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Future Proof Podcast 007 - Business Meeting Edition

Future Proof Podcast 007 - Business Meeting Edition

This is a special episode! You'll notice it's much longer than our usual 15 minutes—that's because we're actually having a business meeting during the podcast. It was originally recorded on December 10, 2018, but the holidays interfered a bit with editing and transcribing.

We had an internal refocusing meeting back ...

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Future Proof Podcast 006

Future Proof Podcast 006

Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online or as a PDF.

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FPG Update Podcast 001 - Rosette Diceless, GDPR, and Jenkins Pipelines

FPG Update Podcast 001 - Rosette Diceless, GDPR, and Jenkins Pipelines

We're doing something new this month: chatting about the work we're doing in a short podcast! Legitimately short: it's only 15 minutes including our dope intro/outro music, "Juparo" by Broke for Free, licensed under CC-BY 3.0.

Give a listen below or read the transcript online or as a ...

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Crashing and Burning on Multiple Simultaneous Projects

Crashing and Burning on Multiple Simultaneous Projects

Our plan for the last few years has been to work on multiple projects at once. When Gregory worked full time on Future Proof projects, this kept them from feeling drained working on the same thing day in and day out. Now that we're both indefinitely part time, however, we're finding it near-impossible.

Our 2017 plans seemed reasonable. They were in line with what we've tried to do in the last couple of years, but incorporating the data from previous years: actual dev time for new Exploit: Zero Day story jobs, actual time needed for marketing, conference schedules, etc.

With that in mind, we set ourselves up to work on two high intensity projects and a low-key one: EZD, Majesty of Colors, and Rosette LARP, respectively.

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"Internet All the Things" in Exploit: Zero Day

"Internet All the Things" in Exploit: Zero Day

"Headless Swarm" (the first paid story for Exploit: Zero Day) now has the fourth hacking job in the season, "Internet All the Things." In this job, find out what the two antagonists are up to by hacking someone's house.

We've also published two side jobs that you might get access to as you aggravate or placate the two parties. These jobs don't have puzzles, but provide insight into a few of the characters in the EZD saga. Those were really fun to write! One is from an antagonist introduced in "Headless Swarm"; the other is Chamunda, a long-time EZD character that's a loyal employee of Samsara Digital with a low opinion of hackers.

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Exploit: Zero Day "Headless Swarm" Released

Exploit: Zero Day "Headless Swarm" Released

The first season of paid story for Exploit: Zero Day is out! "Headless Swarm" introduces players to the mysterious Kilroy-sama, who is investigating the unexplained crash of a consumer drone. They'll uncover the hacker group OnyxHorde and its connection to an old friend and will butt heads with Samsara Digital ...

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