Posted
on May 1, 2009, 9:18 am,
by Xanny,
under Other.
After much deliberation and disappointment, it is with deep regret that we are announcing our team’s permanent hiatus from Xanny’s Curse.
While we appreciate the gestures of kindness from many of the fans of the webcomic and the story, we can no longer provide the adequate time that this comic needs in order to continue. In the background, we have spend countless hours tweaking the Xanny’s Curse storyline and trying to ensure that we cover all the bases and deliver something special to you. Our team was committed to bring back the story more so than ever before.
Several factors have led to this difficult decision, but mostly because of our other site at Games and ME has proven to be more successful and, as such, has take up most of the time dedicated to Xanny’s Curse. I’ve been personally pre-occupied with talking with our gaming community, creating podcasts, and doing the recordings for Games and ME that it leaves little time to even play games and lurking in forums that I used to frequent - which ironically was the impetus for creating such a site.
So instead of proclaiming empty promises and wishful sentiments, we are announcing that Xanny’s Curse will no longer continue and the story will never be told. We have attempted to revive this webcomic several times over the course of the past six years and no one had the right combination of passion and time to continue such an endeavor. Granted, many people have declared that the story of Xanny’s Curse was worth telling - but no one really could follow through.
I suppose this is also an apology to anyone who was hyped up by the comic’s potential return and I’m sorry for leading you on over the past few years.
While the journey may not be known, I can at least assure you that Xanny’s story ends well and in a manner well suited for the life he’s had to go through. I’ll leave that to your imagination to fulfill.
Thank you for supporting Xanny’s Curse over its 6 year journey. Thank you very much, from the bottom of our hearts.
Posted
on March 31, 2009, 11:34 pm,
by Xanny,
under Art, Music, Story.
So I’ve been playing a lot of Ouendan 2 lately since I just recently repurchased my Nintendo DS and found one of the songs in the game fascinating - namely, the song in the video embedded above.
While I still felt that The Brilliant Green’s “Rainy Days, Never Stays” still represents Xanny’s Curse to its fullest, I felt that Hitomi Yaida’s “Go My Way” took this similar idea and put in a more positive spin and made it ridiculously super bubbly and happy. The Brilliant Green’s song has a place towards the end of the series, but to jump start the series, I felt that it had to be accompanied by something really happy sounding and upbeat. It represents the ridiculous yet normal nature of the challenges Xanny, now Xandy, faces in his new environment, and speaks of what the future may bring.
Posted
on March 5, 2009, 7:14 am,
by Xanny,
under Art, Planning, Story.
So how did you all like the new page? I hope you guys enjoy how we’re still keeping the tension of the situation even though we haven’t updated the comic in a while.
In any case, we wanted to talk about continuity in Xanny’s Curse, the character designs, and story plans. Don’t worry — we won’t be revealing spoilers in this post. We just wanted to give you guys an idea of where Xanny’s Curse is at in this point in time and to give you all an idea of what you may or may not see.
Posted
on February 23, 2009, 11:49 am,
by Xanny,
under Music, Story.
Ever since the beginning of this story, one of the primary driving forces of the creation of the various elements and events in Xanny’s Curse stem from the music that came out at the time.
During the period when Xanny’s Curse finally had its own official site, there was one song that has since become the unofficial theme song for Xanny’s Curse. That song is “Rainy Days Never Stays” by the brilliant green.
Posted
on February 16, 2009, 8:46 pm,
by Xanny,
under Art, Planning, Story.
Hello again everyone, how’s your week been?
Well, it’s been exactly a week since I updated this blog and much has changed in Xanny’s Curse behind the scenes since I updated this.
For starters, we now have the next set of pages planned out. This is, in Xandy hours, all the way up past lunch time. Time has been somewhat of a theme for Xanny’s Curse, both in the actual narrative itself and its actual production and we felt that we should really pick up the pace of the series as soon as our new artist and co-writer took the reigns.
Posted
on February 9, 2009, 8:10 pm,
by Xanny,
under Art, Planning, Story.
On Sunday after we taped our TWiGaME and The Review Club episodes for Games and ME, our co-writer and artist sat down to discuss the specifics of the Xanny’s Curse storyline from beginning to end. This is a mean feat to accomplish - after all, how many webcomics out there have already a defined start, middle, and end?
We decided that since we were going to be preparing for the inevitable return of Xanny’s Curse that we should separate some of the blogging elements of Xanny’s Curse from the actual comic itself. That way, we can show you more on what it takes to actually revive a webcomic and what it’s taken us to think of in order to make this transition of artists and writers as seamless as possible. Don’t worry though… I, Xanny, will still oversee everything that goes on the webcomic site itself and of course whatever goes on in this blog.
So early on, I wanted to give the fans an insight as to how we operate here at Xanny’s Curse. Currently, we have an artist and a co-writer who will be creating the art and providing the necessary elements that I felt was lacking in the original version. In this post, we will be focusing on how we’re transitioning the art from what currently is shown on the webcomic site to the new style that we’ll be using soon.
