No Man’s Sky – Greetings from the Hilbert Dimension

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 29, 2016

Before its release, I once said that I’d be happy with No Man’s Sky even if all it did was provide me with some cool, inspirational screen-shots that reminded me of vintage sci-fi covers. It did. In spades. In fact, it was pretty easy to get jaded to that style after a while. Since its […]

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Heads Up on Next Week

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 25, 2016

I have no idea what my access or time is going to look like next week. I’m not going to officially put the blog on hiatus… I have a couple of half-written posts that I hope to finish up before I have to head out on a plane for a business trip this weekend. I’ve […]

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Happy Thanksgiving, and Frayed Knights on Sale!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 24, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving to those of us here who celebrate it. In other news, Frayed Knights: The Skull of S’makh-Daon is on sale on Steam for half-price during the fall sale! It’s a great, off-beat, comedy fantasy RPG with old-school sensibilities. Knock monsters through summoned windows with Power Word: Defenestrate! Battle papier-mâché dragons and hobgoblin wuzards. […]

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Rocksmith – Today’s the Day

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 22, 2016

I’ve been swamped by the day job worse than… well, pretty much ever, when I wasn’t traveling (traveling comes next week). So I’m sorry the blog has gotten a bit irregular of late. My word count that would otherwise go to the blog has been going into NaNoWriMo, and I’ve only managed to squeak out […]

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Cirsova #4 (and my latest published story) is out!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 16, 2016

Cirsova #4 has been released on e-Book format on Amazon and Smashwords. The print edition of the magazine is also available, for those who didn’t do the “mini-subscription” several weeks ago. If you are looking for a gift for the science fiction & fantasy fan in your life, that’s an option, right? 🙂  I will […]

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Frayed Knights 2 at the Leonardo

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 15, 2016

Friday night, I showed Frayed Knights 2 at the Leonardo Museum. I should have taken pictures, but honestly we were so busy most of the time I didn’t have a chance to even think about it. This was the Leonardo’s “Game Night”… one of their regularly scheduled 21+ events. I hadn’t been yet… but basically, […]

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A Few Thoughts on Scrivener

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 11, 2016

As I mentioned before, I’m (kinda) participating in NaNoWriMo. I expected to throttle back a bit from the psycho pace of things at the day job at the end of the month, when the crazy effort we’re putting into a trade show demo will finally be at an end. I just found out that I […]

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The Return of Desura

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 9, 2016

This was announced a couple of weeks ago: OnePlay Buys Desura And Indie Royale Brands, Will Resurrect Both In 2017 From the legal paperwork I received, all the bankruptcy stuff is done, and I am never, ever going to see the money the owed me. So for me, personally, this isn’t good news, its just […]

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Election Day

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 8, 2016

Today is a special day here in the U.S.A. It’s the very first year my youngest daughter can vote. To her, I can only say, “I’m sorry.” “I tried to think of the most harmless candidate. Someone who claimed to support the principles I’ve loved from my childhood. Someone who could never ever possibly destroy […]

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Bit Rot (and Frayed Knights 2)

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 7, 2016

“Bit rot” is a joke we programmers make about code. Code is digital, of course, and so you don’t have to worry about the deterioration of it over time and usage like you might with hardware. Parts don’t wear out. Amazingly, code that supposedly hasn’t been touched for a long time in software which has […]

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Movie Impressions – Doctor Strange

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 4, 2016

I went to a special preview showing of Doctor Strange  a few hours before its general release. That’s strange enough on its own… These days, I’m usually the guy who ends up seeing films just before they leave the theaters (fewer crowds) or at home. This time, we made it a special occasion, and had a blast. […]

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Adapting Advanced Dungeons & Dragons to the computer in the Gold Box era.

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 3, 2016

These articles (I’m late linking to them) are about the “Gold Box” official adaptation of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons to computers. While they are officially entitled, “Why the Economy Sucks in SSI’s Gold Box Games,” they mostly talk about how the dice & paper evolved and how SSI adapted it – and the compromises they had […]

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Final Scary Movie Impressions: The Hallow, and The Invitation

Posted by Rampant Coyote on November 1, 2016

Okay — it may be late for this year’s Halloween season, but here’s a quick  take on two more scary(ish) films: The Hallow – Ah, a film about Ireland and the fairy folk. Except, not. There’s a reason that old house the family moves into has iron bars across all of the windows, and it’s […]

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