Precinct Omega

Terrain Progress & Sense of Humour Failure

I thought you folks might like to see one of my first very nearly finished buildings (I'm making some additional street furniture details that may or may not end up being attached to buildings - more on that in the future).

My crop ...

Shiny new thing!

Some of you will have been aware that I've been working on the same laptop since 2017 which, in laptop terms, is practically the Dark Ages. Despite despite my being temporarily between employments, my wife agreed that I could drop a modest chunk (...

Midnight Dark - Fiction

I've very nearly finished laying out the book and finalizing the text. I've just got a few more missions to write and a few more upgrades to devise and we'll be done.

Which means, of course, that I now have to turn to developing the fiction ...

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - Platinum Best Seller

I posted a while back that I was on the cusp of reaching the Platinum Best Seller status but, well, it turns out that things are never quite that simple.

Wargame Vault (or rather, their parent company OneBookShelf or, rather, Roll20 who rece...

Horizon Wars: Midnight Lite?

I've been asked about producing a "lite" version of the Midnight Dark rules for commercial partners to use to promote their own products - as well as to serve as a PWYW version of the rules for interested customers on Wargame Vault and, m...

See Your Mini in Lights!

I'm ploughing ahead to get Midnight Dark finished and am now talking with artists and others to help add photography and illustrations to the text, and it occurred to me that patrons might enjoy seeing their work in the book if they had t...

Midnight Dark - Cover Art Sketch

One thing I've learned over the nearly-eight years I've been doing this as a regular thing is that artists benefit from clear guidance.

And while I may lack the technology and experience to create my own digital art to the standards I want ...

It's an ill wind...

From your perspective, everything I have to say here is good news. I'm going to be getting a lot more time to work on finishing Midnight Dark and even to get back to creating more content for Zero Dark and Infinite Dark....

TONKS & Salute

Work on HWMD continues. But if you're itchy for a new gaming experience, you might to check out Tonks, by Apocrypha_Now (who might, possibly, also be a patron).

Development of Tonks was at least partly supported and inspir...

ADHD Powers... Activate!

I'm not going to make A Big Thing about this, but this is by way of illustration of how my brain sometimes gets "switched on" to do something utterly irrelevant to anything else it is supposed to be focused on.

My wife made a joke. And by no...

...Also, it turns out, I have ADHD

I try to keep personal stuff off this feed as much as possible, because it's rarely relevant to the purpose of the blog and not what you're hear to read about. But in this case, I thought it was actually sufficiently relevant to share.

I sho...

Rubbish Patreon Continues to be Rubbish (also, thoughts on narrative in miniatures wargaming)

Man, I am not at all surprised by how many of my patrons have cancelled their support recently. This place has been rubbish.

I wanted to assure those of you who remain that I am still not dead. In fact, after taking a while to find ...

Can CMON Challenge Games Workshop?

Finally got a new video done.

If you're interested in why I think GW might have a fight on its hands from CMON, despite the company's rocky history with miniatures game and, well, lots of other stuff, check it out.

This script went thr...

Update 3 Feb 23

First, Horizon Wars: Midnight Dark. Most of you have seen at least one version of the text, by now. These are strictly, I supposed, alpha versions because they are all to some extent incomplete.

The beta version - in that the rules ...

Horizon Wars Beta v0.02 - Elite Edition

See attached, as promised.

It's not the document I was hoping to give you in some respects. I wanted it to be closer to finished-finished whereas this is still, very much, um, not finished. But the more I went over both the...

I ate'nt dead

This should be a nice, long update, so go and get yourself a cup of tea or coffee or a glass of mulled wine or something seasonally appropriate.

Sorted?

Good stuff. Let's chat.

First up: I'm still alive and still working on H...