Author Topic: Developer's Journal (Read 74909 times)

Raf Blutaxt · « **Reply #160 on:** July 09, 2007, 04:40:35 AM »

It has been rather quiet in here. I guess that's because you spend all your time writing and working on the next products.

Defendi · « **Reply #161 on:** July 09, 2007, 05:08:27 AM »

Kinda. Quick update:

Last friday (9 days ago) I turned the product in to HERO for approval. That theoretically starts the 60 day release clock. I was pretty burned out then, so I decided to take a couple days off and redo the Appendix 2 of the main product for d20. Sunday night my laptop commited digitial sepuku. Monday I tried to do a repair install that made it worse. Tuesday I fdisked. WEdnesday night I was FINALLY getting things back in order, but getting sick. Yesterday I called in sick to work and games. Tonight I finished the first draft of that new Appendix 2. That means tomorrow (games willing), I start stating every monster for HARP that I haven't done yet. d20's already stated by a stat monkey, but I need to double check all the math.

That's where we stand.

Oh! My proofer did an adventure seed today. After HARP, I'll probably get that up online.

Raf Blutaxt · « **Reply #162 on:** July 09, 2007, 05:23:57 AM »

That sounds pretty much like what I imagined.

Anyway I was just interested in how things are going I still have enough material to keep my party occupied for several months.
Get well soon.

Defendi · « **Reply #163 on:** July 09, 2007, 06:09:12 AM »

I'm a lot better today, thanks. I'm at work now, in fact.

Defendi · « **Reply #164 on:** August 02, 2007, 06:07:33 AM »

Okay. I've started a Livejournal version of the journal to broaden the audience and reduce the number of cuts and pastes. I'll still paste into boards where I don't have a lot of traction, but that ain't you guys. The blog is here, with a new post:

http://defendi.livejournal.com/

The RSS feed: http://defendi.livejournal.com/data/rss

I really recommend the RSS feeds. I've set them up in my new Outlook and I love getting the blogs e-mailed straight to me. It's great.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

Defendi · « **Reply #165 on:** August 06, 2007, 04:34:35 AM »

New journal entry posted.

Defendi · « **Reply #166 on:** September 20, 2007, 03:28:44 AM »

New journal entry.

I might make it a project coming up to do a blog on the final redoubt site, now that I've brushed up on my unix.

Michael Petrea · « **Reply #167 on:** September 20, 2007, 06:55:55 AM »

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I?ve spoken to people at wizards since and while licensing stuff is still up in the air, I?ve become relatively certain that the new system will work with The Echoes of Heaven

Does this mean that you are planning to abandon the 3.5 version in favor of 4.0 or continue forward with 5 versions of EoH?

Defendi · « **Reply #168 on:** September 20, 2007, 03:32:50 PM »

I don't know, depends on the fans. I don't have a problem with doing five, if sales warrent it. Feel free to toss out a vote.

Defendi · « **Reply #169 on:** September 25, 2007, 07:03:36 PM »

I'm testing a new blog, if it works, it will be relatively permanent since it's on the Final Redoubt site. Please go check it out. It's the Dev Journal, but my friend James Dashner just had an interesting career development, so I posted about that. Go check it out and check out his stuff while you are at it.

http://finalredoubt.com/wordpress/

ob1knorrb · « **Reply #170 on:** September 27, 2007, 04:55:35 PM »

Wordpress is quite cool, it's what I use on my site and I've been able to customize it to my liking, and I'm doing some fairly strange things with it in some cases to integrate to my "pre-wordpress" pages

Defendi · « **Reply #171 on:** September 27, 2007, 05:09:06 PM »

I'm having a touch of trouble with the FlickR plug in at the bottom, but my Php is weak. Other than that, I'm very pleased.

vroomfogle · « **Reply #172 on:** September 27, 2007, 05:21:01 PM »

vroomfogle.com and nomikos.vroomfogle.com both use Wordpress so are good examples of how far away you get from a regular blog.....Nomikos uses a completely fictitious timeline!

Mungo · « **Reply #173 on:** September 30, 2007, 11:22:42 AM »

So defendi.lifejournal.com is obsolete?

BR
Juergen

Defendi · « **Reply #174 on:** September 30, 2007, 02:29:55 PM »

Yeah, it looks like wordpress is solid enough that I can make it permanent and draw that in to my site. I'll post something on Livejournal tonight or tomorrow. Sorry for the brief livejournal fakeout.

markc · « **Reply #175 on:** September 30, 2007, 03:07:35 PM »

Defendi,
I was wondering if you went to Gen Con? And what if any feed back you had about your products from thier? My guess was you did not go with the new job and all.

MDC

Defendi · « **Reply #176 on:** September 30, 2007, 05:34:27 PM »

I didn't, actually. Didn't have any physical books to sell. I'm looking to get some books into dist soon. Not sure all the details yet.

If I can get into a pre-release group on 4th edition, I'll need to do some sort of big release as soon as we're legally able . . . that would be for a 4th edition version of the campaign setting and it would require me to play catchup with products 2, 3, etc. as quickly as I could. Luckly those books are all fairly rules light . . . the longest part of most of the conversions will be the NPC (except for product 4 of course, the nightmare product

). Also, I have plenty of d20 people in the company to help pound on conversion materials.

That can't hurt ICE and HERO games, either. I think, actually, that all companies benefit from a multisystem product, if the product is interesting enough on its own. If you like Echoes and you bought it for D&D, and someone has been trying to get you to try HARP, you still have the comfort of using the same setting. If you like HARP and D&D, you probably buy products for both systems, because they only have to keep up on one setting between them, so that lowers the entrance cost considerably. (And they can get PDFs for all versions fairy cheeply and just buy a physical Echoes book for the system they play most).

At least that's my theory.

Defendi · « **Reply #177 on:** November 18, 2007, 11:26:00 PM »

I'm REALLY hesitant to draw attention to this one, because if feels like doom and gloom, but I promised I'd share the lows as well as the highs. I tried to lighten the mood with blatant pandering, though. That's usually entertaining.

A new Dev journal is up.

mocking bird · « **Reply #178 on:** November 20, 2007, 10:18:17 AM »

Just noticed OGL Throne of God is Silver while it looks like everything else is copper - congrats.

Defendi · « **Reply #179 on:** November 20, 2007, 01:34:15 PM »

Thanks!

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