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    Ossuary Companion “The Hodge-Podge Transformer” Released

    I promise, not every one of my blog posts from now on is going to be about Future Proof, but we’ve released a small companion game/prelude/demo to Ossuary! It’s weird. It’s fun. It’s… salty. Go play “The Hodge-Podge Transformer” while you wait for me to post some Iceland photos. …Yeah, I said it. What, then? You’ve already waited 4 months; what’s one more day?

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    Image Generation on Granny Squares

    It’s been a while since I’ve done anything significant on my Granny Square Pattern Generator (GSC), and since I’ve already contributed to a game release this week, I figured I hadn’t quite checked enough “public-facing actions” boxes this week until I did some work on GSC. Biggest missing feature (and biggest complaint!) is that blankets weren’t printable. Now they are! Log in with something like Facebook or Twitter, generate a blanket, and save the blanket. When you look at the details of the blanket, you can now get it as a printable image, and toggle between the two styles of seeing the blanket. My next task is to make authentication…

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    Have Some Bones: Ossuary Is Out!

    Unforgivably, I’m a day late, but Future Proof Games‘ Ossuary has been released! In case you haven’t visited the page or seen the trailer: The last thing you remember is receiving an unsatisfying answer. A plunge through the fundamental chaos takes you to a place of bones. Great power can be found within the Ossuary, but those who are not lying to themselves are lying to you. Ossuary is available as a downloadable title for Windows and is DRM-free. Pick up a copy and enjoy! (Oh, and Mac will be supported once Adobe releases Mavericks support for desktop Flash Player and AIR.)

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    Other Tip Offs That Our Industry Has Problems

    A colleague sent an email to our department yesterday that opened with the line, “Other tip offs that our computers are like women…” What followed was pretty (and predictably) contemptible; four bullet points of absurd stereotypes, ostensibly humorous, comparing computers to women. I was… quite upset. I debated how or if to talk to the coworker, and ultimately decided to have the conversation when another colleague was like, “Hey, don’t send stuff like that!” So we talked. I was still hand-shakingly upset, so I didn’t press the points I should have. Instead, I listened to the “ask anyone who knows me; I’m not a sexist” thing, the “I don’t do…