⚙️Shipping Our Cast🛠
Today we bring you a small treat!
Behold, a behind-the-scenes look at a topic sure to interest and entice: how did the #FujoGuide team come up with such a shippable cast of characters?
Keep reading the replies for more ⬇️
And if you're just joining us now and need to catch up on what FujoGuide is all about, read our pitch and back our project at our Kickstarter page!
TL;DR: we’re making web development more accessible to fandom communities
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/essential-randomness/the-fujoshi-guide-to-web-development/
As with most things in our Kickstarter, our character creation was a collaborative effort. We wanted our cast to embody tropes beloved by shippers, but also to prove to existing developers we know what we're talking about!
This was not an easy task. So, how did we accomplish it?
At first, we didn't know which characters we needed! When our project lead @essentialrandom wrote the initial pitch, she jotted down a couple examples of how the characters MIGHT behave.
Why these characters? Well, she loves TypeScript, and Git wrote itself.
Character creation was a collective process and TV Tropes our best friend. Which characters did the team like? What tropes did they embody? What were genre must-haves? What made them undeniably hot?
We watched classics like Ouran or Fruits Basket to get ready! Hetalia, even!
During this process, we also got to teaching! Our lead @essentialrandom held learning sessions for collaborators explaining modern web development technologies and their relationships.
You can see the resulting diagram here: https://excalidraw.com/#json=FL9chJkGtRCtpwaHt2dwm,bjlcc3zCCBtHmEsX5vwG7g
While we researched, we discussed possible topics and created more characters. We even have some yet-to-be-released work-in-progress hotties who unfortunately didn't make it into our first guide: [REDACTED] and [TOP SECRET], courtesy of CMDonovann: https://cmdonovann.neocities.org
Eventually, we landed on Git(Hub) as a topic: widely applicable, complex enough, and yet self contained–the perfect test for our educational prowess!
And (we'll admit it) the words "tentacle catboy" were all the team needed to get really sold on the vision.
Documents were made and filled with technical details, references, and character tidbits we brainstormed together.
Character designers worked closely with the rest of the team to tastefully include technical references, such as Git's branches, Terminal's cowsay, and CSS' owl.
Want to know more about these “masters at work”? Go follow them! https://brokemycrown.tumblr.com (Git & GitHub), @spillingdown (Terminal), https://ymkse.tumblr.com/ (HTML & CSS), and https://sgt-spank.tumblr.com/ (ARIA).
@fujowebdev @spillingdown direct access to the operating system sounds *incredibly* horny now thanks
