Vix

Hi Tmra! I might have work for you - feel free to reach out on Discord! mae0107

Hello!

I have room for one additional google ad client. My services include creating google ad images along with creating + maintaining new google ads. Clients will be responsible for the ad campaign cost, which is separate from my services.

I am currently working with Xanje + @wynnyelle and have had fantastic results! Feel free to reach out via discord to discuss site needs - mae0107

Sorry Mew! I have no idea as these were purchased 6+ years ago.

As a site owner, I cannot imagine policing discussion of other games. It is silly to think anyone is 100% loyal to a single game or that there aren't ways to find new games.

Bump! We are hiring again to meet our ever growing needs for art. Please DM or reach out via discord to apply!

Do you mean something like this?

https://coolors.co/image-picker

I LOVE all of these updates! Here is a cool FB group that may be a good outlet to share these dev updates -

https://www.facebook.com/groups/479744962645363

There's quite a few of Red Dead players on there, which reminds me of Horse Fable ?

We are fully funded!

Thank you all for your support and feedback! This has been such a thrilling campaign and we are so excited to announce the Celestial Equine Breed Book is 103% funded with 10 more days to go.

We are now hard at work finalizing our cover artwork (various cleaning, balancing the design), sticker designs, and analyzing our samples to select our final printer. If all goes to plan, we will be placing our order of 500 coloring books at the end of September with an expected shipping to backers beginning in November. Additionally, we have began the artwork for our second edition of the Celestial Equine Breed Book! The second edition includes the remaining 50 CE breeds that did not make it into the edition one ?

I will post an additional update here as soon as I get my sticker samples in!

Here is our 20 page lineup! Cant wait to share more!

Happy Friday!

Our Kickstarter campaign has officially been selected as a "project we love" by Kickstarter staff! This is very, very exciting and will hopefully help us gain more organic backers from the Kickstarter community.

We have also finished 20 out of 50 linearts as of today! This has been such a fun process and it is like Christmas every time I open a new lineart file. Here is a preview of the breeds completed this week!

In addition to the three new breeds completed, I have started making side by side comparison graphics pairing a breed book lineart with its in-game art. I started with the Klaud today since it is a personal spooky favorite of mine. Lastly, I do want to mention the physical coloring book will arrive in time for the holidays *wink wink* !

Thanks for reading! I will post a lineup of all 20 linearts later on this weekend ?

On 8/8/2021 at 9:58 AM, judda said:

I gave it to my nephew to colour today

Exceptional color placement! He did a great job ?

Hello again!

We have officially concluded our first week of fundraising and are 20% to goal! This has been such an outstanding start. To celebrate I am sharing 1 instant download coloring page for the TGL community. Feel free to share what you have colored!

2 hours ago, TonyWatkinsArt said:

Yeah, I backed this. The line art for these is really nice. I'm wondering if Ell did it or if they hired on another artist. Whoever it was, they did a really fantastic job.

Yes - Ella completed our lines! She has done a fantastic job and I am completely blown by with her versatility!

Thank you @TonyWatkinsArt and @judda! I will be sharing a page here shortly for TGL members to enjoy.

Hello everyone!

We have officially launched our exciting Kickstarter campaign to bring the beauty of Celestial Equine to life through producing a coloring book suitable for all ages. In order to ensure this fun coloring book arrives in time for the holidays, we made the decision to release our Breed Book in two editions. This 50-page coloring book will serve as edition 1 of the Celestial Equine Breed book. We hope to release an edition 2 and other themed coloring books in the near future!

For this run, we have selected 50 of our favorite CE original breeds to reimagine as a beautiful lineart style version suitable for coloring.

Official Book Specifications:

- 100gsm paper
- Perforated
- Soft touch cover with foil stamping
- Single sided pages

The Breed Book is available in both print and digital versions to ensure artists can enjoy this book regardless of their preferred medium. We cannot wait to see what beautiful art comes from this book! In addition to the coloring book, we are also releasing a variety of stickers to accompany the print edition. I will post previews of these fun stickers in a few days as we are still waiting for our samples to arrive. However - the photo previews are fantastic!

I will post regular updates here with additional previews of the coloring book as we approach completion as well as exclusive previews of our sample books!

Check out the campaign here!

40 minutes ago, CynicalRaptor said:

@Vix - Thanks so much for the recommendation! I’m a guy too, but it’s a fair mistake! ?

*wears the dunce cap*

11 minutes ago, TonyWatkinsArt said:

Haha! I can attest to CE's forums being active. With the art requests, forum games, and general convo you got a poppin' community on there. I guess I hadn't really thought about just how much people used the forums, even in hand with your Discord.

Another great option would be to join similar games to see how active their forums are. Other horse games such as Horse Reality, Equiverse, etc have very active forums so I take that as confirmation that players feel the need to have them for interactive purposes. Id say only 25% of CE's active players use the Discord but that will vary from game to game.

This is a pretty straight forward answer! Just based on the google analytics of CE, the forums are consistently one of the most heavily accessed area (in the top 20 most visited pages). I imagine this statistic is pretty similar across the board on other games. I do feel that Discord is a fad integration and it would be detrimental for any game if this platform "went down" without any backup communication source (forums).

I highly recommend @CynicalRaptor! HE has produced fantastic item assets for Celestial Equine.

Wow - these are really nice! I would snatch them up if they were in my site's style!

I am always looking for more artists for Celestial Equine! I will shoot you a message.

I can’t wait to contribute to this! It’s so nice to see TGL getting some exposure. I know without these forums I would not have found freelancers to make my game possible. 

Celestial Equine will be running its own fundraiser to donate to this cause - woohoo! I will post pictures of our fundrainer companions soon. 

EDIT - our fundraiser is live!

https://celestialequine.com/creditstore?section=4&spotlightID=26

Hello everyone!

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Many game owners encounter invalid traffic concerns due to the quick-click nature of browser games which is somewhat unavoidable. My own browser game was "under review" 1-2 weeks each month, which was a huge hit to our steadily increasing Adsense revenue! I recently stumbled upon a service called Traffic Cop which has totally turned everything around. This service integrates a combination of "lazy loading" (only loading an ad when a user is actually viewing the ad space) and blocks potential invalid traffic with a reCAPTCHA feature. I was very hesitant to integrate this feature knowing reCAPTCHA would pop up from time to time, but only two players have mentioned having submit verification.

Long story short, I highly recommend this service for game owners experiencing significant losses due to being flagged for suspected invalid traffic. Here's a screenshot of the dashboard for those of you who are curious!

This service runs $99 a month and worth every penny ?

3 hours ago, Blondie said:

Rather than apologizing or stopping he's taken the time to change his offline status to this.

At this point you are just perpetuating the drama. It seems like you got what you wanted? Agreed to pay the owed $7 and is stepping away from the game. 

Bumping this again!

Our current head artist is booked out for the next two months with player custom orders, so it is time to bring on a few more artists to fulfill player custom orders! If interested please reach out on discord

Still looking for a long-term dev! Hourly rate of $40-$50 depending on the project, working on a feature by feature basis.