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In Publishing 7/18/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Ad-supported RPG's, Media Models & Magazines
I had a crazy idea for octaNe...because I really wanna see it published (and so do quite a few people out there, sheesh!).
A thick, glossy magazine format. Full-color...hell, with…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, JSDiamond, Misguided Games, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon.
7/9/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Article on PDF publishing
There's an article at http://www.rpgnews.com/articles.php regarding PDF publishing, with quotes from our own Seth Ben-Ezra.
I warn that the article's pretty poorly written, and asks the wrong question (can…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Dav.
7/3/2001 joshua neff: expanding the network
While RPGs are a huge passion of mine, I'm not much of a game designer (not since high school, when I made my own Doctor Who RPG), & not about…
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Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Dav.
7/3/2001 Nathan: IndieAid at Other Cons
Hey, had a brainstorm idea...
Would you guys pay a small fee to get your games represented at other cons?
Reason why - I am going to Uncommoncon at Dallas,…
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Participants: Nathan, GreatWolf, Dav, Misguided Games, Ron Edwards.
6/30/2001 Peter: Card Games
Does anyone know of any resources for publishing card-based games? Maybe I should email Atlas...
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Participants: Peter.
6/29/2001 Nathan: Mystic Ages -- Indie Issue
At least once a month, I hope to do an "indie issue" for Mystic Ages Online (http://www.mysticages.com/) - focusing on indie games, reviews, and the like. The first one is…
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Participants: Nathan, Misguided Games, Dav, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, kwill.
6/26/2001 Ian Freeman: Art necessity
I am working on a PDF doc of a game right now and i am wondering how necessarry it is to get visual into the document itself.
I have no…
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Participants: Ian Freeman, Jared A. Sorensen, Dav, Matt Gwinn, Clay.
6/25/2001 Nathan: Pay500 Program
Hello all...
Just checking out GMT Games, and they have a real interesting program setup...
They post up previews and a synopsis of games that have been on a…
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Participants: Nathan.
6/24/2001 rpghost: Electronic Sales - Interested?
Hi everyone,
I'm try to get a feel for wether there is a market for an idea I have come up with. First, if you don't know already, RPG Host…
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Participants: rpghost, Dav, Nathan, Clay, Jason L Blair, MrCusey, Black Knights.
6/23/2001 Paul Czege: getting out the reviews
Hey everyone,
I've got a question for those of you who've published, or are about to publish. Did you or do you have a strategy for trying to get your…
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Participants: Paul Czege, JSDiamond, Dav, John Wick, Misguided Games, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.
6/21/2001 Nathan: The Basics
Hello,
Here is what I am considering:
Putting together a series of PDF books/adventures, 32-64 pages in length, and selling them for a price of $4.95 to $7.95.
Here are…
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Participants: Nathan, Clay, Ron Edwards, John Wick, Zak Arntson.
6/20/2001 Gordon C. Landis: Gaming Outpost - Indie Publisher?
I'm not not sure how many folks here are subscribed over at GO, but there was an "unoffical" announcement of a new feature involving posting material and getting paid a…
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Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Jared A. Sorensen.
6/14/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Stupid PDF Question
Heya people,
At the risk of having to dodge several truckloads of rotten tomatoes and even less savoury items, I'm going to ask the question anyway.
I'm experimenting with Quark…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Dav.
6/11/2001 JSDiamond: IndieAid at GenCon
Some of us are going, some of us are not going, and some of us are going to be attending as exhibitors. It's the exhibitors I'm addressing herein.
Provided I…
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Participants: JSDiamond, Dav, Ron Edwards, unodiablo, Ferry Bazelmans, Jared A. Sorensen, Misguided Games, Jason L Blair.
6/8/2001 Levekius: How to improve sales performances without (much) tweaks...
Ok, the title was cheesy and I apologize for that.
But I wanted to speak about sales for small press business. I noticed that a person from Apophis (Dav, I…
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Participants: Levekius, Clay, Dav, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff.
6/7/2001 Peter: Publishing Method
I know it's probably been thought about and even used... but I just noticed that you can purchase an Office velobinder (a binding machine) for around $100. Most models can…
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Participants: Peter, Nathan, Clay.
6/6/2001 Nathan: Website Hosting
I wanted to hear everyone's thoughts on website hosting out there. Has anyone found any amazing deals w/ lots of features for very little? How does everyone feel about free…
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Participants: Nathan, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.
6/1/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: PDF Legitimacy
Much talk has been made about indie RPGs being easier to create and distribute on the web, especially in the .PDF format.
Anyway, Monte Cook, author of the 3rd Edition…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, greyorm.
5/31/2001 FSAuthor: Promoting Indie RPGs
Greetings & Well Met,
Just wanted to drop a line thanking HF for putting a link up for my site in the library. I also wanted to ask those interested…
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Participants: FSAuthor, Ron Edwards, Dav, Nathan, Clay.
5/21/2001 JSDiamond: Publishing pencil & paper games on CDs
This is more of a thread grown out of my answer in the New Distribution thread in another forum. It seems to fit here.
Jeff Diamond once…
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Participants: JSDiamond, james_west, Dav, Ron Edwards, Nathan, Clay.
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In Publishing 7/23/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: Gaming Library
Well, Gaming Outpost's Gaming Library is now up and running.
I'm not sure what the general feeling is about GO around here these days but I do see many of…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr.
7/29/2001 Ron Edwards: Suggestions for Indie Manifesto?
Among other things, I hope to get a little Indie-RPG Manifesto pamphlet ready for GenCon. It might be no more than a two-sided sheet; time is short.
Any suggestions for…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, joshua neff, kwill, Supplanter, John Wick, Dav, Jack Spencer Jr, Le Joueur, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Anon LeBlanc, Jeffrey Straszheim.
8/4/2001 Supplanter: Dying Earth and Covers
Seems to me the cover of the Dying Earth RPG not only provides no hint of what the game is like in play, it gives one entirely the wrong idea…
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Participants: Supplanter, Ron Edwards, John Wick, Misguided Games.
8/13/2001 Ian Freeman: Publish for Money Question
I have a question for those of you who have published games over the internet with credit card payment, and where the game was in electronic form. Sorcerer would be…
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Participants: Ian Freeman, Gordon C. Landis, Clay, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.
8/16/2001 jburneko: Distribution Question
Hello,
Well, the unthinkable has happened. I was struck by inspiration and I suddenly found myself designing and writing a game. Originally, I thought I was going to end up…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, FilthySuperman, Clinton R. Nixon, ephealy, Misguided Games.
8/20/2001 Thededine: Setting + Plot Packaging
Here's a stray thought I had. I'll throw it into the mix and see what you-all think of it.
It would have to be a boxed set package (and if…
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Participants: Thededine, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Dav.
8/20/2001 FilthySuperman: How much is enough?
To get straight to the point..
let's say I want to print, bind, and publish a book. Complet with artwork.. the whole 9 yards. How much content is enough? How…
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Participants: FilthySuperman, Ron Edwards, jburneko, John Wick, Emily Dresner, Cameron, JSDiamond, kwill, Dav.
8/24/2001 Petter Sandelin: squad rpg design
While checking out free indierpgs lately I've been thinking about how you could apply a "squad model" for the design process. A squad would consist of people with different skills(programming,…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, FilthySuperman.
8/24/2001 FilthySuperman: A slight trepidation
I've recently finished a very nice and playable version of my game Any Town, U.S.A.
Anyone who checked it out before when I was looking for playtesters will find the…
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Participants: FilthySuperman, Ron Edwards.
8/24/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: New article - 'Publishing Your Indie Game for Under $100'
Excuse the pimping, but I've just written an article chock-filled with resources for anyone thinking about making their own indie game online. These aren't game design resources - they're ways…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Zak Arntson, Jeffrey Straszheim, Matt, Clay.
8/28/2001 Valamir: Copyrights
Clinton just posted a very useful article on publishing indie games, but one thing not addressed is copyright...that vast morass of seemingly contradictory government BS.
I've been doing some poking…
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Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Misguided Games, JSDiamond, FilthySuperman, Laura Bishop, Gordon C. Landis, Ian O'Rourke, Matt, Dav.
8/30/2001 James Holloway: "Completeness" and Customer Expectations
Following on from a question in another forum, I ask:
I think that most of this forum's users (examples of progressive humanity that they are) would agree that one of…
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Participants: James Holloway, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, Mike Holmes.
9/2/2001 Tyrant: CD "Book" Format
While the debate between RTF and PDF rages ever onward
(I prefer PDF myself)
Lets say I wanted something Physical to sell my customers... Okay, granted actual books can be…
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Participants: Tyrant, kwill, Dav, Matt, Ron Edwards, James Holloway.
9/2/2001 rpghost: RPGNow.com Instant Download Sales!
RPGNow.com ( http://www.rpgnow.com ) is an electronic delivery system for role-playing games: rule books, modules, fiction, paper miniatures, software, and more! Puchase products in the store and imedately download them…
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Participants: rpghost, Tyrant, Matt, sandy.
9/3/2001 James V. West: Web-Page Challenged...
I posted my stuff on a geocities page using the generic "page builder" software they provide. Very limiting, as far as I can tell.
The next time I post a…
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Participants: James V. West, Matt, Tyrant, Valamir, peteramthor, Jack Spencer Jr, FilthySuperman, Philippe Tromeur, Epoch, Ron Edwards, Clay.
9/6/2001 Matt: Web promotion
This a tangent to the HTML thread, but I thought it could do with some discussion as most of us have web pages.
Once you have your cool and funky…
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Participants: Matt, Ron Edwards, Emily Dresner, Philippe Tromeur, Tyrant, Marco, rpghost, ephealy.
9/12/2001 Ron Edwards: Dresner article series
Hi everybody,
Emily Dresner is writing a series of articles for the Forge about the actual practicalities of RPG book publishing. The first of the series is available now in…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mytholder, ephealy, Zak Arntson, Judas.
9/26/2001 Ron Edwards: Emily's second article
Hey everybody,
Emily Dresner has presented the second in her series of articles about the nuts & bolts of RPG publishing.
Discuss!
Best,
Ron
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Emily Dresner.
9/26/2001 Mike Holmes: Web Page Content
I can do HTML, and so can Ralph. We're not challenged as far as that goes. What is challenging is coming up with something to put on a web page.…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Matt, Nathan, Paul Czege, Marco.
9/28/2001 Matt Gwinn: The Cost of Art
I was just wondering what all you published game designers pay for your art.
My game Kayfabe is reaching completion and I'm in the process of getting some art together…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, greyorm, Le Joueur.
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