I love the stickers. Admittedly, I have nowhere to put them, leaving me with a cluttered pile of cute looking vinyl stickers tucked away in a drawer. But there’s nothing I love more than ordering something on the Internet and having a few stickers thrown in as a free gift or securing some awesome hand-drawn ones at anime and gaming conventions.
I’ve always been envious of those who can draw – my talent lies more in the written word than illustrations – and I’ve spent several hours scrolling through numerous pages of Etsy admiring the sheer talent of its artists. I want it for me! I want to be a beautiful artistic queen, selling funny stickers of boba drinking pandas and top hat wearing capybaras riding a witch’s broom around the Earth. I want to intricately cram as many copies of my project as possible onto a single sheet of paper, carefully cropping each one and storing them in an organized office that would make TikTok proud.
Sadly, I don’t think I’ll ever be artistically inclined enough to make that dream come true in the real world, but hey, that’s what video games are for, right? Escapism, living out your fantasies, all that jazz. So fuck it, I’ll play Sticky Business and forget I’m a reporter for a few hours. Why not?! Let me live vicariously through Spellgarden’s cozy creative management sim.
I don’t start with much when I open my sticker shop to the masses: a couple of shapes, a few cute animal faces, and a few phrases here and there. It’s a slow start as I scratch my head thinking about what to create. I scale down a small tea graphic and place it next to a frog’s head. I call it Frogtea. Perfect. This is true artistic talent. I can give my sticker a colored border of various thicknesses, rotate the pieces and overlap them however I like. At the moment I can only print my stickers on plain white paper, but I peek into the upgrade shop and see lovely holographic foils in all shapes and sizes waiting for me.
Although I started my shop with about zero products, I already have a couple of kind people willing to buy from me and share their stories. Some of them ask me to create specific designs once they’ve ordered me a few times, like some prehistoric goodies for a father’s dino-crazy son or a boba-themed sticker for two close friends.
I make a sticker of two dinosaurs kissing and finish it with the word “COOL” emblazoned underneath. I realize my vision of the boba-drinking panda. Not the best stickers by any means, but my new customer friends love them. I also throw in a few goodies because they’re so damn sweet: I toss some extra stickers I’m trying to move around to free up a design slot, and a lollipop and some dango as an extra thank you.
got a nice kick-start from the entire sticker business workflow: designing, printing, and then packing orders with careful delicacy. I can even choose the packaging of each package, mixing and matching different colored paper and confetti to best complement the color palette of each customer’s order.
Playing more and selling more stickers has given me access to even more shapes and doodles to mess with and mix together into adorable or nonsensical creations. I’ve been running my sticker shop for almost four hours now and I’m becoming a true master at everything. Combine a cute animal, some food and a catchword like “cute”, “YOU” or “crunchy”. Put a heart-shaped holographic film on top and watch everyone flock. My top hat capybara has yet to prove popular, though. I could just start throwing them in for free and force people to witness the glory of him.
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