Hunting is Hard Work

All this hunting has made me really tired... time for a BBQ I think:

Keep hunting, hunters! Don't forget, there are two gifts to find at Evelock in The Femdom Hunt!

A Safe Haven at Last

Hello!!

The manic craziness is at last slowing down a bit. I am exhausted!

I have been staining gazebos all week. I did find time for a quick catchup with my Princess, and a blog post to let you all know what I've been up to. Including a brand new SPECIAL OFFER for you.

Another new release, just in time for the start of The Femdom Hunt. Are you excited yet? I can barely contain myself. I have one gift all ready for you, and may just be making a special gift for my subscribers too, just to give hunt visitors a little extra something to do. If you know anyone who likes free gifts, nudge them to visit the studio and click on the Subscriber panel, just beside the flying pig :)

So, this new release. I'm super excited about it, it is the most complex, most challenging build I have undertaken so far. More animations then ever before, more props and more textures! I'm very happy with the result and I hope you like it too. Have a squint at the photos for a brief impression.

Really, though, the Haven has so much going on that a few photos will not give you enough information, so I do urge you to head over to the studio and try it out for yourself.

If that's not incentive enough, how about a SPECIAL OFFER? Sound good? From now until I remember to take the discount back off, you will get 25% off the purchase price when you buy. the vendors will ask you for the discounted price. This offer is IN-WORLD ONLY. If you buy on marketplace, full price applies.

I think that's all I have to say about Evelock this time. Please do head over to the studio and check out my newest release, I really am quite happy with it and I'd love to hear what you think. I hope all your lives are treating you well,

Bright Blessings,

Eve :)

I'm Really VERY Busy

Hello!

I don't know about you, but when I'm already stupidly busy I love to make more work for myself... well, not really, but frequently that's how it works out. And this is no exception. I was pondering what to do as a Femdom Hunt Gift (yes! It's BACK! How exciting!) and one thing, as it so often does, led to several others, 18 to be precise.

So, yes, there is a NEW RELEASE! I am sending all my subscribers a special exclusive one, but not until the hunt has already started. Ooh, the suspense! What is this new release, you ask? It's a teeshirt to let ladies get a couple of things off their chests. It's called the Mean Ladies Tee, for obvious reasons.

I won't show them all here, but there are 9 slogans, and each is available in the black and red colourway, or the pink colourway. Check out the Marketplace to see them all. I do hope you like them. We all need a bit of fun now and then. Was I thinking of any people in particular while designing these? Well, that would be telling, wouldn't it?

Head on over to the Studio if you prefer to buy in-world or pounce on Marketplace. Happy shopping! I think that's all for now, I do hope all your lives are treating you well,

Bright Blessings

Eve :)

Running Repairs on the Femdom Hunt!

You know, the Femdom Hunt VI only just started today, and already I have had to make some repairs. Make sure you head over to the main hunt blog to keep up to date with all the latest news as the fun continues over the next two weeks! And scroll down this page for a sneak peek at the Evelock gifts in the hunt too!

Some repairs were more fun than others:

I do hope your lives are treating you well.

Bright Blessings,

Eve :)

Femdom Hunting and Gachas!

Hello!  I've been all sorts of busy again and I'm getting very excited about the upcoming Femdom Hunt, the SIXTH one! Naturally that means I have made a bunch of gifts for you all to grab as you go round.

I may have got a little carried away and perhaps made too many teeshirts, so I tossed them into some Gacha machines for very little money. Turn right just inside the doors of the main Studio location (Landmark up on the right there) and head for the lucky board, you'll see the machines just beside the pig.

Pig? Yes, the wearable flying pig that is a free gift for everyone, why not grab one if that's your kind of thing? Anyway, some pictures would help I guess :

SPOILER ALERT, if you don't want to know what the Evelock gifts for the Femdom Hunt VI are, don't look at the rest of this post!

LAST CHANCE TO CLICK OUT BEFORE SEEING THE GIFTS... 

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Thought you might look! Happy hunting folks, hope to see you during the hunt!

Hope all your lives are treating you well,

Bright Blessings

Eve :)

Hunt Stress!!

Has all that Femdom Hunting got you strung out and tired? Take a little stroll to my store and have a rest on my new special offer... the ZEN HAMMOCK.

The Femdom Hunt V is still going, you have until Sunday to get through the 60 odd locations and snag yourself some excellent gifts. Hurry! There are some truly great places to discover and fabby gifts to find (yes, of course there's an Evelock one!).

To help you with relaxing afterwards I created the Zen Hammock and have made it an in-world ONLY, special price for the first 25 copies.

You get three variants in the box. A wearable hammock, just ADD it to your outfit and relax anywhere at all (you may need to turn your AO off), a rezzable hammock that is perfectly still, and a rezzable hammock that hovers gently up and down.

Both rezzable hammocks feature the same 18 solo animations, and 9 snuggle animations, while the wearable has only one animation.

So, there you have it, lots of goodies to find AND a lovely new special offer to grab. Be quick though, after the 25 have gone for L$25, it will be released at full price (L$200). Don't miss out! I do hope all your lives are treating you well,

Bright Blessings

Eve :)

The Femdom Hunt IV Starts in 3 DAYS!!!

It's getting to be a bit exciting around the Studio this week. Final preparations for the Femdom Hunt IV are well underway, and I seem to be a bit involved with more than a few aspects of it.  Why? Well, to put it simply, I happen to think that the femdom community in SL is rather wonderful, and I like to support things that give me joy.  So, obviously, I have made gifts that you are MORE than welcome to grab as part of the hunt; I will be doing my best to help out in the group chat as the hunt progresses, but please don't be asses and, finally, I have the very great honour of DJing the opening night party at Z&A Productions!!




So, gifts already, right? Here are the pics:

1. Evelock's Main Gift, to be found at The Studio:

2. Evelock's Secondary Gift, to be found at The Studio:

3. Bouddicea Femdom's Gift, to be found at the Bouddicea Femdom:

So it's all just a bit exciting. I have been privvy to a few of the other gifts made for the hunt, and I can tell you they are absolutely, completely and utterly worth having.  I very much look forward to seeing and talking with you all over the next couple of weeks!

Bright Blessings

Eve :)

Ready to Relax?

Hello everyone!

I know I am... I've been a little busy in the workshop of late, and I have two new releases for you - the Circe Chaise which co-ordinates with the previously released Circe Chair, but takes animation to squirmishly new levels; and the Minim Set of minimalist seating.  Please do have a little look, and if you'd like to try them out, head over to my Studio location to see exactly what they do... link just up there on the right.  You can buy them in-world or on marketplace:

Look out very soon for news about my special surprise for you all, which will launch on the day that the third Femdom Hunt launches... SO exciting, and yes, I am taking part as a designer again.  Ooh, I got to be moderately famous again recently, when Deirdre and Lelo were kind enough to review the Circe Chair on their fabulous blog. I think that's all the news for you, talk to you again soon!

For now though, I hope all your lives are treating you very well indeed

Bright Blessings

Eve :)

How to Win Friends on HUNTS

HUNTS are a fun way to experience a sort of guided tour of Second Life, and find cool new places to visit, great new stores to spend your lindens in and pick up some awesomely great FREE stuff... right? RIGHT?  Well, sure, so long as everyone plays ball and doesn't do things that IRRITATE everyone.

Let's deal with the hunters first, shall we?  I'm a fan of brevity, and believe in understanding implications, so I'm gonna go with a list approach.  This is MY list, these are MY opinions, and please remember, they are ONLY opinions.  That said, I think they might be opinions that a few folks share :

DON'T:

1. Whine about the quality of a prize or gift.

Seriously, you have no idea how much that PISSES CREATORS OFF!! Less than one percent of the creators in SL make anything like a liveable income from making stuff.  They make stuff for hunts because they love to create, because they would like people to see what they make, and they would like people to maybe buy some of it.  Even the simplest of teeshirts has cost the creator AT LEAST 10L$ to make, in texture uploads alone.  If we assume an ability to work at lightning speed and a willingness to work for minimum wage, the time spent in making the teeshirt is worth about £4... or $6... or about 900L$... yes, that's right, I said NINE HUNDRED LINDENS.  What gives anyone the right to whine about the quality of a gift they got FREE that has cost the creator a minimum of 910 Lindens?  And that's a simple teeshirt, remember... multiply up exponentially if we're talking about a complex outfit, a piece of jewellery... and again if we're adding in script of any kind or animations, like toys or furniture for example.

So, if a gift is not to your taste, quietly delete it and move on... do NOT whine like an ungrateful spoiled child, because that is exactly what you will sound like.

2. Whine about not being able to find a gift.

This one is very simple... it's a HUNT... not a hold out your hands and automatically get the gift.  Play the damn game a little, all right? READ the clue, work it out, LOOK around the store or sim.  Take your time... a leisurely stroll takes less time than a whine to a hunt group and a moan when you get embroiled in an argument in the group.

3. Fill up group chat with a blow by blow account of every gift you have found.

Seriously... NOBODY cares.  People look at groups to find out news about the hunt... which vendors have dropped out, which clues or locations have changed, to ask for additional clues for the trickier gifts, how many days they still have to hunt.  They generally do not give a rat's arse whether you found the yellow polka dot vase and butterfly hat that you hate and are only going to delete anyway.

4. Tell people exactly where the gift is.

Yes, you're very very clever for having found it, and feel free to give CLUES about where it is, but saying "it's underneath the golden throne behind the front left leg" completely kills the fun and the thrill of finding it for anyone else.

5. Cheat.

Yes, there are ways to make hunting easier, certain tools available in the viewer software... BUT... the more people who use those tools, the more creators get frustrated and take revenge by creating decoys, renaming bits of their store, etc.  It's a GAME, it's a HUNT... play along... cheating is like looking up the answers on a crossword puzzle book, or always employing "godmode" on a PC game... sort of pointless. If you don't like the damn game as it is.... don't play it.

DO:

1. Use the group to notify folks if you find a broken gift.

Most hunts have active groups with active moderators who are watching for exactly that news, and will get on the case quickly to get the issue resolved.  You can help them by being brief and precise about the location's number and name, and exactly what the problem is.

2. Use the group to ask for additional clues if you are REALLY stuck and have genuinely looked all over.

Chances are if you found it challenging so will other people.  Be smart about asking for help... saying "um, I need help" doesn't tell anyone what your problem is, get straight to the point... "is there an additional clue for location #1, Z&A Productions please?" is clear, short and allows folks to help you out.  You did notice the "please" in that sentence, right? Of course you did :)

3. Help other hunters who are looking for help.

Remember your first hunt, when you were clueless? Well, it might be their first hunt too.

4. Look around the locations thoroughly.

Very often the stores have group gifts, MM boards, Lucky Chairs, or just a freebies section.  You're there anyway, why not take advantage?  You might find something unbearably cool that you simply have to have. Don't rush through and miss out.

All right then... sitting there, nodding like a crazy thing and feeling smug now?  Then you are either perfect, or a creator.  Don't get comfy, it's your turn.  If we want the hunters to behave nicely, then WE have to play ball too:

DON'T:

1. Just throw out your oldest creation in a new colour as your gift.

If you do that, you are only shooting yourself in the foot.  Hunters very often use the gifts they get as indicators of your skill and creativity, so putting out the oldest (therefore, most likely... worst) example of your work is frankly a bit stupid.  Being blunt, it makes you look lazy, mean spirited and cynical... are you sure you want potential customers to see you that way?

2. Hide the gift TOO well.

As a rule of thumb, expect hunters to spend less than ten minutes looking for your gift.  If they haven't found it by then, resentment starts to build and your "approval rating" plummets.  Trust me, frustrated hunters do NOT buy your products... what they often do, however, is whine at great length about your store and how difficult it was to find the gift.

3. Get too cryptic or culturally obscure with your clues.

Get too weird, or too obscure with your clues and people will just be confused.  Confused people get frustrated, and frustrated hunters do NOT.... exactly :)  If you're a brit and use a very clever quote from The IT Crowd or Little Britain as your clue... MOST hunters will not get it, they're not brits.  Just saying :)

4. Whine about how lazy and ungrateful hunters are in the hunt chat group.

Yes, you're quite right, some of them are, and always will be.  But, saying that publicly, you run the risk of offending someone who is not lazy, nor ungrateful but just new to hunting and needing help.  That person might have lots of friends... and can directly affect your "approval rating" in the wider audience.  Are you really doing SO well with sales that you can afford to alienate and insult potential new customers? Thought not :)

DO:

1. Hide your gift near to things you want people to SEE.

Do you want more members in your group, or your mailing list? Hide the gift there then.  You want more people to see your latest product? Guess what - that's a great place to hide the gift.  Maybe you want folks to find and use the Freebie section or the MM board or the Lucky Chair?  You've got the point now, right?

2. Consider making your gift an exclusive, special edition of your latest product, or, even better - something built specifically and exclusively for the hunt.

What would you rather hear? "WOW! Did you see the prize at location #45? It's awesome, and the only way to get it is in the hunt"... or "Geez, did you see #45's prize?  Just a crappy green teeshirt with their logo on it".  I know which one will boost my "approval rating" more.

3. Consider putting out a few impulse buys near the information or landing point, beside the hint giver.

People will hesitate to spend serious money while hunting... but, put something cute and fun and irresistible right beside the hint giver or the prize itself for a low price and people may well snap it up.  I have lost count of how many cool things I have picked up because I thought "oh that's cute, and only 25L$".  Think about it, increased traffic... lots of 25L$ adds up quickly.  And people leaving your place with a bargain are happy and more likely to come back.

4. Follow the hunt guidelines.

Sounds obvious, right?  Most of the whines and moans in groups about finding gifts are related to creators not following the hunt guidelines:  not putting out the footpath where needed, not providing a clue at all, renaming the hunt object, hiding the gift TOO well, too many decoys, etc. For example, if it's a big hunt, I keep track of my progress by looking at the folder names.  If someone renames the object so it lands outside the list, or randomly decides to give me an object, not a folder, it messes me around and makes me growl... do you want to do that to people who might spend actual money in your store?

Okay, rant over... basically it boils down to this... THINK about implications, be NICE and if you don't like the implications or can't be nice... don't bloody play; take your drama some place else, because those of us who enjoy hunts cannot be arsed with it.

Hope your lives are treating you well

Bright Blessings

Eve :)

The Hunt is ON!!

I love hunting... scenting the prey, working out its weak spot, POUNCING at just the right moment, subduing them until they give in to the inevitable... Okay, realistically, SL hunts are more about careful camming, brain-melting clue dissection and lag endurance... but, that final pounce is still good.

TFH2 is going strong, and I have to say I am beyond delighted to be part of it. Do NOT miss out, make sure you grab a piece of the action before it's too late. Over 70 locations, quite a few with multiple prizes... get on it!

Call me a sap, but I really do get a thrill out of checking my transactions and seeing who picked up the hunt prize, who was smart enough to snag the gift too... and who was lucky enough to hit the lucky board at the right time. I grin EVERY time I see the little notice pop up telling me someone has won a pair of boots from one of my Lucky Boards, and I sincerely hope you enjoy wearing them if you are one of those folks.

Was very happy indeed with the very kind review Deirdre and lelo gave me in their funky blog too. All in all, you might say this has been a very good week.

Thank you to all my new mailing list subscribers... I promise not to spam you too much.

Bright Blessings

Eve :)