This is a good deal. I’m only not grabbing it because I pretty much have all of these in print already. If you haven’t tried the game yet, I recommend picking this up, then decide if you’ll be doing the ToC Second Edition Kickstarter as well…
Book of the Week: The Third Crown, and Other Weird Tales.
The Third Crown, and Other Weird Tales is a collection of short stories by Paul Leone. I picked it up to read the stories set in the same universe as his good, and grim, In And Out of the Reich, but I liked the other ones, too. Also: Paul has a good book cover game. Not pointing fingers, but you can kind of tell when somebody’s taken the ‘Oh, don’t spend money on real cover art’ argument seriously. That’s not a problem here.
09/16/2023 Snippet, SEVEN FLAGS.
The Not-Surprisingly Lovecraftian AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM trailer.
I mean, it’s not surprising in context. James Wan is, after all, a big ol’ Lovecraft nerd. I don’t think that AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM is going to be a horror flick – [expletive deleted] at DC was chaotic, but not that chaotic – but the trailer’s hitting a bunch of horror tropes. And, come, I will conceal nothing from you: I am surprisingly enheartened by this trailer. It fits, as they* say, my aesthetic.
*Which is to say, ‘my.’
So I asked, “Give me a sign that I should go to bed early…”
…and my Internet promptly crashed. I’m doing this off of a hotspot. Also fine, I can take a hint. Good night, folks.
The CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY Cinematic trailer.
The Digital-only DARK HARVEST trailer.
I will need to check with Eldest Son. DARK HARVEST may very well fit his aesthetic. If I had an Alamo Drafthouse within reasonable range of my house, we might have even gone to go see this on its one-day release.
(I would love to have an Alamo Drafthouse within reasonable range of my house, yes.)
So this Unity thing is frothing people out.
Real short version: Unity is a game engine that was (up to a few days ago) used extensively by independent gaming companies because it was effectively royalty free at their level. That has now changed: starting in July, once games using Unity hit a certain threshold of revenue and installation, those companies will start getting charged a twenty cent per-installation fee*. The company’s also planning to look at lifetime revenue/installations, which means that if your game dates from, say, 2019 you’ve just been told that you’re eligible for fees going forward**.
Continue reading So this Unity thing is frothing people out.‘For What It’s Worth.’
For What It’s Worth, Buffalo Springfield
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The TINSEL RAIN Audiobook Drive is at 31%!
It was an extremely good day at the MD Renn Faire. We’re now almost a third of the way to getting the funds to getting an audiobook done of TINSEL RAIN! You can help by, well, by buying the audiobook for FROZEN DREAMS. Every little bit helps.
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