InDesign is not for Newbs . . . but I’m improving
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InDesign is not for Newbs . . . but I’m improving

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Last few days or a week or so I’ve been laying out the Dragon Heresy Introductory Set. The manuscript is done, cut down from 410,000 words to about 149,500, and 55,000 of those are completely awesome monsters. But InDesign, basically the industry standard layout package, is a CAD program for words. It is ridiculously functional,…

Economizing on RPG Development Costs
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Economizing on RPG Development Costs

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Earlier I went through and took a stab at what it costs to develop an RPG book. One can consider these, in somewhat imprecise terms, economic costs, rather than an accounting or cash-flow cost, in that it’s not required to write checks for all of them. Further, the costs presented represent doing everything on a contracting basis, and…

RPG Development Costs
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RPG Development Costs

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I tend to be pretty transparent here at Gaming Ballistic, perhaps even too much so. Still, it came as a surprise to me – though it was, in a Rumsfeldian sense, a known unknown – just what it took to make a game. For example, I had always thought that print games were simply much…