I first heard about Lancer at about midnight last night, after a friend dropped a link to the Kickstarter in Messenger. I had a few minutes of downtime, so I clicked the link, read for five minutes, ...

I want to talk about Lancer’s development not as a nuts-and-bolts triumphant-engineering story — that’s my design partner’s purview — but from a writer’s perspective. Lancer started on a bike ride Tom ...