Hello everyone!
Not much to talk about again but, in case you missed it last week, we added a new goodie for you to download: The Aikonian Institute Emblem Wallpaper!
Download it on the Goodies/Donate page now! We'll upload the next goodie when the donation meter on that page fills up again :)
Have a great week and enjoy today's page!

Update: Just uploaded the new goodie: Aikonian Institute Emblem Wallpaper! Download it on the Goodies/Donate page now!
We'll upload a new goodie when the donation meter fills up again :)

Hello everyone!
We'll have a new goodie up on the goodies page today, so keep an eye out for that! Otherwise, I don't have much to talk about this week, so enjoy today's page and have a great week!

I've been thinking about this and I'd like to know: What are your thoughts on us starting a Patreon page? Would you become a patron? Is it worth the trouble? We'd love to hear your thoughts before giving it a shot, so let us know what to think!

Hello everyone!
Hope you had a great week! A lot of stuff has been coming up on our end and we've just been so busy D:
There isn't much I can discuss though, so just enjoy today's page and have a wonderful week! Oh, also, did you see the adventurer images we posted on our blog last week? If not, click here to check them out!

Hello everyone!
We've been extremely busy lately which, unfortunately, lead us to not have a page ready for this week :(
We'll be back with a new page next Monday though! So don't worry and have a wonderful week!

Hello everyone!
Lots of exciting stuff has been happening at MADSOFT but, unfortunately, it isn't anything I'm allowed to talk about yet :(
Hopefully, though, I'll have lots of news for you soon! Until then, enjoy today's page, have a fun St. Patrick's Day, and have a wonderful week!

Hey, everyone! Tim here!
I wanted to tell you about a little experiment I'm doing this year where I make an entire game - from start to finish - each month, every month! It's called, appropriately enough, Tim's 1-Game-a-Month Project!
The idea is to sort of hone my craft, try new things, pick up new ideas, see them out and experiment - all without allowing the development of a project to drag on and bog down for months and months. Each month I'll be coming up with a brand new game idea - nothing that I've already been working on, or thinking about - and at the end of the month, wherever it's at, I'm releasing it to the world.
I'll also be blogging about each game's development cycle, sharing thoughts and ideas to kind of show how the game is shaping up - and I'll share various development builds so you can see the evolution of the game from idea to published form.
I'll most likely be using HaxeFlixel for all of the games during this experiment, because it's amazing and easy to use and will allow me to easily publish for Web (Flash), Windows, and Android platforms.
Each of the games I complete during this experiment will also be 100% free, and open-source, so you can look at the code, fork the repo on GitHub and mess around with it, if you want. The goal here is to just get lots of games made so I can see the process through to the end enough times to be comfortable with it, so that when this year is up and I have 12 new complete games finished, I can jump into a new project which will take all the awesome ideas, concepts, and wisdom I've learned and make something amazing!
So, check out my 1GAM Site and/or follow my Tumblr to keep up with my progress, and be sure to try out the first of my Game-a-month games from February: Meat Bags!

Hello everyone!
I hope you had a great weekend! This past Saturday, I participated in a thirteen-hour livestream event with other team members working on Project: Velyria. If any of you dropped by, I'd like to thank you for the support! For those of you interested in Project: Velyria, but did not get the chance to chat with us and watch us work, we'll be posting highlights from the stream on our Youtube channel some time later this week.
Until then, enjoy today's page and have a wonderful week!

Hello everyone!
Not much to talk about today, we've all been really busy :(
So just enjoy today's page and have a great week!

Hello everyone!
For those of you that have donated more than $5 in the past, we've updated the Donator PDF! You can simply go through your email and click your original download link to get it or, if you can't find your link, simply email us at hello@aikoniacomic.com to ask for a new one. Everyone who donates $5 or more from now on will receive the new version of the PDF as well.
Also, we've added the option to donate using Gumroad instead of Paypal :)
Enjoy today's page and have a great week!

Hello everyone!
Nothing much to say today. For those of you that did not notice, we added some new icons on the left side of the website, right under the banner ad, last week. Some of you were asking us for a link to our RSS feed, so now you can easily access it by clicking the RSS feed icon :)
Have a wonderful week!

Hello everyone!
In case you missed it last week, we posted a blog entry that goes over the process of turning an Aikonia script into an illustrated page! Read it here and feel free to comment or let us know if you have any questions!
Enjoy today's page and have a magnificent week :)

Update: The post is up!
Read it here: From Script To Page: The Artistry Behind Aikonia

Hello everyone!
Nothing much to say this week! We'll have that post I mentioned last week up really soon, it's just taking a little longer to write than expected! Until then, enjoy today's page and have a wonderful week!

Hello everyone!
Ira did a magnificent job with this week's page, so I really hope you enjoy it :)
We'll be posting an entry on our blog later this week that goes over Ira's illustration process and workflow, so look forward to that! Until then, have a wonderful week!

Hey Aikonaughts!

In case you haven't heard, next weekend is the 2014 Global Game Jam! People from around the world are congregating to build games in 48 hours! It's a wild and exciting event that helps bring together talented people. This will be my second time participating in the GGJ (although I've done several local Game Jams), and I can't wait!

If you're free this weekend, check out the Global Game Jam website on how to participate - there are sites all over the world (hence the GLOBAL bit ;) ). It doesn't matter what your level of experience is - everyone and anyone is invited to take part: Programmers, designers, writers, artists, musicians, game enthusiasts, people who don't know what games are but happen to show up anyway, etc... it doesn't matter! Find a team and make a video game OR board/card game and make new friends in the process!

Hello everyone!
I've been extremely busy so I have nothing to talk about this week. Enjoy this new page and maybe Tim and Ira will post a blurb entry later :)
Have a great week!

Happy new year everyone!
Break time is over and we're back with the first page of chapter five. A lot of awesome stuff planned for this chapter, so look forward to that :)

Have a wonderful week!

Last week's (very pretty) page marks the end of Aikonia's fourth chapter.

A lot has happened over the last chapter. We not only transitioned over to a completely new setting, but also welcomed a new illustrator to our team.

We hope you've enjoyed this chapter and we will be back with Aikonia's fifth chapter on January 6th! Until then, feel free to re-read the fourth chapter again from its first page :)

And keep an eye on our Facebook page and Twitter stream while we're on break as we will still be posting things every once in a while! Also, if you haven't yet checked out Project: Velyria, you should take the time to do so!

For those of you who celebrate this time of year: Happy holidays! And to everyone: Have a happy new year! Thank you all for your amazing support and see you in 2014!