Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Proof Copy Arrived. Print Edition of 2016 Compendium Coming Soon!

The proof copy of the 2016 One Page Dungeon Compendium arrived yesterday! The entries look great, and despite my fears all the text is clear and legible!  I made some minor adjustments to the file and cover, and resubmitted the files. Now I just wait to order a second proof copy. I believe it will be "good to go" once it arrives, and the Product will be available for eleven bucks on DriveThru/ RPGNOW.

4 comments:

  1. so freaking cool! will the 2015 edition be getting a print release?

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    1. Absolutely. I am currently working a print edition for the 2015 compendium, an RPG built with The Black Hack, and the 2014 webpage and PDF compendium. A print version of the 2014 compendium will follow. Print versions already exist for 2012 and 2013 and are available on Amazon.com thanks to Alex Schroder and Brett M. Bernstein.

      https://www.amazon.com/One-Page-Dungeon-Contest-2012/dp/1938270061

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  2. Just a thought: if there are aspects of submissions that don't come out too well in the print version (or not as well as they might), please have reference to those things in the rules for 2017. Not as rules themselves, but just as "best practices" or something like that...

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    1. Having looked over the first proof copy, and this might be a pretty obvious one I imagine, 8.5 X 11 US Letter scales better than A5 in the print version, as that is the size of the book which also has a margin, but the A5 dungeons are pretty close, and only suffer a little reduction in their size to fit within the margin area compared to US Letter, so it is still a viable layout choice. The biggest challenge seems to be using fonts with narrow letter widths and tight kerning. I have mentioned this in a previous post. When these fonts are used with a small size (like 8 pt) they can be hard to read. The letters are clear in the proof copy, but they are still very small on some of these dungeons. Avoiding small font sizes has always been a strong recommendation, but it does become even more important with a print version.

      I think having a set of best practices is a good idea for the next contest. Once I create a page for it, I will add that as a drop down along with the submission guide, or possible include a page in the submission guide itself that concerns itself with these things.

      Thanks for the feedback Jon,

      -Pike

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