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Stretching Rust
Just a slightly sneaky sneak preview: Here’s hoping we can get to make the Rusty Tinker deck! Please spread the word about the project, and join us if you can. Thanks! Tinker Deck Kickstarter
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Tinker Deck Funded!
Hello everyone! We made it! Thank you everyone for your support, and for making the Tinker Deck possible! It’s been a great couple of weeks, and we ‘re very grateful for your support. We do have 12...
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Tinker Dice Photos: Getting There
This morning we received some more photos of the Tinker Dice. We’re still not quite sure when we’ll have them in hand, but we’ll let you know as soon as possible. We also haven’t heard from the...
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Rusty Tinker Deck Preview
We’re in the final 48 hours of the Tinker Deck project. It’s a crucial time when we might just be able to pull off the Rusty Tinker Deck as a companion to the original Tinker Deck. It’s close, very...
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Tinker and Rusty Tinker Print and Play
I offered these as a base level $1 tier on the Tinker Deck campaign. I don’t have .PDF files for these yet, but these .PNG files should work just as well. (Oh, and we’re still taking orders for the...
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Ada Lovelace Day
It’s Ada Lovelace Day! She was one of the historical figures I built this deck’s cast around. Some of the more esoteric inclusions, like Henri Giffard, fit holes that I discovered as I went about...
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Animation and Writing
I’m an animator. I’m a writer. I’m an artist. I’m a math and science geek. I’m a gamer and a game designer. I do a lot of creative things, and always wish I could do more. My interests are varied...
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Tinker Dice in hand!
We now have the Tinker Dice in hand! We’ll be shipping them out to those who ordered only Tinker Dice. The Gearpunk Dice are still in processing (I emailed the company again last night to get a...
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
It’s been a great 2013, with our two Kickstarter projects doing well, thank you everyone! We’re still shipping out the Tinker Decks and the Tinker Dice, but we’re also looking forward to what else we...
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Mildly Morbid Musing on the Video Game Industry
OK, not so much “morbid” as… depressed, but that would have killed the alliteration. For a little bit of context, I was laid off or downsized from the video game company I worked for just about two...
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Tinker Gearcoins… Now With More Mad Science!
The Tinker Gearcoin project funded, thank you everyone! Of course, we still have some time to go and room to grow, so we’re doing something kinda crazy. We want to design a 12th coin, but we’re...
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Gearpunk Dice Arrival and Photos
It’s been quiet around here lately. I’m still looking for work, and Unemployment is about exhausted. So, I still don’t have the luxury of spending much time here, and I’m… significantly stressed....
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Thinking Inking: Gearpunk Zinc D10 Decader
If you’ve perused the photo library of the Gearpunk dice, you might have noted that the Zinc-finished dice are rather shiny, especially when compared to the brass and copper variants. Gearpunk D10...
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Black Nickel Gearpunk Dice Photos
This is just an addendum to the photo set of the Gearpunk dice. We’ve ordered some in a black nickel finish, and though we don’t have all of them in stock yet thanks to a factory mistake, we have a...
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Steampunks and Scrapbooks
I’ve been looking for full time work since this Tinker business I’ve been experimenting with just isn’t paying the bills. I applied to a graphic designer position with a scrapbooking company, and was...
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Content of Character
This should have posted on Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday. Sorry, I’ve been busy. I believe that games are uniquely and exquisitely suited to explore content of character, since games, as a medium,...
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Ambigrammar
I’m fond of ambigrams, and have taken a stab at making more than a few in my day. This is the latest: I’m just putting it out there at the moment without explanation, though. I’d like to see if it’s...
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Operation: Backlog
I’ve played video games since Bowling on the Atari 2600 back in 1980. I’ve played on most major consoles here in the U.S. (the Neo Geo is the one I skipped… that thing was costly), though I’m still...
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Pantheon Wars: The Fall of Ra
Once upon a time, I designed a small “area control” tile-capture game for a game development exercise. I called it Alpha Hex, a simple, abstract name for a simple, abstract game. It has evolved over...
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Operation: Backlog – Ruin, Wreckage and Apocalypse
It’s been a while since I actually had enough time to play anything on my Steam backlog. I still haven’t since last time I posted about this project, but I have been playing a few smartphone games and...
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