 The fate of these two projects caused Rowland to consider the idea of self-publishing.He had already written a few small computer programs as shareware, and reasoned that he could do the same thing with a role-playing game.The result, in 1993, was a new steampunk role-playing game, "Forgotten Futures, the Role-playing Game of Scientific Romances", set in the early 21st-century utopia envisioned by Rudyard Kipling in his stories "With the Night Mail" and "As Easy as ABC".