Category Archives: Industry

Current work…writing scripts

Posted on December 1, 2016 by matt

For the last few months, on top of travelling and attending a bazillion courses, I’ve been writing. I’ve written five short scripts in the world of THE 23RD LETTER. I’ve written two more in the world of STATUS: REFUGEE. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Running the Numbers…

Posted on February 20, 2011 by matt

Ian Robinson sent me this link. It’s Joe Konrath talking about the numbers involved in publishing, especially eBook publishing. But now I’m convinced. Signing with a traditional publisher, even being offered $200k per book, is a VERY BAD IDEA. My … Continue reading →

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Awesome bollywood movie trailer is awesome

Posted on January 31, 2011 by matt

I’m not sure I ever need to watch another action movie again. That said – anyone interested in making a t23L movie?

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NINoWriMO – Northern Ireland Novel Writing Month

Posted on September 23, 2010 by matt

I’m taking part in a fiction-writing collective called “WriteWeekly” but this has some relevance as well: Blick Shared Studios, Malone Rd, Belfast 7-9pm, Thursday 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th November 2010 Suggested donation: £1 Every November (Novel-writing Month), Studio NI hosts … Continue reading →

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Frontier: Foreword, History of Mbaye Schools, page 23

Posted on September 4, 2010 by matt

[I am taking part in a weekly writing task with some friends. The first seed for this assignment was the opening line from Dune by Frank Herbert: “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the … Continue reading →

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SyncNI: Exclusive on Galactic Racer by WeeMan Studios

Posted on September 3, 2010 by matt

NI-based game development studio, Wee Man Studios just gave SyncNI an exclusive on Galactic Racer! Click through the graphic for the exclusive. Due for release, later this quarter.

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Asshat Paladins blog

Posted on March 11, 2010 by matt

Matt Borselli has a quick writeup of his experience with Crucible Design, and more specifically The 23rd Letter, on his blog, AssHat Paladins. I enjoyed chatting about it – getting involved in my own narcissism obviously – and it brought … Continue reading →

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ZOMBI PDF for download

Posted on October 9, 2009 by matt

Here This is missing the art for the most part which I’m going to re-scan and insert into a later copy of the PDF as well as post on here as well. The book itself is still for sale should … Continue reading →

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All I needed to know about Games…

Posted on September 1, 2009 by matt

…I learned from writing my own. Lewis Pulsipher at GameCareerGuide writes that All I Really Needed to Know About Games I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons He has some core points which apply to any game but especially one which … Continue reading →

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The Books again

Posted on February 11, 2009 by matt

Orders for the books have been trickling through which means that people are getting them into their hands. The Paypal links are working well and the post office is just round the corner from my work so I pop out … Continue reading →

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The Books

Posted on February 9, 2009 by matt

A few days ago I received some chilling and frankly angering news. We’d been distributed through Key20 for the last 18 months (and previous to that as well) and we’d sent them the vast majority of our stock. As of … Continue reading →

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Zombi Ts…

Posted on November 14, 2008 by matt

To coincide with the next printing of Zombi and the ‘very soon’ release of the PDF version, we’ve put some Zombi Ts on CafePress. Click on the image (or here) to go through to Store. We’ll be adding more Ts … Continue reading →

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Fonts, fonts, my kingdom….

Posted on November 10, 2008 by matt

I’m having trouble identifying a font I used for the original printing of ZOMBI and this is the replacement I have come up with. The original was quite clean and had a name like ‘corroded’ or ‘corrupted’. The potential new … Continue reading →

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zombi

Posted on November 9, 2008 by matt

I’ve spent the last week working on the PDF version of zombi. I’ve been updating bits and pieces as well, adding in references for “Fast Zombies” and other things which have been popular in the years since the book was … Continue reading →

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The WhiteChapel Project

Posted on October 25, 2008 by matt

The Project in Whitechapel was formed in September 1941 as a subsection of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The SOE was directed to encourage espionage behind enemy lines and build the core of a resistance cell in the event of … Continue reading →

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MURDERDROME: iPhone comic reader BANNED!

Posted on August 25, 2008 by matt

Wednesday afternoon I popped round to Paul’s house for a quick chat (and a couple of headache tablets) and I saw a demo of MurderDrome, the first iteration of a new comic application for the iPhone. There have been a … Continue reading →

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Zombi – out of stock at Key20!

Posted on June 25, 2008 by matt

I’m somewhat incredulous that Zombi is now out of stock at Key20 and will be preparing another shipment in the next week or so. I’m also going to work on providing a PDF version so people can download it from … Continue reading →

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Frontier: opening the book

Posted on May 30, 2008 by matt

I find myself thinking a lot about Frontier these days. (It’s probably because I have some self-imposed deadlines for ‘Illusion’ and ‘6’.) Over the last couple of years I’ve harvested some twenty names from the freelancer forums of RPG.net as … Continue reading →

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COPS – Japan Stylee

Posted on May 28, 2008 by matt

Eamon, a technologist in the area of Cybernetics I know[1], posted this: “If you peruse Japanese foreign-resident forums you’ll read a depressing amount of stories about foreigners being told to sign kanji-laden papers ‘so you can go’, only to find … Continue reading →

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D&D 4th Edition – A lazy blog post

Posted on May 21, 2008 by AJ

I decided to just post verbatim an IM conversation between the two of us about D&D 4th Edition. I make no apologies for my laziness.

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