Arcana Labs is a hobby-scale/cottage industry software and hardware development concern operating out of the unceded territory of the Wolastoq in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The lab's going concern is the creation of puzzles, amusements, and reliability tooling, and is chiefly known for the backup utility we created, Tapestry.
About a month ago I announced a new gaming project, Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries. Having had my fun with The Game for Scribes, and inspired by other games I enjoyed like Space Trader and Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, I set out to create a fun little TUI-ish, manual-driven game that was one part space trader, one part light productivity aid, and one part story-prompting journalling tool. So one month…
After just a wee bit too long without news of any kind about it, I’m really excited to announce that initial drafting on the third Arcane Revolution Trilogy book is finally done, having been completed late last week!
As is our abortive, and often-skipped tradition, dependant entirely on my ability to maintain the habit of putting the interesting links onto a list for later use, here are all the interesting internet things I’ve found since our last internet highlights post.
Last night on our Writing Livestream, I announced that Arcana Labs was taking a forray back into software development with our first large gaming project: Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries. Inspired by a combination of my own frustration with not having a specific tool I wanted, and classic games of my childhood like the PalmOS’s Space Trader, EM:D will combine the economics simulation “space trucker”…
Today’s new short fic zine release, The Currie Mountain Repository, is the first entry in a series called “The Tales of the Voyageur”. The series is an environmental science fiction adventure, focusing on locations throughout the province of New Brunswick in a future which hopefully never comes to pass - one in which infrastructural collapse and anthropogenic ecological disaster has dramatically…
As a general rule, I don’t talk much about my professional life on this blog - working in tech means the vast majority of what I do on a daily basis is wrapped up in enough layers of NDAs, Information Security Policies, and international regulatory language that even a lawyer would struggle to find the safe footing, and I have no delusions of being a lawyer. Today though, I’m going to break with…
With how busy I have been with the new job lately, and my increasing push to focus on projects and uses of time that remove annoyance, unfortunately today’s announcement is not a shiny new project (of which there are a few in the hopper), but instead infrastructural news. I know, it’s so sexy. In a move surprising nobody paying attention, I have decided to announce that Arcana Labs Projects are…
In a move which more or less surprises nobody, I am retiring PETI, effective immediately. There are reasons for this that go past simple boredom with the project, but I know it’s something of a sad announcement, so let’s lay them out.
With the release of a long-promised essay titled This Machine Has No Gnosis, Arcana Labs of Fredericton is now introducing a new series of mini projects which will be made available to you, dear reader, on our Zines Page as each becomes available. Manufactured in our sunny Fredericton office from recycled materials, real human ideas, and occasionally hand-rendered artwork, the zines cover a broad…
As is tradition - but equally delayed by a few days because of The Circumstances - I’ve kept a hold of the most interesting things I discovered on our wild and occasionally-wonderful internet in April, and now offer them up to you as a curated offering with only some mild promotional affect. None of these items are on the list as a result of any kind of sponsorship or promotional agreement. I just…