I recently posted my guide to pricing and taking commissions here onto toyhouse, due to how often I see both people asking for advice and also underpricing their work, and also the addition of the new resources category.

I've written many other tutorials over the years, however:

& I'm just curious if there would be any interest in me crossposting tutorials on more general art topics onto here?

I hesitate only because this is ultimately a character repository website, and I'm just not sure if they would belong / be desired here, so I thought I'd make a little poll to see what y'all think.

Safehouse added support for nested loops and toggleable elements, so Interactive should now be even easier to edit! If you've already purchased it, you can visit the documentation page and enter the same password as usual. And if you haven't purchased it, you can find the links to do so there! Let me know if you run into any issues, but all going well you shouldn't :)

Everything in my ko-fi and itch stores is 10% off this week + next monday :)

Ko-fi sale (use code CYBERMONDAY) :: Itch sale

I also have been meaning to update and release some new 3d CSP models into my store, so keep an eye out for that! Updated versions of my horn reference models (currently only available on CSP assets store), a new antler pack, rigging the bird feet models, and releasing a similar dragon feet one have all been on my to-do list for a while, so I'll try get to them soon!

Hiya! First of all I've given my profile a lil bit of a facelift bc it has been quite clunky for a while now LMAO 

Secondly, about a week ago I suggested in the search update feedback thread for admin to add a browsing page for Worlds and upgrade Literatures & Worlds to have tags to allow for a more advanced search system.

Admin went ahead and added a basic Worlds browse page (which relatedly lead me to find the Marketsources World, which looks like a very neat market hub! Check it out!), and said in their update post that they'll add categorisation / tags if the Worlds browse gets filled enough, so if you have a World that you can add, make sure to add it to the public listing! :)

Lastly, yesterday I released a Safehou-se compatible commissions code for people who aren't confident with editing HTML directly, and I was wondering if there was any other type of code that would be useful to you if you didn't have to edit the HTML? I was thinking the adoptables community would probably benefit from a Safehou-se template for listing things for sale and whatnot, but I wasn't sure if there was anything else anyone had in mind. No guarantees I'll be able to make things as I'm not in the best of health at the moment, but I am curious to know what there's demand for.

8byte has kindly created a new tool for editing Toyhou.se codes, called Safehou-se. Using a special template syntax, coders are now able to make their codes compatible with the tool, allowing it to be edited by filling out a series of automatically generated form fields:

And I have finished converting Interactive to this new format! As well as a small change in making the layer icons now display as eye toggles, and updating the heart meter to display better with the new FontAwesome version. You can find the new code and documentation here.

It remains a hefty code, so the template is divided into two main parts, but it should certainly be a lot easier to edit now especially for those who are not very confident about editing HTML! :)

On a related note, also, you are welcome to commission me to create the assets for the code, or any codes really, if you need someone to create the layered key art or any of the icons! Just mention which code I'm creating assets for in the further details field.

Code by Aurorean

Hii! Finally got chance to sit down and set up my itch.io storefront :) To celebrate, there's 10% off everything until tomorrow! The sale has now ended!

[ToyHouse] Interactive $12

A ToyHou.se Character Code

[ToyHouse] RPG $12

A ToyHou.se Character Code

[ToyHouse] Bianca $7

A ToyHou.se Character Code

[CSP] Harrie's Ink & Paint Brushes $3

The brushes I use for ink drawings and paintings

[CSP] Binary Brushes Free

Simple brushes with no antialiasing

[CSP] Textured Brushes $5

Textured brushes that are nice to draw with

I'm still in the process of moving and it'll be a while before I can get everything set up as I'm unfortunately busier than I'd like to be, but since it's already been a couple days since everything happened on Twitter I wanted to let my intentions be known!

For those unaware, the CEO of Gumroad made an absolute ass of himself on Twitter, lying repeatedly about having no plans for NFT/crypto on Gumroad while logs both posted by their former artist/designer and the CEO himself very clearly show otherwise, and especially notably as many people missed this part—breaking GDPR by publicly lying about someone having a Gumroad account for the sake of a Twitter gotcha. He can PR talk his way through the NFT stuff and claim "no plans" and be as wishy washy about it as he likes, but there's no talking around the act of flagrantly misusing people's data that legally can only be used with an individuals direct consent.

Needless to say, I am left with little confidence in both the platform from a moral standpoint, and also I do not feel confident in the security and stability of the platform with the CEO behaving like this!

So I have been looking into moving onto itch.io these past couple days, and I'll make another update when I've finally gotten set up regarding sales transfers if I can figure out a solution for it, and of course a link to my store.

In the meantime, I suggest purchasing from my ko-fi store over gumroad! But, both options are still available for the meantime.