trailer
no problem about the dragons willow! I'm happy to do them <3

storyline checkpoints
I like that idea! That'll also kind of check campers so that all of their dragons develop closer to the same rate instead of one camper unlocking everything in a week and a half lol.

the system
I agree with y'all that limited is more realistic, but like Willow said it's ultimately about the campers having a good experience, and limited would also mean that any backup campers would have less options to choose from. If there was one color of dragon that was wildly popular for some reason, we could gently suggest that campers pick another color, but leave it up to them in the end.
I think having a separate Training Yard project is a good idea; that way we can group all the unlocking in one place instead of three. I feel like it'll be easier to keep track that way.

currency
So if I understand correctly we would have currency, health, and bond, and you would have to collect currency to unlock abilities but spend currency to gain health and bond with your dragon. (correct me if I'm wrong lol I want to make sure I know how it works)
This looks fine to me, we'll just want to keep the math in mind. Here's an example that assumes a camper earns 5 currency every time they complete a daily and 10 every time they complete a weekly, and that each camper is moving directly from one level to the next without spending anything extra (these numbers are just for the example ofc):
10 currency ➵ Flight (10 health needed) ➵ Total camper would have to earn: 15 currency (1 weekly and 1 daily OR 3 dailies)
20 currency ➵ Banner ➵ TCWHTE: 10 currency (1 weekly OR 2 dailies)
30 currency ➵ Fire-breathing (20 health needed) ➵ TCWHTE: 15 currency (1 weekly and a daily OR 3 dailies)
40 currency ➵ Matching pfp ➵ TCWHTE: 10 currency (1 weekly OR 2 dailies)
50 currency ➵ Dragonriding (30 bond needed) ➵ TCWHTE: 30 currency (3 weeklies OR 6 dailies)
Total amount of currency camper would have to earn: 65
This isn't a perfect model due to the lack of variables (I only included two combinations as options, when in reality it'll probably be a much more varied), but based on this campers will either need to do 4 weeklies and 5 dailies OR 13 dailies to unlock everything.
That seems fair enough to me, but what do you guys think? (also, i think my math is off somewhere but i can't find where–if you notice an error anywhere lmk so i can fix it haha)
Also, what should we call our currency? We bounced a few ideas around earlier but didn't come to a conclusion before having to break off and focus on the cabin setup stuff. Since we used the scales for our symbol, we'll probably want to pick something else to represent our currency.

dragons
I was thinking that when a camper unlocked a new capability one of us would tell them what their dragon had earned and then let them imagine how it looked, but that's just my idea; does anyone else have any suggestions?
and since i can be pretty bad at explaining things sometimes lol here's an example of what I was thinking:

Camper: (fills out form to level up their dragon)

Leader: as you play with your dragon, you notice something new–your dragon has started sprouting fuzzy bunny slippers on their feet! congratulations on unlocking the fuzzy bunny slipper feet.

obviously the dragons won't be sprouting fuzzy bunny slippers (unless…unless…hang on im getting an idea ill explain it in a bit cant get sidetracked now), but that's kind of what i was imagining for unlocking stuff.

fuzzy bunny slippers
this is a VERY tentative idea but what if we had silly easter eggs campers could find through like puzzles or something? the first x number of campers to solve the puzzle each week would get something random and probably silly for their dragon (like glittery teeth or, yes, fuzzy bunny slippers) and each camper could only receive an easter egg once. the easter eggs wouldn't really add anything to the dragon's capabilities they would just be fun “side quests” of a sort.
like i said this idea is very tentative and we definitely don't have to include it but it popped into my head so i thought i'd share it lol

fuzzy bunny slippers
Firstly, this is beautiful and perfect in every way.

I actually really like the sound of this xDD the only issue is we'd have to make puzzles - which is fine, I'm just wondering whether we'll have enough time and mental energy to create those. We should definitely bookmark this idea - I just think it might be better to flesh out the ideas and basic, main things we need to do, then see how much we can devote to these side quests xD

dragons
Hmm - I was picturing that there would be a matching pfp system - maybe people are riding a dragon in the pfp? Again, I have no idea how complicated that would be (I'd imagine you'd only need to recolour the dragon per pfp and change up the skin tone, clothes colour and hairstyle/colour for the person).

Actually, this brings me to a new idea. What if we had a “dragon creator” thing?

People would switch around parts of a dragon – colour of dragons, types of wings, kind of horns, eye colour, saddle colour etc. – and choose the one they liked. A variable could be tracking each different part of the dragon. Again, I have no idea how hard this would be, Chuey - but I'd imagine that the base of the dragon would be the same, and all you'd have to worry about is redrawing the horns (?) and wings (?) and recolouring each little part. I'd be happy to code the “dragon creator”!

People would then be able to check the variable number by pressing a certain key, and they could fill out a form. For example:

Form for my dragon! Eye Colour #: 3 // Wing Type #: 2 // Dragon Base Colour #: 1 // Saddle Colour #: 4 // Horn Type #: 1

Using this form, I could input the different variables to find the exact kind of dragon this person had created. I could then combine this into screenshots, and maybe share it in a project called: “The Dragon Stables” or “The Dragon Cove”, where people would be able to see all the different dragons?

Again, if that makes no sense, sounds too hard, you have a suggestion or if you don't like the idea itself - let me know ^^

currency
I think we talked about something like “soulfire” or something that the “evil dragons” (we really need a name for them pfft) had taken away from the good dragons, making them injured. We could call the currency “soulfire”, since camper swill use it to restore a dragon's health, but do y'all have any ideas?

Here are potential symbols we could use: ☄ ◈ ∾ ღ ≬ (apparently the last one is a maths symbol LOL)

That model is really smart Chuey :00 We should probs decide the value of doing certain tasks. Here's what I'm thinking:

Dailies | 5 currency
Weeklies | 10 currency
50% of word goal | 15 currency
Completed word goal | 25 currency
Entered Writing Comp | 20 currency
Critiquarie | 5 currency
Word War (won or lost) | 5 currency

Guilds
Circling back to the guild names, I kind of like the idea of different parts.

“Guild of Heart” - a guild of trusting your instincts, working as a group to fight.
“Guild of Mind” - a guild valuing logic and your own wit to best your opponent in a battle.
“Guild of Claw” - a guild that believes in developing their individual strengths and force.

We could po-tentially…? name it something like that…? i'm a bit iffy about the names themselves, but what do you guys think about the little blurb and belief beside the guilds?

trailer
thanks! just let me know which scenes you want to draw or which ones i should do, i'm flexible either way. are we aiming to do what amethyst suggested? if so i'm happy with that! - also with that idea are we thinking of going for a voice-over or some music? because i'm happy to find or create one of those

currency
i do have to admit i do find the currency and health/bond system a little confusing, is there any easier way we could approach this as i'm cautious that the campers might also be confused, or may not have enough to to buy health and bond - although i've been looking through signups and fantasy has been listed a lot - so that might mean more camper activity.

EDIT: just re-read everything, and i'm not as confused anymore which is good, and i'm fine with the system we just need to make it clear what to do. just to make sure i'm fully understand this correctly its that: campers don't need to spend currency for anything but health and bond which they buy - just also saw this is what chuey said, so amethyst please correct me if we're wrong

the model also looks great! should we maybe make the value for weeklies higher so campers will feel more encouraged to do them? same with the writing comp? - also soulfire is a really cool name and i'm absolutely obsessed with it, so i'm good with having it as a name if everyone else likes it.

if we go with soulfire this symbol would be great for it: ☄

just an updated version of what i meant for reference (we don't need to change it tho)
Dailies | 5 currency
Weeklies | 15 currency
50% of word goal | 15 currency
Completed word goal | 25 currency
Entered Writing Comp | 25 currency
Critiquarie | 5 currency
Word War (won or lost) | 5 currency

fuzzy bunny slippers
i do love this idea! but i do agree with amethyst, but it sounds super cool!

dragons
instead of the profile pic your first suggest with the person and dragon - which would probably be super time consuming, as even normal pfps take me a considerable amount of time to complete, - i think your idea of a dragon creator would be so cool! like it could be used as ones profile pic as well;

i'm also able to code it if needed, and can make it so the campers can create it, instead of one of us needing to do so, which is more work for us, and we could be spending time on the storyline instead of that, it could be done by variable like you suggested, but would involve the campers doing it - i could also make it so they can have save code, so that by the end of each week, we could go see the new dragons and then put them in a project like you suggested

or if we wanted to do it where we made it for them - in turn we could mix chuey's idea with one of us telling them what the dragon would look like after a upgrade with this, and we could edit or add the - for example - fluffy bunny slippers on the dragon and send them a link! which could be cool! - please let me know if that doesn't make sense…

guilds
I like the beliefs and blurbs a lot, the names however i'm on the same boat as you, i can't exactly think of a name right now, but will come back to you with this.

we could also have the campers take a test to be sorted into such guilds? or should we not, i feel like it be cool that way, but in turn would need to make sure each guild has approx the same amount of campers, we could also make it like a quiz and it gives them a number, that only we know the meaning too, so that we we can still change them around if needed.. i'm happy to do something like this if it interests you both

fuzzy bunny slippers
alr sounds good! we can always return to it if/when we have everything else polished up and we're ready to focus on something new

dragons
ooh these are some really good ideas! I love the suggestion of having a dragon creator–that would definitely be easier than drawing every single one by hand. For upgrades, what if instead of only giving campers a description, we gave them a project code that they could copy+paste to unlock new features (if that makes sense)? That way all they'd have to do was click a button or something and enter the code.
I'm down for coding as well! Should we split up who codes what?
As a side note, I think a fullbody base would be good for the creator part, and when the camper was done it would switch over to a pfp-sized headshot base filled in with the correct colors and whatnot. We can use the variables to “translate” the features of the dragon onto the headshot, if that makes sense (lmk if it makes sense/you have any questions haha).

currency
I like soulfire/☄ !
I also think the idea of bumping up the weekly and writing comp entry values is a nice one; a little extra motivation never hurt Everything here looks good!

guilds
The blurbs and beliefs look great to me! Here are some name ideas I brainstormed:

The Guild of Arrows (referring to how they fight together, like a quiver of arrows)
The Guild of Swords (referring to how they keep their mind sharp and precise)
The Guild of Hammers (referring to how they value strength and force)

The Guild of Scale (referring to how they work as a unit to protect each other)
The Guild of Wing (referring to how their thinking is quick and agile)
The Guild of Claw (I don't think I need to explain this one LOL)

The Guild of Rain (referring to how they work like raindrops–individuals coming together to create something bigger)
The Guild of Flame (referring to how they're as fast and ever-shifting as fire)
The Guild of Stone (referring to how they're as solid and inevitable as rock)

What do y'all think of these, and do you have any more name ideas?
I'm not sure about the tests, as like Willow said, we want the guilds to have an even distribution–maybe we could sort by word goal? For example, if we had 9 people (ik the actual count will almost certainly be higher lol this is just to make it easy math) and there were 3 people with a high goal, 3 people with a medium goal, and 3 people with a low goal, we could put 1 person from each category in each WCG. Assuming that everyone hit their word goal, this would kinda even out the word-adding workload. Idk whatever system works best for y'all is fine with me tbh XD

trailer
Willow, if you wanted to take 2 and 5 on Amethyst's list, I'd be happy to do the others. Those two look like they can be drawn without dragons (and ofc if you have different preferences just let me know! I'm super flexible <3 you could also do the background of one of the dragon ones and then I could fill in the dragons, if you'd rather do it that way)

The Guilds
Sleep deprived Amethyst last night had a pen and a notepad, and so thought of a bunch of names for our guild

The Seeker's Guild
The Keeper's Guild
The Fire Guild (arson guild :eyes
The Aviation Guild

I'd be happy to sort the WCGs equally! I also think that if we have a particular person in our cabin that we want in our WCG - whether it be because of friendship or other things - you should let me know, so I can sort accordingly <3 we won't have to worry about this until we get our camper lists much later this month, though!

I love those names, Chuey! I'm just wondering whether we should have our guilds keep a structure like the above ones, since I think it's a little smoother? Then again- what sounds better and smoother for you guys?

Currency
Yay soulfire

I thought that spending the soulfire to get health and bond might be a better idea - but then again, it might be less confusing to just have it all be unlocked in order…? Since we've decided the currency is soulfire, it probably makes more sense in terms of the storyline to not be able to buy anything, and instead unlock things as you go along. As we decided before, soulfire represents the dragon's power, strength and all of that, which would probably apply to their strength. Helping out the dragon would probably help the camper's bond with it, kind of defeating the purpose of getting stuff to bond with the dragon - logically. It also would be less confusing for calculating what a camper should have unlocked if they go back in soulfire amount.

At the same time, we do want fantasy to be as fun as possible. So would you guys prefer to be able buy medicine and food and all of that, or would you prefer to unlock it as you go along?

Here's an example of the system if we unlocked things as we went along.

05 soulfire ➵ +10 health to dragon (we could make it more storyline-and-fancy sounding)
10 soulfire ➵ Flight
20 soulfire ➵ Banner
25 soulfire ➵ +10 health to dragon
30 soulfire ➵ Fire-breathing
40 soulfire ➵ Matching pfp
50 soulfire ➵ +10 bond
60 soulfire ➵ +10 bond
70 soulfire ➵ +10 bond
80 soulfire ➵ Dragonriding****

**** yay i hope you saw the asteriks. anyways, in the original version, dragonriding needed 30 bond, because it's a pretty influential ability that basically changes the whole game for the campers - since they can now fly away from the island - and therefore i figured it should cost a lot. however, i think it would be pretty weird to suddenly jump in soulfire amount? also the whole random bond thing suddenly being the only next 3 nodes for a while feels weird. we could always do something like this:

30 soulfire ➵ Fire-breathing
40 soulfire ➵ Matching pfp
80 soulfire ➵ Dragonriding

we could also always put things in between, add more abilities and things to unlock etc. again i went on a bit of a rant sob sorry- if you need me to summarise this or say it in another way, lmk!

Dragons
when you say save code, that's what i meant aha- so the campers would be able to see the thing they liked, save it in a code, and post it in the comments so we know what kind of dragon they liked? i think we should also ask for permission from the campers whether we can put their name and dragon in the project, just in case they don't feel comfortable doing it <33

i also like the sound of the project code! we could ask them to share an updated version of their dragon's looks if they like it, and if they don't, they just don't have to do anything ;D

tentative suggestion, but could we perhaps have hu…mans? in the character creator? so the campers themselves are included…? i can already tell that would be way harder to do, and it definitely isn't essential, so if you guys don't like the sound of it, or it sounds like too much work, let me know- i'm not too invested in this idea yet anyhow XD

Since a lot of the dragony thingies will be done by Chuey, Willow I was wondering whether you'd like to be in charge of art-ing (aka drawing) the background?

Trailer
I was kind of considering doing a voice-over for our trailer. Would any of you guys be interested in doing it? I hate hearing my own voice, but if neither of you are comfortable or want to share your voice on scratch, I can definitely try hearing how it sounds ^^

I think to represent injured dragons in a PG way, we could have normal, healthy dragons have glowing small hovering fire around them? Then the injured dragons would have lost all that fire, they could have minor injuries like small cuts or injured wings etc..

Two more things <33

Firstly, for the WCGs thumbnails, I'm picturing that we have something a little more like what Dystopian has - check out their Beast Division WCG studio - for our Guilds, rather than something similar to our fantasy cabin thumbnail? just because “guild” gives more vibes of an emblem and symbols, rather than a landscape. what do you guys think?

Secondly, I reckon we should have leader introductions. This will live in it's own section in the fantasy cabin I'd suggest having something from 200-250 characters, but if you want to go over or under, that's fine! Here's mine (I'll edit it though):

Hi! I'm Amethyst, a Swiftie, Christian and dog person with a puppy (who's not quite a puppy anymore) named Koko! I've co-led two SWC cabins, but this will be my first session as a leader, and I'm so excited to start this session off <3

the dragons
i'm happy with the save code ideas! i do think we should split up who code it, is there any way we could like take turns downloading code to do this? like on alt accounts share a project and we could like update it with code by downloading someone elses and sharing it again? i think that would be the best way to do it, it involves no sharing of accounts and could be easier i guess?

i'm more than happy to do a background, what are you thinking for it? as for the humans, i'd say it may be a bit too hard, we could certainly try to, but it might be hard with all the save codes and all - unless we do a dragon creator and ALSO a pfp creator? or we could find a way to bundle it all up if needed - lmk if that doesn't make sense.

guilds
now that i actually think about it, the tests are probably not the best thing to do, so apologies for that ahah.

for the names, i like when they had like a blurb and what their beliefs were, it was really cool - I really like chueys 1st & 2nd ideas, as well as amethyst's original idea -

Amethyst-animation wrote:

love those names, Chuey! I'm just wondering whether we should have our guilds keep a structure like the above ones, since I think it's a little smoother? Then again- what sounds better and smoother for you guys?

really sorry but could you just clarify what structure you mean? like was it the ones you listed just above that or the ones with blurbs, so sorry <33

currency
I really like the idea of unlocking things, it's a little less stress free, and easier for campers! But I think it is also quite nice for campers to buy things on the side, it could be optional and may not contribute to much except for special things in the dragon creator thing, like we could add accesories you could buy with it - and we give them a special code to access such accesories! it might be fun for campers?

also should we also increase the amount for dragon riding, because 80 does seem a little low considering our revised version of the amount of soulfire you earn, and we don't want campers finishing within the first two or three weeks.

trailer
i'm happy to do the voice over if no one else wants too- like i do hate the way my voice sounds on recording but it's ok, i can do it if needed :)

wcg thumbs
I like that idea! Symbols looks so cool, I could even draw our symbols to give them more uniqueness if you'd like that? Once we decide the guilds names and beliefs, i'd be happy to do so! love the idea!

intros

Nice to meet you! I'm Willow, your co-leader for this session. I cannot live without music, i'm a diehard billie fan and a trombonist who plays many other instruments too! I also love reading and writing, my fav book series being the hunger games series! Other interests of mine include cinematography, debating and art! I'd love to have a chat with anyone, so feel free to pop on to my profile to chat at anytime!

guilds
You're right, that does sound much smoother! also ARSON GUILD BAHAHAHAHA I WANT THAT ONE /jj What theme are you thinking would be good? Amethyst, I like your keeper & seeker suggestion–here are some options I thought of for a third name:
. discoverer
. creeper (not my fave but it fits the word structure of the other two lol)
. finder
my personal favorite so far is keeper (the guild of the strong), seeker (the guild of the quick), and discoverer (the guild of the impulsive/instinctive)
we could also rearrange some of my previous suggestions to fit the smoother format, or go with an entirely different combination–whatever works for y'all! <3
for the wcg thumbs, I think having symbols sounds great! Once we settle on names we can decide what kind of symbol we want for each thumb.

currency
honestly, I think it's less confusing to only unlock things–it's kind of hard to mix and match styles of currency because it's harder to keep track of. however, it would be fun to unlock accessories, so maybe we can find out a different way for campers to do that–perhaps if they do a certain numbers of dailies or weeklies they can unlock “extras” without having to spend currency.

I agree with Willow about bumping up the unlocking levels, since we bumped up the soulfire. What if we had something along these lines?

week 1
10 ☄ ➵ +10 health
25 ☄ ➵ +10 bond
20 ☄ ➵ flight
week 2
30 ☄ ➵ matching pfp (I swapped the banner and pfp because I feel like it's more fun to be able to earn the pfp quickly, so you can match the cabin–we can decide whether to keep it that way or not ofc)
40 ☄ ➵ +10 bond
50 ☄ ➵ fire-breathing
week 3
60 ☄ ➵ banner/maybe forum signature??
70 ☄ ➵ +10 health
80 ☄ ➵ +10 bond
week 4
100 ☄ ➵ dragonriding

if we did it that way campers would either have to do 20 dailies or 4 weeklies and 8 dailies to unlock everything, and if we divide it up to where you can only unlock things once it's their week (or after) then they wouldn't be able to achieve everything in only 2 weeks lol. Using this schedule, there's only one thing you can unlock during week 4 (unless we decide to add something else) but since it's such a major event and there's going to be other plot things going on I doubt anyone will be having to sit around twiddling their thumbs XD

dragons
I actually really like the idea of having separate pfp creators and dragon creators; as well as that of having a project to store people's dragons. If we had a separate dragon creator that would also fix the complication of displaying all the features AND being pfp friendly.

Which brings us to the question: what specific features do we want for the dragons? Green, blue, pink, and orange all fit with Fantasy's palette, and (I can't remember if we discussed this previously–we might have, but my brain is silly and good at forgetting things pfft) I think three is probably a good number of different varieties–if that's okay with y'all, which three colors would be good?

Wings will probably be present from the start but only become usable once flight is unlocked, and I was thinking horns (if we had them) would probably be there in the basic form too, although maybe they'd be smaller and stubbier. Once dragons start gaining soulfire back and fire-breathing is unlocked, maybe their horns could grow out and get all fancy, and once dragonriding is unlocked perhaps they could gain some kind of special ability based on either the type of dragon or the guild the camper is in. These are all just suggestions ofc, and I'd love some feedback on them <33

As for the code, we could all download our code into alt account/old projects and then whoever was sharing the project the code was for could go backpack the sprite(s) and then un-backpack them into the project. To keep each other notified of when new code was added, the person collecting the code could comment on the project with something random and then the person coding could reply to it to ping them whenever there was code to pick up, if that makes sense.

trailer
Unfortunately, I don't believe my parents would be too happy with me sharing my voice on scratch–my apologies :')) However, I'm more than happy to help with whatever else I can <33

leader intro

Hey y'all! I'm Chuey, a homeschooled Christian who loves causing chaos My hobbies include reading, writing, art, and, of course, SWC! This is my first time coleading and I'm beyond delighted that I'll get to fly away on an epic journey with you guys this session <3

Currency
I def agree with not having too many currencies. sob at the same time i think that it would be harder for campers to keep track of how many dailies and weeklies they've done. what if we had a “redeem ticket” or something that they could unlock at a certain point in the - let's call it soulfire ability tree? they could use this ticket to upgrade their dragon - like making their horns all fancy and stuff. i'm not sure what to call it so i'm feeling uncreative and calling it a soul upgrade ticket for now. what do you guys think?

by the way- I love the system you came up with, Chuey!

week 1
10 ☄ ➵ +10 health
20 ☄ ➵ flight
25 ☄ ➵ +10 bond
30 ☄ ➵ soul upgrade ticket
week 2
35 ☄ ➵ matching pfp
40 ☄ ➵ +10 bond
50 ☄ ➵ soul upgrade ticket
60 ☄ ➵ fire-breathing
week 3
65 ☄ ➵ banner
70 ☄ ➵ +10 health
75 ☄ ➵ soul upgrade ticket
80 ☄ ➵ +10 bond
week 4
100 ☄ ➵ dragonriding

Guild
Oh I see how that's confusing aha xD By structure, I meant “The xx's Guild” being more smooth than, say, “The Guild of xx”

I agree with Chuey- “The Seeker's Guild” “The Keeper's Guild” and “The Discover's Guild” all sound great! Just one issue hff— uhh it appears that we've stumbled across two player names for quidditch in harry potter sob (seeker and keeper). i mean…. it doesn't matter too much but lol-

Willow, when you say the first two from Chuey's list, what ones were you talking about? <33

Since I think we all agree with the traits, do you guys want to slap down a preference for which wcg you want to lead?

as a refresher, i think the traits were:

trusting your instincts, working as a group to fight.
valuing logic and your own wit to best your opponent in a battle.
believes in developing their individual strengths and force.

but if we want to change or edit these, that's fine!

guilds
I meant the first two groups, sorry ahah- but now I know what structure you were referring to I do like ‘The xxx’s Guild' ones better. The seekers, keepers, discoverer ones sound good! plus harry potter is fantasy so it's like a little easter egg ahah

I like these two the best:
valuing logic and your own wit to best your opponent in a battle.
believes in developing their individual strengths and force.

But once you both put in your preferences, we'll have a look, and then decide!

currency
that actually sounds so cool for the redeem ticket, I think that would be amazing for it! We should def use that idea.

I love the revised soulfire tree thingy, and I think it looks good! Especially with what chuey said about how many dailies and weeklies they need to complete, and it looks perfect!

dragons
if you guys are good with the two creators i am!

three colours seem great to me - plus it would make everything so much easier which is great!

I'd say the wings could still be quite big, maybe they either a) don't have complete trust with the camper until they unlock dragonriding b) or don't have the flying ability - as i don't think they were going to be young dragons but injured ones? correct me if im wrong though.

the code thing chuey suggested looks good! i'm good with that - although it might be a little hard as the person coding the share code would need all the other code too - or at least the costumes and all <3

guilds
seeker, keeper, and discoverer all sound good to me! like Willow said if anyone connects it to Harry Potter it'll just be a funny fantasy easter egg
my favorite value is this one:

trusting your instincts, working as a group to fight.

but I'm willing to lead any of them! <3

dragons
whoops I should have been more specific sorry lol–I didn't mean to suggest that the wings were smaller, just that they were too damaged to fly or whatever.

as for coding, the person sharing the project could potentially do any of the code that relied on other parts of the project, and the other people could do the code that could be done independently? I dunno, maybe it would make more sense for one person to do all or most of the code instead of collabing. I think most of the code will just be copy+paste with some editing to fit the specific costume, since the two creators will likely be very similar and the costumes inside the creators themselves will have almost identical functions–which would mean that all the coder would have to do is edit

for the three colors, I like blue, pink, and orange, but what do y'all think?

currency
Ooh, I love the idea of a ticket, Amethyst! That works perfectly <33

art
I've sorted art-related tasks by priority (although if you think some of these tasks should be shuffled around, don't hesitate to ask!), so that we can see what needs to be done:

. Promotional project (as soon as Willow confirms which parts
. Guild/WGC thumbs (also gentle poke to amethyst to fix the typo in the main cabin thumb XD)
. Pfp art
. Dragon art

Dragon art for the creator is at the bottom of the priority list because we won't actually need it until the session starts, however, since I'll be the only one doing dragon art I'll most likely work on it in between other, higher-priority projects. Once we get all the dragon features confirmed, I'll be working on those during gaps where we're discussing who does what (like we are now).
Willow, I know pfps are a lot of work for you, so let me know how you want to divide pfp art up <3

i swear it takes me hours to write one of these posts because i keep getting distracted and doing other things and creating new tabs to hunt down information and then getting sidetracked by new messages that pop up and people posting stuff and JFKASGHKLHK :sob: /lh

guilds
I think I like “believes in developing their individual strengths and force.” the most as a guild? If that's okay with you, Willow.

If that's okay, I think we should all think of a symbol - imagine one up, and describe it! You could also find a symbol on the internet that's similar or you can reference in some way to the symbol?

coding
I reckon it makes way more sense to do coding individually. If we do have two pfp creators, we could assign one to be coded by either of you if you wanted to? But you guys will be doing most of the art, so I am more than happy to do all the coding myself if needed ^^

dragons
pink, orange, blue sounds good as the base colours imo-

art
I fixed up the thumbnail typo a while ago, has it not updated?

That list of priority looks great to me!

trailer
If possible, I'd appreciate the art for the trailer to be done by the 17th of October! That'll be in about a week, so I'm not sure whether that's too much or too less time. Again, if I ever put too much work on you in terms of art, or I make you finish it way earlier than possible or healthy, please let me know- I have no idea how long it's meant to take ^^

I'll let you guys discuss dividing up the work, if you guys are OK with it! Here's the list of art that needs to be done for the trailer:

1. the dragon's old home (w dragons here and there)
2. that same thing but deserted, ruined, maybe some fire
3. ominous art of evil dragons - maybe they could have evil swirls around them or something
4. injured dragons (not sure how we could portray this in a pg way) flying towards the cove
5. the shipwreck and a bunch of people stumbling across the same cove
6. maybe art of a silhouette of a human and a dragon looking at each other to symbolise the campers and their selected dragon?

the bolded things are things that won't need dragons- however i think it would be really cool if 1 and 2 looked the exact same, except there would be ruin fire and no dragons in 2. willow, would it be ok if you did the background for 1 and 2, maybe? and chuey could edit up 1 to include the dragons, and willow edit 2 with all the ruin?

however, i'm wondering whether it would look strange if two different art styles were combined into one artpiece? again- its up to you guys to decide the artsy thingies ;D

lol i feel the exact same way- i keep getting distracted and have to go in teh middle of writing one and all of that :sob:

guilds
yep! i'm all good with:

valuing logic and your own wit to best your opponent in a battle

if we want i'm good to draw the symbols! i'd love to if needed, just describe it to me and i can do one <3

coding
sounds good to me! individually coding seems the best way to do it as of right now <3 plus we can just ask eachother if we need anything :)

trailer
i'm good with doing 2 and 5, and the bg of 1 <3 I can also try to match Chuey's artsyle if you are worried about that ahah, as chuey will be doing the most in it :)

dragons
colours sound good to me!

art
ooo what are we exactly thinking for pfps? then we can see how to split the work up :) as well as that the priority list seems great, and i'm good with the date for the trailer to be done :)

upcoming inactivity
nothing that big, but on 13th (aest) i have an award ceremony for my school, and this will probably cause some inactivity for the rest of the day, and all <3 it shouldn't affect much though!

art
OH it is fixed pfft ignore me–I checked it every once in a while but I must have forgotten to check it before sending the reminder ToT sorry about that ahaha :')

For pfps I was thinking maybe just the standard headshot, since those are fairly easy–is that all right with you? We could divide up the parts something like this:

. Face and neck
. Front hair
. Back hair
. Eyes
. Eyebrows (opt, can skip if it's too much work)
. Mouth
. Clothes
. Accessories

We could split the parts up, or one person could do all of them, whichever you prefer also lmk if you want to make any additions/subtractions from the list lol

Anything else that needs to be confirmed about the dragons before I start on the creator? If not, I'm ready to start working. I really like doing coding so if it's okay with y'all I'm happy to do both the art and the code for the dragon creator
Also, I'll start work on the trailer art asap! So excited eee <33

guild symbol
Awesome! Hm okay symbols…maybe a dragon eye? to kinda symbolize discovering things–I also thought of binoculars but I'm not sure those would exist in the fantasy world lol

have fun (and good luck if you're up to any awards!) at the award ceremony <33 (this is the first time i don't need a timezone converter sob)

guilds
i think binoculars would be really cool - we could “fantasize” them, as in, give them crystals and gold embroidery and all those fancy things?

before i decide on my symbol, i think it would be really cool if we gave a brief description of our guild's traits, behaviours and goals. the sentence that kind of summarised it is more of a guide, feel free to tweak it or change it slightly! so for example, my summary sentence was:

“believes in developing their individual strengths and force”

revised and expanded version:

The members of The Keeper's Guild may appear to be vulnerable and weak on their own, but that is far from the truth. Dismissing boasting and impulsiveness as weaknesses, they focus on quietly growing their skills and strength in solitude. With a humbleness like no other, they rely on themselves and their dragon in order to defeat their enemy, believing that within every guild member lies the possibility - and ability - to take on a dozen dragons by themselves, should they work hard enough and lead the enemy to underestimate their power.

They believe that no matter how great the enemy, working on one's own skills to fight an unbalanced battle will lead to the maximum strength when numbers are drawn even, that pushing oneself to their limits will be much more effective than relying on other people to have equal power to an enemy.

Do y'all have any ideas for symbols? Perhaps a saddle - since a saddle connects a person and a dragon?

art
haha, that's okay xD

that list looks really good! for the background, could we have the silhouette of a dragon, just so its obvious that fantasy has something to do with a dragon? it can be the same every pfp so hopefully it won't be too much work xP i'll let you guys sort it out aha <33

also also, are we making pfps free? I think it would be hard to regulate if people can just find the project and screenshot the pfps, there'll probably be a bit of confusion :thinking: i'm happy to make matching pfps free, personally- it would be easier and less confusing, and it might help with motivation? what do you guys think?

so excited for the trailer art AEHH

coding
if you want to do the coding, i'm more than happy to let you <33 i just dont want you to overstretch yourself, so lmk if it feels like you're taking on too much.

trailer
i could try voicing over, but if i end up crying dying and bye-ing over my voice i might not XD i'd be happy to code and pull together the trailer, unless either of you want to do it <33

guilds
Ooh I love your binocular suggestions <33 tysm cause I was struggling lolol. I like the idea of a saddle, I think that would fit your guild nicely

I also think expanding the values is really smart here's mine!
original

trusting your instincts, working as a group to fight.

revised

The Discoverer's Guild requires a leap of faith, sometimes literally. They rely on their trust both in themselves and in their fellow members, certain that neither their heart or their companions will lead them wrong. There's no room for doubt or hesitation in this guild; every decision is a gamble, but they're sure they'll come out on top. They focus on synergy, individuals coming together to create something bigger than the sum of their abilities. A member of the guild isn't one person–they're a part of a greater whole.
But it's not only about trusting others. Members rely on themselves just as heavily, confident in their own abilities and the trustworthiness of their emotions. They believe that nothing is impossible–all you have to do is close your eyes and jump. Someone will always be there to catch you.

art
Sure thing! I'll only have to do the silhouette once or twice so that should be super easy.

You know what, we could go ahead and make pfps free–that way everyone is certain of getting one, and campers will be able to match the rest of the cabin, which is always fun

coding
Will do! I'll keep y'all updated <3

trailer
Okay, sounds good! Let me know if you want any help with anything

guilds
ooo i love the expanding the values concept, i'm on my phone right now so i can't really write that much, but will do this so soon <3

art
pfps -
i think it may be a little hard for two people to work on pfps… with two different artstyles? currently i don't think i could create a creator bc i've never tried to do it with my art - however i can help with the art elements if you just told me what to do and all, i can also do the background and code if needed?
happy with making them free too!

trailer -
i'm ok with doing the voice-over if you guys don't want to or hate the sound of you voice on recording (like me ahah), just lmk what i should say, or even if we need to sort out a script now.

dragon creator -
i think you're all good to go! if you need any help at all lmk, i'd love to help with anything, and to ensure the workload is even <33



thank you! i'll be sure to have fun :)

i'm so sorry for my inactivity- i've been away on an actual writing workshop XD and a sleepover with my friend <3

art
that's all good willow! maybe you could make the background to the dragon creator? we could have multiple backgrounds if you want more work aha– like a background of being by the ocean, inside a cave, the cove-cliff etc, maybe even the sky - up to you though ^^

OH i also had an idea in the middle of the night that i had to write down - what if we did a fantasy map of the island? this wouldn't do much except immerse the campers in the experience a little more, and it's also really really cool xDD

in said wirting workshop we actually went over how to make a fantasy map! if its okay with yall, id love to do a draft-map, and maybe you guys could redo it to polish it, transfer it to digital, colour it in etc.? this is just an idea for fun so is by no mean necessary <3

trailer
i have a lot of ideas when i'm meant to be sleeping. so i also wrote out the entire storyboard for the trailer in the dark! i have a little draft script on it, but its on a notepad that probably has very messy handwriting, and since im not home rn i can't send it yet- i can in a few hours though!
*sets alarm*
if i don't update y'all on a draft script within the day yell at me to lmk - hoepfully that alarm will remind me tho xD

guilds
i think we should all also write concept ideas - and a sketch if you want - of what our cabin tne would look like? you guys can also write a draft description if you want, but it'll need to include:

• placeholder links to main cabin, megathread and fantasy cabin
  
• a little blurb at the start describing how the camper stumbled across the guild, the training yard and the core values of the guild
  
• currency
  
• placeholder cabin list
  
• credits
  

wcg
i tested out a few different designs and a saddle does not work sob- i think i might have boots instead?

this is an example of the kind of design i… might be going for



i really dont know though. something about it feels weird and having an inanimate object just feels…. yeah, weird? do you guys have any ideas? i need an artistic eye to help me out lol

ofc this isn't at all polished, just a really really basic blob of blocks and nothingness

it's all good!

art
i could make different backgrounds for each guild! that could be nice if we want? - i'll get the trailer art done first though

chuey if possible could you let me know like the artstyles or like what you are planning to do for the trailer? i could maybe match it a little to make it more cohesive in terms of art

fantasy maps are so cool! so i'm all for having one, it seems so cool to have and also immersive for campers too!

can't wait to see the storyboard! send it through when you can no rush <3 and don't worry if it's messy, i've a talent for reading messy handwriting ahaha

guilds
i'll get right on this! i can't do this tonight however, as i'm about to sleep, but i'll set an alarm and reminder for it, for the thumbnails i could have a little play around with it if it's on the canva? i have a few ideas we could add, just some other things we could add to make it look a little nicer, and not that empty. i'll do this soon too

for the thumbs - if we do decide on going for different background for pfps for each guild we could potentially use that background for guild thumb background too? i'll make an example using chuey's main cabin background

edit: here's another potential design


it came out so small - but it's in the canva if needed

hey!! sorry for the unexpected dip in activity there, i had a crazy weekend and last night i ended up (literally) tossing my cookies oop (dw im mostly fine now, just tired and my brain feels fried LOL)

art
i love the idea of a map! <3
i'll probably be attempting to recreate the artstyle i did for the thumb, so that everything will kinda match artwise i'll sketch out my part asap; i wasn't able to work on it friday-sunday due to my schedule but i'll work on those as much as i can now that everything's over

guilds
sounds good! i'll write up a desc draft in a bit
i probably won't be much help with the thumb arrangement as i don't have canva but if you think of anything i can do just ask <3