Tales of a Role Player who loves F/sN and Sci-Fi (among other things)

...well, okay, short story as defined by the word count maximum for the Writers of the Future contest. The overall word count is about 12k words, and I have to say, that was actually less than I initially was going to write. Of course, I'm going to put more words in before the end of the calendar month, as part of the editing process.

Oh, wait, you want to know what the story is? Well... I was loosely inspired by The Martian, but I never saw the movie, nor did I read the book. I wanted ...

Okay, for those of you who might care, I had been away from this style of blog posting for almost two years now. Upon looking back, I had discovered that I had gotten... well, distracted would be the appropriate word here. No progress has been made, no nothing like it, and... I'm sick and tired of having little to no progress to show for anything.

In any event, I've considered my options in terms of game dev that I want to pull off, and I came to what I hope is a satisfying idea for ...

So, for those of you who don't know, I am a gamer of tabletop RPGs. It's something I don't keep secret, mainly because I don't think it should be kept secret, though I don't actively announce it at times. I just wanted to make sure you all understood the context for what I'm about to say next.

Now, about a month ago, I was reading a Google+ post by the CEO of a website called High Level Games. I saw that they were hiring, so I decided to apply, namely by submitting an article to their ...

So, I was doing some minor work on game dev and other stuff that I was doing when I saw my Twitter feed go off, giving me a new set of tweets. Naturally, I decided to take a look at what caused it, unaware that I had gotten a new video linked by the YouTube user SumRndmDde to all his followers... about a tutorial for someone's Action Battle System that I was almost completely unaware existed and would actually work! As soon as I saw the tweet, I clicked the link and watched the tutorial, seeing ...

So... for those of you who care, I am a game developer on the side of me being an author, so this post is the first post of (hopefully) many more on the subject of game development. I know this is something that I need to decide what I want to do with, but seriously, I can't stop myself from doing both.

Now, anyway, there's a reason why I call this a "fan" dev log. It has to do with the fact this is about a fangame I'm beginning to develop that I figured you guys would be ...