A thing to be filed under "incredibly obvious epiphanies": it is important to have goals. Not just objectives, but aspirations. An objective might be something like "secure an income of $x/month". The aspiration is "so I can write full-time". Or an objective might be "Sell x pieces" with the aspiration being "to qualify for guild membership". The ( Read more... )

I used to play one of those clicky "games" on Facebook, one that revolved around superheroes. Not Superhero City, but another one ( Read more... )

Trying to wield authority without confidence is like trying to aim a gun while being too afraid to look.

I've got some more stuff to do outside the house today (sorting through books that were put in storage when I moved... some of them two moves ago). My main work focus is going to be on finishing Tales of MU 465. I'm going to be doing it in hour chunks since that seems to work really well. I'm not going to put up a task list because I don't know how ( Read more... )

Here are my specific design goals for the combat system:

• Players shouldn't automatically be able to succeed at everything, but they should have a pretty good idea of what they're capable of, moment-to-moment. Things like the numbers needed to hit a normal enemy and the number of hits that that a player character can take should be close to utterly ( Read more... )

Okay, the Tales of MU website is still not 100% where I want it to be... you can still see remnants of the old color scheme hither and thither, and the default nav bar at the top--which is right now just an alphabetical list of categories--is not tremendously useful. But I've got it at 95-98% where I want it to be, and it should be readable and ( Read more... )

Jack: "Hey, did you talk to specific person about specific thing like you said?"

Me: "Well, not yet... things have gotten a little more complicated."

Jack: "How so?"

Me: "Well, I can't remember... did I tell you about specific thing involving specific personJack: *auditory equivalent of a blank stare ( Read more... )

The thing I've been agonizing over, that is. Tomorrow... tomorrow there will be furious activity. Definitely housecleaning. Probably site design. Possibly writing. There will definitely be more writing in the future than there has been in the recent past. I feel like a weight's been lifted.

Here's to addressing problems.