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ANNOUNCEMENT:

FRANTIC FANFIC CREATOR ZEE WILL BE AT TCAF THIS WEEKEND WITH FRANTIC FANFIC STICKERS AND ZINES. She'll be selling the last of the physical Frantic Fanfic zines, there's about 15 copies left.

ENAMEL PIN CAMPAIGN UPDATE:

Unfortunately, we had to put the enamel pin campaign on pause because of uncertainty with costs due to tariffs imposed by the USA. Even though we're located in Canada, sending out the pins could be EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE because they would be made in China. We're bummed!! All the work was done for the campaign, tiers and all, but hitting that snag sucks. We hope to be able to launch it when times are more stable.

See you this weekend at TCAF!

Zee and Michael.

ENAMEL PINS HAPPENING! 2024

🪱 FINALLY!!! MAKING!!!

🪱 ENAMEL PINS FOR FRANTIC FANFIC!!!

⭐ BUT which characters will become pins?!

⭐ that's for YOU to decide!!

⭐ VOTE HERE!

✅ YOU CAN ALSO PILE EXTRA VOTES ON OUR TIKTOK HERE!

✅ ONLY COMMENTS COUNT FROM UNIQUE ACCOUNTS, "LIKES" DON'T ADD MORE VOTES.

✅ SHARE THE VIDEO WITH FRIENDS (AND COMMENT!) TO GUARANTEE YOUR FAVE CHARACTER GETS PICKED AS A PIN!

🍅 we are DEFINITELY making a wormman 🪱 pin and a buffpire pin, as those two characters are our unofficial mascots. but for the rest... PLEASE VOTE!! 🥰

🍅 the character drawings will be altered and cleaned up slightly for the enamel pin process - but we want to keep the sketchy style as much as possible 🩷!

🍅 we're looking to do 6 character pins for the kickstarter with the possibility of doing 10 total (using stretch goals!) + bonus stickers if it goes well!

GOOD LUCK & thanks for playing!

- zee and michael

OMG AN UPDATE!

Hiya!! Zee here, omg the last update we did was in Feb last year. Needless to say, Michael and I got EXTREMELY BUSY IN 2022 WITH OTHER PROJECTS! We made it a goal over the winter holiday to push some changes that needed to happen and overall just do a bit of a cleanup on the site.

NEW! BUG REPORT BUTTON!

We added a super easy way to report any bugs. You need to be logged in to report the bug. Click on the "REPORT A BUG" button to check it out!

WHAT TOOK YA SO LONG?

Michael fixed some bugs, I went over the site and tried to make it as readable as possible, we removed some buttons that didn't really make any sense and we deleted public lobbies. Why delete public lobbies? Because we didn't want to make a separate chat client for the game, and without that people have told us using public lobbies is really difficult and frustrating. So instead of having a bad experience for people using PL, we decided to get rid of it completely. You can still make use of our Discord to find people to play with if you are over 18.

Also! A big milestone for us as 2022 closed out: we hit 200 supporters! Thank you so much!

Happy New Year! Until next time!

Zee and Michael

SUPPORTER AVATARS

We've given all supporters some alternate avatars! They're in greyscale as a tribute to Japanese manga. There's seven in total, with alternates for Buffpire, Ghost, Kitsune, Potato, Reapr, Skellybts and Wormman! We hope you enjoy them in addition to Plat, your prompt packs, themes, no ads on the site and the zine :>.

SITE CLEANUP

We're still in the middle of some site cleanup, we want to make things easy to read. So we're doing some font changes across several pages.

AUDIENCE FIX

Viewers weren't able to join the audience past the lobby screen. We've made it so they can join at any time until the voting period! At that point the game locks because it would be unfair to join later on.

CHARACTER MATURITY RATING

On recommendation from a group of players playing Self Insert mode, we have added the option to specify that individual characters can be flagged with All Ages on the character writing screen.

Example: If a player had their name added automatically with Self Insert but they were uncomfortable with being written about in mature situations (violence, harsh language, etc.) in a game marked as Mature by the VIP, they can use this option to guide other players in their writing.

When the player selects "All Ages" for the character, (let's say the character's name is "Steve") that character is now bound to an All Ages maturity rating. If "Steve" was shuffled to another player and the player wanted to use "Steve", the story would be locked to "All Ages" automatically, no matter the maturity rating selected by the other characters in the story.

This setting does not show up in All Ages games because by default all characters should be written at an All Ages level.

BUG FIXES

The forced prompts weren't visible on the reading screen. Oops! We've added those now. So now you can have a reason why your part was so messy. Of course. It was the prompt! It's always the prompt.

Reacts weren't showing during stories. Fixed!

People could react and vote for their own parts or stories. Again. Oh boy... Michael has fixed that again.

The room code didn't stay hidden after hiding it, that's not great for streamers! We fixed it.

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW

Enjoy the latest update!! We've been working hard on a grant proposal so hopefully that all goes well. Don't forget to join the Discord if you're over 18 or follow us on TIKTOK for more updates :D!

The Frantic Fanfic Team