Reader Question Day #36
Manwe asks:
Way back when, when you were creating Mazael, did you have any visual inspirations for him?
I’m afraid not. Though his name came from Johan Maelzl, the inventor of the metronome.
And hey, speaking of Skyrim, did you ever get it yet?
Yes. And I’ve gotten all the way up to level five! So you can see how much time I’ve had to play it. 🙂 Though at nights lately I’ve been playing ICEWIND DALE, since it’s a straightforward dungeon crawl, and sufficiently brainless for the end of the day.
I asked what type of game you want DS to be, how about this, if you had to choose one developer to make it, who would you choose?
No one affiliated with Electronic Arts, Blizzard, or Ubisoft. Which I suppose would disqualify most developers at a stroke. 🙂
How much does it cost you in the long run to do the createspace stuff? I mean is it worth the investment?
I believe the base version of CreateSpace is free, but then the printed books are only available through Amazon. For $25 per book, you can get “expanded distribution”, which makes the book available in other venues. That said, the author gets a higher royalty rate for paper books sold through Amazon than any of the Expanded Distribution places.
Selene asks:
I was wondering when will Ghost in the Stone come out.
I’m hoping to start Ghost in the Stone by the beginning of September, once I’ve produced a satisfactory outline. So unless Real Life intervenes, I should have it done by November or December.
More on that later this week!
-JM
So you did finally get Skyrim! 🙂
Granted your still in the early stages of the game, but:
1.what do you think of it so far?
2.how about the changes they made to it, namely the controls and U.I. and menu interfaces (i.e. what others refer to as the “consoling” on the series)?
“No one affiliated with Electronic Arts, Blizzard, or Ubisoft.”
Huh? Really? Why so?
I know EA carries ALOT of baggage with it, but Blizzard is widely considered to be the gold standard of video game companies.
As for CreateSpace, it sounds like it’s not a bad deal at all.
1.) I like it.
2.) It took some getting used to, but once you get the keyboard commands down it’s more efficient.
3.) Too much DRM.
1. That’s good! 🙂
2. Oh wow, so you actually think it’s better, the “consoling” of the series? That is interesting indeed! It seemed like most PC users were ticked off by those changes, but I guess some people did like it after all. 🙂
It was hit and miss to me, some changes I liked, some not so much.
3. Ah, that makes sense, and I agree. They (and others) have gone nuts with it, I’m sure the pirates don’t help the situation, but still…look, when you have a game (take the Ultimate Edition Of DA:O, which I bought for my uncle) that only allows THREE installs of it…EVER, that is absurd to the umpth degree.
You should get Bethesda to develop your game. I’ve been playing their games all my life and skyrim is one of there best series. I look forward to playing it.
I haven’t had much time to play Skyrim yet, but I’ve definitely enjoyed the parts of it I’ve played.
Another good series made by Bethesda is fallout. If you need to know any more about the awesome developing that they do play this game too.
Only he he cares to venture off into another crapsack world.
Bethesda is talented, make no mistake about it, but I thought it was a mistake for them to take over the fallout series, I never liked the universe, too nihilistic and cynical for my tastes.
Plus I think the Fallout universe is better suited to the crpg format rather than the epic open world rpg format.