Just a quick update that i’ve added a couple of new links to the “Friendlies” section. David Grilla is the new artist on the Gaslight project, complementing work already done by John Snyder and Adam Denton (two other people who’s web pages i need to get…). And Dean Engelhardt joins the list of sacrifices people who are lending a hand to Gaslight- Dean is doing some amazing work with the handouts, as well as his fabulous character sheet. Welcome, both!
Archive for the ‘Behind the Tentacles’ Category
Spreading the tentacles out
Monday, October 31st, 2011Can it be, an update on the site itself?
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Yes, it can! I’ve finally cleaned up the joint to the point where it isn’t embarrassing to show off, and i’ve created a portfolio gallery to show off my publishing credits to date. Just click on the Portfolio link in the right nav, under “Pages”. Or you can click here instead.
In the near future, i plan on creating another gallery that will contain examples of my work itself, but for now, this will suffice.
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2011Well, some good news and bad news on the art front. I’ve recently seen more art sketches from the other artist, and they look absolutely great- Gaslight is going to have some fantastic artwork in it.
Bad news is that the other artist had disaster befall him in the form of the horrendous heatwave taking out his computer and backups…which resulted in the loss of a bunch of his artwork. Which means that Gaslight may be delayed a bit. *sigh* It happens sometimes, unfortunately; the same exact data loss crippled Secrets of San Francisco for months on end, hence forcing that book into almost vaporware status. Funny, i put together that book, too. Hmmm….
Obviously, it’s a bet of a mess around here at the moment.
Sunday, March 6th, 2011I was attempting to do some reformatting of the title page graphics and such, but obviously it needs more work. I think a major overhaul is in order, but i’m going to need some help with it- i’m not much of a coder, but i can tell there’s some code-wrangling i’m going to need to do to get the site the way i want it.
At any rate, i fired off the CD for the BRP Magic Book to Chaosium this week, and have been making more tweaks to Arrius Lurco while Tom and his crew go over it for mistakes and corrections. I also talked to Scott at Pagan, and amoung other things, i pitched him my (Altered) Resonance scenario, which he is very keen on. So all i have to do is polish it off (which should take about a month or so), and send it off to him. Woot.
I’ve also started working on Project: Top Hat some more, which at this stage of the game, is really herding all the text together. I’m dealing with different editions of stuff, plus some brand new text that was written specifically for the new edition, so i’m getting a lot of practice with OCR. Not exactly fun fun, but it’s grunt work that’s gotta get done before anything else with the book design happens.
It’s those last few inches
Sunday, February 6th, 2011There’s been more back-and-forth with the Magic Book in the past couple of weeks…a new list of corrections came in, which i attacked with verve, then kicked back a list to the editor of questions i had…meanwhile, the artist is *this* close to having his last to pieces done.
Meanwhile Arrrrrrius “i’m not a pirate!” Lurconomicus continues apace. I finished the first, big layout pass of all the scenarios, and now i’m going back to do the introduction, which is rather a huge section. And i taught myself something new; i can now mess with paragraph rules to the point that i can create those grey separators in charts. I know, total layout nerdness, and i’m sure anyone reading this with a hint of pro training would probably point and laugh at the fact that i didn’t know how to previously, but dammit, i figured it out. Let me have my little victory, dammit.
Oh, and lastly, i finally updated the “About” page here. I really need to get cracking on the gallery next.
*grumble grumble*
Monday, January 17th, 2011Quark, why do you have to be so stupid? All i want to do is delete two pages from the middle of the book. Why do you fucking insist on blowing up the whole layout when i do that? I know i’m running v6.5, but that’s not excuse for crap like this.
I so cannot wait to be done with the BRP Magic Book so i never have to touch Quark again.
Lots of stuff going on…
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010Hopefully i can remember all of it. I’ve been having to deal with some personal stuff lately, so i haven’t had a chance to do much here. That should change soon. But that doesn’t mean that i haven’t been hard at work. To wit:
- Arrius Lurco work continues. I’m still in the page element design phase, but i’m making headway. I’m really itching to start on plugging the text in, but one thing at a time…
- The review of the BRP Magic Book goes on, as well. I haven’t heard from Ben Monroe in the past few days, but last time i did, he was well on his way to getting his list of corrections/additions to me.
- Now that i have some spare time, i’m making some updates to the site, finally. The first of which is that Squamous Studios has it’s own Twitter account! You can find us by searching for squamousstudios. And i’ll be adding one of those Twit buttons on the home page soonish.
- I’m also working on an actual logo for the site, which will lead to a more general revamping of this place. It needs a lot of work, this little joint. Kind of drafty and moldy at the moment.
- And lastly, we’re now a part of the RPG Bloggers network- yet something else that’s on my plate to do is get their graphic put on the site. In the meantime, however, you can check that all out at http://www.rpgbloggers.com
Starting to get this off the ground
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010My first stab at the Squamous Studios web site. Be gentle. No design work at this point.