{"id":5418,"date":"2025-03-13T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2025-03-13T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:21:11","slug":"feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/13\/feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling frisky tonight, fellas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a scene in &#8216;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&#8217; when Eddie Valiant pulls out his Toon Town revolver case and the bullets inside remark how Eddie&#8217;s been absent for 5 years and ask where he&#8217;s been.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drunk.&#8221; he replies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - &quot;Drunk&quot; - Bob Hoskins\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_29bTC2rXP4?start=41&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just realized that I haven&#8217;t made an entry in <em>months<\/em> and while I can&#8217;t claim Eddie Valiant&#8217;s excuse; I haven&#8217;t exactly been in the best of places. Certainly the election threw me and when my wife was laid off from the job she just started 2 years ago &#8211; it put things in a dark place and once again, game dev ground to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>And like December of &#8217;23 &#8211; I had put off posting about my experiences showcasing my game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamecleveland.com\/\">Cleveland Gaming Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5418-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"843\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2024-09-21-102536376-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2024-09-21-102536376-1.mp4\">https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2024-09-21-102536376-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>What was neat this time around was I had a couple of superfans who came back to play my demo multiple times, offered tons of suggestions, feedback and of course- loved collecting stickers each time they played.<\/p>\n<p>One even went so far as to draw me a character he thought would be an excellent addition to the game:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5424\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240921_110755-scaled-e1741874177520-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"kids drawing of a green, one eyed monster labeled 'Brian the Monster'\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240921_110755-scaled-e1741874177520-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240921_110755-scaled-e1741874177520-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240921_110755-scaled-e1741874177520-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240921_110755-scaled-e1741874177520-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240921_110755-scaled-e1741874177520-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240921_110755-scaled-e1741874177520.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fan art character, &#8216;Brian the monster&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Which, sadly, I have to file with the others I&#8217;ve gotten over the years &#8211; I just can&#8217;t risk having a lawsuit down the road of some irate parent thinking their child&#8217;s art is worthy of a lawsuit or digital copyright takedown notice.<\/p>\n<p>What it DID inspire was the thought that when I launch a Kickstarter or GoFundMe project, one of the top tier perks for high end donations is to have the child of the donor submit a drawing for a character (or prop) to be included in the game. My novelization of Booper&#8217;s adventures includes a ton of wild and colorful (literally) characters and while my kiddo has provided plenty, the more I have to work with, the more expansive and inclusive my game can become.<\/p>\n<p>Quick gallery of 2024 CGC:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5418 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/13\/feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas\/20240920_192957\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240920_192957-scaled-e1741874581576-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5421\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5421'>\n\t\t\t\tmy youngest, acting as booth critic and playtester\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/13\/feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas\/20240920_194146\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240920_194146-scaled-e1741874603509-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5422\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5422'>\n\t\t\t\tBeen enjoying our local brewery who make a special batch for CGC\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/13\/feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas\/20240921_104435\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240921_104435-scaled-e1741874654346-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5423\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5423'>\n\t\t\t\tMe in my element\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/13\/feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas\/20240922_123421\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240922_123421-scaled-e1741874675602-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5425\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5425'>\n\t\t\t\tLove the awards they give to devs!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/13\/feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas\/20240922_154137\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240922_154137-scaled-e1741874694334-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5426\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5426'>\n\t\t\t\tAnother superfan bought this for me!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/13\/feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas\/award2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/award2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"various photos of CGC\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5427\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5427'>\n\t\t\t\tanother busy show!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I do love that I&#8217;ve won multiple awards for Sound &#8211; and I think its something I need to lean into more, not only using my kiddo&#8217;s vocalizations for both music cues and sound effects, but to upgrade my audio to some of the more professional platforms, like <a href=\"https:\/\/assetstore.unity.com\/packages\/tools\/audio\/fmod-for-unity-2-02-161631\">FMOD &#8211; which I see in just about every game<\/a>, and &#8211; to be honest; I didn&#8217;t realize was free is revenue is less than 100K.<\/p>\n<p>Terrific, something else I gotta learn.<\/p>\n<p>The other big news was that I was featured in The Toledo Blade, in an article by Lillian King, who had found me and asked if I would be interested in being interviewed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5428\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-13-101822-300x177.png\" alt=\"Online newspaper article about my game\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-13-101822-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-13-101822-1024x605.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-13-101822-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-13-101822.png 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is twice I&#8217;ve been on the news!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seeing just how much I did over the past year &#8211; its given me reason to do more here. Which is good, because I&#8217;ll have some big news next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a scene in &#8216;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&#8217; when Eddie Valiant pulls out his Toon Town revolver case and the bullets inside remark how Eddie&#8217;s been absent for 5 years and ask where he&#8217;s been. &#8220;Drunk.&#8221; he replies. I just realized that I haven&#8217;t made an entry in months and while I can&#8217;t claim Eddie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/13\/feeling-frisky-tonight-fellas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feeling frisky tonight, fellas?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}