Author Archives: Ian

Nautilus News Network: The Quality Curve

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Ian

Hey everyone! Just thought I should let you know that I have a new post about Nautilus’s game mechanics up over at the Nautilus RPG site. Go check it out!  In this post I talk about the core leveling system … Continue reading →

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A Quick 2013 Wrap-up

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Ian

So, that happened. 2013 was a year of ups and downs for me.  I graduated from UCI, moved up to Seattle, and am finally starting to find my feet in the new city.  I have a decent job, a few … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Friday: 1,667

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Ian

Hey everybody!  So, Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge this week is to post the 1,667 words from your first day of NaNoWriMo for this year. Mine ended up being a little bit over that, at around 1900 words for my … Continue reading →

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Geek Girl Con 2013: Sunday (Part 2)

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Ian

Okay then, onto part 2.  This day was mostly panels for me.  There may also be one more post where I mention some of the lovely people I met that didn’t make it into the various days’ writeups.  (Mostly because … Continue reading →

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Geek Girl Con 2013: Saturday (Part 1)

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Ian

Hey everyone!  I went to Geek Girl Con this year and had a grand ol’ time, and I thought I’d share what I did and my thoughts on the con as a whole.  This was my first time there, and … Continue reading →

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The Spider’s Spire

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Ian

Sorry this is so late this week.  Mr. Wendig’s challenge wasn’t up yet when I went to do my writing, and though I wrote this on Saturday it took me a while to edit it down to (exactly) 1000 words … Continue reading →

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Nautilus News Network: Starships

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Ian

Hey everyone! So Nautilus this past week has most been me working away at starship combat.  Originally, we based it off of Stormwrack‘s ship combat, but that had the issue of being too hard to scale up to more than … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction: Getting Lost

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Ian

Hey, it’s Friday and that means it’s Flash Fiction day!  Today’s flash fiction is based off of Chuck Wendig’s latest Flash Fiction Challenge: Choose Your Setting.  I random rolled my setting (I got a 20, in case you want spoilers … Continue reading →

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Nautilus News Network: Reorganization, To-do Lists, and Little Things

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Ian

The last few weeks of Nautilus have mostly been spent getting myself organized and figuring out what needs to be done next.  I ended up with a to-do list two and a half pages long (and it’s not even done … Continue reading →

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Links of the Week

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Ian

Hey all!  Hare a few links from my recent travels around the internet.  Hope you find them interesting. 1. Sam Brown’s Factory Tours (via Daniel Solis) — Sam Brown went and toured 5 board game factories in China.  Hey, it … Continue reading →

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