No, really. Each post of his is like a tiny lecture by my statistics professor. A tour-de-force on the philosophy of game-making by Brian Ballsun-Stanton would be informative to read.
So come on dude, who's your publisher?
No, really. Each post of his is like a tiny lecture by my statistics professor. A tour-de-force on the philosophy of game-making by Brian Ballsun-Stanton would be informative to read.
So come on dude, who's your publisher?
No*, I don't, cause I like eating ... and paying rent.
At present, I can't afford to take the month or two to write a book on the philosophy of role-playing. While I just got my doctorate, I'm trying to find a job at various universities. On the other hand, if there's some level of community funding, I'd be willing to start a kickstarter to cover rent and ... whatnot to...
... what? I.. really? ...
A book is 50k-100k. I'll fold in my two papers on RPs for a clean 10k, that leaves us 40k short. Structuring 2-4k per answer for 10 selected answers could work, leaving me to write framework, structure, question and answer amplification, and a lit review of doom. (and yeah, wading through the IJRP.)
I can probably do this in 1-2 months part time. (hahahaha... ::sigh:: I could, actually. I even have editors.)
But I can't afford to right now.
As I said at the start, if there's community support via kickstarter, I'd love to. Or, if you know of any agencies willing to write a grant, I'm more than willing to write.
Doing some simple ** analysis of my RPG.SE posts, I've got 152k words on here. Easily enough to make a book with sufficient editing and framing. Call it a month of work?
* Does a thesis count? What about 2 working papers on RPGs? (Here.)