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Brass City23 Postmortem: What now?
January 11, 2024 by Ragedrako
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#postmortem, #dungeon23, #Fantasy, #setting
It was Wednesday last week that I uploaded the last week of Brass City23, thereby finishing the year-long project. It was definitely a project I won't forget, as it was my first ever "big project" as... Continue reading
Week 52
January 03, 2024 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #dungeon23, #Fantasy
Week 52 The final major update. I might come back to fix typos here and there, or fix formatting mistakes (feel free to inform me about any you find), but content-wise, I consider the project complete... Continue reading
Week 51
December 25, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 51 Here we go, the penultimate week, the penultimate progress update. This week was themed around a building I've had in mind for a while. With so many wizard towers in the city then one more wou... Continue reading
Week 50
December 18, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 50 Here we go, I am now in the 50's. Two more weeks and then this project is done. I can definitely feel the emotional investment when I look at the map now. The individual buildings might look r... Continue reading
Week 49
December 13, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 49 There we go, I finally caught up! Week 49 means we are now officially in the governmental district. First thing on the agenda: CATS! Sentient cats, specifically. They have been hinted at throu... Continue reading
Week 48
December 06, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 48 This update is annoying, but oh well. Keep the wheel turning, however poorly. The amount of time, energy, and motivation I had for the project this week was annoyingly low. It is now behind sc... Continue reading
Week 47
November 29, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 47 A late update this time, but the weekend was entirely spent with friends from far away, so I got behind. I've now caught up, and here it is. This week contained a bunch of artisans and worksho... Continue reading
Week 46
November 20, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 46 The Forest Wall Street continues. This time, a major inspiration for me were the potential relation between "the forest fae" and the city, so a diplomat got a house here, and a guard tower mad... Continue reading
Week 45
November 13, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 45 We keep going in the enchanted forest district, keep going south. This week brough more trees, some cozy houses with simple cozy villagers, a café with no indoor seating, and the workshop of... Continue reading
Week 44
November 06, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 44 The district of November has begun. Welcome to the Forest Border District. Back in the later half of September, I started to plan out where each of the remaining weeks of October, November, an... Continue reading
Week 43
November 01, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 43 A late update. Stuff happens. I carry on. This update marks the ending of the knowledge district, with the Old College Road, and the Mechanic's College that sits on it. Much like last week's M... Continue reading
Week 42
October 23, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 42 This week was all about the next level of education after the academy; college. Specifically, one out of two colleges I have in mind, given the city's affinity for both the arcane and the mech... Continue reading
Week 41
October 18, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 41 Brass City is back in business! This is a much later update than what I am comfortable with, but I absolutely wanted to reach a full update with the big map and everything properly updated. Th... Continue reading
Week 40
October 10, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 40 This week's update feels only like half an update. All the entries has been written, but finding the time to draw the map was incredibly hard. That is what happens when I had plans in my spare... Continue reading
Week 39
October 02, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 39 The end of another month and the end of another district. This means that Brass City is now officially 3/4 of the way there! I'm so close, and it feels great! This week's district has yet anot... Continue reading
Week 38
September 26, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 38 Continuing the Heritage District, we now have another temple, this time dedicated to land. We also have a museum, a bank, and an old house belonging to an old family. Amongst other things, of... Continue reading
Week 37
September 19, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 37 Alright, now in the second week of September, I figured out what this month's district theme is: Heritage. At least, that is what I will call it, the Heritage District. I had the suggestion of... Continue reading
Week 36
September 12, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 36 The beginning of a new month means the beginning of a new district. I will admit, I have no idea what the district is about yet, so it does not have a name in the table of contents yet, but I... Continue reading
Week 35
September 04, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 35 The end of august, and therefore the completion of the village district. We have a doctor, an apiarist, a magical sculptor, and four other denizens of this little district. August had a rough... Continue reading
Week 34
August 29, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 34 A Tuesday update instead of a Monday update, which has been what I have aimed for (and often failed to hit, but oh well), but this time I actually was ready with all the entries for a Monday u... Continue reading
Week 33
August 22, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 33 Another week, another piece of the village. I must admit that small-time village houses, and who could occupy them, is starting to be a little difficult to come up with, without hitting repeat... Continue reading
Week 32
August 15, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 32 We're back, baby. I hit my goal of a full upload, including week 31, week 32, and an updated, nicer looking IMO, map. Since this is the first update that talks about what the August district i... Continue reading
Week 31
August 09, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
No update this week, because motivation among busy schedules have made it that I didn't get as far as I wanted for last week. I know this is not the first time this has happened, but rather admit miss... Continue reading
Week 30
August 01, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 30 The final week of the stadium district. It really is a satisfying feeling to end one of these "grand project" districts, there a single structure exists across multiple weeks and defines the e... Continue reading
Week 29
July 24, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 29 Next segment of the Stadium comes in this week's update. This week focused a bit more on who could work at the Stadium, in one way or another. With a lot of weeks being shaky with hitting the... Continue reading
Week 28
July 18, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 28 Because of Summer holidays, I didn't get to work as much as I wanted on Brass City, so I didn't have time to finish the map for this week's entries. I have so far put a placeholder image where... Continue reading
Week 27
July 12, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 27 2 days late. Whoops. Oh well. My excuse will be that I wasn't home Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and I'm going to stick to it. The district of July will be a Stadium district, very much inspir... Continue reading
Week 26
July 03, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 26 *Whoa, we're half way there* Six months have now passed since I decided to do this little spare time project. It has had its ups and downs, but I've kept going, and now the start of the end ha... Continue reading
Week 25
June 28, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 25 This week's update is more late than I feel comfortable with, but motivation took a bit of a dip. I can definitely feel the marathon part of the project has set in. However, I do still feel a... Continue reading
Week 24
June 20, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 24 We continue the industrial district, with a monument to the city's blend of machine and magic in between all the factories. Also the trend of sentient cats running the city's bureaucracy conti... Continue reading
Week 23
June 12, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 23 As I promised last week, this week would be a large update. Because of the circumstances described in last week's devlog, this week contains both week 22 and 23 in one big go. The industrial q... Continue reading
Week 22
June 06, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 22 There is sadly no update this week, because basically all my free time was occupied with arranging a big event in my family, which also hijacked all my motivation to do anything on the Brass C... Continue reading
Week 21
May 31, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 21 Again, this week is late, even more late than any other update, because of a major thing happening in my private life. However, just because I update late doesn't mean I'm not working on this... Continue reading
Week 20
May 23, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 20 This update is a bit late, given I usually update on Mondays, but life happened. That phrase usually means bad things happened, but this time it actually is because I'm excited about a good th... Continue reading
Week 19
May 15, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 19 Going forward with the Fortress District, neatly placed on its island. I can definitely feel I have less space than I usually have for the map, but its a fun little exercise. The project is ne... Continue reading
Week 18
May 09, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 18 A little late on this weeks update, but the entire weekend from Friday to Sunday was packed with family gatherings, so not much time was available for this project. Nevertheless, it shall not... Continue reading
Week 17
May 01, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 17 Four months. One third of the way. Hot damn. I like that I have reached this milestone. It feels good. This week was filled with farms, which I feel makes sense for a farming district. It feel... Continue reading
Week 16
April 24, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 16 I'm closing in on the one-third mark of the entire project, which feels amazing. It motivated me to make a few things for the project I might revise in the future, but for now it includes: I p... Continue reading
Week 15
April 17, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 15 I found a few formatting errors and gave the credits section a little facelift. Otherwise, this week continues the farming district, although there is only one farm. A lot of these entries are... Continue reading
Week 14
April 11, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 14 This week was Easter holiday for me, which is why I update on a Tuesday. This was because Monday was still holiday, and I scan the maps at work. But the holiday was great for this project. I f... Continue reading
Week 13
April 03, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 13. This is a somewhat big one. The multiple documents I worked with became so unwieldy, and I got so annoyed, that I have completely restructured the entire project into a single A5 document. Al... Continue reading
Week 12
March 29, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 12. Divergence! Mostly because this week's upload is not called "Something Street", but instead we have Seasons Park. Primarily because it has a park related to the four seasons as its primary fe... Continue reading
Week 11
March 21, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #dungeon23, #Fantasy
Week 11 I usually update Brass City 23 on Mondays, but I scan the map from my notebook at the office where I work, and I worked remotely yesterday. Therefore the update today on a Tuesday. Additionall... Continue reading
Week 10
March 13, 2023 by Ragedrako#dungeon23, #Fantasy, #setting
Week 10. Another week in the residential district. I'm going along the city wall, with an opportunity to go south beyond the wall some other time. But right now, I think the next week will still follo... Continue reading
Week 9
March 06, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #Fantasy, #dungeon23
Week 9 Damn, this week was weird. I basically had NO inspiration for writing this entire week. I had an idea about a residential district, but my motivation just wasn't there. However, I didn't want t... Continue reading
Week 8
February 27, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #dungeon23, #Fantasy
Week 8 Last week of the Commercial District. A few more shops to round it out, but I also added another quite big building, probably the biggest building I've so far added to the Brass City; The Grand... Continue reading
Week 7
February 21, 2023 by Ragedrako#dungeon23, #Fantasy, #setting
Week 7. Oops, forgot to post yesterday. Had all the groundwork done but forgot to click the button. A little less serious than last week's situation of "life happened", but still annoying. Oh well. Co... Continue reading
Week 6
February 13, 2023 by Ragedrako#setting, #dungeon23, #Fantasy
Week 6. This week was a bit tough, but I hit my weekly upload milestone. Basically a lot of personal stuff happened, so I had multiple days where I had to write 2 entries in one day. Hopefully, next w... Continue reading
Week 5
February 06, 2023 by Ragedrako
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#setting, #dungeon23
Week 5 Week 4 saw the "completion" of the harbour district since I arbitrarily decided that it was, because February started here in week 5. So, on to a new district. I did decide on a "commercial dis... Continue reading
Week 4
January 31, 2023 by Ragedrako#dungeon23, #setting
Week 4. The final week of what I want to call "The Harbour District". In the grand scheme of things, then it doesn't look like a bustling harbour with warehouses and dozens of ships like you would exp... Continue reading
Week 3
January 23, 2023 by Ragedrako#dungeon23, #Fantasy, #setting
Week 3. This week I went north from week 1 to expand the coastline. I wanted something that would indicate governmental buildings, which resulted in a customs house and a small barracks. Of course, th... Continue reading
Week 2
January 16, 2023 by Ragedrako
Week 2. This week I went east since I still enjoyed the duality of what is inside and outside of the city walls. Inside the walls, we see some local shops and cafes, and outside the walls we see addit... Continue reading
Week 1
January 09, 2023 by Ragedrako
This is the first week of my Brass City 23 project, inspired by Sean McCoy's Dungeon23 concept. My plan is to update every monday with the work of the previous week. The entire week started off by me... Continue reading