I was not a apart of the playtest because I tend to be at the end of new trends and whatever news is going on. Unless I am making the active effort to stay on top of news expect me to be among the last people to find out about something. So by the time I got to the applications for the switch online program the slots were filled and I couldn't get in.

As for the test itself I was meant to be a secret but we all know what happened :)

I know that the game was about building up to the sky with some beacons and this is my new favorite game I have never played (or can play in this case). This shit is my jam. This game is the only thing I have been thinking about for the past few days and I have been trying to find everything I can about this game. A little hard when the Nintendo ninjas take down anything that is more than a text description but I have found a way :D

I have been drawing the cavemen and somehow ended up drawing 2 characters constantly. Ore and Slate (yes I name them after rocks and stuff). Ore is just the basic caveman with no custom parts and Slate is wearing some deco (what the game calls the user made content). I draw them doing random things sometimes and (if) this game ends up available for everyone to play I have some deco I want to make!

These pictures here were taken from my journal and some of the text may have been cut off on the sides.

Another thing I like to do is to turn consoles and stuff into cute girls so when I saw the guide character of the game (the dev mind) I knew exactly what I had to do... It took a while to get a design I was happy with though, I wanted to have the 'mysterious god-like being' vibe mixed with the whole 'planet development program' theme of the test game. I made two main outfits and was trying to decide between them, also trying to figure out the hair. I was not in the test group so the information I can gather on this character is limited.

Part two of the design process. More messing around with the hair, accessories and trying to figure out what color (or colors) the hair should be. I still had the two outfits at this time but started leaning towards type 2 (the long black dress) as the main outfit as it matched the black spherical appearance of the mind more (type 1 just had too much green, maybe good for an alt outfit though).

This was the first sketch of the final design I wanted to use. I deiced on the type 2 outfit with the black/white hair and changed up the ring around the head. I put this sketch here because on the final drawing I changed one thing on a whim while doing the line art...

I ended up changing the hair! When I did this and added the little parts from the beacons I ended up liking it alot and this became the final design for a gijinka of the dev mind! I did end up adding one more thing when drawing them again though, and that was the cube and halo thing on top of the head.

After this small addition I liked her alot and I draw her often because I just think she looks so cool!