Monthly Archives: February 2011

Caption Contest 93 Winner!

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

Thanks to everyone who shared their wit with us for Caption Contest 93! I’ve put together the Finalists after the jump, and then at the end I’ll announce which of them is the overall winner. First, though, I wanted to … Continue reading →

Posted in Caption Contests, Contest Winners, Contests | 15 Comments

Character Contest 58: Simply your best

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

This week you get one shot, and one shot only, to wow us with the best thing you’ve ever done with HeroMachine (at least, the best thing that’s never been entered in an HM contest before!). No theme, no constraints … Continue reading →

Posted in Character Design Contests, Contests | 192 Comments

RP: As long as no one looks at us

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

(From “Planet Comics” number 1, 1940.)

Posted in Daily Random Panel | 6 Comments

HM3: Oops

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

Much to my dismay I have just discovered that at least one of the major changes I made to HeroMachine 3 got lost somewhere in the file confusion I had a couple of days ago. I haven’t had the heart … Continue reading →

Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates | 19 Comments

Power User Profile: Hammerknight

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

I thought I’d try a bit of an experiment this week. Since one of the Things I Like the most is all of you great folks who frequent the site and the program, I wanted to offer up profiles of … Continue reading →

Posted in Power User Profiles, Things I Like | 42 Comments

RP: Proper dress for wrestling the one-eyed monster

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

(From “Planet Comics” number 1, 1952. Note that in addition to the condom-armored heroes fighting the “one-eyed monsters”, the backup feature is “Spurt” Hammond fighting women warriors of the Moon. That’s a lot of awesome in one cover.)

Posted in Daily Random Panel | 11 Comments

Geek Secret

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

I really enjoyed the first “Sharing Day” we had, so since I am in a “coding fog” at the moment and a break from “Open Critique Day” is probably in order, I thought we should revisit the idea. Hopefully we … Continue reading →

Posted in Sharing Day | 74 Comments

RP: That’s a lot of awesome in just one panel

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

(From “Man’O’Mars” number 1, 1953.)

Posted in Daily Random Panel | 7 Comments

HM3: Export options

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

I’m currently working on adding options for how you want to export your character image, and this is the dialog box I have so far: How do those sizes grab you? The 200×300 size I figure will mostly be used … Continue reading →

Posted in HeroMachine 3, Previews | 29 Comments

Safe word, safe word!

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Jeff Hebert

When last we left our outer-space, far-future adventure, Doctor Octopus’ illegitimate cyborg love child was wrapping its metal tentacles lovingly around our only spacecraft. We decided to stand idly by as a witness to this Grand Theft UFO, and as … Continue reading →

Posted in Return to the Cave of Time, RPG Corner | 7 Comments