I'm John Harris (they/them), aka rodneylives, also known long ago as Milen. Hello! I need to spruce this place up, add some cheese under construction GIFs, an annoying background image, a custom cursor, all the standard olden-times niceties. Maybe later.
New:
March 4, 2025: I have revived the website of Furnitures the Great Brown Oaf! See it here!
I'm currently working on a CRPG inspired by the old Commodore 64 game Dungeon (published on LOADSTAR). The original Dungeon can be bought (with permission) for $5 here.
Part of my work on that has to do with using Fontstruct to create a font with a wide assortment of D&D monsters depicted in it. It's coming along rather better than I expected. Here's an image of how it looked on June 6 2024:
The gaming blog we run is Set Side B. It covers retro, niche and indie interests! I write about all sorts of things there, including roguelikes, romhacks, weird arcade games and gaming culture videos.
Long ago, I wrote the popular roguelike column @Play for the indie gaming blog GameSetWatch, which sadly no longer exists except on the Wayback Machine.
I made Exploring Roguelike Games for CRC Press, which is a collection of @Play columns with some updates and added material.
On Metafilter I'm JHarris. On Mastodon I'm at @rodneylives@mefi.social. On Bluesky I'm @rodneylives. If I'm on other places I don't check them often.
The internet has decayed a lot since the heady days in the early 2000s, but it can be revived! Avoid big tech where you can, support open source tools, public services and net neutrality, be a good netizen, and don't succumb to cynicism!