Reports vary on the number of successful full-time indie authors. There aren’t a lot of 'em. Why is that?
Another September is now in the books. It was a notable month for so, so many reasons. Not the least of which is Sculptember!
Worldwide pandemic. Extreme political incompetence. Election tampering. Partisan stupidity. There are tons of things I could write about. But instead of those blood-pressure inflating topics, how about something completely different?
“Nexus Necrominder”, book two in the Smith and W’sin series is available now on Amazon.com!
Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) a threat to humanity? Without question, yes. Is it going to take over the world and decide that humans are its biggest enemy and kill us all?
“The Apoidean Affair”, the first book in the Smith and W’sin series is available now on Amazon.com!
We are in an age where nothing can be taken at face value. But does that mean we have to disbelieve all that we read? Is everything “fake news?”
I’ve been challenging myself to new creative projects lately, attempting to stretch my creative horizons. For September, I decided to participate in the Sculptember 2019 challenge.
Keep ghosts from escaping the cemetery by hurling spirit bombs at them! How far can you get before becoming overwhelmed? A new game from WizBangify (me)!
In a previous post I talked about my youthful love of coding games. I stand by everything I wrote there, but I thought I’d post an update after the release of my second little game: Drumpf Flinger 9000.
When I was growing up, my grandfather would call to wish me a happy birthday every year. Each conversation would start with the same sentence: “It was a date which will live in infamy…”
Weight alone is not a good indicator of body composition, general health, or fitness. In fact, arbitrary numbers aren’t the end-all be-all that you might think.
In a post-apocalyptic alternate timeline (when there are no limits on adjective usage!) President Drumpf is trapped on the ‘wrong’ side of his wall. Your job is to fling him over it, if you can. If not… Well, accidents happen.
I’m not going to pretend to be impartial here. Growing up I was always a Marvel fan. I used to joke that DC stood for Dumb Comics… Except for Batman, of course. Everybody loves Batman.
There’s only so much reading about theory you can do before you have to get stuck in and do the work.
On my mission of spare tire reduction and attempting to look good in a t-shirt, here’s what I’ve done to drop 40 lbs over the last 6 months.
I remember a meme that made the rounds a while back. It’s a photo of a guy looking abstractly into the distance with a caption that reads: “Writer hard at work.” It’s 100% truth.
Some lessons I’ve learned making my first two games in Unity…
I used to joke that my body is just a meat-based mechanical contraption whose sole purpose was to transport my brains around. (Maybe I watched too much Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a kid… 'Course that’d make me Krang. Hmm.)
Marvel calls them Infinite Comics. Mark Waid just calls them Digital Comics. Their founding-father Yves Bigerel (Balak) calls them Turbomedia. But personally speaking, I prefer to call them Storyboard Comics.
A lot of people seem to think that Democracy and Capitalism are the same things. I’m not sure when that happened. Maybe it’s always been assumed?
Turns out, it’s both. Black Panther is a Shakespearian tale, well told.
You’re at a party, having a good time, when your friend comes over and introduces you to someone new. What’s the first question this new person asks you?
December can be a tough month. The temperature drops to uncomfortable levels. The sun is ever receding until that glorious winter solstice arrives, heralding its return. Oh yeah, and my birthday happens too.
A lot has been (and certainly will be) said about The Last Jedi. I’m not going to really get into it that much. But I have had a few thoughts about it that I thought I’d write down.
When I was a kid, my parents picked up a game/app for the Commodore 64 called the Arcade Game Construction Kit. Thanks to that, I spent almost as much time making video games as I did playing them.
I’ve noticed that my writings, informal as they are, tend to have a lot of parentheticals. (I don’t think I’m imagining it.)
I had a lot of fun with last month’s game, but didn’t wind up with all my ideas finished in time for the deadline. But games, like art, are never finished. Just abandoned. (Right, Leo?)
When writing my mini-review of Artemis I starting thinking about how hard it must be to follow up a successful first book. Two of my favorite new sci-fi authors (Andy Weir/The Martian and Ernie Cline/Ready Player One) have done it recently, to varying levels of success.
Artemis is the second published novel from Andy Weir. I absolutely loved his first book The Martian. Did his sophomore effort live up to his premier novel?
So there’s been some clamor that Thor: Ragnarok may be too funny. This sounds a lot like being too rich, too pretty, or having too much fun. But let’s spend a second to think about it. Did it stray too far into the comedy realm?
For too long have we had to endure the desaturated grey/blue/brown color palette! Why every movie seems to default to that dingy look is beyond me.
A little while ago I rebooted this site using WordPress. It was easy. Click one button to install, and I’m up and writing. I know it’s had some security issues, but I figured it’d be more stable/secure by now… Right? Care to guess what happened?
Primarily for posterity, here are some thoughts about my game Boo-oom!
Here’s a little game from me to you, just in time for Halloween!
Say what you will about a cartoon whose protagonist is a 0.00000000001 percenter… It’s still a lot of fun.
At the beginning of the movie Strange is fundamentally a selfish character. At the end, he’s still fundamentally a selfish character. He has learned a lot technically; instead of being a master surgeon he’s a master sorcerer. But he’s not grown as a person. At all.
I’ve read many reviews claiming Guardians of the Galaxy 2 ‘isn’t as good’ as the first one. I don’t think that’s objectively true. Yes, they (or you) may not have liked it as much as the first movie. But that doesn’t mean it’s not as good.
Test page created with Comic Draw by plasq. It’s a pretty great app for drawing comics on the iPad.
The other day I stumbled across an old blog of mine from 2003. It was a bit of a time capsule. Which is rather cool. I can remember what I was up to, uh, a lot of years ago. It also started me thinking a bit about content ownership and where I share things online.
Based on my flash fiction of the same name.
One lesson I’ve learned in 20 years of software development is this: Think twice before working for any company run by a salesman.
Read the exciting comic based on a day in my life.
Find out why love is a battlefield as Jeff and Sally enter the ring of Mortal Kourting.
Join Orville and Pete on their first case and find out if it will make them famous detectives!
An astronaut and a robot wax poetic about working space.