SAAVD Dev Blog

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Once again it has been far too long since I have posted here. Other worlds than Saavd have claims on my time as well. Nor is the “real world” the only competitor! I find myself with multiple stories vying for full attention. Character notes and story outlines span across superhero, speculative, cyberpunk, action and fantasy fiction settings. Saavd is the richest of these worlds and also the oldest. Saavd has more background material, more coherence, than my other endeavors. Saavd has seen many starts and stops throughout the years since it first sprang to life, but it has never faded far from my thoughts nor my pen. Yes, pen. I still use pens and paper to flesh out most of my ideas before transferring them to electronic format. Three-ring binders of notes take up more than one bookshelf in my library!

While this long evolution has delivered a fruitful field for exploration and speculation, it also contains minefields of discontinuity. The characters have grown and changed in my mind as both of us have grown and obtained wider experiences. As I attempt to pull Saavd and its occupants into an interwoven tapestry, I find myself constantly having to change the characters’ personal histories and adjusting Saavd history to match. Read the rest of this entry »

First: many thanks to the crackerjack staff on the technical upgrade of the Saavd Blog and the main website.

Second: it’s amazing how long it’s been since I posted to the blog. Daily life seems to take up a lot of effort and energy; and naturally I have books to read and games to play for both relaxation and inspiration.

Third: what in the world have I been working on? I’ve been working on several projects in addition to my Saavd work. I have been trying to flesh out ideas and symbolism for a Tarot deck specifically aspected toward Saavd needs. Read the rest of this entry »

There have been some content updates, a new feature and some general house cleaning going on at the SAAVD website.  I wanted to give a quick summary for anyone interested.  We have a new and better looking logo on top of the page, some tweaked colors that hopefully look better, a new menu for all but the intro page and a new feature called Web Dice.  It allows you to choose the number of dice, how many sides and get a number back that represents the die roll.  It even gives you the individual numbers of each die as well as the total.  Hope you enjoy it, thanks for checking it out!

Still new to blogging, I’m finding it an interesting challenge to not repeat phrases and tidbits of information over and over again.  Some topics can stand repeated examination and some phrases just seem to fit.  So bear with me and I’ll try to keep things from becoming boring.

Saavd is a dark place where the whispers that seers and sages pluck from midnight winds, those whispers began as screams far, far away.  To paraphrase a friend of mine, you won’t find many “baskets of warm puppies” stories in the tales that wend through Saavd’s history and characters. From its earliest inception, Saavd has always been a turbulent world, a world where passions run deep and as wild, where a fall from grace is never more than a single misstep away.

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Thanks for your patience folks. After far too long away from writing about the trials, travails and tribulations of the cast of Saavd, not to mention a board meeting complete with spotlights and rubber hoses, we are hard at work putting together new content all the way ’round for the main Saavd website. Read the rest of this entry »

Apologies for the long delay in posting to the blog. I dream of the day when my “regular” job can be writing more things for the fine people who have tracked down Saavd. Between life, work and trying to split time amongst various writing projects, I have fallen behind on my musings for Saavd and for writing in general. I have, however, expanded my horizons with travel.

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In case anyone noticed, we upgraded to the latest WordPress.  If you see anything wrong or have any problems, please let us know so we can fix it!

Trying to determine working rules for a universe gets a little complicated, which is why it is simpler to use at least some of the natural laws everyone is familiar with as a starting point. If the basic operations remain close to what readers understand, then a story doesn’t have to provide every little detail. Saavd follows the general laws of physics for the most part. Of course there are exceptions, you can’t have magic without at least slightly fracturing what most people consider “normal”.

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We have made some major updates to the main SAAVD website, aside from the guestbook goodness posted earlier. Most are under the hood types of things, but you should see a few changes for the better here and there. Please feel free to give us some feedback if you see something that doesn’t look right, doesn’t work the way you think it should, or if you think we just totally rock freakishly awesome like, tell us that too. Enjoy!

Well folks, the guestbook is back up and in operation on the main SAAVD page. I have put some measures into place to do a better job of thwarting the form spammers. Better keyword filtering, better form checking and more. I won’t bore you with the details, but for all of your that are just chomping at the bit to sign the guestbook, it’s back so get in there and get to signing!