[Sotff] More regular and up-to-date PDF rendering...

[Joe Yeti]

Awrite!
If you put it that way... I will look forward to the final PDF and
inbetween check the Wiki (prints) regularly ;).

Thx and a sure buyer here!
Keep it up!

Joe

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Brad Murray
<bjmurray.halfjack at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Joe Yeti <joeyeti at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Thx for that! It really is my cup of coffee!
>
> I love to hear that and variations on it. :D Thanks Joe!
>
>> Therefore Diaspora immediately hit the right spot, because it reminds
>> me a bit of Burning Empires with their World Burning (thought they
>> have indeed many more options, which are of course tied to the
>> Infection Mechanics). I have not yet read the Ship Creation, but look
>> forward to it also.
>
> You are correct that these games influenced us to some degree or
> another (I think I'm actually the only author on the team that's read
> Burning Empires, but it's influenced a LOT of what I do even though
> I've never actually played it all the way through).
>
>> I could assist with keeping a PDF of the content of the Diaspora Wiki
>> up-to-date, say each week. This would mean that I would review changes
>> for the past week, change the appropriate parts of the PDF, render it
>> and upload it somewhere. As the latest existing one is from December,
>> there is a lot of new information out there as I saw. As the layout in
>> your PDF is essentialy quite straightforward, that would not be a big
>> job.
>
> Well here's where we're at (and we're past due for an update, so hello
> to everyone: here's where we're at):
>
> Diaspora the game is very close to complete as a body of written work.
> The playtest PDF that's up there reflects out of date material and
> there are no plans to update it now because it's no longer a useful
> tool for us (and that's probably important for everyone tracking this
> project to keep in mind: that wiki is fundamentally a collaborative
> design tool that the Diaspora team uses to work; we happen to think it
> should also be public). The wiki material under the Book section has
> been flattened as much as possible: if you want to print Diaspora in
> its latest incarnation, your best bet is to click each link, choose
> the print-friendly button on the wiki page, and print it. That's what
> we do. This will give you a linear document that is complete and up to
> date.
>
> Our next step in the project is to begin typesetting the book. We plan
> to release a portion (a playable portion) of that work as a PDF for
> free. We have not determined what will happen with the wiki material
> though, as it too will pass out of date as we typeset, I'm not
> convinced there's any commercial burden to leaving it there.
>
> Once the typeset is complete we will be going to print and finding
> distributors. We plan to make the book available for sale in at least
> one online location (IPR if they will have us) and we plan to make a
> PDF of the book available for rather cheaper at at least one online
> location. We intend to make these inexpensive but not free. The book
> is going to be hardcover 6x9 so it sits on the shelf beside my copy of
> SotC most elegantly. It will have an ISBN and be in "Books in Print"
> and that sort of thing.
>
> So, while your offer is generous, Joe, not much is going to change on
> the wiki as we go forward and our attention is now focused on the
> practicalities of making a book that's worth buying, so a regular
> creation of a PDF is probably not something we need at this time. Most
> new edits will be to the private typeset document that is just now
> starting, though if we did the design part right then these will be
> only cosmetic and organizational.
>
> --
> Brad Murray (halfjack)
>
> Moderation is a memory
>
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