Category Archives: Meta

Doggone Super-Heroes

Posted on October 8, 2013 by | 13 comments

This is one of our five dogs, Trinket, in her super-hero identity “The Scarlet Shepherd”. Why did I do this? Much more on this topic to come next week!

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Posted in Meta, Sketch of the Day

Book cover design prize?

Posted on September 23, 2013 by | 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 by | 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

Whatever happened to that bald guy?

Posted on August 22, 2013 by | 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

New Blog Topic Ideas

Posted on June 24, 2013 by | 10 comments

I’m not going to do the Monday Night Movie Club this week, because it hasn’t been getting much interest over the last few weeks. Instead I thought I’d take this opportunity to try out some ideas for new blog topics. I’ve made a list of things I think could work, which I’ll explain after the jump, and you guys can vote for which one you like best or add your own suggestions.

Continue reading →

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Posted in Meta, Suggestions & Ideas

Open Thread

Posted on May 10, 2013 by | 20 comments

Open thread today, talk about anything you want to.

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Posted in Open threads

Happy Birthday, Hammerknight!

Posted on March 19, 2013 by | 15 comments

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I just wanted to take a moment to wish a very Happy Birthday to our own Hammerknight. Thanks for all you do around here, buddy, and I hope you have a great one!

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Posted in Meta

Open Thread #H1

Posted on March 16, 2013 by | 8 comments

I am having a open thread day for today. Due to some health problems I am going to have to cut the contest and challenges down to one per week. I really hate to do this. The last few Share Days have done really good, so I am thinking about posting more of them during the week. Isia and I can set the topics up to post during the week. I want to use today for everyone to give me ideas for topics. I want to have the topic to play hand in hand with Hero Machine. This way people can design characters for the topics and share them. A good example would be yesterday’s Share Day Topic about fantasy races, you could post what you believe they should look like. So let’s hear your ideas.

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Posted in Open threads

Marvel #1 Offers 700 digital comics for FREE

Posted on March 11, 2013 by | 3 comments

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I just learned of this a few minutes ago and figured I’d share it with our community here. Marvel Comics announced at SXSW that they are giving away free 700 first issue titles until March 12th ( tomorrow ) So go take a look and see if there is anything you’d like to give a try for free.

http://marvel.com/news/story/20260/sxsw_2013_marvel_1_updated?flush=1

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Posted in Meta

Open Thread: Anything Is Possible!

Posted on March 10, 2013 by | 7 comments

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HammerKnight was unable to do his usually Open Critique post today and since I am not very good at doing so myself I have decided to post an open thread instead. Leave an image for others in the community to critique if you wish, or discuss anything of interest to you in this thread. The possibilities are endless so long as you adhere to the rules of the site. Happy Posting!!!

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Posted in Open threads