(Technically Mutant Standard’s birthday was yesterday; I didn’t really plan this stuff ahead, sorry xwx)
It’s been a bumpier year partly because the project has exanded so much, but so much more has been made or is in development and I’d like to once again thank everyone who has helped me in continuing this!
Continue reading “Mutant Standard is 2!”In the past, I’ve talked about various mental health issues that I have that have made Mutant Standard generally difficult, but I haven’t really talked about issues I’ve had about the project itself.
Even though I did want to work on Mutant Standard less in a planning work/life balance sense, I’ve been working on it less than I actually wanted to for these reasons. To make sure that I’m not talking about the project under a lot of influence of these issues and therefore talk about Mutant Standard in an irrational light, I’ve waited for many months until now to actually attempt to talk about it.
Also other things I said I would do, like streaming, have been caught up in this for the same reasons, and other external reasons too.
[CW: mental health talk in this post.]
Continue reading “Progress Issues”
It’s still pride month, so here are some pride emoji!
All of Mutant Standard’s pride flags (with a few exceptions for the rainbow flag since it’s kinda complicated) have been reinterpreted into a few different other Mutant Standard symbols, as well as a new one – meeple, a staple tabletop gaming piece!
Some of these are extensions to symbols that have already had rainbow flag versions in normal Mutant Standard releases (like paw_print and 100) and some not.
You can get them all, alongside the existing special emoji here – https://mutant.tech/download/#special
In the previous post, I talk about the aesthetic approaches that have developed in this version, and the ways I have intentionally tried to create a new cohesive vision of how to design Mutant Standard emoji.
In this post, I’m going to go through the new emoji designs like I normally do with these posts!
Content Warning: I’m gonna be going over some alcohol and food emoji designs.
In this post, I’m going to go over the variety of realisations I’ve made in my design process that have led to the various significant improvements that were made in 0.4.0.
Continue reading “0.4.0 sketches and thoughts – aesthetic”CW: I talk about mental health a little in this post.
I need to make changes to how I’m working on Mutant Standard:
Here’s why I really need to do these things…
Continue reading “Moving to a new release model”
Here’s my sketches for 0.3.1!
In general, looking back, I feel like a lot of what I did here was continue the new thinking that was started in 0.3.0, but was constrained with the design system baggage of earlier versions, and I feel that a good few of these just don’t reach their potential as a result. Some of these, I still really like.
Continue reading “0.3.1 sketches and thoughts”
Hey, I’m semi-back from my break and other things I need to do in my life, giving you a plan of what I’d like to do with the project over the next few months. Hopefully it will go to plan this time! ^^’
Continue reading “Mutant Standard Roadmap: May-July 2019”
This has been such a long release in the making, and it’s finally here!
Patreon has started unveiling their plans for what basically every VC-funded commerce/financial support platform does once their investors start demanding more – make a pointless, multi-tier funhouse version of their platform.
As far as I can tell, none of these proposed changes should affect any of you and they shouldn’t affect the percentage of money that I get from any of your pledges. (One of the nasty things about these changes is that they have re-introduced those payment processing fees against small pledges that they attempted in 2017 – but this time to prevent a backlash, it only applies to creators who make an account after a transition date.)
This will not be the end of Patreon’s bullshit – they will have to keep screwing people for more and more, bot hopefully nothing destructive will happen for Mutant Standard before I can move onto XOXO’s upcoming alternative.
As always, I’ll keep you all updated on any changes and let you know if you might be affected so you don’t feel in the dark about this bullshit <3