Tag: Why

  • A new project

    Any time I sit down and attempt to write on a game project – old or new – I run into what I call an organizational dysfunction. Where to start? Where to put things? Dumping into Word/LibreOffice/KWord/Wordstar ( okay, maybe not Wordstar ) doesn’t hack it after a point. I do a lot of work…

  • Problem Restatement

    TL;DWR If you’re not a long-time Tabletop gamer with a collection of PDFs, this probably isn’t for you. I started in digital game formats pretty early. Not early, early. There were probably files up on Sunet before I could dress myself – but still, fairly early. I was starting to try to publish in the…

  • What’s this all about?

    Short version? This is my travels and troubles with Scribus.  I’m going to attempt to make some barely scientific use-case studies of attempts to rebuild some old projects of my originally done in Pagemaker 6.0/6.5. My previous layout and publishing experience is in the RPG Industry. I have the dubious distinction of putting the first…

  • About the Useless User

    There is a common view in OSS that end-users who don’t contribute to a project in any way other than *gasp* using the project aren’t terribly important.  Some projects far more loudly than others.  I’m of the strong view that this is a huge limiter in the adoption and useful to the user growth of…