate Hergé - a cliffhanger on every page.
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Or, at least, something worth reading. Something cute enough, funny enough, plot-advancing enough or character-advancing enough to matter.
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Thanks for the advice.
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Feb 15, 2018 21:23
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Regularity is even bigger than frequency. A comic (or youtube series, or blog) that posts every-other-wednesday at exactly 8pm eastern will gather regular readers more easily than one that posts on random days and times, usually less than a week between updates but sometimes up to two weeks. Obviously plenty of comics do just fine without predictable schedules, but if you can swing it, it'll help. "Habitual readers" are an entire class of audience that can only exist in that environment.
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Bongo Bill posted:My advice to you is to imitate Hergé - a cliffhanger on every page. I'd go with this. When I draw comics I try to make it so that each page has some sort of punchline, a cliffhanger, or otherwise something that is satisfying enough to people who read it on a page-by-page basis, while at the same time make it so that it still works when it's read in one setting through archive binging or in a printed book. Having a regular update helps, too. I highly recommend creating a buffer before launching so that it can update on a regular basis without the risk of missing a day. I worked on my comic for a year before I launched it online, for example.
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Feb 15, 2018 22:46
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Is it better to register my own website to post my story, or it doesn't matter if I just use a blog or something? I'm worried that fans may not want to go to a medium or Tumblr page or something.
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Feb 15, 2018 22:51
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stuff like Tumblr can draw more of a casual audience passively from being built right into the Tumblr community, but it's utterly godawful if you want your art to look okay or to have a humanly legible comments section or any kind of navigation that makes sense. Pick your level of comfort in control over your end product vs. time saved not dealing with any of that, there'll be a platform for that.
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Feb 15, 2018 22:54
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People come back every month for comics that they have to pay for, I don't see why they wouldn't for something free.
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Samuringa posted:People come back every month for comics that they have to pay for, I don't see why they wouldn't for something free. Paying for something makes people invested (literally) in it in a way they usually aren't in something they didn't, even if it's a trivial amount. People generally treat free poo poo as being worth what they paid for it.
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Samuringa posted:People come back every month for comics that they have to pay for, I don't see why they wouldn't for something free. The act of payment actually generates a certain level of expectation, loyalty and dedication that just browsing a website doesn't. Weird, but true.
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You can post them anywhere but I personally refuse to read webcomics on tumblr unless the css is heavily modified to have the usual navigational tools and a functioning archive. Even then it’s a maybe, given that tumblr can be weird about cropping images so you have to click on it to get the full thing. Blogs usually have the same problem w/r/t readability, I’d honestly rather read something on like smackjeeves or other similar sites that offer more easy to use setups. Most comics that start getting serious tend to break away after a while for the freedom having their own site provides anyway.
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Yeah, Tumblr is just plain bad if you want to do anything more complicated than view an arbitrary smattering of somebody's latest work intermingled with whatever garbage they liked enough to re-tumble or however that works. There are ways that I've seen some people force Tumblr into more workable websites, but the default options are all terrible. I don't know how it works on its own app, but on on my tablet, it tends to crash the browser by biting off more than it can chew with the whole infinite-scrolling thing. Even the archive page can crash you if it goes on long enough. Last time I had to browse an artist's unorganized work on Tumblr I had to fiddle around with the address bar. It's enough to make you miss Deviantart.
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The most  ones are the comics that publish on Tumblr and are locked down behind Tumblr’s dumbfuck trigger-shield safe mode feature, despite have no objectionable or NSFW content at all, effectively barring access from potential readers. And the only other option is to read it on DeviantArt because they don’t have a proper host for it.
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There's a theme that turns a tumblr into a pretty fine webcomic site- https://www.tumblr.com/theme/39018 It's pretty dang customiseable, not a bad start at all.
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Tumblr's mobile app is hilariously bad. Basic post formatting fucks up, half the time images just refuse to load (except the ads), crashes on the regular, that thing where it arbitrarily follows or unfollows blogs for you. Audio posts that use Soundcloud just... don't work. I could go on.
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tumblr isnt a good site to host your comic on there are good comics on there. i read a handful of good ones, i think they all use kojiro's linked theme there or something similar
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I have tried a couple times, but at this point I'm resolved that I will never, ever read a webcomic that exclusively publishes on tumblr. It sucks so bad. Choose any other option.
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Tumblr will get you more readers than anywhere else and they will all be pornbots.
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this doesn't solve the problem of where to host it, but you could have a tumblr blog that has posts that have a preview image and a link to an update, so that people can follow the blog and see whenever the comic's updated on their dash. Same with twitter.
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Have a main site for your comic. Make sure the main site has an RSS feed. Set up a a Twitter account and a Tumblr account, containing nothing but the comic itself and possibly very occasional ephemera such as sketches or reader answers (a rule of thumb is that you shouldn't post sketches or reader answers more often than you post the comic itself). Post to social media with whatever resolution is convenient, which may mean a thumbnail, but always always include a link to the real thing. If your comic has a sufficiently catchy name, use a hashtag for it on Twitter. On Tumblr, make sure every post with the comic itself is tagged with the name of the comic and with another tag that you use exclusively for actual comic updates. Retweet/reblog from them on your personal social media accounts if you have any. Depending on the audience you seek, a similar policy on other social media sites will be valuable; Facebook in particular is worth tapping if you seek general audiences. If you are making a stick figure comic with simple art, ensure that it is very difficult to remove your signature.
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I've been reading Woman's World on Instagram and that's a surprisingly apt host for Square Comics. I suppose if you're going to deviate from that setup you gotta have your own website tho. I do follow a bunch of webcomics on tumblr, but none of them are very remarkable, it's more of a habit, like newspaper comics.
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Oh yeah, have a Patreon too.
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Bongo Bill posted:Have a main site for your comic. Make sure the main site has an RSS feed. Set up a a Twitter account and a Tumblr account, containing nothing but the comic itself and possibly very occasional ephemera such as sketches or reader answers (a rule of thumb is that you shouldn't post sketches or reader answers more often than you post the comic itself). Post to social media with whatever resolution is convenient, which may mean a thumbnail, but always always include a link to the real thing. If your comic has a sufficiently catchy name, use a hashtag for it on Twitter. On Tumblr, make sure every post with the comic itself is tagged with the name of the comic and with another tag that you use exclusively for actual comic updates. Retweet/reblog from them on your personal social media accounts if you have any. Depending on the audience you seek, a similar policy on other social media sites will be valuable; Facebook in particular is worth tapping if you seek general audiences. If you are making a stick figure comic with simple art, ensure that it is very difficult to remove your signature. Thanks.
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I decided I'm writing a book with my comic and so also decided there's no point not writing it out of order and droppin a page whenever its done chronologically! then later i can have pages drawn out and drop em in like flies, one two
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paint your comic onto a sandwich board and wander the streets acting out the script at passersby
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