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Next After Cooking With a Wolf

 Hello. C J here. I’m finally done the roughly nine years of work I put into Cooking With a Wolf. It’s just the page borders and front cover art left to do and I know what I want for those. The deadline is Pride next June or even the following September for ComiCon. I’m thinking that food for gamers and game designers will go over well there. Also the price will probably be more like $10 CAD seeing how little it will cost to print in both resources and time.

Now for what’s next. I’ve wrapped up a project so it’s time to speed up another one. Also, Bluesky is going well and I can see a spike in views here since posting there yesterday. That’s fast even for a fast social media platform. It’s time to really focus on the next game I want done, Quantum Starter Set. I also want this gender inclusive and educational card game done soon so I can play test it. I don’t draw on weekends so I’ll resume working full time on the card art next week, tomorrow on Monday.

I’ve made a list of all the ingredient cards I need for the gems that pay for cards you play. I also have 28 character images left to draw. Two are done so far. Here’s the fun part. I think I’m developing a reputation on Bluesky for doing self-hypnosis themed furry art, mostly pinups of my characters. I want all of the item and character cards to have a free to download pinup alternate version for the adults in my audience. This should be really fun to draw, showing off how actually good looking all my characters are. The art will be on Bluesky as I finish it and also in a folder somewhere in the downloads link.

The ingredients are mostly food that I know how to draw. Things get more interesting when I consider the item and characters. In particular the starting weapons and armour need to have pinup versions. These items are magic in the game and also come with small ‘spells’ on the cards, which are really very simple self-hypnosis commands. I need to draw these and what they do in pinup form. The food won’t get this treatment because it doesn’t need to. I also want to depict my characters showing off what they consider their most attractive features. My characters should get to like the way they look.

The equipment cards for the Quantum Starter Set are in the gem colour Ruby, which is for elemental magic and most crafted goods. The theme for Ruby in terms of social and romance plots is consent based hierarchy relationships. I have no idea how crafted goods made out of mostly metal or cloth and elemental magic have anything to do with consent and dominance as a lifestyle preference. I know though that there is amazing magic contained in the word ‘yes’ and that the brain knows to do anything the person running that brain says ‘yes’ to strongly. It will do what it’s told forever if it agrees to doing it once. Past here it’s new game design and new ideas. Here's the final image for sugar.

C J Mcpherson



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