As 2025 draws to a close...

 I've been looking at some of the posts that have done well recently...

Like this post from the beginning of 2024, which gave an overview of life since the blog had started and alluded to some ideas that had been intended at the time.  

Or, curiously, this old post from 2012 about LARP, which basically predates my involvement in a few LARP groups, that I helped to run and then started to run on my own. 

Or the evergreens like this post about my favourite game Mage the Ascension, or this post which started off the map drawing tutorials that I ran through almost a decade ago.

Another surprising one that's seen a bit of traction lately is this one which describes some of my earlier thoughts about making a more modern and story driven game based on Mage: the Ascension. It's kind of weird that the post from the series that's getting the views is halfway through the sequence... however, it is one of the early stages of thought that has led to the SNAFU system that I've been developing for a decade now.

Total views this year have been interesting too...

 

Over 15 years, I've had just over 1.9 million views, and as you can see in the image above, almost 480,000 of those came to the blog this year, and almost 190,000 (10% of all views so far) hitting during September of this year for some unknown reason. Occasional bursts hit the blog, but this was an odd prolonged burst of activity. I don't think I was writing anything particularly controversial at this time, and there were no particular posts that drew the majority of visitors.

I don't write stuff to get hits or clicks, I write it for a mix of catharsis to get ideas out of my system and into the real world, and because there are a few things that I might think people could find interesting. I'll often direct folks to posts I've made weeks, months or even years previously when questions arise that I've already pondered or written about. That'll probably continue being the case for the life of this blog. 

I've got a few plans for the upcoming year, including a podcast (again), a completed and released version of SNAFU, and hopefully either "Familiar" or "Walkabout"...more in the next post, which will probably be the last one for the year.   

 

 

 

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