Hi everyone, it’s me Mario pedroff_1 and, in my first blog post, I’ll speak about an upcoming event: The IPECAC Festival.

Not long ago, I had an idea of a way we could remind people we still existed and, at the same time, let everybody have a chance of sharing their ideas with us, and here’s what I’ve come up with:

Sometimes (once in a few weeks) , from friday to sunday, there’ll be an event we called “The IPECAC Festival”, where, on each day, we’ll do some part of the process of idea collecting, verifying and sharing.

Currently, the planned model is divided in 3 parts, each one lasting a day:

Idea Submitting: in the first day, we’ll release some forms where you can fill with as many ideas as you want. There’ll be a form for enemies, another for items, one more for transformations and so on. Here’s an image of the item form: Filtering: Before we open the ideas to public vote, we first filter out some ideas (removing duplicates and so on), make a poll with the remaining ideas to publish on the other day. Meanwhile, we accept artwork (either as sprites or just fan art), requests to help us coding the mod and so on. We might also release some information about some new item/character/enemy/mechanic we are planning. We release the poll, where each person votes if they want or not a certain concept to become part of the mod.

Finally, some few days later, we announce some of the ideas which were accepted and will probably be implemented.

For now, that’s it, we’ll probably release soon™ the date of the first IPECAC festival.