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)

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!

Just passed 20K!

I've been doing a lot of writing to avoid my feelings about some family bullshit I'm dealing with right now (people making their opinions about my gender my problem), which means I've been progressing at a fair clip and this project is starting to feel more and more like "a real boy". Both meet-cutes are done (yes, both) and this afternoon I passed 20,000 words, which puts me at nearly a quarter of the way through what I have outlined! Something that I'm learning from the reactions of the one friend I've had the courage to show my first drafts to is that the more specific I make my ridiculous wish fulfilment, the more people respond to it. People responded so positively to Our Traveling Home, which was a game I wrote almost entirely for myself. So with this fiction project I'm leaning into that, trusting that the magic of creativity will transmute my extremely specific fantasies into Very Relatable Content. (I mean, truly, who hasn't wished for a friendly poltergeist named Dennis that wants to do your chores for you?)

More updates over on the Princess Charming tumblr.

I haven’t been quite as productive as I’d like lately, but work proceeds apace. Here is a recently finished spread and the finished lines for a spread currently in progress.