For those who are interested in the Architect of Worlds project, here’s a quick summary of its status.

After several years of sporadic work, I finished the first complete version of the design sequence just before Christmas. Over the next couple of weeks, I did some intensive testing and made two pretty significant revisions.

At the moment I have a partial draft of the book that’s in an “alpha release” state (Version 0.3), covering just the sequence for designing star systems, planetary systems, and individual worlds. It works – I’ve been generating a series of plausible and often weirdly interesting worlds with it.

My readers should be aware that this is not the version that’s currently posted to the Architect of Worlds page on this blog. That’s Version 0.1, the first complete sequence, before the last two rewrites. That version works too, but there are some problems with it – you may not want to lean on it too hard. I’m considering taking it down entirely.

As of right now, the best way to get your hands on the current release draft is to sign up for my Patreon (see the link in the sidebar). I anticipate having a complete draft of the book ready for release sometime this year, so at this point, the project is moving out of the “free to the public” phase.