Attention Content Contributors! -UPDATED 1/23/17-

Greetings all. After several months, I have finally returned to the forums.

Fortunately, I had finished most of my content negotiations before my personal life forced me offline.

By now all the Content Contributor deadlines have long passed, and this thread has clearly run its course. I'm surprised and disappointed so few content contributors turned up for this discussion, but I'm sure we'll see more popping up in the months ahead. At some point, I'm hoping to create a new thread cataloguing all of Bloodstained's backer content --including all the Ancestral Bloodline Portraits, Youtube/Online Community Clan Items, and Play a Hayter/As said by Belgrade quotations). But for now, I'd like to comment briefly on my Secret Room.

This was a challenging negotiation. I'm a guy with big ideas, so it's in my nature push the boundaries whenever I can. My top priority was always to make a functional room that adds real value to the game --and I think we're delivering that, but not in the way I originally expected. My Secret Room contains a Dimensional Gate. Does Miriam enter the gate? Or does someone emerge from it? And where does it go? I'll let the mystery linger a bit...

Cheers

Per Mana ! A message for Ancestral Bloodline backers.

I'm curious if they're running filters over them to make them look more like oil paintings or to otherwise fit the aesthetic of where they're being used in the game. I think it would be real cool if they had a room where you had to fight off all the backer portraits.

I can't say/think anything about the backer portraits without being jealous, so I'm just going to walk out

Drawing the backer portraits was truly an honor! I am really excited to see this in-game and hearing compliments made it really worth drawing them all.

Busterific - I did use a texture over the portraits to give a more oil painting look as much as I can. Everyone's portrait uses a similar kind of texture, but they are all a little different and thoughtfully placed.

akahige - Greetings! I remember your portrait and it was a lot of fun to draw! Thank you for your kind words


My overall thoughts on the portraits:
To be expected of the Bloodstained community, we had an excellent number of individuals with a majestic beard, beautiful faces, and ....cute cats?
It was almost humorous how well people fitted the 18th-century clothing I drew on them hehe.

Hello Mana,

you did all the portraits all by yourself? Wow! You're very talented!

How many portraits should be... 37 or so right?

Luckily the Igavanias have always been decorated with all sorts of paintings, so this is the ONE game where portraits will feel like a integral part of the game

Ahh I thought they would have talked about the ancestral bloodlines portraits in the update... Still, they hinted at something that no-one has yet figured out, I wonder what it is.

To help partially answer bmurr1387's above reply;

cecil-kain Would you say the large dog's-head (and black cat head) demon enemies we've seen in February's Nintendo Direct trailer count toward "Hounds of Hell" backers seeing their ideas come to fruition?

Yes indeed.  I'm anxiously looking forward to seeing what else is out there!