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Hello! I remember your posts and it's so nice to see your work!

Thank you very much for your kind words. Knowing that things I've made have helped people makes it all worth it.

The extra drawing is very cool.

I played through a couple times to see the different paths through the dialog (and the different cards).

This was really interesting and well done.

I can relate a lot to this. Really beautiful artwork.

It's a lot to take up there on the satellite, and it's a really good zine.

Your art style is so cool. I love The Misunderstood.

Lovely and detailed.

I noticed some interesting things that I didn't see the first time when I was flipping back through the pages. Really cool.

I'm really curious about this one! I think I'll need the tutorial card to really get my head around it, but I'm definitely interested in checking it out when that's ready.

No, it's pretty much all scummy.

I get that it's popular with young teens for the social media aspect and the fact that their school firewalls don't seem to block the site. I don't blame kids for using it when so much of the web is not built with them in mind.

But the person running the site is absolutely scummy.

The paid subscription costs $49 per year if you want access to Decker's other built in patterns and colors (which are free), color palettes they took off of lospec (which are free) and a tiny, tiny amount of cloud storage (which people probably already have for free).

The site uses generative AI all over the place including the AI-generated fake "pixel art" that they use as highlight images on the color palettes which just seems extra insulting to the real pixel artists they took the color palettes from. They even promoted an AI service as the top banner on the website before they got their subscription system set up.

And they don't allow users in the social media area to post the name "internetjanitor". The automated review that happens when people post there will not let the creator of wigglypaint's username be posted on their site.

I don't think they want to be a fun, honest social media site for wigglypaint enjoyers. I wish they did. I think they want to fool people and make sure that their community stays fooled so they can keep making money off of young artists.

*Nods nods* You have to love.

What a glimpse into the Yu-gi-oh of yesteryear!

I think the black screen is because there's a new kind of image encoding that keeps the file size lower when a project has lots of color images like this one does.

It should open normally in a newer version of Decker. But if it doesn't, please let me know!

P.S. You're welcome! It was fun to find your site on there.

Salt and Vinegar Vanilla Treat sounds plausibly nice to me. 🤔 Hmmm.

If you attempted to save a .deck file then you should probably search your device for it. Searching for "*.deck" should give you a list of every decker file you have on your device. If you saved the file while your drawing was on screen it'll still be there when you open it again. 

(If you find it you can open it with File > Open... here on the web upload, or in your own copy of Decker.)

It's a pretty mundane one but the words "STAY HUMAN" scrawled on the side of a gas station in the middle of nowhere have stuck in my mind for years.

And hell yeah, zines!

Frogxi!! Your art is so beautiful!

Apologies to anyone who gets my name in your wordmangles... :'D of course, in the spirit of Decker you can get in there and change the word pool to any other set of words you'd enjoy having a chance to un-mangle.

It's heavy, but it's also very beautiful and intricately made. I'm at a loss for words. Thank you for making it.

I'm here to add to the range of possible Millies :) Here's one that I see a lot.

Printed this out with the "no margins" option and trimmed the white area around the edges before folding it up, it turned out great. :D

Thank you for the lovely zine!

Thank you very much for checking it out! :'D

I love the way you write things. This was really nice.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!! Thank you for reading!

This is so interesting 👀 Good work!

This is so cute! 

Glad to hear it :D Thank you for bringing up the issue and coming back to say what worked. It's really, really helpful.

I hope you have fun trying Decker!

Thank you :D And yeah, I think it was itch's forum software that did you wrong. There was definitely an <img> in the post, it just didn't point to anything for some reason.

I'm still doing a little bit more reading on possible fixes for tablet issues (in general, when they don't seem to be getting along with specific programs) but it might be a good idea to go into your Wacom Center and set up a profile for Decker so you can tweak how your tablet interacts with it specifically.

I have a Huion so I'm not completely sure what's possible, but I'm thinking of things like turning off Windows Ink for Decker's profile so your computer will switch to the Wintab API instead. But there may be other options in there that could be helpful for bridging the gap like turning off pen pressure. (Decker doesn't currently support pen pressure, so you wouldn't be losing anything. The handful of variable-width brushes we have in the supplemental "all about brushes" deck and in wigglypaint use other methods.)

Hi there!

Decker is definitely intended as a drawing program! And it usually works fine with  tablets. I draw all my art directly in Decker with a tablet for my projects here on itch. (And I have an old speedpaint of doing exactly that, made while recording my display tablet)

So the problem isn't inherent to the program... and I really hope we can find a fix for you and your tablet.

If you don't mind, as a starting point... Your image didn't load for me so I gotta this ask for clarification:

Are you experiencing line delay while using Wigglypaint in the Decker application (wigglypaint tools, drawing on the wigglypaint drawing area)?

Or are you experiencing this while using the general Decker drawing tools (selecting the drawing tool from Decker's menu or toolbars and using it to draw directly on a card)?

(Or both?)

And also what operating system are you using?

(There will probably be follow-up questions from me or others but this is helpful info for people to start with) 

Hi. I understand the license pedantry, but I don't think you understand the effect this has on the artist community.

You're correct to call Wigglypaint "a gift" but these people take the gift out of artist's hands and sell it back to us worse.

These sites popped up all at once, with nearly identical llm-generated text, ads and dodgy links. They usually obfuscate the origin of the program or imply the original creator is involved.

Some outright lied about being "the developer of Wigglypaint".

Artists generally don't have a lot of spare cash but even so, we'll throw a few dollars at something useful to support the original creator when we can. And a lot of people did not realize the site asking for donations is just... some random person who clumsily generated a webpage to make some quick cash when a free program went viral.

Some of these sites have committed direct art theft, too. Taking people's wigglypaint artwork from social media and posting it unlinked and uncredited on their sites to show off the work of "Their Community".

People do make Wigglypaint modifications all the time, I've done it, my friends have done it! I've spent hours of my life teaching other artists how. But we're not trying to rip off our communities with these tiny changes. (And our tiny changes are still more than most of these sites will ever do. They just reupload an unchanged version 1.3 from when the program went viral and walk away.)

"Beware of Scams" is for us. The Artists. 

A lot of people are upset when they find out that the site they use or the app they bought was being deceptive about who did the work to create it because "Well, I want to support the creator..." was a major part of their decision to spend their time and money there.

Wigglypaint is free. But a lot of people have been misled so mystery scammers could make a quick buck. (And "well, it's technically legal for people to deceive you to get your cash" doesn't make it feel any better.)

Yippee, it's fun!

It's not currently possible... So, widgets can have one .pattern attribute at a time. In the case of basic buttons we have that one color + black (or whatever else you've changed pattern 1 to be).

But there's still some options to get the result you want.

If this happens to be a visual direction you like... it might be good to know that the black lines and the inside color swap locations if you set the button to have inverted visibility:

And then there are the "Make a button look like anything" options. 

The first one is to have the appearance of a button as an image on the surface of the card and place an invisible button on top of it.

Or, if you want your customized button to have a specific click animation... you could paste images of your ideal button inside of the animButton contraption and use that. (It's the second contraption in the linked post)

If you want to copy an image of a standard button, select it and use [Edit > Copy Image] in the menu. This will copy the appearance of the widget into an image on the clipboard that you can paste anywhere else, to edit it or use it for other purposes.

If one of these options sounds good but it's unclear how to do something, please let me know.

Thank you so much for checking it out!

Hmm! On Windows I'm able to export gifs normally, and as you said the web version is working fine... so it seems like there may be something more specific going on.

I'm curious about the error you got under Wine, if you're able to share that?

This was so cool! I love the characters.

1) The columns headers reorder all of the rows of the table according to the contents of their own column. In this case, they reorder everything alphabetically. It's just happens to switch the two rows in the tiny example.  I admit it's not super clear why the rows are are changing when all of the example words are so similar to each other... I might try to make things clearer in the future. Hmm!

2) Oops! There should be a button with a butterfly on it to unlock the phone, but it seems like all the phone buttons went missing....

Everything should be all fixed now! Thank you so much for commenting when you ran into a problem, I really appreciate it a lot!

Beautiful.

I will personally give Holly a dozen strawberries. This is so wonderful.

This was a jam project! Everything was drawn by hand and coded over about two weeks. 

I didn't have enough time left in the event to create a nice-feeling sound experience, so I just left it quiet.

No problem! :D

With the unlock deck shortcut (CTRL + U + L + D) sometimes I forget to hold a letter until the end and that's why it doesn't work on the first try for me. 

And if I had to guess about other hotkey difficulties people might have (not assuming in your case, just general advice):

Sometimes people aren't familiar with the "^c" notation in the menus. Where the ^ means "CTRL on Windows and Linux"/"CMD on mac"

Or if someone is using web decker, I believe some of the hotkeys are effectively blocked by web browsers because browsers use those shortcuts too and they take priority.

If you're having trouble/weirdness that don't seem related to any of that stuff then it might be worth making a bug report about it?

(Thank you to you as well for your inspiring presence in the indie web! cell culture is wonderful and it was so exciting to see it become part of indiepocalypse! )