Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries is something a bit new for the lab - a video game, built in an engine. As most of you know, we’ve built a few game-like and toy like things here in the lab, but I’ve never actually set out to make a “video” game (we’ll see why I use those quotes in a moment), let alone one built on someone...

Despite my best efforts to prevent it, another month has come and gone. Here’s all the cool stuff I’ve found since… well, if we’re being honest, it probably includes content since August, since I never did the August version of this post. I just be like that I guess. I was looking into the abbot of a zen temple...

It’s been a remarkably productive month for the lab - mostly because I’ve been able to give it my essentially-undivided attention while I keep looking for new payroll work. A lot of that productivity has fallen into the writing department, but that doesn’t mean I’m not back to some of my old technical shenanigans...

The Rise, the third novel of the Arcane Revolution Trilogy, is currently being promoted on Kickstarter to help me raise the funds for its final editing, production, and ongoing promotion. The Premise The novel picks up where From the Ashes left off. Ten years on from the end of the Yellow War and the defeat of...

About a month ago I announced a new gaming project, Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries. Having had my fun with The Game for Scribes, and inspired by other games I enjoyed like Space Trader and Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, I set out to create a fun little TUI-ish, manual-driven game that was one part space trader, one part...

After just a wee bit too long without news of any kind about it, I’m really excited to announce that initial drafting on the third Arcane Revolution Trilogy book is finally done, having been completed late last week! The Premise The novel picks up where From the Ashes left off. Ten years on from the end of the...

As is our abortive, and often-skipped tradition, dependant entirely on my ability to maintain the habit of putting the interesting links onto a list for later use, here are all the interesting internet things I’ve found since our last internet highlights post. List Frequent Flyer MOS-8502 (aka Studio 8502) has just...

Last night on our Writing Livestream, I announced that Arcana Labs was taking a forray back into software development with our first large gaming project: Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries. Inspired by a combination of my own frustration with not having a specific tool I wanted, and classic games of my childhood like the...

Today’s new short fic zine release, The Currie Mountain Repository, is the first entry in a series called “The Tales of the Voyageur”. The series is an environmental science fiction adventure, focusing on locations throughout the province of New Brunswick in a future which hopefully never comes to pass - one in...

As a general rule, I don’t talk much about my professional life on this blog - working in tech means the vast majority of what I do on a daily basis is wrapped up in enough layers of NDAs, Information Security Policies, and international regulatory language that even a lawyer would struggle to find the safe footing,...

With how busy I have been with the new job lately, and my increasing push to focus on projects and uses of time that remove annoyance, unfortunately today’s announcement is not a shiny new project (of which there are a few in the hopper), but instead infrastructural news. I know, it’s so sexy. In a move surprising...

In a move which more or less surprises nobody, I am retiring PETI, effective immediately. There are reasons for this that go past simple boredom with the project, but I know it’s something of a sad announcement, so let’s lay them out. The Project Has Run Out of “Interesting Unknowns” in Firmware Most of the PETI...