Newsies & Bootblacks final draft is finished
This is how you spend your weekend if you are publishing a role-playing game on your own: correcting typos —and yet knowing it won’t be 100% perfect. And then you wake on Monday at 5:00 AM so you can tell the world you still have work to do. But it is great to have the game finished and complete; or at least the first edition of it. I still need to fix a few issues and add a couple of features, which I hope to have solved soon. Yeah, I say soon, I have learned the hard way that on your first attempt to publish anything you should not promise any deadlines. Basically because you...
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As my editor knows, I’m using LyX for the game’s type-setting. It is not an easy program, and it was made for creating scientific documents, not role-playing games, so I’m stretching it a bit, but after a few battles with it, I think I am finally getting a hand on how to use effectively. I know there are applications better used for that. But they cost around $1,000 and I’d rather pay that to the artisans who are helping me with the illustrations, proof-reading and, now, adventures. And to be honest, when I started, I never thought I would make it this far, selling...
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