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I am happy to announce that Revelation is now published! Needless to say, getting this one released has taken a lot longer than I ever imagined or intended, but - as they say - the best laid plans of mice and men... As always, I've released both a paperback and an ebook version. (Again, releasing a paperback edition costs essentially nothing, so why not?)  At present, I believe Amazon shows it as having 309 pages, but it actually has 392. Once again, the cover art was done by Isikol, who simply has a knack for capturing the image I have in my head. As is typical for me, I neglected to do a cover reveal, but I've never gotten a strong indication one way or another as to how readers feel about those.  (On the other hand, I did get a strong reaction to publishing an excerpt from the book, so maybe I'll pursue that option more often.) Beyond that, let me say thanks once again to the many fans of this series.  I know that a lot of readers were eagerly awaiting the next instal...

Hello! It's been a while since our last post, so we thought we were due for an update. Here are a few highlights of the last month or so of development: John made great leaps forward in optimizing the game, so we are more confident than ever about performance. All of our levels are in still in different stages of completion (I supposed that's just how we work), but we have most of our art assets made for all of them now :) We have finally made a representative vertical slice of a level that we think represents the gameplay density, puzzle difficulty scale, and level of detail that we are aiming for . This makes us even more excited for what the rest of the game will look like. We also made a menu with graphics options! Woo hoo! Also, congratulations to our very own White Lotus member James for graduating with a BA in Interactive Media! Now he doesn't have those pesky classes getting in the way of all this work that needs to be done on XING! Bwahahahaha! Thank you all ...

This is just for kicks and grins, but I somehow got onto the subject of catchphrases with my kids and decided to give them a perfect example of one: Dr. McCoy's famous - and famously parodied - line from the series  Star Trek : "He's dead, Jim."   And it's perfectly captured in the clip below. Frankly speaking, no matter how many times I watch this, it's still hilarious.  I often wonder if the writers would have changed that line if they could have seen into the future.  Regardless, I think it's great that their work gets to entertain us on two fronts: a show that's still fun to watch almost 50 years later, and a memorable catchphrase that's likely to live forever.