Common Courtesy

Jul17
by on July 17, 2012 at 10:09 am
Posted In: Teknobabble

Just figured I’d post this as a common courtesy – this current series of strips is taking WAY longer to do than I honestly thought they would.

I strongly suspect that the one I’m 90% done, barring some script revisions because it isn’t reading right, is gonna just get thrown out in favor of reworking the idea from scratch. So nothing until Friday at the earliest.

(And after that? There’ll likely be some sort of break. I’m on vacation next week; hoping to have a comic for next Tuesday that isn’t the one I’m working on now, but we’ll see.

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BT Toons Mobile is live!

Jul05
by on July 5, 2012 at 8:50 am
Posted In: Teknobabble

So, this has technically been ‘live’ since Monday or so, I suppose, but I guess I may as well make it official and all…

BT Toons now has a mobile website!

Yes, it’s something I’ve been working on in my spare time. It’s not 100% feature complete, and there’s probably bugs here and there, but for all intents and purposes, it is functional.

Current features:

  • Panel-by-panel or “view entire comic” zoom (Note that portrait/landscape are different experiences for the latter mode).
  • Access to the comic archives, blog, and cast list.
  • Acts as an iOS web app – adding it to your home screen gives you a snazzy loading screen as well as no browser bars.
Now, here’s where you guys come in – I’ve only tested this on iOS, and even then I haven’t been through the entire comic database…. if you see any bugs, be they functionality or just improper comic panel cropping (I know for a fact that there’s gonna be a number of comics I haven’t put in specific panel zoom data for yet, so they’ll use the defaults I set up), do feel free to post about them here so I can get to addressing them. Further, if you’ve got a mobile that isn’t iOS and see any odd stuff, I do implore you to let me know so I can get right on fixing it.
Heck – if something doesn’t work properly, or a feature is unintuitive? Do let me know as well so I can make it work better!

Oh, and as for the lack of the last couple updates? They’re coming… my lack of a buffer, however, meant that throwing together comics while out of town last weekend wasn’t really doable. (So I did heavy work on coding the mobile site instead, naturally.

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Running late

Jun01
by on June 1, 2012 at 1:34 am
Posted In: Teknobabble

New comic will be up and online soon as it’s finished.

Which will, fingers crossed, be Friday night/Saturday morning.

This is what I get for working close to deadline, and deciding to stick in a complex background…

So. In the meantime, go read something really awesome, like Adam Warren’s “Empowered” (Volume 7 is at your local LCS this week). Not for all audiences, mind, but it’s hilarious and awesome and what happens when you take a one-note fanservice bondage pinup gag and turn it into a well-written book with a fun cast of characters.

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