Dear heroes,
Behold.
The pixellated digital edition! I managed to arrange a 32 dpi version of the UVG 2E for your enjoyment, fully compatible with your all-eras compatible personal electric entertainmentulator daemon device! 64 colors including 13 shades of taupe! Amazing, right?
... right?
2023-06-14 04:14:00 +0000 UTC
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Dear heroes,
Greetings from the Red Land, where - in the words of some rum folks the red kroovy flows like wine because it is the wine. As a location, it provides quite a contrast to the UVG locations. Where those are empty and rather desolate, this one is spurting with life and ... uh ... sparkly vampires.
I'm styling each of the lo...
2023-06-06 06:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear heroes,
Well. That was great! I hoped you all enjoyed getting the UVG 2E in your post, now I'll be locking it up in the vault again and making it accessible only for every full moon that coincides with a celestial event.
Now back to small strange forest fictions.
2023-05-25 01:54:51 +0000 UTC
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Dear Heroes!
The Blue God is great and has not seen fit to rot my hand from my core, my mind from my brain gore ... the art for the Eternal Return Key is done and now I can share the finished v1.0 version of it with you!
Oh, it's been so long since I could share a finished book with you, this is truly a joy.
Within you may find...
2023-05-11 23:23:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, good heroes!
I've decided to try and post a little more often, even when I don't have a fully finished thing to share.
I'm back from the little holiday I took with my wonderful wife. It was a little tiring, with the pregnancy moving a...
2023-05-04 04:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Heroes!
I'm back! The two week holiday was lovely. I didn't go completely offline (probably should have), but I did go offline a lot and discovered that in the embodied world of the northern hemisphere, here was Spring in full bounty.
The cherry blossoms were very early, but very beautiful, and I — through luck not skill — t...
2023-04-21 10:33:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear heroes!
I hope all of you are well, I hope your adventures have been fun. A simple post this time, no big stories or backgrounds.
I've illustrated the first half of Synthetic Dream Machine: Eternal Return Key. It is attached.
I thought I'd have this post ready sooner, but I ran into some color management is...
2023-03-23 11:14:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, good heroes!
I thought I'd have this quick post done ten days ago, but color management intervened. Essentially, I spent a week troubleshooting the print files for the new UVG ref screen and map, because CMYK color management in Affinity products exhibits some quirky behaviors ... long story short: back to Adobe. Sigh.
Ok, wha...
2023-03-08 01:04:56 +0000 UTC View PostDear heroes,
Surprise! The free rules zine (or at least the free artless version) is writ and made. The goal with this was to provide a slightly more detailed overview of the rules (the artist formerly known as SEACAT) in UVG 2E / UVG than the 6Fold Rosetta 1-page.
however ...
I thought it would be terribly dull if all...
2023-02-22 05:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, heroes!
As promised last week, a new post just for your consideration.
It includes Our Golden Age: which has grown. Finishing up the settlement zones, added some more room options (I think), and cleaned up a few things.
Also: some art for you to enjoy! Not yet 100% sure where it will all fit ... will see in layout. But a...
2023-02-14 08:43:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear readers!
I am tempted to apologize for my irregular posting once more. I shall resist. But I am tempted. In truth, it is my classic problem: I want to only post worthy and finished things, and suddenly a month is by.
I'll get to the cover image in a the third part.
Dear heroes,
First, a very happy new year. I hope you celebrated well. I hope this new year will meet you with health and contentment, and here and there some well deserved fortune and joy. May it be a human year, of games and toil, defeats and successes, and through it all, companionship and community and togetherness.
Dear heroes,
Ideally, I wanted to share the whole of SDM:OGA (my fork of beloved BIG SEACAT) with you for Christmas. But, in truth ... who wants to read a whole rulebook for the holidays? Hold the response. That's a rhetorical question.
No, what I decided to share was the first part of the HVNMKR section of SDM:OGA.
•â€...
2022-12-22 14:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear heroes!
I thought I would post sooner, but as lady luck would have it, here we are in mid December. As usual, I had this idea that I would prepare a big wow thing to surprise you all and then ... well.
Instead, find attached another step on the road to UVG 2E.
2022-12-15 11:59:27 +0000 UTC
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Dear Heroes,
Hello once more. To those in the USA also a happy thanksgiving.
I've wrapped up about 98% of the work on the new edition of the UVG. I knew it would take some work to make it all ship-shape and pretty, and I estimated the amount quite correctly ... and yet, even without rewriting, just adjusting, tweaking, making more sp...
2022-11-26 12:04:25 +0000 UTC View PostDear Heroes,
Greetings once more from the Layout Bunker. Last time I shared a preview of the expanded vehicles & equipment section from UVG 2E, today I give you: the Bestiary.
UVG didn't really have a bestiary, which was ... a bit of a shame, to be honest. To an extent I compensated with the factions section, but it really didn't...
2022-11-20 12:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Heroes,
Truly, your patience is to be exalted. I had intended to upload this post last week, but then procrastination had its evil way, I dallied, I strayed ... and so only now you will see what I have wrought.
I mentioned that I did some editing. Well, a lot of it took place in the last part of the book. I've cleaned up and si...
Dear Heroes,
Good Public,
Humans all. Greetings from the editing mines.
The last couple of weeks I've been working on the 2nd edition of the UVG. How's it going?
Dear Heroes!
Thank you for your patience. I wanted to post this vote earlier, but things kept intervening. So, first things first ...
You (or at least, some of your peers) nominated the following quarters of the Dead City for the next volume of the city crawler (I've added a bit of description for them, from the 2nd...
2022-09-30 10:46:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Heroes,
Old and new, those that have been here a while, and those who are newer.
I can't believe I'm writing about something other than the big seacat book for a change! Whew! I thought it'd take much less time to make, but ... well ... it didn't.
Some of you remember a time right after I finished writing...
2022-09-13 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear heroes!
I planned to post this update in the last week of August, but life kind of had other plans. Though I was drawing and writing and editing and polishing ... the last week was eaten up by wrapping things up in Slovenia, sprucing up the family house, tossing out old things, meeting friends before I left, packing, and getting very ...
2022-09-08 07:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear heroes,
I hope your holidays are going well. Mine are ok (hence the short post) - but I have been drawing ... so _Uranium_ got twenty new pieces as a bonus. Some included in the header. :)
I hope you'll all appreciate an art-heavy update.
- added art: advancing epic legend, nureality tropical beach, re...
2022-08-07 15:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post
transmission 22714//
Dear heroes,
Before I left on holiday, I decided to try out how the new standardcat template worked with some ... uh ... extant text.
So, I took a look at Dead City again, and it worked well.
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Dear heroes,
Welcome to July! This update is going to be shortish because the amount of new art is quite large. 50 new or restored pieces.
I'm mending from the injury, I can now limp along without crutches, which is wonderful: less cabin fever. I've also buckled and gotten myself a cushioned office chair. This means I can sit and wri...
2022-07-08 08:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear heroes,
Besides triggering many reflections on my insecurities as a designer, getting Uranium Butterflies 0.87 out of the gate also provided a chance to reflect on something much more basic about design:
How to make the process of making games (and books) easier?
...
2022-06-23 04:39:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Heroes,
It has been a journey longer than I anticipated. I did not expect Seacat to grow so big, yet here we are. Content complete*.
This means:
Dear heroes!
Here's a second update for May, available in June, because months just end all of a sudden and surprise a human who was expecting them to last a bit longer. OOPS.
Time keeps being interesting in the worst ways. Three weeks with foot in a splint now, at least one more week to go. Then we'll see if I'll require surgery for...
2022-06-04 10:16:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear heroes,
Welcome to the big May seacat update. The big book has reached its 320 page limit. Wow. No more pages to add*—from now on, it's going to be layout tweaks and spacing tucks to get it together.
New since the last update:
Hello, folks!
Been a while since I did a public post, but now I've got a proper excuse. Two bits of actual real-world news.
Sip your reality latte and curry cola in style with the timelost interloper at the merch...
2022-05-19 09:43:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear heroes,
I was sure we were in the middle of April, but we're near the end. Well. I caught the covid, probably omicron, in early April and that took me out for a bit. 10 days or so. Luckily, aside from slightly less energy reserves, I feel ok now.
The book is at 308 pages and nearly finished. Of fresh content remaining, it's 38 s...
2022-04-25 12:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post