I stayed up too late last night; but this being Good Friday, all is good. I managed to get through six months of Game Ideas Unlimited articles, fixing all the links and copying the text into the draft of the new first volume of the book. It’s very nearly one hundred pages, and I’ve printed a copy for our president and e-mailed a copy to our art director. My expectation is that someone will create a cover for it fairly quickly, and I’ll have a few of them at Ubercon, depending on the budget.
I also did something I always wished I could do: at the end of each of the articles there is now a link to the next, so you can follow them in series forward. I’ve not yet done the cleanup work on the twenty-seventh article, but it’s still there and you can read it. I made only two changes to any texts. In one it was apparent that I’d left out a word, which I inserted. Another, the twenty-sixth article, had mentioned that all the links had gone sour in the thirteenth (because of a major site overhaul at that time), but having finally had opportunity to repair those links I added a marked edit that that had been done.
I’ll continue to post pointers to the articles week by week, and hopefully I’ll find another chunk of time in the foreseeable future to get through the next six months. I’m also thinking of doing the Faith and Gaming series, but Valdron is not so interested in that so I’ll probably publish it myself. That might be easier, but I’m not certain yet.
–M. J. Young

March 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
Very good. Thumbs up!
March 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Thanks for the encouraging word.
I’ve put the Faith and Gaming stuff together; it’s about 130 pages for the fifty articles (there was a lot less structure for that series, so article length varies a lot more). I’m also working on a cover concept in which a cross, a Bible, a game book (yeah, probably mine–at least I don’t have to worry about royalties on it) and a few dice are photographed on a table. I’ll have to borrow my wife’s new digital camera, but I think she’ll let me.
–M. J. Young
March 24th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Definitely tell us when you have these for sale. Your GUI articles were very good I remember from the few I was able to read.
Eric