April 2026.

I have added a couple waltzes for piano. One is very small and one is somewhat big. The small one was actually written a few years ago but never written out fully until now. The big one I started in February or January at the earliest and finished relatively quickly. The small one is "D.C. Senza Fine", in otherwords repeat infinitely, in otherwords... videogame music? Chopin has a Mazurka with this marking, so he was writing videogame music, too. It's neat to think about.

I am clearing up my photo backlog, too. I spent about a year fine-tuning my photo editor and even re-read most of my calculus textbook, in vain, sort of. Nerd details but I also learned how lanczos works. As far as that goes, I'm still not totally happy with it: in particular I'm not convinced I am getting good enough colour precision somehow, and the pictures can be really noisy. (Next step is to add dithering.) But I want to get on with life and I have pictures to post and it's good enough.

For 2026 my way of working is that if I have something close to completion, I will push it out. This doesn't mean I always have to work on things that I can complete quickly, though— for instance I do have two or three short stories/novellas in progress but none of them are particularly close to being done, so I'll work on them as it suits me, which right now is not much. But if they say, get the first draft done, then I'll be disciplined and finish the revisions and put them out. And the Snowflake Waltz is kind of lovely and simple and has been sitting around for years, so that put it on my radar.

February 2026.

I have put up The Alone Sword, a game from 2011, including source code and a prototype. This is a little Zelda h'omage which I am really proud of.

February 2026. Continuing in my quest to dump more creative work onto my website.

The biggest thing for me, by far, is releasing two piano sonatas composed in 2023-2024. The second one I have notated in MuseScore, so there are PDFs that are readable and which I have done at least one set of revisions on. I really needed to get these out into the world.

There are also a few more tracks on the music page, and I'm going to dump some collected tracker music from around 2000 soon. (This is not very good music, though...)

I also dug up a new story fragment, "Down By Seattle", from 2015.

I have made just a couple of flash games playable (Craemle Zone, Whales of Aelia) via ruffle.rs, a Free Software web player for Flash content. Testing these out just now, the experience is a bit rough since for some reason there is no video acceleration in my browser. Please tell me on fedivers if it's OK for you. I'll make the rest of the flash games playable, regardless, though.

Finally-- there is an RSS feed. I have tested it in one RSS reader and it seems to work.

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My name is Calvin French. I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

I currently spend most of my creative energy working on Paradise Never 2, playing piano, and making photographs.

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