Er. That may not be what I meant.

I turned in the complete draft of the game yesterday! There will still be edits, and I still need to balance a couple of stats better, and my code is stilted, but it's complete, and you can play it all the way to the end. You can even get a happy ending.

It still amazes me how much coding is a linguistic ( Read more... )

The lunar zodiac is older than the solar zodiac, and the names of the moons and of the actual signs vary from place to place. Within Chenedolle itself, there is a certain amount of (largely unintended) cultural pressure to adopt the Astreianter versions of both calendars, and the regional versions are falling into disuse. The League cities have ( Read more... )

As requested yesterday, a quick list of the planets and signs of the solar zodiac. This is a binary solar system, with the Winter-Sun orbiting the main sun in the outermost orbit. The Winter-Sun has 3 visible planets of its own, Sofia, Tyrseis, and Oriane (listed from inner to outer orbits). The other zodiacal planets orbit the primary sun, and are ( Read more... )

An odd thing happened at last weekend’s Shore Leave convention, one that’s left me feeling I need to clarify something I said. I was on a panel on LGBT characters in SF, which - like many of the panels at this year’s Shore Leave - clearly involved some confusion among the panelists and audience as to what the panel was supposed to be about. The ( Read more... )

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It’s been a busy few weeks, but mostly behind-the-scenes busy rather than announcement-producing busy. That said, I do have a couple of things to mention.  First, Year’s Best SF 31 is now available. My story “Finders” is included, along with a fairly amazing range of stories. Next, the audio edition of Silver Bullet is also available - magic, ( Read more... )

Shore Leave was a blast, not least because of the number of folks I met from LJ.  It was also a very busy con. Not only was I on a ton of panels, but there were a ton of panels I wanted to see, actors I wanted to hear, friends to touch base with, and the masquerade.  It went off extremely well - a tip of the hat to con co-chair Inge Heyer, who was ( Read more... )

I wrote earlier here about the splendid Night Circus game created by FailBetter to promote Erin Morgenstern's novel of the same name.  (FailBetter are the people who do Fallen London, formerly known as Echo Bazaar, a fabulously well-written web-based game that's had me hooked for about a year now.)  I've said for a while that I'd pretty much do ( Read more... )

I've now read the book - and enjoyed it very much; it definitely lives up to the advance press - and I have to say I'm as impressed with the folks at Failbetter who designed the game as I am with Erin Morgenstern.  It was fun to play the game before I'd read the book:  the black-and-white-with-touches-of-red cards are lovely, and the prose is ( Read more... )

I've been intrigued by advance press for Erin Morgentstern's The Night Circus - this is the first paragraph of the book blurb, the one that grabbed me, and I'm really hoping the novel lives up to it.

"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped ( Read more... )