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Yeah, to be honest it's complicated cause of the entertainment industry and the diaspora (and the state of the entertainment industries in Africa itself which you know is where most black majority cultures are). There just aren't a lot of black studios able to make work centered on black people in comparison to like white studios or studios from majority cultures (like Japan, Korea, etc) and you know, there's probably like a small amount of black mangaka in Japan, a very tiny amount which means the diversity of storytelling is lower. There's actually like a lot of studies on it and you might be interested in the movie genre of blaxploitation (which sounds horrifying but it's cool LOL)

While there are black people making fiction and things that I read, every time I see another black person in these spaces, it's like "holy shit HI." Outside of that, most of the black dominated works I read are not in this sphere.. Though I still enjoy it and it influences my work even if I can't talk about with anime loving peers lol.

Mmmm. The face thing. There are plenty of black anime artists who draw the typical anime face or draw Everyone with wide noses, but I rarely see just one or the other so it makes me uncomfortable when it's just something that needs to be applied to us. It's creepy to me also because white and Asian people are drawn the same in anime (and often other brown people too honestly), so I just feel like it's dehumanizing when pushed as an absolute rule just for Black People. Like I never have seen my lips as being particularly larger than my nonblack peers. I have a wide nose but I don't think about it a lot and plenty of black people don't so it's strange.

It's hard for me to figure out how to answer this admittedly. IRL culture is in every work and genre. It's just a lot of it is Western culture or medieval fantasy culture which is usually viewed as inherently white. I am attracted to Western settings so I put more effort into trying to make it clear white isn't the default in my worlds. I mention this but I also try to avoid a lot of ambiguous browness (though it is inevitable and sometimes i enjoy ambiguity. Sera from Meat Girl has a canon ethnicity in my mind lol, but I think it's kinda fun for people to draw her however).

To do this, I try write and design people with their relationships with their cultures and the cultures around them in mind even if I don't fully explore every aspect of it. It doesn't have to be IRL culture, but parallels to IRL culture tend to be in most work... A lot of my characters are also based on my friends from childhood and people I know now so I  like to bother my friends and as I learn more about them, I end up learning about their culture usually inevitably which ends up being incorporated into my writing and designs (usually I end up bugging them too ahah).

One thing to keep in mind is not including IRL cultural aspects can block out the existence of certain people. IE, there are people who only wear cultural clothing, Indian women who always wear bindis, etc. It's something I try to keep in mind designing too which is why Aiyana wears more traditional clothing in small subsections of the What Is It Like to Taste. It's something she used to do even if she doesn't anymore and it goes hand in hand with other things said in story despite not directly bringing up her culture by mouth so it's easy to miss (which is fine for me since I don't need every writing/design decision to be picked up on  by every single reader)

thank you so much for replaying! i really appreciate your kind words.. thank you for your continued kindness actually T_T <3

So beautiful! The poem itself and the use of wires and button and various materials. It's really the kind of aesthetic I enjoy and a mix of things that isn't used too often in crafts as cute as this I feel (<-- lolita speaking). Thank you for joining the jam Pilot!!

It’s because of a long history of black people being humanized. those depictions influence other regions in how they depict us which is why it’s an issue everywhere (simplification obvi but)!!! I’ve been waiting for Ichi the Witch to be further along but I’d like to read it! I’ve liked Desscares’ design for a long time!! I can check out the other as well!!

Thank you so much for reading this and enjoying my other works! It really means a lot!

Thank you for reading!!

Craig of the Creek originally had a section in this essay with art of the family and other concepts. It was included because I had a section dedicated to discourse around people not from minorities writing those minorites and how it affected Craig of the Creek in converssations online along with Craig of the Creek having some of the best depictions of black childhood I've ever seen while being fun.

I ended up removing it (somewhat regrettably) because there were other shows I felt like I wanted to mention by black and nonblack creators, but it all felt too tangential... but I love Craig of the Creek!

To the dollmaker clothes? You drag them onto the default images (or onto the nodes). You can copy paste the nodes in the old folders to make new ones if you’re unsure of how to make more. This will keep them in the same folder for context.

For the UI, you can also drag on images though you’ll have to mess with the nodes a bit

To be honest I wanted people to get confused and read them out of order haha! I want them to be able to be consumed however in whatever way is interesting!! I do plan too!! Eventually I will put all the episodes in one large build but I hope to keep releasing episodes- especially for jams (IE these got released for Noise Jam). I'm always chipping at Squid Girl World and have an episode amount in mind for when it's finally 'complete' :D Thank you so much for reading!! I am delighted!

So cool.. I understand!! This makes a lot of sense. I'd never heard of Clickteam. Thank you for the in depth description ^w^ 

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thank you so much! i totally forgot to respond. this means so much to me!! T_T 

YAY this makes me so happy.. so so sweet

yay!! you should!!

so cute ^w^ thank you for making Sera!!

So cute ^w^ And that's a-okay!! It's called girl maker but... everyone can make everyone ever

yes! i am curious how you put together making this if you do ever want to share or discuss  as it's something i'm interested in (´｡• ◡ •｡`) ♡ the use of gendered options is really good. i found myself wanting to make them twin but with differences in how they went about it!!! leather jackets would be cute! i love harnesses too.. i love all leather.. leather bows.. leather dresses.. i'm curious to see how the different wrinkles and fits will look on them hehe.

and ofc!! seeing you join and be interested earlier on was a delight!! arigatouu!!

they are so sweet. i found the abundance of clothing and layering options to be so sooo cute. i really adore how easy it is to manipulate the skirts and pants to your whim. i  really loved layering them in interesting ways. the outer layer options are all so cute too. i really could (and have) spent a lot of time creating combos in this.

using the small thumbnails for your dolls is so so smart.. also the hairs are all so cute. this has so much love. it really takes the oc approach of using a dollmaker to it's conclusion (using your dolls that you love very much <3)i also truly adore the rabbit headpiece.. i own one in real life..one of my favorite accessories truly!

you don't even know.. you don't even KNOW. I'LL BE BACK I HAVE MORE TO SAY AND MORE OUTFITS TO MAKE.. burger dress i've got my EYES ON YOU. 

Genuinely so interesting to play. It really took me back to 2013.. Reading and writing Creepypasta fanfiction. The reference to other Creepypasta got me really excited. I thought maybe we'd see the mansion or Jane or something haha! it also really did feel like the things i read back then.. but a bit more grown up. JTK being older, some of the humor, the state of the work itself. i really found it delightful and nostalgic. some of the extra touches like the muffin v sandwich made me laugh a lot... early 2010s will never come back but this did take me there for just a little while c:

This is an unranked jam.

Thank you for sharing your feelings with me.

i love u strange nurse bot girl

so awesome. i'm so impressed by you adding hex codes to the template.. so cool... also cutiemarks sniffles. so so cute.. i loveyou horse girl.

so so cute. the music is adorable and'm really happy to see you went for a halloween theme.. this haircut makes me extremely happy also.. thank you sm for submitting!

I loved it. Basicbean said everything I could say.. Fallout New Vegas is a good choice of game. Thank you for submitting!

genuinely so awesome and makes me soo nostalgic. i really hope you add more clothing items because i could honestly do this for hours. i find the idea of having multiple items that fit the characters differently to be really appealing (was unsure of how to do it in my own game so it's so cool to see you do it successfully!!)

for suggestions i am always up for the typical pastel goth affair and lots of leather items!! but it is already so delightful as it is now!!

This is so awseome. I'd play even more.. I love the text from the guys so much too. I was also surprised to see that you used the dollmaker template. I actually didn't even realize this was Godot at first HAHA. This is so so awesome.  MUSIC is SO GOOD too. 2015 was the last real year too, so this game is special for that too <3

really cool!! excited to see how this grows over time!!! many of the options remind me of family members so excited to see it grow :D

EE i happy you had fun. these are so fun.. the tie on the open skin. so good.

eee so cute sniffles.. you layered for eleanor so brilliantly.. they are always found in the fields.

It opens in a new window on laptop, but it's fine for me!!! In Itchio itself, you should be able to decrease the res manually if you want too also (it decreases the size of the game display frame!), but I think it's fine as is :D!

This link will submit your game! Thank you!!

soo so very cute!! this is adorable!! and an extra note!! the way to fix the hitboxes is by trimming the images!! XNConvert has a tool that can batch trim ^w^ !!! i had fun.. axe fairy!!

so so very cute!!!

i love you beautiful woman with scissors shirt that i am sure means nothing !!!!!!!!! really good wardrobe tysm for submitting!!!!

THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING.. i love cute.. girls..  the music is cute and i love use of parallaxes. visual language is so nice and the character designs are oh so cute!!! 

If you have any problems submitting and need any support, please just let us know in this thread!

I also don't mind submissions that are a little bit late!!! This jam is for fun and I don't want anyone's hard work to go to waste!!! I can totally work things out with you- please just let me know here!