My thoughts on piracy.

April 29th, 2010

This got a little long when I was writing it as a comment to Chuck Wendig’s blog post over at Terribleminds. So, if you want a little foundation,read here first.
I recently purchased the new NOFX album. They were selling the CD for $8 on their website. I was at the mall, Hot Topic had it [...]

Cuteness, and the New Goal

April 27th, 2010

First, here’s our daughter with our new convention banner:

You’ll notice the artwork of the wonderful Ruth Lampi on our wall as well. Now we’ve addressed that…
The Kickstarter hit $2,000. That’s awesome. In fact, it’s at $2,105 right now. This means that the contributors will soon be deciding on an exclusive supplement for the game. The [...]

I ran a demo last Friday at Showcase Comics in Bryn Mawr PA. One of the players just recently started a Vlog, and did a pretty thorough review of it. You can check that out here. The degree of attention he pays is great. He had one sort of gripe, and a completely cool and [...]

Updates And Release Dates

April 21st, 2010

We have good news, and not-exactly-perfect-to-an-outside-observer news.
I’ll start with the not exactly perfect to an outside observer news:
Our release date for Maschine Zeit is getting kicked back to August. Ohnoes, right! That’s what evil publishing giants do. They go and put out release dates, then they butcher them and throw them into the pit and [...]

Our friends over at Alltern8.com featured Maschine Zeit after playing one of our demos. Read it. Love it. Rock the fuck out.

Apple Love

April 10th, 2010

I know I give a bit of shit to Apple.
But here’s a little thing for Maschine Zeit’s Apple users. It’s a Maschine Zeit screensaver. To install it, just drop it in your Library/Screensavers directory. I’m told it should definitely work on any OS X 10.6+ machine, it may work on 10.5 or earlier, but we [...]

I’m a nerd.

April 9th, 2010

Maschine Zeit Sheet

April 9th, 2010

Here’s the Maschine Zeit character sheet, courtesy of Chris “Mr Gone” Leland and AK “Drake Noble” Whipple.

Our editor, Jennifer Brozek, just won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Editing for her Grants Pass anthology. Our best goes out to Jennifer for her hard work and dedication. If you meet her at a convention, buy her drinks or something. We’re pleased to have such amazing talent working on making Maschine Zeit the [...]

Jason’s Story

April 5th, 2010

Today, we’re featuring a short story by Sean Hogan, and some art by Ruth Lampi.
Jason stood on the underside of the station. Tilting his head upwards, he gazed down toward earth as his radiation detector scanned the area ahead. He had seen pictures of earth as a child but much of what his memories said [...]