It's been a decade since I released a game of my own. I've done contract gigs since my last game (Flip Panic! for Windows), and my most recent small contract game development project was less than a year ago. It's…

Money was really tight this year. At the same time, it Kat and I's first Hanukkah as a married couple, and I wanted to do something fun with it :-) Fortunately, fun isn't always expensive. So, a few bucks at…

I paused doing the weekly publishing for three books for a while - I had a couple of good reasons for doing it. One of them was monetizing my work. For quite a while I've had a plan, but haven't…

Another year, another Apocalypse, it seems.  People just generally seem to be in a hurry for the world to end.  I've had an interesting fascination with it, too - not the world ending, it will end when it end.  Instead, with…

For the last three or four years you can find me doing a "con" - the Great Plains Renaissance Festival. Now, the reason I do it is simple - I get booth space for free, and in exchange I run…

At the beginning of 2012 I got frustrated with contract work again, and I've remained frustrated pretty much the entire year. And I've got a whole list of reasons why contracting frustrates me: Customers don't bother getting the deliverables to…

OK, I'm way ahead in my writing - IZ is now over 13,000 words long, and Autobiography of a Super-Villain has passed 14,000.  Awesome :-)  A couple of weeks after the first I'll start publishing again:  IZ, Autobiography of a…

OK, it took a week longer to get all the supporting infrastructure up and running, but I finally have the beginnings for all three books online! Muse is mainly a matter of doing the edits that The Editor has indicated…

It's been decided - I'm going to be serializing three brand new books by myself here on MidnightRyder.org.  This should be fun ;-) First off is "Muse."  Book one of three, Muse presents a whole new take on the human…

So what happens when a work-a-holic decides to change his ways?  Does insanity ensue? Surprisingly, no.  Heck, for that matter, I'm surprised how (relatively) easy this has been so far!  I've been going to bed pretty close to on time…