by Tracy | May 20, 2022 | Blog
It’s like an electric shock when it hits. A jolt of static that lights up my brain in the best ways. It’s all promise and potential—the things I could do, the impact my work could have. It’s glowing and bright, living there in my mind. It often means...
by Tracy | May 11, 2022 | Blog
CW: This post deals with what might be termed severe anxiety and depression. If you can’t read about that right now, that’s okay. I hope you’re well. I’m walking along a street in my neighborhood. It’s a beautiful day. The sun is out,...
by Tracy | Apr 28, 2022 | Blog
Again took my desire to tweet out a thread and made it into a blog post! Here’s to changing habits. Now. Two really cool things happened today. Forward, Reforged First, I woke up to an email from my editor, Dominique Dickey. They finished their pass on Iron Edda...
by Tracy | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog
Over the past couple of weeks, Elon Musk has been dancing around with Twitter. First he’s on the board, then he’s not. Then he wants to buy Twitter. That bit, unfortunately, seems to be trending in his favor. All of the chatter on my Twitter timeline right...
by Tracy | Feb 23, 2022 | Blog
Back in Nov 2020 I wrote a thread on Twitter that changed how I think about marketing and promotion. It uses the classic fantasy dungeon as a metaphor for the marketing funnel. It’s some of the best work I’ve done and I’ve been meaning to get it...
by Tracy | Feb 17, 2022 | Blog
I’m driving along I-70 passing through Illinois, to Indiana, on my way back home. It’s part of a 12 hour drive back from a NYE trip to visit friends in Kansas City. I’ve got a joke from Twitter running through my mind and, in a fit of solo road trip...
by Tracy | Jan 18, 2022 | Blog
It’s right before launch. I’m in the Discord for The Secret of St. Kilda, chatting with the director. I see him say that the first episode needed a lot of work to get ready for the launch. Everything I hear and feel narrows to a fine point. I fucked up...
by Tracy | Jan 11, 2022 | Blog
If you’ve taken a look at my Twitter account recently, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in tweets about the games I’ve made. That’s because I set up a bot for Twitter a few weeks ago to automatically tweet promotional things for me. It’s...
by Tracy | Jan 10, 2022 | Blog
You remember that scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the one where they’re at the museum? Surrounded by beautiful works of art, and Cameron cannot stop staring at the tiniest bit of the painting. His field of vision narrows until that’s all he can...
by Tracy | Nov 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I talked about in my previous post, I’m working on revising Iron Edda: War of Metal and Bone. I’ve also talked about how I’m working on a cyberpunk take on Iron Edda, called Reforged. In the War of Metal and Bone post, I mentioned that I’m...
by Tracy | Nov 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting at my desk, fingers poised to double-click on a Word document I haven’t opened in six years. On the surface, I’m not really worried about it. I mean, it’s just a set of words, right? But underneath, I’m anxious, scared of what...
by Tracy | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog
I got an idea the other day. Ideas like this often turn into small games that I publish on itch, and this one is no different. As of right now, I know the title is: Oh Shit, They Kidnapped Santa! I also know it’s going to be a quick game, designed for a one...
by Tracy | Nov 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, I spent three days riding from Cleveland to Columbus on the bike pictured above. I was supposed to make it to Cincinnati across five days, but three was all I could handle. This was part of a game project I Kickstarted, and the backers were interested in...
by Tracy | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
This Isn’t Going to Go How You Expect it to Go That phrase should have been firmly in my mind as I set out in the first day of this trip. If you’re not familiar, I decided to celebrate my 40th birthday with a five-day, cross-Ohio bikepacking trip. Start in...
by Tracy | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog
It’s mid-August. I’m on my bike, riding down on the of the local trails. It’s hot, but not too hot. Sunny, pleasant. An idea is building in my mind as the wind rushes past me. Something to do to mark my 40th year, something I can turn into an event I...
by Tracy | Jun 24, 2020 | Paper Arcade
Paper Arcade vol. 2 Theme Announcement! As you may know, I’ve begun production on Paper Arcade vol. 2. With this issue, I wanted to focus on raising up Black voices. To that end, I’ve asked a number of talented creators to be part of this project....
by Tracy | May 27, 2020 | Blog
Hello! I’ve been dabbling with streaming for a while, now. A while back, I was streaming enough to get Affiliate status, even. Until last night, I’d not ever really felt like my setup was equal to what I wanted out of the experience. Some new hardware has...
by Tracy | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog
It’s the first of the month, so why not start a new accountability/public info thing for the projects I’ve got going on? Ready? Here’s what I’m working on, how, why, and the deadlines (or lack thereof). Professional RPG Projects Iron Edda...
by Tracy | Mar 9, 2018 | Blog
There’s been some talk on Twitter recently about pay in RPGs. It’s a topic that’s never far from my mind, but the recent discussions have me thinking about it even more than usual. It’s a topic with a lot of hard realities baked in and I feel...
by Tracy | Sep 21, 2017 | TheOtherCast
This coming Wednesday, we’re going to have what will likely be the last session of the Star Wars: Rogue Trader game on TheOtherCast. This is a pretty cool milestone for us. We started playing this campaign just about a year ago. As had been my habit, I’d...
by Tracy | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog
So, I made a mistake when I was getting the most recent Fate of the Planes episodes posted. I accidentally posted what’s really Episode 3 as Episode 2’s file last week. That means when I posted Episode 3 yesterday, it looked like a duplicate. What you need...
by Tracy | Jun 19, 2017 | Blog
Origins came to a close yesterday, though lucky people are leaving Columbus today. Last week was good in a lot of ways, not the least of which were the launches of two new shows. Fate of the Zakros Planes (Span?) FotP and Zakros Span both launched last week and as of...
by Tracy | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog
It’s a big week over here in my corner of the world. For the last few months I’ve been prepping and recording two new actual play shows for the podcast. Fate of the Planes Fate of the Planes is, well, Planescape played using modified Fate Core rules. The...
by Tracy | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog
I’ve been toying with the idea of having my own website for a while, now. I finally took the initiative and got things set up. It’s a little raw right now, but I’m going to add to it as time goes on. I can say this: getting this stuff set up helped...
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