Good Luck sir, looking forward to what you can do.

'Stankers. I'm glad you understand. ^^

I'm sorry Stankers, I know it sucks when people don't really take an interest in your things the way you hope they would, but i'm sure everyone has their reasons, I personally just don't care about pirates that much and some of your closest FA friends really rub me the wrong way, so I didn't contribute much to avoid drama.

Aw, that's not what I want to hear! I get the pirate thing, that's fine, but... controversial days are behind us! I'm not using anybody's characters in Gank, and there's no money involved in the votes. No reason for anybody to be upset over anything. :3

Its not really behind me to be honest, the fact that even very recently they still manage to personally offend me everytime we are even watching the same stream... its just for the best I avoid them completely :P

Ah. Well... I really hate to hear that. You can't let another person keep you from enjoying what you like though. You should feel free to view and comment on all of my images here, and if you don't then something needs to be addressed.

*Hugs ya tight* Its cool Stankers, I'm happy to view and comment on all your awesome work, especially since you put up with my sillyness, the people who offend me don't scare me off, I just ignore them when I can, its not like they can really do anything that I can't just ignore after all, thanks for the concern though, you're a really awesome person :3

Why do you like getting punched? :c *looks at your icon*

Because fist tastes good.

I... was kinda waiting for it to pick up before giving my verdict on it and and getting involved.. Actually I like the animated style, and was just thinking about getting involved and voting.

In honesty, though? My response to what GANK is apparently going to become... may not be the one you hoped for.

"Oh god, not another f***king RPG"

I prefer the comics because it's a quick-fix, *bam* story, read, vote, done. Not having to spend twenty minutes wandering lost, confused, with no story to work off and no hook to draw me in.

Please don't change GANK.

Well... I understand that. I like stories and comics as well. I mean it's what I've been doing, right? ;) But games have their place and they certainly have their fans. I think that, the way I was working with Gank at least, that an open-ended RPG system would have just been a better fit. However I do hear your opinion, and it's helped me realize one of Gank's initial flaws. The good thing about pulling the plug relatively early is I get a chance to really address these issues. Whatever form it does end up taking in the future, rest assured the story line will be far more clear.

... WHAT? XD

Hum. Hope the game work goes alright. If ya ever need some sound or music, you can hit me up for some. :3

I will actually... possibly... take you up on that offer.

Any chance you can send me a link to some samples in a note?

Let me know if you want a little help with aspects of the video game development.

Can do! Thanks for the prospect of assistance!

I'll follow whatever you want to do, Stanky. I enjoyed the motion comics personally. Just do what you want, make it in a way that makes you happy. If others aren't happy with it after that, it really doesn't matter :)

Thank you so much. I'm glad all my fans have been so understanding. You guys are just... UGH... I would hug you all if my arms weren't covered in wasp jelly right now.

Long story, don't ask.

But I was making wasp jelly.

Anyway, what makes me happy is making you happy, so that cyclical relationship will give me lots of headaches, but you lots of content (hopefully), and thus me some hand cramps too, so it'll all work out in the end! For my local pharmacy!

Wasp jelly? Ah to hell with it! Sticky stanky hugs are fine in my book :3

Well there's also some wasps still stuck in there too.

... better than no hugs at all \^^/

*steps forward, wasp arms outstretched, and collapses onto you as a swollen, convulsing mass*

*hugs and sticks you in the leg with an epipen.* Foxcoons are always prepared :3

I'm sorry your plans didn't workout, but I saw this coming. Nobody wanted to get involved because of the drama VST's voting system caused. The whole voting thing is why I didn't get involved.

Thanks for telling me this. I didn't even think that would be an issue. This was a COMPLETELY different project, but I wasn't aware that my name alone still had a black mark on it. That makes a lot of sense.

Hopefully I'll be able to overcome that with future projects, but in the mean time all I can do is humbly ask everybody that brings this up to give me a second chance. I've learned my lesson from that too.

Just letting you know I don't blame you. You put alot of work into that series.

S'fine. I understand entirely. And now that I know I can change things.

You're taking a bit of shit for the drama that surrounded VST. IMO, that's rather unfair...it's that drama that led VST as it was, to be successful in the ways that it was.

Let's ignore the whole "I don't like pirates" thing that I've heard from some others; pirates aren't really my thing either, but it's a setting that really hasn't been taken for one of these projects before - I was neutral on it, personally. In order for a voter base to grow, something needs to have some kind of draw to pull people in. VST had that built-in, because not only did you have the character owners themselves have an emotional tie to seeing their 'sona progressing (or not), you had friends of said furs that wanted to either save their friend, or go after someone else, or both.

Gank has the same idea as VST - normal votes, payvotes/donations, being able to put in a significant amount to save someone, but the fact that you weren't using someone else's character, who someone would get worked up over seeing the death of, is exactly what stopped this from taking off as quickly as VST did. Honestly, I'm not sure that one of these projects can pull in the userbase (and donation base) that you're hoping for without, at the very least, some of that related drama, and some bitter feelings after the fact. (Hell, I'm still bitter - at myself - for not putting in that $50 through a third party that would have changed things in an earlier round. I kept to my word and I hate myself for it sometimes. Think about this - you have people, and I'm probably not the only one, who are still sad to this day, months later, that they didn't put in MORE towards that project.) I'm vehement in defending someone I care about, and equally vengeful when it comes to fucking someone over who I think deserves it. Gank didn't really offer an opportunity for me to work with either of those things.

I do, however, quite like the idea of a video game along these lines, a proper RPG, and that's something I'd happily pay for. Perhaps what donation base you would have been hoping for for the comic could instead be used for things like including certain details, cameos, easter eggs, etc.? - things where people could slightly influence the direction but not compromise the basic vision you have for how you want this to progress.

Well the problem wasn't even that it wasn't making money. Believe it or not I would have been fine with that. The problem was it wasn't don't ANYTHING. Nobody at all, just about, was even bothering to comment or participate. That's what bothered me, and was a big sign that something needed to change.

Reading through the comments, I guess I didn't see or hear about the whole VST thing that was going around. I rather liked what you have done with Gank and appreciated the work put into it and am sorry to hear you are changing directions. May you find what you are looking for but, seriously, it was fine the way it was. You did an awesome job and I look forward to what you come up with later. Screw the fandom, it was fine how it was.

I thought so too, but I guess others disagreed. ^^; Either way it was a fine learning experience and I'm confident whatever I start up next will be just as good, if not better. Maybe this time around it'll actually find an audience.

The others are probably going to be the vocal minority. I still say 'screw them, this is your project' and I bet there are more people that like it than the whining shits that don't. But I can understand the frustration involved, people are nuts and react irrationally to the slightest thing they don't like especially if it doesn't jive with their kinks. Will always respect your decisions as they are yours and yours alone but always do what you feel is best, not what the drooling masses say is best.

Ah, now I feel quite bad! I've been enjoying Gank a lot, but I don't think I posted at all, because I didn't really have any input about how things should go. Was happy to watch things progress in whatever direction. I probably should have made some comments though, even if they weren't on suggestions.

Anyway, glad to here you're hopefully turning it into something you'll be even more happy with. I look forward to whatever you come up with.