Aaron Pogue is our founder and the heart of Masked Fox Productions.
We launched with the sudden success of his self-published epic fantasy novel Taming Fire. It exploded on Kindle, selling more than 100,000 copies in the first year and launching the sequel directly onto the bestseller lists.
Masked Fox Productions manages Aaron’s entire self-published book catalog, including:
- Taming Fire and three more books in The Dragonprince’s Legacy
- Surveillance and three more book in the Ghost Target mysteries
- The Arcade and future sequels in the Great American Novel series.
We also manage Aaron’s non-fiction catalog, including “A Quick Guide to Draft2Digital: How to Publish a Book in the Digital Age,” and “Aaron’s Odd Almanac,” an annotated collection of Twitter philosophy.
Aaron Pogue is the inventor of Draft2Digital.com, a digital self-publishing service that makes it easy to convert a finished manuscript into a professional and beautifully-formatted ebook, ready for distribution to all the top ebook stores. Draft2Digital also provides integrated distribution to these stores, and by 2020, they were distributing a million books by more than 100,000 authors and independent publishers.
Aaron brings that experience to his ambitious new game development platform, Exelichai. Conceived as “Draft2Digital for game developers,” Exelichai promises to be a web platform for creating, hosting, publishing, and playing indie games, all while allowing independent creators to make money making games together.
The Helpers is a thin wrapper for Anthropic/OpenAI APIs that packages user queries into cartoon characterized Agents and simplifies querying into gamified dialog menus, in a bid to make current LLM tech more accessible to the public.
Of course, there are also the original games. So far, we’ve only got a few demos showcasing our story and art in projects developed through RPGMaker MV and Ren’Py:
- “An Army of Robot Dinosaurs” follows a six-year-old boy genius as he infiltrates Elon Musk’s Secret Robot Lab to build an army of robot dinosaurs to take over the world. It’s cute.
- “Minimum Viable RPG” leverages fantasy art from Midjourney and a trope-heavy romp through a generic medieval fantasy town with a real orc problem out on the frontier. Maybe an hour of real RPG gameplay.
- “The Kid and the King of Chicago” brings back the boy genius from Robot Dinosaurs to do a side quest in which he learns the selling points of various novels by Aaron Pogue and then pitches them to innocent bystanders. (Again, it’s cute.) You can try it for free at aaronpogue.com/media/kid
Older software projects and less exciting dev tools can also be found at our Github page.