Updates Autumn 2026

It's been a busy month outside of the blog, but it has regularly been the case that I've had over 1000 daily visitors here (sometimes 1500+, occasionally 2000+). 

Three things have happened this month that are newsworthy. 

  1. I've managed to get back in contact with Sasha Morgan, and this will allow a few more images for the SNAFU projects (the "Cookbook", the. "SRD", "Familiar", and "Walkabout"). I know I mentioned that in the last post, but a few more images have arrived and I'll be happy to share them soon. 

 


  1. My design protege, Erin, has received her first payment for a game on Itch. She has been making monthly games for about a year, offering them as free downloads. However, it looks like someone decided not to just download a game for free an has actually purchased it for the suggested $2 price. It may not be much, but I remember when I sold my first game about 30 years ago, and the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing I'd done something that people appreciate enough to pay for it. 


 

  1. After 3 years of on-sgain-off-again investigation, things are coming to a conclusion about something I haven't been able to disclose. Hopefully I'll be able to reveal the backtory soon.

At the moment, I'm pondering a new sequence of posts to get things going on the blog again. We'll see how things go. 


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