Dasota Universe
A strip every Monday: the life of Cadet Sela Vahl aboard the Mothership Dania, in the years before the game begins. Drawn in the game's own pixels, on its own sets, with its own cast.
#2: Report for Duty
Trained for alien worlds. Assigned to the griddle. (The second page I ever drew of this, redrawn in the game's pixels.)
The strip's words, panel by panel
- A black panel filled with an alarm: "BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"
- A cabin aboard the ship. Cadet Sela Vahl is asleep in her bunk ("ZZZ"); the clock over it reads 0850. The ship's PA: "Cadet Sela Vahl, you are to report for duty at your assigned station by 0900. I repeat: by 0900."
- Sela, still under the blanket, stretches both arms straight up and switches the alarm off: "CLICK!" A small "yawn".
- She drags herself out of the bunk with a long "MOOOAAAN". Sela: "Duty. Right."
- Sela, now in her cadet's uniform, hands on her hips, by the cabin door: "I've been trained to survive unknown elements and kill dangerous alien species."
- The Cantina's kitchen. Sela stands at a griddle with a spatula: "Why am I flipping burgers?!" Chef Castell, in his whites and toque, hands on his hips: "Protein patties, Cadet. Nobody aboard has seen a cow in seventy-three years."
Made by one developer with an AI assistant (code, dialogue and the art pipeline).