Moe Lane's Blog, page 74
April 23, 2025
The Call of the Sea: The Everhart Expedition Backerkit.
I’ve played the videogame, which was fun. I’m not sure how Call of Cthulhu-y Call of the Sea: The Everhart Expedition is, though. Nothing really… bad happened, you know? At least, onscreen.
Still, looks like a good time. I should finish the videogame, too. In my copious free time.
Got some hard personal news today.
An old friend of mine has died suddenly, in an accident. It’s rough news; prayers for him and his family would not go amiss.
The DOOM: THE DARK AGES trailer.
I say this without meaning anything critical about it: here we go again.
04/23/2025 Snippet, THE ICE AWAITS.
I’m trying to keep this one smaller.
“You’re not in trouble, Joey,” Luis told me. I apparently rated the big boss today. Well, the big boss for Europa. Salmaria has a lot of little offices out here. Besides, we play cards on the weekend. “We got some prime nogo bullshit going on, that’s all.”
I squinted at him. I was a slushfitter, not a photon pusher, but even I knew how things went. “Nogo? Since when did the Authority start caring about what we do out here?” Which was a nicer, not to mention safer, way of asking, Did we stop paying off the Lunar Authority?
Luis shook his head. “Nah, it’s not them. This bullshit’s coming out of UNSO, for once.”
That made even less sense. “What are the blueheads doing out here?”
“Being real pains in the ass, looks like. Although we have just the one, so far. UNSO Field Inspector Baskhi Chumley, if you please, and even if you don’t. She bounced down this morning, started throwing her weight around like it had the mass to back it up. It hasn’t even been a day yet, and I’m already about to toss her out the airlock.”
“So, a regular nogo, then.” I scratched my head. “What does she want?”
Patreon!
April 22, 2025
Digital downloads have started for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook!
Art, standard-sized digital copy, and a full-sized digital copy for people with the space for it. You should be getting emails for those now; let me know if there are any problems. Also, the pre-order store is now closed. If you want a copy of the Fermi Resolution Worldbook, check it out at DriveThruRPG.
This was a loonnnnnnng step forward today, folks. Next up: beating the print proofs into submissions. …Tomorrow.
Uggggggggh I hate prepping things for print it absolutely SUUUUUUUCKS.
That is what I have been doing all day.
Trying to decide how big to make the digital copy of the Fermi Resolution Worldbook.
It’s like this. I’ve optimized the size of the digital version from 53.5 MB down to either 9 MB or 5 MB, depending on how severely I optimize it. Either looks fine on my own machine, but I’m not sure which is the better option. Anybody with an opinion?
April 21, 2025
‘Will You Go, Lassie Go?’
It’s actually ‘Wild Mountain Thyme,’ but never mind that right now. All I know is, when they started playing this in the movie I was very quickly singing along. I mean, softly, because there were a bunch of other people in the audience for once, but I honestly don’t think anybody minded. The soundtrack in general was pure fire. Heck, I’m listening to it right now.
Will You Go, Lassie Go, Sinners
#commissionearned
‘Kickstarter Math Is Weird.’
I was putting out the link again to Marian Call’s Kickstarter Math Is Weird, which has been incredibly useful to me in my own crowdfunding. So let me put it up here again. If you are thinking of doing your own projects, you should check this post out. Particularly if you don’t normally think in terms of money… because when it comes to independent publishing and artistry, you absolutely must learn to think in terms of money. This article has kept me out of so much trouble, over the years.
