Gameless Saturday
Apr. 11th, 2010 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aYet another gameless Saturday today. It's been rather frustrating trying to get that group together lately.
Eric F. has been out of the group for years, absent a few-week flirtation in 2009. Dave W. has drifted back out because he's working Saturday mornings again, since he became a shift lead. Dave P.'s new startup job has him busy enough that he decided to give up half the Saturday. Kevin likewise has decided to give up half the weekends because he's burned out playing, though I don't think he's actually told anyone that face-to-face. Dave S. hasn't been reliable in over ten years. Corina is out of state for school this semester, and a result Chris doesn't show up part of the time because he's visiting her and part of the time because he's tired from working Saturday mornings.
Practically, that should be four reliables (me, Donald, Mary, and either Dave P. or Kevin and several who turn up unreliably), but it hasn't been gelling that much lately. I think things will get better when summer comes and Chris and probably Corina return, so I don't want to seek anyone new out and chance bulking our max size even more. Just a bit frustrating in the meantime.
So, I stuck around home today. Did some reading, but also some work.
I've lately had the itch to program beyond my Skotos hours, but I don't want to let Work-with-a-capital-W eat up all my free time, so I'm taking kind of a half measure. Skotos is going to be offering up a contract to let external iPhone App designers sell their apps through the RPGnet store, and I'm going to take advantage of that myself. So I spent several hours working on getting teeny cards right for my friend Eric V.'s Armorica game. I just finished producing 110px high tall versions of everything except the start cards and card backs (which I forgot). And that's enough for now. Next up is to get a fully laid out design of the game that works on the iPhone, then I can start coding. But not today. Or tomorrow.
While I was doing that graphic work today I also took advantage of my new iPad. It's Netflix app is quite good. I watched the last 4 episodes of 24 season 6 (which I've been working on for two years, because it was pretty mediocre) while manipulating card images, with my little iPad screen propped up against my iMac screen. Yep, that was about the attention that the show deserved. I think I've successfully kicked myself of 24 now, with no need to see its last two seasons. It was mostly crappy after its innovative premiere season.
Also did some writing for the RPG history book. No 24 during that.
Tomorrow, I rest.
Eric F. has been out of the group for years, absent a few-week flirtation in 2009. Dave W. has drifted back out because he's working Saturday mornings again, since he became a shift lead. Dave P.'s new startup job has him busy enough that he decided to give up half the Saturday. Kevin likewise has decided to give up half the weekends because he's burned out playing, though I don't think he's actually told anyone that face-to-face. Dave S. hasn't been reliable in over ten years. Corina is out of state for school this semester, and a result Chris doesn't show up part of the time because he's visiting her and part of the time because he's tired from working Saturday mornings.
Practically, that should be four reliables (me, Donald, Mary, and either Dave P. or Kevin and several who turn up unreliably), but it hasn't been gelling that much lately. I think things will get better when summer comes and Chris and probably Corina return, so I don't want to seek anyone new out and chance bulking our max size even more. Just a bit frustrating in the meantime.
So, I stuck around home today. Did some reading, but also some work.
I've lately had the itch to program beyond my Skotos hours, but I don't want to let Work-with-a-capital-W eat up all my free time, so I'm taking kind of a half measure. Skotos is going to be offering up a contract to let external iPhone App designers sell their apps through the RPGnet store, and I'm going to take advantage of that myself. So I spent several hours working on getting teeny cards right for my friend Eric V.'s Armorica game. I just finished producing 110px high tall versions of everything except the start cards and card backs (which I forgot). And that's enough for now. Next up is to get a fully laid out design of the game that works on the iPhone, then I can start coding. But not today. Or tomorrow.
While I was doing that graphic work today I also took advantage of my new iPad. It's Netflix app is quite good. I watched the last 4 episodes of 24 season 6 (which I've been working on for two years, because it was pretty mediocre) while manipulating card images, with my little iPad screen propped up against my iMac screen. Yep, that was about the attention that the show deserved. I think I've successfully kicked myself of 24 now, with no need to see its last two seasons. It was mostly crappy after its innovative premiere season.
Also did some writing for the RPG history book. No 24 during that.
Tomorrow, I rest.