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Steve’s Update 6/1/2016

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OK got plenty of updates, so what’s been up?

Sailor Moon Book:

The Sailor Moon Book is back from the editor – and I plan to tackle it this weekend (fair warning, this might get interrupted). What’ll happen is I’ll go through the edits, then hand off to Bonnie with notes, then a final polish. The book seems pretty solid as is, so I’m quite positive on it. We also are getting the sample cover for the bo...

Quick Update: A break!

Quick note that with a new job, Fanime, and more I’m probably not posting much this week – though I’ll try and do a Civic Diary.

Steve

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No Man’s Sky: It Can Be Done

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One of the concerns I see expressed aboutNo Man’s Skyis that a small team of indie developers like Hello Games just couldn’t do this. I disagree, and in fact think it’s quite likely’ll they’ll succeed.

So you know i’m not wasting your time, I base this theory on:

My experience in IT (20+ years). My work as a software project manager (12+ years). My interest in development processes (12+ years). My wor...

Civic Diary 5/20/2016

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Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly look at my attempts to be more civicly engaged.

And . . . not a lot has happened.

One job ended last week, a new job began this week, and I’ve got some vacation coming up. I’ve had a lot on my mind obviously.

Which is probably a good lesson in this entire quest to be more civicly engaged – it’s not a simple, linear process. You will get interrupted. You will need to take a break. You will ha...

Job Skills For The Future – Scheduling

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So as I explore Job Skills you’ll need in the future, as the Geek Job Guru that I am, let’s talk about one no one thinks about and everyone is usually awful at.

Scheduling.

No, REALLY.

Let’s be honest right now basic scheduling of meeting, events, software launches, etc. is almost always an excruciating experience. Why? Most people are terrible at it. Recently I got to talk to someone who had been quadruple booked for a meeting...

No Man’s Sky: Procedural Gaming and Procedural Materials

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As I wait for No Man’s Sky (if I disappear for a week in June, you know why), I’ve been analyzing the game, what it means, and what it tells us about procedural entertainment. Today I’d like to focus on crafting.

I love crafting. I enjoyed the Atelier series of games, finding new alchemical potions. I love Starbound‘s crafting (OK, maybe I’ll vanish in July too). You can guess that Minecraft was a reve...

Job Skills For The Future – Another Language

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As you’ve been following along, I’m discussing what job skills are important in the future. Having coveredculture knowledge, let’s lay down the hard truth about the future.

Knowing another language is going to be more important for future careersIt’s becoming more important now.

Let’s take a lookat the current state of things:

InSilicon Valley I see calls for specifically Bi-lingual jobs, with hints of it elsewhere in the US....

Civic Diary 5/13/2016

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And welcome to my weekly examination of how I’m doing in being a better citizen.

For those of you just joining, I was inspired by Anil Dash to find a way to be more regularly civicly engaged. This is the result – a weekly diary to keep myself accountable and inspire people.

My big focus initially had been A) Following my assorted representatives, B) Following and joining relevant organizations, and C) Making efforts to at least...

Sailor Moon Update 5/12/2016

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And where’s the Sailor Moon Book?

. . at the editor. Sorry, no much of an update there. It’s a waiting game now.

I’m hoping to get it back this month- if we get it in time, Bonnie and I can edit it together as we’ll be visiting each other.

We can hopefully do editing all in one go, which will easily beThe book itself is not large – about 160+ pages when formatted for print – so we can probably manage a first run edit in a reaso...

Way With Worlds Update 5/12/2016

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Whew! Guess who’s got a book about Worldbuilding, formatted for Print and Kindle? This guy.

Of course that doesn’t mean the book is ready, it’s ready-ish.I’d reached the point where I’d edited the hell out of the book and decided it was time to format it – formatting is a great way to find all your editing mistakes as you go through the book. Now I’ve got a Kindle version that looks good and a print ve...