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Making Small Bets While Building A Writing Career

October 29, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Because it’s my personality type and how I approach new subjects, I’ve read a number of books, tons of blog posts, and numerous discussion forums with advice about becoming a writer. I knew that I was more interested in self-publishing, so that made it easy to skip over anything that was focused on finding an […]

Filed Under: Self Publishing

Wacky Writing Idea #8: An Alternative Biology Novel

October 27, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

Filed Under: Writing Ideas

Reflections on the Completion of a Dungeon World Campaign

October 25, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

My online role-playing group and I recently wrapped up a dozen or so session campaign of Dungeon World. Dungeon World is considered a “Powered By The Apocalypse” RPG, which has been a popular style of game over the last decade. This post is an attempt to summarize my thoughts on the system, comparing it and […]

Filed Under: Role Playing

GameMaker Snakes and Ladders Tutorial

October 22, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

The following is a tutorial to help game developers learn how to make a simple game using GameMaker. This is an (almost) utter beginner tutorial. I’m quite new to Gamemaker and this was the second project I worked on after making my own Asteroids game (occasionally referring to the excellent “Space Rock” tutorials). I’ve been […]

Filed Under: Board games, Game Development

Professional Dungeon Masters

October 18, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

There’s been a new trend in role-playing games (RPG): professional dungeon masters, who are people that run role-playing games for money. With RPGs, the dungeon master (DM) does quite a bit more work than the other players. They need to understand the system better than anyone else playing, design the adventure, keep track of the […]

Filed Under: Business, Role Playing

Wacky Story Idea #7: Family With An Aging Dragon

October 15, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

Filed Under: Writing Ideas

Wacky Story Idea #6: Game of Thrones What If…?

October 13, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

Filed Under: Writing Ideas

Wacky Writing Idea #5: An Anti-Romance Novel

October 11, 2021 by John Champaign 1 Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

Filed Under: Writing Ideas

Wacky Writing Idea #4: Birthright meets A Song of Fire and Ice

October 8, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

Filed Under: Writing Ideas

Machine Learning Is The New MBA

October 6, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Years ago businesses noticed that graduates from Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programs had a toolset that was unusual and useful. These graduate programs were producing people distinct from general undergraduate business programs, in that they had a good understanding of general business principles applicable throughout an organization, combined with analytical techniques that could be […]

Filed Under: Business

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