Losing is Fun – The Interactive Comic
In the summer of 2017, after I grauduated from California State University, Northridge, I started posting a interactive comic/forum game to the Bay12 Forums. I was inspired by The Littlest Cheesemaker, an interactive comic set in the Dwarf Fortress universe which was, in turn, inspired by Homestuck. The user evictedSaint posted images and text to the forum and other users suggested what the main character, a dwarven girl, should do next. I thought this was a charming idea for a project so I made the visual development for my own project the subject of my Animation Drawing III final at CSUN.
My comic follows a kobold named Grawr who is on a quest to steal an artifact dagger from a dwarven fortress. The comic following grew and the comic now has over 600 panels. The forum format grew cumbersome for new readers so I made https://losingisfun.org to crosspost the site. It has built in admin tools for converting the BBCode of from the forum into HTML for the site. I also made https://tlcm.pro using the same code for The Littlest Cheesemaker since my project never would have started if not for his evictedSaint’s amazing work.