Co-founder & co-owner of Posthuman Studios, an award-winning hobby game publisher. Posts about publishing, graphic design, Creative Commons licensing, gaming, and more.
I get stopped multiple times a week to ask what I use to turn my hair bright blue/purple. This is the list of stuff we use! Radical Bleach Kit — we’ve tried a few different bleach kits, but we keep going back to this one, which always does a great job on my hair. It’s […]
Every Friday, a list of five things: 5ive on Friday. Quickly bashed out, designed to start not finish conversations. Things I Did This Week It’s been a busy week! Moved into my new office space: This has been a weeklong process, a few things each day, culminating with my new monitor arriving on Friday, so […]
Every Friday, a list of five things: 5ive on Friday. Quickly bashed out, designed to start not finish conversations. 95% of these will be inspired by the week’s social media conversations. Kickstarter Warning Signs None of these warning signs may be a dealbreaker by themselves, but if a project ticks off more than a couple, […]
A million years ago, I cooked up an InDesign PDF Export Preset to handle exporting PDFs that worked well on the then-brand-new iPad while maintaining relatively small file sizes. I still use that preset basically every day, having published dozens of books with it. You can download it here. Adobe has instructions for loading PDF […]
Our dearly loved husband and beloved father, Richard Frederick Jury, died in Taber on Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at the age of 71 years. At Richard’s request, there will be no public service. Besides Helen, his loving wife of fifty one years, he is survived by their children Lesley Whalen (Rob) of Innisfail, Pauline Meisinger […]
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June 2109 Update: Many notable things have changed since this article was first published. An updated version is in the works. I swear. This article is funded on behalf of my generous Patreon Supporters. Please visit Patreon and support my work. There are varying reward tiers depending on your support level and the type of supporter […]
I’ve been buried under a log jam of production work for the past several months, and my lumberjack class skill of +4 (+2 when I wear that sweet lumberjacky shirt) has finally worked parts of the jam loose! First off is The Devotees, a new adventure for Eclipse Phase. It’s available in both print and […]
I’m going to speaking at PePcon in Chicago this summer. This is the fifth Print + ePublishing Conference, hosted by the fine people that run InDesignSecrets and CreativePro. I’ve attended three of the four previous PePcons, and it’s always a smoothly-run show with great speakers and a collaborative, sharing atmosphere. It attracts a pretty wide […]
At Gen Con 2013, the owners of Posthuman Studios (Rob Boyle, Brian Cross, Jack Graham, and myself) sat down with the folks at Roleplaying Public Radio to record this episode of Game Designer’s Workshop. We were a little tipsy when this interview started (it was, after all, after business hours at Gen Con …), and […]