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Post by robkuntz on Jun 5, 2016 8:28:31 GMT -5
I am nearly finished (-4000 words roughly and counting down) with the book of three in-depth and interconnected essays (which together form a major treatise) on Dave Arneson as a designer. It's tentatively titled, Arneson's True Genius. The total will amount to 20,000+ words more or less and will include a good snapshot of my much larger work that is dedicated to Dave, "A New Ethos in Game Design". The DVD is having "THINGS" added to it that's a surprise/bonus, so it is about 3-4 weeks out from being released. I am the one providing the surprise, which will be a printed bonus, that's all I can say for now. In other news Mondiversi of Torino, Italy will be producing Bottle City for the Italian market and as a release for LUCCA Comics & Games, 2016. Black Blade Publishing is nearing a release date for the reprint of my Garden of the Plantmaster. We also have on tap the Maze of Zayene series as a reprint with additions.Word is that BBP is finishing the release of a book on J. Eric Holmes unpublished fiction and then will be concentrating on getting my works, on hold, out to the market. Nathalie has begun taking many of my scanned notes and typing them into coherent matter for World of Kalibruhn and the follow-on material to City of Brass.
She is also the one designing our new website. She's a busy gal, my wife. I personally cannot wait to get back to source books, essays and design philosophy and leave adventures way behind for a time... In keeping with "source material" here's a magic item I've begun detailing that will be included in some future work. The Bone Stella: This item has been crafted from the 6th vertebrae of an ancient wurlynd, a dimensional creature that exists at once on both air and earth realms. The bone stella is 8 inches in circumference, star-shaped, and composed of near-elastic bone matter with 8 equilateral points.... more to follow I'd post an illo of the wurlynd (rendered 2001) that I did but I cannot figure out how to instantly do that. It's pretty low-res anyway, but conceptually a very strange being. If it requires a social media account to upload photos, forget it, I don't do those...
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Post by Admin Pete on Jun 5, 2016 9:11:03 GMT -5
Sounds great! Looking forward to it.
There are a number of sites where you can post all manner of pictures that provide a link that you can use to post here on the forum. The site you want is one where you can lock things down and not share anything with the general public and of course you should post there under a username that is anonymous. I am not sure what the best one is for your purposes, but I am sure someone else here can advise you on that.
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Post by robkuntz on Jun 5, 2016 10:53:37 GMT -5
Sounds great! Looking forward to it. There are a number of sites where you can post all manner of pictures that provide a link that you can use to post here on the forum. The site you want is one where you can lock things down and not share anything with the general public and of course you should post there under a username that is anonymous. I am not sure what the best one is for your purposes, but I am sure someone else here can advise you on that. Thanks PD. I'll skip the second party option for posting images. Perhaps when Nathalie and I organize the new blog for the company, then we'll have a direct posting ability again.
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 15, 2016 11:14:13 GMT -5
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Post by robkuntz on Jul 16, 2016 3:08:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the diligence, again, PD. Nathalie and I have been so busy with so many different matters concerning the launch of Three Line Studio www.threelinestudio.com/that we can't sometimes properly order it all! Lol! There's gathering matter for the website; sourcing layout and graphics people (anyone here with such capabilities should contact us), preparing news releases, gathering a list of reviewers for the book on Dave from inside and outside the industry, waiting on the DVD still to be mailed and then the final review process, waiting on edits to come back for the adventure (I can now tell you its title, SUNKEN CITY, based on the 1975 tournament adventure I created and ran at GENCON VIII, now 17,200 words and finished) and the list goes on... We are not rushing here with all the various intersections taking place as we don't want to miss overturning any stone. We should have the new blog ready in a week and I will be posting major updates then on all projects and of some especially of interest for you. Thanks Again! RJK
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 16, 2016 8:05:11 GMT -5
Fantastic! Looking forward to seeing everything unfold!
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Post by robkuntz on Jul 16, 2016 12:28:17 GMT -5
The DVD was mailed yesterday and is expected by the 22nd here in Corsica. Got the FEDEX tracking number, etc. A few days more won't hurt as we've been at this project going on nearly 3 years now! A word about it: We have used an intricate html'd data-link of all files, grouped hierarchies with related links. A pretty impressive mind-map of its 1,100 files, which will make navigating related content much easier. Some good things take longer.
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Post by The Archivist on Aug 3, 2016 14:47:31 GMT -5
I haven't been around for a while but I would like to say that this is way cool!
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Post by Traveroark on Aug 3, 2016 15:24:56 GMT -5
I am nearly finished (-4000 words roughly and counting down) with the book of three in-depth and interconnected essays (which together form a major treatise) on Dave Arneson as a designer. It's tentatively titled, Arneson's True Genius. The total will amount to 20,000+ words more or less and will include a good snapshot of my much larger work that is dedicated to Dave, "A New Ethos in Game Design". The DVD is having "THINGS" added to it that's a surprise/bonus, so it is about 3-4 weeks out from being released. I am the one providing the surprise, which will be a printed bonus, that's all I can say for now. In other news Mondiversi of Torino, Italy will be producing Bottle City for the Italian market and as a release for LUCCA Comics & Games, 2016. Black Blade Publishing is nearing a release date for the reprint of my Garden of the Plantmaster. We also have on tap the Maze of Zayene series as a reprint with additions.Word is that BBP is finishing the release of a book on J. Eric Holmes unpublished fiction and then will be concentrating on getting my works, on hold, out to the market. Nathalie has begun taking many of my scanned notes and typing them into coherent matter for World of Kalibruhn and the follow-on material to City of Brass.
She is also the one designing our new website. She's a busy gal, my wife. I personally cannot wait to get back to source books, essays and design philosophy and leave adventures way behind for a time... In keeping with "source material" here's a magic item I've begun detailing that will be included in some future work. The Bone Stella: This item has been crafted from the 6th vertebrae of an ancient wurlynd, a dimensional creature that exists at once on both air and earth realms. The bone stella is 8 inches in circumference, star-shaped, and composed of near-elastic bone matter with 8 equilateral points.... more to follow I'd post an illo of the wurlynd (rendered 2001) that I did but I cannot figure out how to instantly do that. It's pretty low-res anyway, but conceptually a very strange being. If it requires a social media account to upload photos, forget it, I don't do those... Sounds like a great book! Love The Bone Stella! Love to see the full description!! Now I have to think about how to spin something unique off of that and take it a different direction!
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Post by robkuntz on Aug 4, 2016 5:54:25 GMT -5
I am nearly finished (-4000 words roughly and counting down) with the book of three in-depth and interconnected essays (which together form a major treatise) on Dave Arneson as a designer. It's tentatively titled, Arneson's True Genius. The total will amount to 20,000+ words more or less and will include a good snapshot of my much larger work that is dedicated to Dave, "A New Ethos in Game Design". The DVD is having "THINGS" added to it that's a surprise/bonus, so it is about 3-4 weeks out from being released. I am the one providing the surprise, which will be a printed bonus, that's all I can say for now. In other news Mondiversi of Torino, Italy will be producing Bottle City for the Italian market and as a release for LUCCA Comics & Games, 2016. Black Blade Publishing is nearing a release date for the reprint of my Garden of the Plantmaster. We also have on tap the Maze of Zayene series as a reprint with additions.Word is that BBP is finishing the release of a book on J. Eric Holmes unpublished fiction and then will be concentrating on getting my works, on hold, out to the market. Nathalie has begun taking many of my scanned notes and typing them into coherent matter for World of Kalibruhn and the follow-on material to City of Brass.
She is also the one designing our new website. She's a busy gal, my wife. I personally cannot wait to get back to source books, essays and design philosophy and leave adventures way behind for a time... In keeping with "source material" here's a magic item I've begun detailing that will be included in some future work. The Bone Stella: This item has been crafted from the 6th vertebrae of an ancient wurlynd, a dimensional creature that exists at once on both air and earth realms. The bone stella is 8 inches in circumference, star-shaped, and composed of near-elastic bone matter with 8 equilateral points.... more to follow I'd post an illo of the wurlynd (rendered 2001) that I did but I cannot figure out how to instantly do that. It's pretty low-res anyway, but conceptually a very strange being. If it requires a social media account to upload photos, forget it, I don't do those... Sounds like a great book! Love The Bone Stella! Love to see the full description!! Now I have to think about how to spin something unique off of that and take it a different direction! Thanks! Yeah the Bone Stella will be included in one of my Three Little Book™ projects, but please do go off on your own with it!
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