This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl, coming to you live and direct from the streets of Haven 15 in the Red Light District. We are here in the park in the center of it all talking to other homeless kids and asking them how they are going to be spending the Cultural New Year’s celebrations. This is a yearly event that takes place about a month after the first of the year. There are cultural events and celebrations all…..
This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl, making waves and coming to you live and direct from the alleyway behind a cyber café in the Echelons near the Shizuoko ghetto. The fallout is high today and the Newsfeed was warning people to stay off the streets. I have my mask on covering my mouth and nose made from the protective substance from the SenseNet. It will provide some protection from the toxic particles in the air. Luckily I took my…..
We are almost there. Just a quick update. Approved the hardcopy proofs today of the 69 new cards, the box and the RPG rulebook and Tarot guidebook. Yes the box! As you can see in the picture above, the box proof looks pretty rad and it is in corrugated cardboard all folded and glued. I didn’t think they would have done the folding just for the proofs but they did. I guess I really did learn how to make a…..
The grydscaen RPG Trading Card game is becoming a reality. We are currently at the printer. The design team is working on the bleeds on the rule books because I guess I didn’t format the covers of the InDesign files correctly. No doubt that is left over points off from art school layout classes. It has been three years since I was in that InDesign class so I was bound to forget some stuff I learned. The file had a…..
This is Rom from the Packrat Sprawl, making waves and coming to you live and direct from a government building in the Echelons which just had the doors blown off. And yes, Packrat Underground did that. Caused a bit of a stir if I might say so myself. But lets backup a moment and get into exactly what happened. Minister Shimura from the Pacific Territories’ palace of the Viceroy in the City had a speaking engagement in the Echelons today……
The original grydscaen concept grydscaen was originally a concept that I came up with in the 8th grade writing science fiction stories about the main character Ameliano Dejarre who went to an all boy’s boarding school. This character and the Rom character who was a Packrat and a hacker in a separate story written in the seventh grade were merged into a single storyline that because the precursor to the grydscaen novel series in the serial short stories under the grydscaen…..
grydscaen RPG card update Wanted to talk a little about the Wands skill card suit today from the grydscaen RPG Trading Card game. Since my trip to India, I wanted to use some of the new information that I learned. The culture in India is so rich and diverse. I thought I would use some of my appreciation for the art in the card. This card which pictures the virtual reality gridscan game avatar Omnibus from the game Omnibus Darklight…..
Figure: Sati Ima, the Mobile Frame pilot from the battleship Escalon So just off the publication of the fantasy novella The Alchemist’s Ranger, we are back to editing the next book in the cyberpunk scifi grydscaen series called grydscaen: desecration. desecration is volume 5 and closes out the story arc aboard the battleship Escalon. The Psi Faction team is ready to take on the opposition as the Escalon travels closer to Londes, the homeland of the Atlantea Federation. Since I have recently…..
Over the past week, the world has potentially become less safe for minorities, immigrants, Muslim-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, African Americans, people with disabilities and those in the LGBT community. With all the divisiveness of the United States Presidential campaign in 2016, it is no wonder that people are scared. I myself have seen hate speech and people harassed for being who they are. It is not okay to treat each other rudely and it is not okay to stomp on…..
On Friday, there was a large Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that occurred in the United States that affected Internet traffic and caused online businesses and popular social media sites, as well as cloud computing applications and corporate websites to be unavailable, run slow in opening files or accessing emails, or sites became unresponsive. This attack started on the East Coast and filtered across the country in three targeted waves that initiated in the morning and lasted throughout the afternoon……