Kara Stone is creating
Videogames or whatever
Arts and Crafts and Games and Weirdness
5
$15
Milestone Goals
Materials
This would help cover the cost of materials for whatever kind of thing I'm making: yarn, soft circuitry, thread, wood, whatever
Work with Others
Allows me to pay more to the artists and musicians I'm working with and pay people to polish games in a way that I am not able to
Travel
Enable me to go to festivals, art shows, conferences and hold workshops on game-making in places beyond Toronto.
Living Expenses
I can live! And if I can live, I can make stuff!
(maybe the shouldn't go last...?)
(maybe the shouldn't go last...?)
About
I like art, yoga, selfies, tech, friendship, feelings, crystals, natural deodorant, space, sci-fi, astrology, fantasy, sometimes videogames, all the time blue skies.
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hiiiiiiiiiii I'm Kara Stone, a game developer / art-maker. That's me in the Fairweather Fortune promo video above sharing all my secrets and fears with my BFF.
This Patreon is acting as a process archive. I post concept art, sketches, iterations, early drafts, and blog posts reflecting on stages of creation. Some will be open for all, some exclusively for patrons. Follow+donate for some insight into my process from idea formation and sketching to polishing and releasing. It doubles as a public archive as well as a personal one I can look back on for learning, rethinking, and maybe changing my approach to making as more about exploratory process than end product.
Most of the updates will be about Ritual of the Moon, a game about a witch exiled to the moon. It has all handcrafted and scanned images made by the artists Julia Gingrich and Rekha Ramachandran, beautifully haunting music by Halina Heron and Maggie McLean and cyberwitch programming by Hope Erin.
About me:
I'm super passionate about feminist art and the world of possibilities that the videogame medium offers. I made my very first game a few years ago in a long-program workshop put on by Dames Making Games. It was such a great experience and opened up the universe of games to me. Since then, I've been featured in Vice, Wired, Polygon, Offworld and others, having made over 10 games with lots more on the way.
I've recently finished my Masters degree studying mental health, affect theory, feminism and videogames, and have decided to go full out into full time game-making! I'm very very excited to do this but it means that I'll be living grant to random paying workshop with my fingers constantly crossed. This very generously donated money will go to supporting my games and enabling me to travel to conferences, festivals, and residencies. As you might expect, so much of getting games out their and people playing them is going to festivals and art shows around the world. Each time is such an amazing experience, getting to meet cool, enthusiastic people and seeing what other people are making. I've been really lucky to be able to go to a bunch of things but for everything I went to, I've had to turn down double because I couldn't afford it. Along with going to shows and promoting my games, the money would allow me to work full time on Ritual of the Moon and make sure the people I'm working with get as much money as possible for their hard, amazing work.
Any help would really mean a lot to me and those I work with. I'm trying hard to make art practice sustainable and actually viable but I need help!
Check out some of my games or find out more about me at my website
Cyclothymia, narrative explorative game about astrology and feelings.
Cyber Sext Adventure, a texting game about sexting with a bot
Techno Tarot, a robot giving you a tarot reading
Fairweather Fortunes, a print n play game using cootie catchers and MASH. Made with Beth Maher.
Medication Meditation, a game about mental illness and wellness
Cyborg Goddess, a game made using iV engine investigating whether it is better to be a cyborg or a goddess.
Feminist Confessional, repent your feminist sins
This Patreon is acting as a process archive. I post concept art, sketches, iterations, early drafts, and blog posts reflecting on stages of creation. Some will be open for all, some exclusively for patrons. Follow+donate for some insight into my process from idea formation and sketching to polishing and releasing. It doubles as a public archive as well as a personal one I can look back on for learning, rethinking, and maybe changing my approach to making as more about exploratory process than end product.
Most of the updates will be about Ritual of the Moon, a game about a witch exiled to the moon. It has all handcrafted and scanned images made by the artists Julia Gingrich and Rekha Ramachandran, beautifully haunting music by Halina Heron and Maggie McLean and cyberwitch programming by Hope Erin.
About me:
I'm super passionate about feminist art and the world of possibilities that the videogame medium offers. I made my very first game a few years ago in a long-program workshop put on by Dames Making Games. It was such a great experience and opened up the universe of games to me. Since then, I've been featured in Vice, Wired, Polygon, Offworld and others, having made over 10 games with lots more on the way.
I've recently finished my Masters degree studying mental health, affect theory, feminism and videogames, and have decided to go full out into full time game-making! I'm very very excited to do this but it means that I'll be living grant to random paying workshop with my fingers constantly crossed. This very generously donated money will go to supporting my games and enabling me to travel to conferences, festivals, and residencies. As you might expect, so much of getting games out their and people playing them is going to festivals and art shows around the world. Each time is such an amazing experience, getting to meet cool, enthusiastic people and seeing what other people are making. I've been really lucky to be able to go to a bunch of things but for everything I went to, I've had to turn down double because I couldn't afford it. Along with going to shows and promoting my games, the money would allow me to work full time on Ritual of the Moon and make sure the people I'm working with get as much money as possible for their hard, amazing work.
Any help would really mean a lot to me and those I work with. I'm trying hard to make art practice sustainable and actually viable but I need help!
Check out some of my games or find out more about me at my website
Cyclothymia, narrative explorative game about astrology and feelings.
Cyber Sext Adventure, a texting game about sexting with a bot
Techno Tarot, a robot giving you a tarot reading
Fairweather Fortunes, a print n play game using cootie catchers and MASH. Made with Beth Maher.
Medication Meditation, a game about mental illness and wellness
Cyborg Goddess, a game made using iV engine investigating whether it is better to be a cyborg or a goddess.
Feminist Confessional, repent your feminist sins