Keypers Foundry

Hi everyone!

We’ve got a few new updates for this month, mostly relating to prompts. But before we get into that, it’s a new month, which means a new themed prompt! This month’s theme is “Stargazing”, and you can read about it over here: [MT-03] Stargazing. And as a reminder, there’s always the monthly open prompt if the themed prompt doesn’t inspire you!

MINIMUM PROMPT REQUIREMENT CHANGES

Starting in May, the minimum prompt requirements for drawn art are changing! Instead of requiring a full body for prompt art, you’re now allowed to draw just a half body, with a waist-up minimum. The standard gem shard reward amount will still stay at 5 gem shards, and you can now have the option of either drawing your character as a full body OR including another half-body character for the extra 3 gem shards! These changes will be listed in the prompt rules as well.

PROMPT SUBMISSION GALLERIES

This is a reminder that prompt submissions should be submitted to the on-site gallery first before submitting to the actual prompt! I’ve been a little lenient on this the last couple of months, but I do want the site galleries to be used from now on for record-keeping purposes. Outside links break all the time, and it’ll be important to have the prompt submission links work correctly if you intend to submit an appraisal claim for your Keyper design to add to the maximum resale value. So starting in May, any prompt that doesn’t include a link to the site gallery will be soft-rejected. You can add additional content links to outside places (discord, google docs, dA, toyhouse, etc) in the comments section as an extra back-up option, but the main submission URL should point to the site gallery entry. This has been a rule and included in the “how to submit prompts” section of all prompts since the site launch, but we will be enforcing it as of this month.

NEW CHARACTER CARD FRAMES - INTEREST POLL

I want to add some more card frame art to the site, and I have a bunch of ideas! So I want to hear your opinions on what you want to see most so I’m focusing my time properly! Here’s a quick poll with all of my ideas so far, with a section where you can submit suggestions too! I’ll try to add at least two new frames to the site in May, and these frames will be able to be purchased in the gem shard exchange shop once they’re added to the site! Frames will never cost more than 1 gem shard, and you will need to purchase multiples to use on multiple characters.

MONTHLY RAFFLES AND OFFICIAL DESIGN SALES

This was sort of announced already, but I wanted to put it here so it’s official! We’ll be holding a free design raffle on the 10th of every month from here on out, with official design sales also happening on the 20th of every month! All of these designs will be put up on the website’s sales page.

And that covers it for this month! See you in the next monthly newsletter!