Re: TTC/IP stuff
Read my answer in the FAQ in second post. I'm aware of their litigious nature and appreciate all the concerns/warnings. I have been slowly developing this set for about 2 months, and done some research myself and a lot of thinking about it in my spare time, but I believe that due to not having any gameplay, and tetrominos are simple mathematical concepts (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetromino), and thus not wholly pertaining to TTC, that using it as just modifier legends, this doesn't cross copyright territory. Thus I will continue to press on. But I am ready and aware that I might need to step back and let this project go if there's significant manu and vendor concerns about the viability of this set. I totally understand and aware of the concerns (trust me I've been thinking about it for weeks), and if this IC never eventuates to GB, then that is just how it goes, and it was a fun art concept experiment to play around with.
Re: multiple ICs. Please note, that majority of my other sets, I'm a
co-designer. I'm not solo. Hence depending on which stage those ICs are at, I can balance my attentions to wherever necessary depending on my responsibilities within them and the timelines they're on. KAT sets are all awaiting Keyreative communication, samples, and emails mainly, and behind the scenes we're actively discussing about kitting improvements all the time.
Those sets will also likely approach GB much earlier than this set and I've already been speaking to vendors actively about them. KAT Quantum is not going to occur for a while due to GMK Gateway holding its GB soon, so there's no need to rush it, even though I've been quietly doing kitting updates, and renders.
Thus the only two ICs right now that I'm solely responsible for are KAT Quantum (which is on a much longer timeline i.e. > 6 months minimum) and this set.
As you can see from my recent post on KAT Great Wave, we've managed to do a whole bunch of kitting updates for multiple kits, despite me working on this IC in the background.
Anyways you'll be surprised at how much you can get done, if you don't have children, and other active hobbies.
Re: Deskmats.
I have asked a more talented artist than I to draw a more complex design, but I don't think IC needs to wait for that to be done for me to post this IC. In the mean-time I thought it would be worth seeing if there was interest in more simpler images.
The heart deskmat design is a stock vector. Won't deny it, I liked the idea and paid for license to use it. If people don't like that I did that, or aren't interested in it because of this, then that's fair, and I'll remove it. I didn't see a point of redrawing a nice graphic design concept when I can just pay for its use, when it completely ties in with the concept here. I'm not silly enough to think people won't just reverse google image it to find the source. Just search up tetris heart and you'll find 10 artists variants of it. Didn't want to reinvent the wheel.
In regards to the T-Pose, the Grid, and the Isometric deskmats, they're all common geometric patterns. They're all simple repeating patterns. All three of them are well known illusions. I don't pretend that I created these illusions. They're just a tessellating pattern that aren't copyright, that I thought would look good on a deskmat, especially the isometric concept.
It's like the Seigaha pattern used as a deskmat used for GMK Bento and GMK Masterpiece. No one presumes they came up with seigaha pattern design.
Productkun, I get you just don't happen to like how I executed the concept, which is okay and you're free to express your opinion (this is an open forum where we post ideas to be criticised be fellow neckbeards), but now that you've made your thoughts clear, I'd prefer only opinions on how to improve the set/concept, versus ongoing negative energy. Wishing you positive vibes for 2021
Thanks to everyone else for the positive encouragement, and constructive feedback.
I didn't realise this little IC would be so polarising, so it's kind of bemusing seeing some overreactions, but that's the internet for you.
