On Thurs. (October 9th), Ubisoft will host a live, online Heroes of Might & Magic 30th anniversary celebration. Among other things, you'll get the 1st look at the very sexy trailer for my upcoming Heroes book from Dark Horse. 🙂 You can watch here: #games #HoMM30 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB2k...

This week, we get to my introduction to D&D, one of the most important stages on my way towards becoming a professional game developer. #DND #ADD #DungeonsAndDragons #AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons #RPG #roleplaying #GameDesign #GameDev www.nealhallford.com/p/from-gamer...

Re-sharing an old, no longer accessible Facebook Note that I wrote as a tribute to my late J.L. Hallford, the first example of a writer in my family. #writer #library #influencer #oklahoma #stilwell www.nealhallford.com/p/the-house-...

For those of you following my efforts to reboot Planet’s Edge — the first game I ever had a major role in designing — I’ve got a new entry about recreating and reimagining the iconic Centauri Drive. #games #indiedev #gamedev #blender #3D #narrativedesign #music open.substack.com/pub/nealhall...

I saw the trailer for my book Dark Horse on Tuesday, and it looks amazing. :) Not sure when the trailer will be released to the public, but I have to say has done a beautiful job on the layout. Can't wait until I have a real copy in my hands! #HoMM30 #Writer

Happy anniversary Heroes of Might & Magic! It's been 30 years today! Get the whole story from my book covering the history of the franchise, dropping on November 25th! bit.ly/4dRlWI3

In my continuing series about my journey into game development, I talk about my first encounters with electronic gaming. #SpaceWar #Arcades #Atari #Console #Handheld #GameDev #GameHistory #GameDesign www.nealhallford.com/p/from-gamer...

Happy first day of class to all my cousins and friends back home in Oklahoma who are attempting to educate the future leaders of America in spite of the least education-friendly state government in the nation. I love, appreciate, and support you all 100%. You are seen.

PBS has been a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. But with the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, nonfiction storytellers have to figure out a way forward.

In my latest blog post, I reveal how my older brother Gene's reading assignments to me while I was in jr high lead me to a series of books that would ultimately define my career. #GameDev #Writing #Tolkien #Hobbits #Elves #Dwarves #Dragons #RPG #BookSky www.nealhallford.com/p/from-gamer...

For friends and family in the Norman area, please consider doing your book buying through Green Feather Book Company, our favorite indie down there. For those of you who don't live near Norman, you can make book purchases through their Bookshop Link: bookshop.org/shop/greenfe... #booksky

Hand-drawn black-and-white dungeon RPG The Secret of Weepstone announced for PC Publisher DreadXP and developer Talesworth Game Studio have announced hand-drawn black-and-white dungeon RPG The Secret of Weepstone for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2026. A demo will be playable at PAX West 2025,…

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Author and Greenwood community historian Carlos Moreno will be joining us to discuss his favorite historical figures from Oklahoma history! #convention #author #Greenwood #Oklahoma #historian #hacktivist #theater #civicleader

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Skylight Series author Jason C. Wint will join authors Neal Hallford, @hankbyrd.bsky.social al and J.M. Linkhart from @goblinbooth.bsky.social .bsky.social on our panel discussing the craft of fantastical narratives! #SciFi #Fantasy #Convention #Oklahoma #BookSky #CPHS #Writer

In my latest Gamer to GameDev post, I dive into how early life experiences influenced my love for horror fiction, and how that in turn introduced me to a few tools I’d end up using in my work as a narrative designer. #GameDev #Horror #Storytelling #Writing www.nealhallford.com/p/from-gamer...

Welcoming Hank Byrd to our OVNIcon lineup! Hank's the author of a recently released book LuvBytes as well as a recent honoree on Tulsa's Circle Cinema Walk of Fame. #Oklahoma #Convention #SciFi #Fantasy #Blerd #Author #Filmmaker #BookSky #CPHS #Tubi

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Jana Ondrechen Hallford will moderate a panel with Indigenous creators about how they are integrating their cultures into art and fiction, how authentic representation matters, and how they feel about the evolving field of #indigenousfuturism #scifi #indiginerds #CPHS #Oklahoma

A few stills from our video from the @darkhorse.com signing at Comic-Con! Special thanks to Jennifer Wurtele (the red head in the 3rd photo that's helping me) who was the assistant editor for the book! #Games #HoMM #HoMM30 #BookSky #Author #CCI25

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Within the Realm history podcaster Steve Garrett joins our OVNIcon lineup as the moderator for our Legends of the Sooner State panel! #Oklahoma #History #SciFi #Convention #OVNIcon #CPHS

A new perk for paid subscribers to my blog: access to our award-winning short The Case of Evil AND access to the making of documentary, Inside the Case of Evil. The documentary has never been available online before! #filmmaking #noir #horror #indie www.nealhallford.com/p/documentar...

Thank you to Mark Caldwell, David Mullich, Phelan Sykes, and @darkhorse.com for helping make yesterday's panel and signing at Comic-Con a phenomenal success! So many fans turned up, we ran out of pre-sale cards! The book drops 11/25! #ComicCon #Games #GameDev #Ubisoft #HeroesOfMightAndMagic

It's not Comic-Con until I get an obligatory selfie with my old friend and pitching partner Jimmy Diggs. #startrekenterprise #HMSVictory #Cryptohistorians

Workin' on my slides for my Comic-Con presentation on Sunday! Room 5AB, 12:15! #CCI2025 #darkhorsecomics #Ubisoft #games #UpcomingBook

My first Comic-Con check in as a Dark Horse author. :) #writing #author #CCI25 #HeroesOfMightAndMagic

Comic-Con: What Okie / ᏣᎳᎩ homefolk will I be seeing here in San Diego this weekend?

Rodney Echohawk, alongside our faculty sponsors Tana Diane Garrett and Carol Simmons, laid the early groundwork for the original OVNI club. On December 6th, we'll welcome him back to CPHS as Fan Guest of Honor! #scifi #journalist #convention #SandSprings #Okon #CharlesPageHighSchool #FanGuestOfHonor

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Author Andrea L. Rogers @andrealrogers.bsky.social will be joining us to talk about her books Man Made Monsters, The Art Thieves, and the role her Cherokee heritage plays in the creation of her captivating, award-winning stories. #scifi #horror #CherokeeNation #indigenousfuturism

Bleeding Cool has revealed Dark Horse's full slate at Comic-Con, including our Heroes panel and signing. bleedingcool.com/comics/the-p...

COMIC-CON! Join Mark Caldwell, David Mullich, Phelan Sykes and myself for a celebration of the Heroes of Might & Magic franchise. PANEL on Sunday, July 27th from 12:15 - 1:15 in Room 5AB. SIGNING the same day in the Dark Horse booth #2615. #comiccon2025 #Games #NewWorldComputing #HoMM30 #Ubisoft

OVNIcon GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Novelist and audio dramatist JM Linkhart will be joining us onstage to talk about writing, worldbuilding, and her Kirkus starred first novel, First Degree Magic! (Official OVNICON website coming soon!) #GoblinBoothProductions #Fantasy #Writer #Convention #SandSprings

I know these rankings are fleeting, but it's fun nonetheless. Even though it's still in pre-order, my forthcoming book Heroes of Might & Magic: 30th Anniversary Retrospective is currently #1 in the Other RPGs category on Amazon. 🙂 #Books #Author #Gaming #RPG

One of my very best friends -- and the person who dragged me into the games industry in the first place -- will be one of our guests for our upcoming OVNIcon convention on December 6th! #games #Oklahoma #Convention #3DGraphics #TulsaTech #NewWorldComputing #KingsBounty

Just now at Soonercon: Ethan Phillips said I asked the best and most interesting questions he's ever been asked on stage, which is amazing given all the conventions he's been a guest of. So I guess my journalism degree pays off once again. :) #StarTrekVoyager #Interview #MainStage #NealOnNeelix

While my new book from Dark Horse on the history of Heroes won't be out until November, you can pre-order it now! I will sign these handy pre-order cards for you if you want to grab one from me at SoonerCon this weekend! #games #writer

@coyoteandcrow.bsky.social Are you going to be at SoonerCon this week?

HONESTY. INTEGRITY. DECENCY. #June14th-ObamaAppreciationDay

OVNIcon guest announcement: @larrynemecek.bsky.social Larry Nemecek will be joining us for our hometown sci-fi convention OVNIcon taking place December 6th in Sand Springs, OK. Larry is an expert in all things Star Trek, and the director of The Con of Wrath, a #StarTrek documentary now in post!

Matt Barton invited me on to talk about my forthcoming book, but got three and a half hours spanning New World Computing, Heroes of Might & Magic, Betrayal at Krondor, Chris Taylor, filmmaking, Gargoyles, and my Planet's Edge remake. #Games #Writing #IndieDev www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3sa...

I've been saying this for years. Smaller, cheaper, and faster is the only way that this industry survives in the long run. We are choking on excess. #GameDev #reality www.gamesradar.com/games/fallou...

I've pretty much wrapped up my re-design of the Ulysses hero ship for Planet's Edge. You can see some of the other beauty shots and my "info card" about it on the blog. www.nealhallford.com/p/return-to-... #games #indiedev #Blender #3Dmodeling

Howdy folks! Because the publication date of my book got pushed back by a couple of weeks, the date for OVNIcon has now shifted to December 6th. Please mark your calendars accordingly. #Convention #Signing #Games #Journalism #HeroesOfMight&Magic #SandSprings #OK

Comic-Con Panel Approved. Something to do with a big anniversary or something. Details soon. ;)

Introducing Fandercast's Foolish Mortals! This will be the name for my Swords & Circuity sponsored role-playing group. 🙂 (Fandercast has long been my RP handle online and off.) #RPG #Gaming #Tabletop #dnd5e #CallOfCthulhu #Traveller #Pathfinder #Runequest #Pendragon #Elric #OthersTBD

My schedule for Soonercon has been finalized. It's a Nealiios On Neelix matchup AND a panel about Retro Gaming. All the deets at the link! #StarTrek #RetroGaming #Oklahoma #Fandom #Conventions www.nealhallford.com/p/my-soonerc...

Gamespot's version of the book announcement refers to me as "Neal Hallford, the legendary game designer." Legendary in the same sense as bigfoot maybe: i.e. rarely seen, little to no evidence of my actual existence, and lots of people would like to shoot me and put me in a museum. #HoMM #Author

I won't lie, having the first paragraph of the Dark Horse official press release talk about ME was a little surprising, but I didn't hate it. 😉

The pre-orders page for the Heroes book is now open on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/150675130X

Celebrate 30 years of Heroes of Might and Magic with the Heroes of Might and Magic: 30th Anniversary Retrospective Hardcover, coming in November: bit.ly/43Cme20 Learn the secrets behind the development through never-before seen art, and much more. By @nealhallford.bsky.social, with @Ubisoft.com

Hello friends. In November you'll be able pick up copies of Heroes of Might & Magic: A 30 Year Retrospective from Dark Horse Comics in collaboration with Ubisoft. #Games #GameHistory #Journalism #HeroesOfMightAndMagic #Strategy www.darkhorse.com/Blog/4418/re...

As I continue my series about my early design influences, I talk about how Star Trek changed my social life, and lead me into the game industry. #Games #GameDev #History #ScienceFiction #StarTrek #SpockLives #SandSprings #ItsKensFault www.nealhallford.com/p/from-gamer...