With midterms looming next week, I can’t promise a flood of new portfolio updates — but that doesn’t mean nothing’s happening behind the curtain. In fact, the gears have been grinding steadily on a few fronts. The Basic Fantasy battle engine is shaping up beautifully. Most of the core rules tables are now in place, […]
Before I get into the nitty-gritty of tonight’s bug-squishing and feature-tuning session, I have to talk about how I spent my evening — watching Macabre Theater with the legendary Ivonna Cadaver! I first caught one of her shows back in the early 2000s on our local Fox affiliate, and I’ve been a fan ever since. […]
I’m in full upload mode over here—there’s a pile of work I want to get onto the site for you all to poke and prod. A couple of my papers are with professors right now for a sanity check on clarity and reproducibility. Most of them orbit the same star: Tharendell, and specifically how I’m […]
The first set of AI-driven NPCs is up and ready to chat: https://babblebaz.com/npc-ai. They live in Tharendell, the fantasy world I’m building in public—and you’re invited to help. After you finish poking around the random musings of Babble Baz, take a leap into Tharendell. If inspiration strikes, you can submit a new location; I’ve added […]