Arcana Labs
Arcana Labs
Zac Adam-MacEwen
A personal/hobby site from a writer turned software engineer turned generalist maker.
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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...
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! The Premise The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’ve had a particularly lucky break in my professional life, and I’m going to be starting a brand new position with a new-to-me company in a few days. One of the practical upshots of this, though, is that it’s suddenly practical to...
I know we haven’t done it in a couple of months, but in actual fact I have been stockpiling links for you anyway, as though it had been the plan to do it all along. To be honest life has just simply been just enough madhouse lately that...
I’ve been toying for a few months now with the idea of a pithy aphorism, something along the lines of “the curse of sentience is its desire to be self-indulgent”. It’s not a commentary on craving chocolate, but this idea that somehow, in...
It’s 9 AM on a Saturday morning and somehow I am already an hour into having learned that the looming US strike on Iran has finally happened, and that they’ve only gone ahead and gotten Israel involved too. The US has named this...
For some reason, after spending the best part of a decade in the tech industry, I’ve begun to feel a certain kind of way about the state of enterprise in the highly industrialized parts of the world. I can’t begin to imagine why. “Growth...