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You're a lounge singer at the end of the world. A new (very brief) text-adventure game, on the freestuff page: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm...
1 Mar 24, 2012
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Cumberland&#39;s first Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1134441668/risus-free-adventure-project-2012 Has started. Let the kicking commence....
1 Mar 7, 2012
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If you're in the mood to test a very tiny, strange text-adventure game (z-code format, playable in any number of free interpreters for any Operating System you...
1 Feb 14, 2012
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Man, I posted that practically in the middle of the night and I've got like fifteen volunteers already. Seriously, that's about as awesome as awesome gets...
1 Dec 20, 2011
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Now, obviously, I'm not going to ask anyone to be proofreading for the holiday :) But shortly _after_ the holiday, yeah ... :) In a day or two (after I let it...
1 Dec 20, 2011
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http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm New free font tonight ... my most technically ambitious (and tidiest) yet. Like "Newfie" and "Unity Dances," this...
1 Aug 31, 2011
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http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm I've bundled all of the recent font releases into a single download for sanity's sake :) I've removed the Gelio...
1 Jun 11, 2011
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The two new fonts from the past few days (Shock Shimmy, a goofy sort of poster font, and Tender Goliath, a simple stressed slab-serif) are now available on...
1 May 28, 2011
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A new font (the first of a big, noisy Greek family) on the Free Stuff of the Moment page: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm...
1 Jan 14, 2011
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http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/toask.htm As promised three Christmas Eves ago, the Encounter Critical text-adventure game, TREASURES OF A SLAVER'S KINGDOM, is...
1 Dec 24, 2010
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Uresia: Grave of Heaven (Cumberland All-Systems Edition) goes into blindtest for October. Testers needed: should like long walks on the beach, cheerful Slimes,...
1 Sep 28, 2010
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Early Call for Blindtest Teams: Risus Fantasy-Historical Worldbook Cumberland&#39;s first-ever worldbook for Risus: The Anything RPG is well underway, and goes...
1 Aug 29, 2010
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http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Normally, if someone calls a font "muddy," that's not a good thing. I'm not 100% sure this case is different, but I...
1 Aug 20, 2010
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http://ogrecave.com/reviews/town.shtml The first review I'm aware of for Town. Groovity....
1 Aug 9, 2010
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Town: A City-Dweller&#39;s Look at 13th to 15th Century Europe Purchase Town: A City-Dweller&#39;s Look at 13th to 15th Century Europe with 15% off with coupon code...
1 Jul 21, 2010
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Okay, so I made the "Merchant Copy" family of fonts to be as 100% realistic as possible for imitating a point-of-sale receipt. That's what it's for, no denying...
1 Jul 19, 2010
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New TrueType font up today: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Just another stress-font, but a nice one, I think. Also up: the finished version of the...
1 Jul 12, 2010
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I got the proof back from Lulu and it looks 100% groovy with no techy snags, so unofficially (I'll make it official tomorrow and update the webpage, and so on)...
1 Jun 14, 2010
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Cumberland Games is proud to announce that Lisa Steele's groovy new medieval sourcebook, Town, is now available: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/fief.htm I know;...
1 May 31, 2010
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The volunteer proofreading round is now over on TOWN: many multi-thanks to those who took the time and (considerable) effort to help out. I had enough...
5 May 19, 2010
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Many thanks to all those who volunteered for the proofing; yikes! Quite a turnout! I'll select a batch from the volunteers and we'll get started within the...
1 Apr 7, 2010
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Lisa Steele's all-new book, TOWN (companion volume to FIEF, but on the urban side of things) is just about ready for release, but I want to give it another...
1 Apr 6, 2010
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Cumberland&#39;s most successful stress-font just got improvified. The current Blue Room update says it all: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/blueroom.htm...
1 Sep 29, 2009
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With apologies for the multi-list posting. This one goes everywhere! == Rogue Panel Program: A-Kon 20, S. John Ross Okay, folks, the time is nigh for A-Kon in...
1 May 27, 2009
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'Cause it's been awhile since I've done a stressed font :) http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm...
1 Mar 24, 2009
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Hiya, folks! I've got two changes to announce, followed by Stuff. === TWO CHANGES First, the Cumberland Fontworks pages have just undergone a _major_...
1 May 29, 2008
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Up tonight on the Free Stuff of the Moment Page: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Another font in my growing library of goofy hand-drawn Roman fonts...
1 Mar 27, 2008
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As per usual, I've been avoiding doing the font-spotting posts unless something interesting comes up ... right now Cumberland fonts are plastered all over...
1 Mar 5, 2008
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In reference to my earlier post: HyperBooks is officially closed (as of a few weeks ago), but Terry is okay. So, on balance, a far better scenario than I had...
1 Jan 22, 2008
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A couple of weeks ago, a customer emailed reporting trouble ordering from HyperBooks ... the trouble being, HyperBooks wasn't there. I assumed it was just a...
1 Jan 21, 2008
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