Clik here to view.
Cupcake Scouts Comics!
As promised, I've been working on a webcomic series for the Cupcake Scouts. Here are the first two pages of the Cupcake Scouts comic series... You can follow it on Comic Fury. I plan to be posting a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anatomy of a Cupcake Scouts Comic Page
It's sort of remarkable to me. I have spent SO much time thinking about and planning webcomics. I've spent so much time trying to figure out the best fonts, and line weights, and image sizes, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Webcomic Keeps Plugging Along
Mary has been really great about supporting this project, and started an Instagram to help promote it. I know very little about Instagram, and have even less interest in building community there, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Walking, LEGOs, Zen, and the Art of Cupcake Scouts
It's been an adventurous few days! One of our old cars got terminal news, so Mary and I decided to trade in two cars that had 150k+ miles each for one car with under 10k. Since Mary has to drive Grace...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the Craft of Storytelling
I don't know about the whole 10,000 hours to master a craft, but I do know that between teaching English for 23 years, directing dozens of plays and musicals, publishing hundreds of pages of comics,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Help Me Internet (You're My Only Hope)
So, this morning I became aware of this...https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidhamrick/badge-quest-expanded-gamebookand...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In happier news...
James V. West, who frequents different parts of the Internet than I do, so our paths don't often converge (although we both go back to the same roots in mini comics publishing in the 90s), reached out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Old School Army Ants Thinking
As I mentioned yesterday, James V. West reached out recently, and he ended up with a copy of the first edition of my Army Ants RPG (my first 'published' RPG work - from 1996). He was kind in his...
View ArticleEli's Mission, Session 1
It's playtest time for the newest MTDAA RPG I'm working on.I’m going to go with a solo ant 1. I’ll make him infantry, so that he has the most flexibility (I think that’s going to be important as a solo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Walk In The Woods
I went for a walk yesterday around a pond in my neighborhood, and started snapping pictures as I was going. This was Army Ants brain food. I could see this as their version of the 'Nam. For thirty...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Army Ants '81
Interested in following my working draft of Michael T. Desing's Army Ants '81?Oh. I thought you'd be more interested.Carry on, then.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Army Ants and Visual Style and Other Philosophy Stuff
I am thinking about what to do with my newest iteration of Army Ants rules, which are hammering into place quite nicely, and I have started noodling with some art. A few things that make this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let's Make... Zak
Zak is the Army Ants version of Snake Eyes, so he's really good at a lot of things. If the game can support making Zak, then it can support pretty much anything. He's about as awesome as a character...
View ArticleInching Closer to Publication - Ants
The core rules are in final edits (I think), and I'm finding nifty little things in the rules that can impact play in cool ways. For instance, Leadership allows you to grant a bonus to another ant who...
View ArticleMore Play Testing of Ant Stuff
Playtest time! I’ve decided to make three experienced ants (put them at level 3) and see how they do with a challenging mission…Gus - Fun-loving Ant Infantry 3 A3 Lance Corporal; Grit 10; Clout 40Body...
View ArticleAnts - Diving Deeper into BODY implications
As I've started to tinker with BODY, I'm seeing the metaphorical spider web (extended pun intended - actually worked hard to shoehorn that in) of how BODY influences other things hardwired into the...
View ArticleArmy Ants Playtest #... 4? 5? Not sure anymore.
Let’s try a different sort of play test with the variations I’ve made to the rules, and see how they hold up. I’m going to make two ants who are sitting in a foxhole with sandbags, defending a pathway...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Editing Odds and Ends
As I complete edit number 372 or something of the Army Ants '81 rules (they are only ten pages, so I've spent much more time editing and refining than I did writing the original set of rules), I find...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Army Ants '81 Now Available
So much for THIS stealth operation.It was a simple enough mission. Sneak up on the termite compound. Take some notes. Get out. You weren’t geared up for a full frontal assault.But then Gonzo thought...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Phil File Card
I'm playing with the file card design. I worked out a file card for Phil as of the beginning of the Army Ants comics (I cheated a little and gave him a 1-point discount since the gear he has adds up to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remastering Pages
As I go through the process of re-mastering the pages, I have the benefit of three things:1) I know where the story is going! I've already got the whole thing done, so when I make edits, I know how...
View ArticleClik here to view.
History Repeating Itself
I'm having the longest experience of déjà vu... back in the mid 1990s, I went to a comic convention with two projects in hand. I had a box of Seymour #1, a fantasy comic about a teddy bear that fused...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Army Ants '81 Resources
Army Ants isn't just a game, it's a veritable media empire. The Game- The Core Rules for Army Ants '81 are now a PWYW release.The Comic- The original series is being re-mastered and released a page a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Of Cupcake Scouts and Composition
So, I've been a little bit grumpy about how everything played out with the Kickstarter that I still think borrowed a little too heavily from Cupcake Scouts (and how it raised over $100K with 'my...
View ArticleAhem
To the surprise of nobody who has followed my blog for any length of time, my productivity fell off the cliff right around the first of September. It MIGHT be that it coincided with the start of...
View Article
