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I ran into my mathematician friend at work today. He’s the one that I told about my circular chess variant called “Circus”. Over the weekend, he and a friend built a board just for playing the game. They tried different tactics and strategies, and generally gave it it’s first ever true playtest. I only wish I could have been there to see it.

I’m talking to people about building an actual board game and selling it, but it’s uphill work. Nobody wants to make a circular game board, and finding molded plastic pieces for a glove, a flame, a book, and a lance… well, it’s going to take some work.

I have to admit, I’m pretty steamed about this.

Just yesterday, I set up my newsletter (you can sign up for it in the sidebar), and I was proud to announce that there was a new version of The Hidden Institute available. I added the short story “The Kody’s Shame” to the book, thus answering two of the biggest complaints:

1) MOAR BEAR POLO and

2) it’s too short.

Except I didn’t. Oh, I wrote the new copy, formatted it, exported it, uploaded it to Amazon, previewed it, and waited for them to evaluate it.