The reason I have been so quiet on here recently is that I have got a dream job in the gaming industry, as a game designer with Warcradle Studios, and moved city.
A few months ago I got my cats, my games, and my books and moved to Nottingham. Trying to establish myself has been challenging at times but so far I’ve really enjoyed it.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Cheers,
Pete.
I hardly posted in 2024, and barely looked at anyone else’s work too, the latter I feel worse about. The long story short is health related… without oversharing my health nosedived, mostly physical which had a knock-on effect on my mental health. This meant I wasn’t able to work on my PhD as much as I wanted and then guilty spending my time on anything else with the end result that nothing much of anything got done. Hardly an ideal situation. Struggling with my 3d printer also took up more of my mental effort than I wanted. Still now I’m on a fistful more of meds that seems trop be working things are looking up.
I’ve been painting as much as ever- it is always a pleasant escape, but I want to move away from just posting what ever I paint (unless it is noteworthy in some way) as that feels too easy. I want to blog more game related content instead. That will be my idea for the coming year.
I will detail my return to GM’ing Cyberpunk after a break of some 30 years fairly soon as a starting point. Also, I want to show off the games I’ve been writing as part of my uni work – hopefully there will be some interest there. They have been tested at various academic conferences and have seemed to be well received.
I also spoke at the first academic conference looking at Warhammer. The talks are all on you tube; see my academic page for details. That also led me to collecting a new 40k army- genestealer cults.
See you in the blogosphere soon.
Cheers,
Pete.
Apologies for neglecting the blog of late. On top of my studying I’ve been a bit ill but started some new meds that should fix it. Basically I’ve got a vitamin D deficiency that has left me really tired all the time.
I’ve still be chipping away at my painting and have mostly been sticking to the plan I laid out some time ago. I’ll try to get one or two posts out a week to try and catch up and show you what I’ve done. It has mostly been 40k stuff as that is what I’ve been playing the most so it makes sense to keep doing that.
Cheers,
Pete.
The past 2 months I’ve been a bit ill, not really ill just annoyingly so which has stopped me doing as much as I’ve liked… long story short I’m one of those people who, after a mild case of covid have developed the so called ‘long covid’ symptoms. What energy I have got is going on my uni work.
I’ve been keeping my hand in though working on bits and pieces here and there. I find the odd painting session does wonders for my mental health and lifts my mood.
Gaming has been all online bar one exception. Given the high rate of covid cases in my area we are currently under restrictions of not being able to mix in doors with people outside your bubble – good thing I’ve got a gamer (my mate not Nicola she counts as household) in mine. The rules are quite contradictory and hard to follow but you do what you can. The good thing is I’m getting 2 night’s gaming in a week with an online group that I’ve gamed with in the past when we could face to face.
I’ve been taking pictures of everything so I shall upload them as time permits so you can see what I’ve been working on. The printer is proving to be great fun, plenty printed out and I’m enjoying tweaking it and trying to get the best out of it with small scale prints.
I hope everyone is well and stays safe.
Cheers,
Pete.
My WordPress app informed me today that it is my 8th year of running this blog so I thought it would be a suitable time for an update as things have been a bit quite round here.
Firstly I’m in a new relationship with a wonderful lady, a gamer too. Secondly it looks like PhD plan ‘D’ is coming to fruition (I don’t want to jinx anyything yet by giving out more details), more on that later hopefully.
I’ve been getting a bit of gaming in that will be featured on the blog in due course. Both my GF and I have really got into GW’s Kill Team recently, my adventures in 6mm continue and I managed to play a megagame this year after missing two in a row due to illness. The Necromunda campaign is continuing but I’ve got behind on my game write ups. All a case of watch this space.
Cheers,
Pete.
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