Friday, April 24, 2015

Quick NOTES: April 2015 #2

Greeting Fellow Readers!

-Now on Fictionaut: 'Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.5 c.5'

The battle for Azure begins in the dramatic conclusion.

Click on the sidebar link to check it out.


-Saturday May 2, 2015 at 12:00 PM EST in New York: NYC Playtest

Try out local tabletop games currently under development. Stick around to try out 'Splatterbomb'. Location TBD.


-Monday May 4, 2015 at 9:00 PM EST on Blogspot: 'NEWS and NOTES'

Check out the latest upcoming H-M Brown releases and events.

-Also be sure to swing by FJB Comics and Games at 17 Coles Street, Jersey City, NJ to get your hands on a discount ticket for 'Peanut Butter Jelly (Splatterbombtheme)'. Discount ends May 31, 2015.

That is all for the Quick NOTES.

Until Next time...

See ya.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Quick NOTES: April 2015 #1

Greeting Fellow Readers!

I apologize for yesterday. I had a family emergency and completely forgotten to set up Peanut Butter Jelly (Splatterbomb™ Theme) to free on Bandcamp.

To make up for this mistake, I have set Peanut Butter Jelly (Splatterbomb™ Theme) to Free right now and will continue until 1:00 AM Monday Morning. 'Shell' will also be set to free tommorow as well to complete the Free Spring Day and I will post up on Twitter for teh official announcement.

Again I apologize for this error.

-On another NOTES this Wednesday NYC-Playtest is hosting another Weeknight Playtest. Th eLocation is Whole Foods West 57th Street Manhattan. Start time is 6:00PM until 11:00 PM. 'Swap Off' will be playtested as well as other local developer's games. So come on buy.

 http://nycplaytest.com/

-And yes 'Arcana Magi Memorial Vol. 5 c.5' is still set for this Friday on Fictionaut at 9:00PM.

Thank you for your patience on my mistake.

Until Next Time...

See ya.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Wedneday Rants: April 2015 Edition

Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to the April Edition of Wednesday Rants. I got some extremely important news to talk about so let us begin.

[Posting my Stories on Fictionaut]

There are conversations going on between Fictionaut Members and the people in running the website. The conversation grew could in the Forum but is going in Facebook.

http://fictionaut.com/forums/general/threads/3368

There appears to be some decisions that could be made in the future, and chances are I may not agree with it. If I do not like the direction Fictionaut goes, I may walk and leave the site. That means I will also take all of my works on Fictionaut. If should I find myself leaving Fictionaut, I have no intention of looking for another website to post any of my stories on. I know there are many websites, even some decent ones that could cater to posting stories on the internet, but I really do not want to go through the whole process of re-posting 5 years worth of stories. This is NOT laziness, its that many things have happened since I joined Fictionaut from  pursuing Comic Book Companies to developing Tabletop Games, I do not have the energy to go through all that posting.

I don't know what I will do with all that work, maybe focus on turning some of them into Comic Books scripts like I did with 'Arcana Magi Rush', but it is still very very early right now with Fictionauts situation.

Nothing may even happen, but I felt that I should mention this now, right now, so that if any changes happen at Fictionaut occur and I make the choice to leave, that decision will not spring up on all of you all of sudden. You already know the situation. I hope I can stay on Fictionaut longer, this is a great pace.

[Arcana Magi]

'Arcana Magi Memorial Vol. 5-c.5' is coming to an end next week. I hope all of you enjoyed Azure's latest adventure. Next month on 'Arcana Magi's 5th Anniversary' will be 'Arcana Magi Pure Vol. 5'. I expect the 5th Anniversary season to end around June, Fictionaut notwithstanding. So please continue to enjoy the universe.

[Swap Off]

The game coming along fine. There isn't much to say at this time, but I do want to point out that my target audience is for families. I hope that I have accomplish that level. The characters I am using are family characters, mom, dad, children, grandparents, and so on. I did the artwork for the characters though I am unsure if they will be used in the final product. Swap Off is officially a card game for 2 - 4 Players. Protoyping will resume next month.

[Splatterbomb]

 Rather than playtesing Splatterbomb™ this month, I decided to hold a roundtable discussion to get advice and help on the games direction and game mechanics. Thanks to NYC-Playtest.com, I have made decisions on where to focus the game at and its theme. Officially, I will be theming the game around Video Arcades. Here is an example via 'classicgamevideos' Channel on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMJio2MO6w

I am targeting a 2-5 player, asymmetrical style, tactical game. The story and world building is set, I have the characters drawn out, and the artistic and aesthetics are leaning towards what you would see on an Arcade Machine. There are still some game mechanics that I need to test out before making any omissions, this will happen at Next Months NYC-Playtest on May 2.


[Free Spring Day]

Just a heads up this Friday April 17 is 'Free Spring Day'. 'Shell' on Kindle and Peanut Butter Jelly (Splatterbomb™ Theme) on Bandcamp will both be free for 24 hours. This is your chance to scoop both on a single day. Please enjoy.

Also be sure to check out Alyssa Menes Music Composer for 'Peanut Butter Jelly' at:

http://portfolio.acmenesmusic.com/


That's all I have on my mind for now.  Thank you all for listening to my rants.

Until Next Time...

See ya...

Monday, April 6, 2015

NEWS and NOTES: April 2015 Edition

Greetings Fellow Readers! Welcome to another round of 'NEWS and NOTES'. Due to the month of April's Layout in that there are only 3 full weeks, I will be taking a semi-break so I can catch a breather after last month's playtesting and writing.


NEWS:

-Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 9:00 PM EST on Blogspot: 'Wednesday Rants'

Join H-M Brown as he discusses upcoming projects and plans.

-Friday, April 17, 2015 on Kindle AND Bandcamp: Free SPRING Friday

Celebrate Springtime with 1 full day of FREE stuff. Go to Kindle and grab yourself a free copy of 'Shell' for that dreaded horror goodness. Then, head on over to Bandcamp and snag yourself a free copy of  'Peanut Butter Jelly' Splatterbomb Theme for FREE.

Grab yourself a free copy of 'Shell' on Kindle.


-Friday, April 24, 2015 at 9:00 PM EST on Fictionaut: 'Arcana Magi Memorial Vol. 5: Chapter 5'

The fight for Azure begins in the climatic conclusion.



NOTES:

-Be sure to grab yourself a copy of Splatterbomb Theme Song 'Peanut Butter Jelly' on Bandcamp.

https://studiocoqui.bandcamp.com/

-Be sure to check out Alyssa Menes Music Composer for 'Peanut Butter Jelly' at:

http://portfolio.acmenesmusic.com/


So that is all for NEWS and NOTES.



Until Next Time...

See ya.