January 17th, 2025 ― Veney has been dormant for a while. In my lackadaisical, mixed approach to spitballing 1. improvements on the “main” game, 2. variant rules, and 3. experimental proof-of-concept twists on basic chess concepts toward my sorta overall thesis, I’ve ended up with an unwieldy, disorganized list of crazy ideas. It’s been over a year since the last veney update, and I have a blog now, so I figured why not dump ’em here? Enjoy!
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March 24th, 2025 ― There’s a broken sword or two in Evan Dahm’s ongoing webcomic of gleaning and searching and being a new person in a fallen engine world...
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