Yeah, those games are... controversial. Ever since I discovered I have a 480 page hard limit to publish on Amazon CreateSpace, I've been having a har time to make things fit. Perhaps I'll demote some stuff like Witchaven to half-page reviews...
Was thinking of something like this (everything is placeholer BTW):
More than 2 per page leaves too little room for text.
Jokes on you, you'll never be able to buy a e-book version, because it will be free. UHEUHUHAUHDIAUDHAWIDUHWADAre you planning on putting it up on Amazon?
If that's so:
Bonus jewgold if it's in a kindle-friendly format so I can take it to neptune in 150 years.
Well, then I'll drink an expensive whiskey when it's released.Jokes on you, you'll never be able to buy a e-book version, because it will be free. UHEUHUHAUHDIAUDHAWIDUHWADAre you planning on putting it up on Amazon?
If that's so:
Bonus jewgold if it's in a kindle-friendly format so I can take it to neptune in 150 years.
gamesAre you going to do a kickstarter for a hardcover version, or are the logistics of printing and mailing books out of the question when dealing with such a small target audience? Though Matt Barton managed to do it back in 2008, before crowd funding and when the whole retro revival thing was in its infancy at best (and presumably with a lot less word of mouth, after all you've got the codex supporting you and spreading the word on other RPG and retro gaming forms shouldn't be difficult).
Besides the highly recommendable Dungeons & Desktops from Matt Barton, I've read:
A paperback version will definitely be made, but I not putting much effort into a hardcover one... besides the minuscule audience, the logistics of printing in HUEHUEland and then mailing to the rest of the world would make me go mad, and I'm certain that a good chunck would never arrive.
That's the golden question... considering the support so far, and that Jason Schreier told me he would cover the book on Kotaku on release (DEAD!), I figure that a large amount, especially priced at ridiculous $13. But I have no reference on how much a similar book sells. I really have no idea if we're talking here about 200, 500, 1000 or 5000.
That's the problem when it comes to writing a book about video games. You can't flood the book with screenshots, so you can't really demonstrate the visual art of games (90s 2D adventure games, SNK/Capcom fighting game backgrounds etc), but words alone can't do justice nor properly explain most games. And even large screenshots can't capture all the audiovisual qualities of video games from visual design, architecture&animation (Silent Hill 3, Nocturne dungeons, Dark Souls, Half Life 2 etc) and sound design (Thief) to really unique things like the 4th wall breaking sanity effects of Eternal Darkness. It would be great if you could embed videos on tablet books. Just think of talking about a game like WoW. There's so much you need to tell the viewer about so that they can truly understand and appreciate the nature and depth of the game. World first kills in PvE, high level competitive arena, huge world pvp battles, theorycrafting, clever use of game mechanics for lulz, kiting a world boss to a major city, machinima movies, the beauty and diversity of the game world, so many things that really mean nothing on paper to a reader who doesn't understand anything about the genre and knows nothing about the game. Same goes for single player games as well, from complex strategy games and stuff like Dwarf Fortress to gameplay footage of 1CCing bullet hells, fighting games&RTS played at a high level, bunny hopping in Quake etc... and even then, seeing a video of something can't convey to the viewer the feeling of what it's like to actually play the game. Like the difference between a FPS game where shooting guns feels satisfying and one where it doesn't.
It would look just like the articles I post here, 8x10", full color and all. I find it unacceptable to talk about vidya gaems with P&B pictures. Here's a (old) mock up:
