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Post by Frying Pan on Oct 17, 2004 5:02:57 GMT
A section for fan art?
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Post by Lazy KaiLord on Oct 17, 2004 7:04:17 GMT
Since PA is geared more toward the books and dispensation of the info in them, fan art would probably be better at TotS. Or I can host it on my site (which is where TotS links to access my images). LKL  |
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Post by Thomas Wolmer on Oct 17, 2004 14:42:28 GMT
I haven't really jumped around that much, but is there a place on the site where we can see how far along a book is (prior to publishing)? This might be nice to give us an idea of when to expect the next one, although I understand it may place too much pressure on you guys. We have avoided all such progress reporting, beyond saying what book(s) we currently work with, because the completeness stage doesn't say anything about when the book will be finished. A book can go from raw text scan to finished in little more than a month - or it may take eight months. Going from "almost finished" to published can take a week, or three months. (Yes, all examples are real ones.) It would be possible to say what stage a book is in (see my How we work posting, but would this just mean that we'd be swampted with "Isn't it time for the comment period now?" questions, I wonder... Certainly! - Join our mailing list if you haven't already: www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list.fcgi?list_id=projectaon
- Everyone can playtest and look for errors in the books that are being edited. If you're on the mailing list, you'll know when (and there's an archive at the above address too so you can check what's been going on lately). Then read outspaced's description of how to use the Editor's Companion, and go ahead.
- If you feel comfortable working with an XML file in a text editor, and preferrably knows how to fix a Perl script when it doesn't do what it should, you are even more sought after. Ask for more info.
- If you are Real Hacker™ with lots of free time... have a look at this wish list or just raise your voice.
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Post by Thomas Wolmer on Oct 17, 2004 17:50:20 GMT
Since PA is geared more toward the books and dispensation of the info in them, fan art would probably be better at TotS. Or I can host it on my site (which is where TotS links to access my images). Exactly. The scope of PA is to publish the original books; projectaon.org is not meant to be a community site as such . It's also best to keep the original books that have their distibution restricted by the PA license separate from other material that may be distributed more freely, I think. And, now that new LW community sites have finally popped up after a long period of stagnation in that field, there are perfect locations for hosting such stuff available. |
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Post by Relenoir on Nov 1, 2004 3:04:07 GMT
Hi all, After a month-long hiatus due to schoolwork, I'm back, and wanted to respond to this:Have to admit I was terrified of this thing when I first saw it, but got it all figured out in about ten minutes. Now it's a piece of cake (at least when I have time to edit, still have 70 sections of TLoV to look through), so don't be intimidated: anyone can learn this thing! Edit: Okay, in about ten minutes with a little help from Outspaced! |
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Post by Gagewyn on Jan 28, 2005 18:30:08 GMT
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure would be great for doing iStories for the iPod. Basically the iStories use very small text files with simple markup so that one can put links to other texts - just like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. These wouldn't be able to include graphics, which is the biggest loss of quality to the online (and printed) versions. On the other hand there is a big audience for them, since lots of people have iPods and may want access to more games.
I am willing to convert the HTML into linked txt files that could be downloaded and installed on any iPod. Email me if that is something that is Kosher with the license and if you want me to put together one of the books in this format.
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Post by snfcn on Mar 29, 2005 22:14:14 GMT
Possibly new suggestion:
Reading the thread about Shamath's riddle, I was thinking that you could make a thread with a list of problems and questions you have to ask Joe Dever about. Such a list probably exists already somewhere, but it would be nice if everyone were able to peruse it at leisure, no?
It would not even need a lot of work; you could just update the first post, when new problems crop up.
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Post by MagikGimp on Nov 2, 2005 17:54:04 GMT
I expect this has been suggested many, many times before but what about the Legends of Lone Wolf novellas? I cannot find any reference to them on the site (although my searching was brief) so I thought it was worth mentioning them. For convenience and maybe to refresh some memories the titles of the books are: • Legends of Lone Wolf 1: Eclipse of the Kai (1989) • Legends of Lone Wolf 2: The Dark Door Opens (1989) • Legends of Lone Wolf 3: Sword of the Sun (1989) • Legends of Lone Wolf 4: Hunting Wolf (1990) • Legends of Lone Wolf 5: The Claws of Helgedad (1991) • Legends of Lone Wolf 6: The Sacrifice of Ruanon (1991) • Legends of Lone Wolf 7: The Birthplace (1992) • Legends of Lone Wolf 8: The Book of the Magnakai (1992) • Legends of Lone Wolf 9: The Tellings (1993) • Legends of Lone Wolf 10: The Lorestone of Varetta (1993) • Legends of Lone Wolf 11: The Secret of Kazan-Oud (1994) • Legends of Lone Wolf 12: The Rotting Land (1994) As Joe has already given his permission for the game-books to be replicated, I imagine that only John Grant, the co-author, will need to be contacted regarding copyright etc. I of course have no idea how applicable this is or if this is even possible. I own some of these books myself and so would be willing to work on replicating them in my spare time. Hey, it gives me an excuse to read them again! (c; Please let me know what, if any, is the thinking behind this idea. Out of interest, Wikipeida @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Dever notes that the US edition of Sword of the Sun was divided into two separate volumes, The Tides of Treachery and Sword of the Sun. I don’t know if this is worth investigating; I can only think that there will be another book cover to scan. |
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Post by Black Cat on Nov 2, 2005 23:18:29 GMT
I don't want to destroy your hope, but John Grant was actualy SELLING the pdf of the Legend Series on his website a short time ago. He stopped selling them because someone made them free to download somewhere else, so I don't think that he will be willing to give PA the rights to publish them for free here.
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Post by outspaced on Nov 3, 2005 9:58:53 GMT
Just a small clarification, but he stopped selling them because someone had put the PDFs onto CD and was selling them on Ebay.
When Thomas contacted him about it, he said that the cost of the Legends PDFs was purely to cover admin, and that he hadn't actually been making money out of them. Theoretically, then, making them available via PA--which would cost him nothing and create no admin, and therefore make it unlikely that anyone would profiteer from the work--sounds like a solution; but I doubt he'd want to hand over his work to what is, in all honesty, an amateur, voluntary collective of Lone Wolf fans. Joe Dever has been extremely trusting to allow PA to make his work freely available. I think it's paid off in spades, but it must have been a real gamble way back in 1999.
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Post by MagikGimp on Nov 3, 2005 10:37:42 GMT
As I thought, old news. A shame because I really wanted to do something for this site.
I don't have any of the books in the Help Wanted thread but what I do have a lot of are the Fighting Fantasy (Jackson & Livingstone) series. Anyone know of a similar project for these books or is FF a form of blasphemy around these parts; I know back in the day there was some rivalry although the now more mature fan should realise that both series are great reads (at any age).
Heh, just remembered they were re-published not so long ago, but was the complete set covered? Thanks for your help people.
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Post by outspaced on Nov 3, 2005 14:37:14 GMT
Hey, shush! I was one of those FF fans, back in the day! Seriously, I nearly didn't get into Lone Wolf because of some perceived rivalry between the two camps. What an idiot I was!  The FF series--at least, the books written solely by Jackson and livingstone--are being re-published, true, but FF titles by the other authors (Mark Smith, Jamie Thomson, Dave Morris, Peter Darvil-Evans, Jonathan Green, Andrew Chapman, Paul Mason, Stephen Hand, Luke Sharp, and all the rest) are apparently being passed over. That's more than half of the original series of 59 books (+4 Sorcery, +2 Clash of the Princes) that won't be reprinted, and many would say those not by Jackson and Livingstone rank among the best of the original series. I don't know about the legality of said authors making their FF books available over the internet, but I certainly wouldn't take it upon myself to make the books available without their express consent, which is why I won't link to a certain site that does have many old gamebooks available as direct-scanned PDF files. However, Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson are allowing their Fabled Lands books to be made available in a similar fashion to Project Aon here. |
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Post by Storm Dancer on Jan 6, 2006 9:02:24 GMT
Have they reprinted the Sorcery! series? I've been dying to get the complete set forever!
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Post by outspaced on Jan 6, 2006 10:36:40 GMT
Yes, the four Sorcery! books have been reprinted and incorporated into the main body of the new FF series, though, for some reason, they are not consecutively numbered.
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Post by Dronak on Mar 4, 2006 21:55:28 GMT
I'm not sure if this came up here, but some time ago when I was on the mailing list, I mentioned it. I don't have the unabridged UK editions of the later books, only the abridged US ones. Sometimes errors are found in the books, and these mistakes are corrected in the Project Aon internet editions. The location of these mistakes will be in different places for books 13-20, depending on which edition you have. If people would find it helpful, I'd be willing to take a list of mistakes from the UK books (maybe with some context to help), find them in the US books, and send back a list of corrections needed to the US books.
Notes on other series mentioned in the last few posts: Fabled Lands is being digitized, which is nice to see. It's the first time I'm seeing them. The FF reprints have included only Jackson and Livingstone books so far, but other authors' books are starting to get reprinted this year (despite the covers not having their names); apparently they've done all the Jackson/Livingstone books. The Sorcery! books were reprinted, too. They're not consecutive because non-Sorcery! books were reprinted at the same time, and they released one of them at the same time as each Sorcery! book. *Why* they did that is another question. My guess is that wanted to spread out the Sorcery! books, but not publish all 4 of them in a row. Doing that would have made most/all of 1 year nothing but Sorcery! books and I guess they wanted to get out more of the main FF series books, with their varying settings and such. *shrug*
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