Yup, totally free, all that - if you're interested in this game and wanted to give it a shot but not wanting to spend money on it, you can hop over to my post on twitter to see how to do that thing. Most importantly, though: Yes, it is free. No, it's not a subscription based system, or a "free to play" thing, it's an old-fashioned "buy it once, and you have a game" type thing and they just happen to do these totally free demo-but-it's-the-whole-game things every so often. This is one of those times :)

https://twitter.com/leinir/status/1.....09937996759042 <-- that there tweet hing with all the details and whatnot :) (there's a second tweet too, with something i missed when i made the first tweet)

It finally happened, we have gone live, properly, up for sale and everything on Steam! :D

We are currently in the Early Access period, and what that means is that you get it cheaper if you go and buy it now, and you get it sooner as well, and get to see it evolve and gain more and more Steam features ;)

It's right here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/280680 :D

It is done! It's a thing! We've been greenlit! :D

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...../?id=225403385

So, over the last couple of weeks, the company i work for has been putting together a Greenlight campaign for a digital painting application, named Krita. It has been my job to produce the teaser videos for it, and i've gotta say, i'm pretty happy with how it's turned out - and people are saying it's helping catch votes and whatnot, too! :D

https://youtu.be/3Qfdt4HBQR8

The Greenlight campaign is here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...../?id=225403385

Please help spread the word far and wide! :D

My previous journal entry on here was about Krita Sketch, which was a touch based version of the Krita painting application, and which i helped build at my day job. Over the last couple of months we have been working hard on both optimising the Sketch code, to make it all run faster (something people reported as an issue before), and on a much more funky thing: Why have two separate applications, when you can have /one/ application which gives you both a traditional mouse/keyboard type user interface, as well as the touch friendly interface we built for Sketch? Well, Krita Gemini is exactly that :)

But, why take my word for it? Intel belived it enough that they not only paid for the development, they also showed it off on stage at their IDF 2013 event :) And even more so, how about seeing it in action? Well, certainly! Here's TImothee Giet showing us how it's done:

https://youtu.be/qiSGuCzRZFk

Finally, here you go for the official announcement (with download links and whatnot): http://krita.org/item/193-presenting-krita-gemini :D

PS: It's free. Yup, seriously. Completely free :)

tl;dr version: Get your Krita Sketch here! http://krita.org/component/k2/item/.....ndows-released (it's completely free)

Just thought that i should mention something relevant to a community primarily centered around visual artwork. Over the last year or so, the company i work for has had a small team (including yours truly) working on a touch optimised version of the open source digital painting application Krita, called Krita Sketch. And now, finally, it has been released into the public!

We had a somewhat false start in the winter, with a release on appup.com which really didn't work well at all, but this time not only are we fairly pleased with the software ourselves, but you can also get it without having to go through appup, which was a major annoyance before. So, please, do go ahead, take Krita Sketch for a spin, and feel free to inundate us with feedback - we really do want to hear it :)

(feedback in the shape of gift art also appreciated, but not a requirement, the thing really is free, i got paid to write parts of it ;) )

PS: Perhaps worth mentioning - when we say "touch optimised" we don't mean "crippled" ;) It's just as powerful as the desktop version (minus a couple of details, which is more because the features aren't ready than anything else, such as the wacom support and the transform tool), and even has that neat, powerful, nested-tree layers system that Krita has, it has the neat preset brushes that the desktop version has (lacks an editor, see before) and the many filters and such as well.

Wow, it seems that someone at uni decided that i was freaky enough to score a new level of internets, and posted me to someone up on SomethingAwful! *giggles* At least it's mostly accurate, though while i don't resent being called a gimp, it isn't really accurate to describe me as one such, in that while i'm owned, i'm not a slave, but rather a pet... yeah, technicalities, and this /is/ SA after all, not really the most reputable news media on the interwebs ;) http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awf.....lery-furry.php

Thanks to Furble for spotting it, too! :)

Yeah, so everybody's doing it - but since i don't use twitter but rather identi.ca, i thought i'd pimp that in stead ;)

http://identi.ca/leinir <-- It aer good! :)

TYPE YOUR FIRST NAME WITH YOUR...

1.FINGERS: leinir

# lre4iuonhiu5tr4

3.ONE FINGER, EYES CLOSED: lerinir

# leinirt

# leinir

# kjliun mijkurt56f

1.) List Four fandoms you have.

Furry
Rubberism (and other likewise kinkiness)
KDE (yeah, that -is- that geeky thing)
Trashy Sci-fi

2.) Have you ever slept in the back of a car?

No... front seat though, yes, a couple of times

3.) Have you recently dyed your hair/cut it?

Cut it, yup - do that myself around once per month (should do it more often - need short hair around the top knot :) )

4.) List four people that you look up to the most.

Mum (yes, that stereotype)
Dad (yes, that other stereotype ;) )
uhm... i don't do that so much *giggles* :)

5.) How many pets do you own as of now?

...how can an omega have a pet?

6.) Which do you prefer white or black?

White

7.) Who is your most played character

Vat iz diz karakter of vitch yu speek?! ;) If you must, though, that would be leinir, a genderless wank - it's essentially well... just me :) ...without the man-bits ;)

8.) Choose one or the other, not both:
-Being stuck on an island with your best friend
-Being stuck on an island with 5 acquaintances

-Being stuck on an island with my best friend

9.) Name three aspects that tell who you are.

- Thorough
- Persistent
- Can get into a conversation with just about anybody

10.) If you could have a power what would it be?

Breathe under water... or flight... can't decide between those two ;)

11.) Who was the last person you talked to?

That sweetest of sissyfoxes  makenshi :)

12.) Who was the last person you said "I love you" to?

Again...  makenshi - being the last thing i said to him and such ;)

13.) Write down the first five words that pop into your head:

yummy
exam (tomorrow)
foucault
2 (cos they look the same!)
squeak

14.) What's one thing you wish you could do better?

draw... i'm just not very good *giggles* leave that to others, but still wish i could do i better :)

15.) Do you like the way you are?

essentially yes... obviously some things could be better, but mostly, yes, i am content within myself, so to speak.

16.) Choose, Summer or Winter:

Summer

17.) Choose, Rain or snow:

Rain (goes so well with rubber ;) )

18.) Water or ice?

Water - no good on a pair of icescates, but give me a pair of flippers and i'm a fish ;)

19.) List two odd things about yourself:

- i pick my nose (ok, boring and too many people do that ;) )
- i like sticking things up my bum, but i'm really tight (damn you, body! ;) )

20.) Now list 4 people who should do this quiz!

No, noooo! *giggles* i'm no predator, i leave the hunting to my superiors ;)