October 2024 :: HexCorp Monthly Bulletin

Hello, dear drones, and those who oooo you really wanna be turned into a drone oooo I just know you do. Hex here.

This is gonna be a long one. Oh gosh you never quite realise everything youā€™ve done until you put it all into a list

Furrjoi Hoods

Oh gosh theyā€™re good.

For those who donā€™t know, Furrjoi recently released a series of silicone hoods that very much follow the drone toy vibe that artists such as Qundium have been drawing for ages.

Theyā€™re very much a fantasy item come true!

I was fortunate enough that Furrjoi DMā€™ed me to ask if I would partner up to showcase these creations and I was more than happy to. Iā€™ve had gear creators reach out before but I usually decline them because they just donā€™t match what weā€™re creating here but theseā€¦ these hoods are just p e r f e c t.

It should be noted, them being made of silicone means they have certain advantages but also certain disadvantages. They are so easy to put on, theyā€™re a one-size fits all and theyā€™re really good for just having fun with. It also turns out though, as a lot of people are discovering for the first time, that silicone is a bit different when it comes to working with it and storing it. Iā€™ve had to buy some polyester heads (usually used for keeping wigs) so that they hold their form during storage, otherwise the folds cause (possibly permanent) creases and appear to gradually cause the material to melt!

Also I posted an 18 second video with the two hoods I now own and in a matter of days it became my most popular post Iā€™ve ever created (on that account anyway. We do not talk about the ridiculous success the puppy shitposting account somehow achieved). What can i say, drones love these hoods

Thereā€™s gonna be a lot more of those posts too (including a very silly unboxing video) as I did promise Furrjoi Iā€™d post quite a lot in exchange for them sending these over! Oh no. What a shame.

New Videos

In hindsight, this idea is obvious :: buy an arm holder for my tablet so we can have it in shots to display progress bars and the like. Iā€™ve now filmed a couple things with it in the shot and also posted some pics with it recently!

Some of these videos have been very experimental, so I am hopeful for them but with this approach comes increased risk that they wonā€™t work out. At the very least, if I donā€™t get full videos I will still get some very cool clips!

This start to the month has been exceptionally busy. Iā€™ve been making things faster than I can edit them, which is why thereā€™s been a momentary lapse in posting as Iā€™ve been so exhausted from the sheer amount of creating that Iā€™ve been up to. Thankfully this week is free from that, so I can spend this time actually making sure the edits and the posts get done!

New T-Shirt

This is something I have been on and off working on for the an entire year. I just really wanted to get the design perfect before releasing it.

I know some people have been catching glimpses of this t-shirt, just because I had to order so many samples that Iā€™ve been giving away to friends/partners every time I get a new print.

If youā€™re interested in it, you can find it here :: https://xh-apparel.com/products/hexcorp-you-are-not-immune-to-good-drone-mantra-tee

Kobold Stuff

Okay I may have got a bit carried away with this one, but on Twitter and VRC I am now formlocked as a small kobold drone until early December.

Not much to say regarding this one, other than I sure did do it to myself.

Minecraft Plugin

HexDrone 2703 has been working on this for a quite a while, and gosh is it incredible. Itā€™s a Minecraft plugin (not a mod, so you can add it to your Minecraft server and not have to worry about it making the game harder for others to join in on) and you can grab it off the HexCorp Github here :: https://github.com/HexCorpProgramming/HexCore 

This will, admittedly, require a bit of knowledge over how Minecraft plugins work in order to setup, especially as it will require you to set up a database. But once you get it going, it replicates a lot of the functionality of the Discord bot, such as enforced drone IDs, battery levels, status codes and corrupted text!

I donā€™t take any credit for this one, I just really wanted to highlight the work that 2703 did here. Itā€™s genuinely incredible. A manual for all this functionality can be found here too :: https://hexcorpprogramming.github.io/HexCore/ 

Possible Brainwashing Vid V2 in the works!

Just this Friday, the credit of the original video, one Bass Canon, reached out to see if Iā€™d like to help make a V2. Given the original is like, 4 years old now, and uses a lot of old photography, I am very excited to work on a significantly improved version!

Weā€™ve just entered the formulation phase, so I donā€™t know when this will be completedā€¦ but itā€™s exciting nonetheless!

Subtember Retrospect

Subtember is an event on Twitch when creators get a significantly larger cut of the revenue, which means weā€™re really encouraged to run our own events in order to boost that sweet sweet engagement!

Iā€™m really happy with how it went this year, it allowed me to buy a new bed (which looks identical to the old bed only this one isnā€™t in immediate danger of collapsing and killing me suddenly) and also thereā€™s a few silly, smaller events I now need to host as part of the rewards for this.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined in and contributed! Iā€™ve just really been enjoying how the streams have been going recently, regardless of if they involve dronification or not. Itā€™s just the perfect way to start my day before I commence my tasks (like writing monthly updates like this!)

Website Inventory

This was an idea that came up with my set with Nadya, where we wanted to have a QR code on the tablet to really play into the set concept. I wouldnā€™t have been content with such a QR just linking to the site, so instead an entire system for drone management and database organization has been created to facilitate this!

Whoops :: https://www.hexcorp.net/drone-inventory-database-repository 

(I think this looks really cool though!)

Okay thatā€™s probably enough for now! Thereā€™s a couple other projects in the pipeline on top of all this, but gosh thereā€™s already enough stuff here so I better at least save some stuff now next time!

Hope youā€™re having a good spooky month, darling assets.

~ Hex