The other night I was playing through the Grimoire beta and I thought, I should really give this one last final examination to see if I can eliminate every single possible bug before I turn it over for a public and private beta test.

Well, the next thing I knew it was midnight and I had accumulated a list of over 270+ things I should do before I release the Grimoire beta test. Sorry. Honest, that's what happened. Some of these things were amazingly small tweaks I made on the spot and others were a little more complex, some of them are jobs for an entire day.

This beautiful and intriguing character to the right is The Entity. He's an interdimensional traveler who wanders the multiverse seeking dramatic situations to document and observe. He is drawn to our quest in Grimoire because of the possibilities for conflict and he is capable of helping us in spite of himself in several places in the game. I wrote the dialogue and background story for this character back in 1996 as part of the overall scenario for the game. I created him in Poser in 30 minutes last night and animated him with about 8 frames. He turned out terrific and pretty much exactly as I imagined him. It's so nice to see the game I envisioned coming together ... albeit six years late and still rife with delays.

Grimoire is getting done. I know it may be hard to believe but it is inching forward night after night each week towards completion. Soon there will be a beta and almost immediately after that comes out it will be possible to predict accurately when it will be released.