Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us “there is nothing new under the sun.” If you’re a creator of things, you’ve probably felt the sting of this statement. Have you ever created something – poured your heart and soul into it – only to have someone say “Oh yeah! i saw that same thing done in The Maltese [...] Keep Reading

If you’ve read a few of my articles, you’ll know that i’m on this lifelong pilgrimage toward that hallowed house of making money for my art. It’s a very long journey, full of winding roads and twisting paths, around the corners of which i repeatedly get socked in the junk. Every new decision i make [...] Keep Reading

If you’ve read any of my other posts about the province of Ontario backing up the money truck, you know the score: the provincial government doles out a bunch of cash every year to the Ministry of Culture, who disperses it through an organization called the OMDC (Ostentatious Mixers of Daquiri-like Cocktails). The OMDC doesn’t [...] Keep Reading

Yesterday was a deadline day here in Ontario for the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Interactive Digital Media Fund. That’s a lot of words, so let’s just shorten it to “OMDC IDM”. Of course, that’s a lot of acronyms, so let’s just shorten it to “OD” … as in, “i just OD-ed on application writing, and [...] Keep Reading

i’m very excited to announce Spellirium, an epic word puzzle adventure game. Spellirium will do for word games what Puzzle Quest did for Bejewelled. You will play in a fantastic dark fantasy world armed with a small wooden grid of letter tiles – the SpellCaster – which can change reality with the words you spell. [...] Keep Reading