Author Archives: AFDStudios

Book cover design prize?

Posted on September 23, 2013 | 12 comments

Hi all, your nearly-absentee-owner Jeff here with a quick question.

I’m thinking of running a Facebook contest designed to get more likes, increase the pool of people using HeroMachine beyond the traditional, and increase incoming links. The idea would be to have people use HM3 to make a portrait of a character from a novel, novella, or short story collection they have written. The winner would get to have a cover for that product designed and illustrated by yours truly, much like I’ve done for Ian Thomas Healy’s “Just Cause” books.

Is that something you think would be of interest?

I imagine even if you haven’t written a book yourself, it might be fun to have one for a book idea you’ve had.

Anyway, I’m throwing it open to comment, please let me know what you think (good, bad, or indifferent).

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Posted in Meta

I’m Podcasted!

Posted on September 12, 2013 | 13 comments

ep110I had my first ever audio interview with the great folks at “Creative Commoners”, in an episode airing today. We talked about all things HeroMachine, with featured shout-outs to Kaldath, Hammerknight, DiCicatriz, MSchute, and more. I hope you check it out and if you do, please let me know what you think. It turns out talking about yourself for an hour is pretty intimidating, but luckily the hosts were all funny, kind, and professional and I ended up having a really good time.

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Posted in HeroMachine 3, Meta, Things I Like

META: Export issues?

Posted on August 26, 2013 | 13 comments

I’ve had half a dozen reports in the last few days of not being able to export images, has anyone here seen that? It works fine when I test it but these folks are telling me they get the popup window, only they never get the image.

Thanks for any feedback you can provide.

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Posted in Bug Reports & Fixes, HeroMachine 3

Whatever happened to that bald guy?

Posted on August 22, 2013 | 18 comments

AMS sent an inquiry to Kaldath asking what happened to me and what the future of HeroMachine is. So I thought I should duck in to wave and update you all.

The update is, there is no update 🙂

I’ve got a full time job and travel every two weeks between Austin, TX and Durango, CO. That doesn’t leave me with a lot of time or energy for much else, so I don’t work on HeroMachine much. I still intend to convert all the left-only items to right, but after that I’ll probably consider HM3 done. I don’t foresee any new items coming out — what you’ve got now is likely all there will ever be.

After that, I honestly don’t know. I’ve been tossing around various ideas but nothing has really gelled yet. HeroMachine 2 continues to generate an order of magnitude more revenue from ads than any other version, so the financial motivation to do more isn’t there.

For now I’m content to let things continue to coast. People are still making awesome characters, Kaldath & Krew are doing a great job with the blog postings, and I’ve got my hands full with everything else in my life. So for the foreseeable future, the status quo will remain.

Hope that’s not too much of a disappointment for everyone. I appreciate your interest and continue to be be honored that you all continue to hang out and create.

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Posted in Meta, News & Updates

HM3: ItemLeft-Music

Posted on June 11, 2013 | 3 comments

You can now listen to the dulcet tones drifting forth from the ItemLeft-Music set in HeroMachine 3. Enjoy!

Note that you may have to clear your browser’s cached to see the new option.

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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates

HM3: ItemLeft Updates

Posted on June 10, 2013 | 4 comments

HeroMachine 3 has just been updated with ItemLeft-HeavyWeapons and ItemLeft-Miscellaneous in my ongoing mission to provide swapped alternates for the Right Hand items. As usual, you may have to clear your cache for the new item choices to appear in the drop down.

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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates

HM3: ItemLeft-Energy now up

Posted on June 6, 2013 | 3 comments

The title says it all. Clear your cache and buckle your seat belts, it’s gonna be a bumpy flight.

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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates

HM3: Blunts

Posted on June 6, 2013 | 3 comments

I’ve just updated HeroMachine 3 with the “ItemLeft-Blunts” set to make your outfitting process easier. Note that these are not the kind of blunts you would smoke, even though I’m in Colorado now, but rather heavy objects used for bludgeoning.

You may have to clear your browser’s cache before the new set shows in the list and loads.

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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates

HM3: ItemLeft-BladesTwo now added

Posted on June 5, 2013 | 2 comments

As the title says, you now have access to “ItemLeft-BladesTwo”, which is the Worst Name Ever.

You may have to clear your browser’s cache in order for the new set to appear in the list, but I have verified that it is live and working.

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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates

HM3: Item Left Blades Now Live

Posted on May 31, 2013 | 6 comments

In my ongoing effort to complete the project, I’ve just updated HeroMachine 3 with the flipped Blade set, now available in ItemLeft-Blades. These are the same items as in ItemRight-Blades, only now you can add them without having to jump through the “Multiples”-“Flip”-“Position” shuffle. You can just click and they’ll appear in the character’s left hand in the right spot.

Enjoy!

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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates