Mike's Home Page

Programming & Game Projects:
- Meldrew (a Python IRC bot to play interactive fiction)
- Quake 3: A fun railgun map
- Interactive Fiction (some old Inform materials)
- V (C++ GUI framework):
  - Additions to V (A few old patches, mostly integrated at some point))
  - vpatview (V-based cross-stitch pattern viewer)
Role-playing Game Projects:
- Dangerous Journeys: Mythus (a collection of material from when I played in the 90s)
- Mystara: New fan material for this classic world, focused primarily on Darokin
- FNN, the Fantasy News Network (archive)
- SFNN, the Science-Fiction News Network (archive)
Other Hobbies:
- Cross-stitch

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." -- Commissioner Pravin Lal, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

"There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case, the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism: in the other, neither government nor the entire nation is privileged to dictate to any individual what the form of his patriotism shall be. The Gospel of Monarchical Patriotism is: 'The King can do no wrong.' We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: 'Our country, right or wrong!'

We have thrown away the most valuable asset we have -- the individual right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he by himself) believes them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it all away: and with it, all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism." -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)