Thousand Room Preview
Added 2017-05-11 21:06:53 +0000 UTCHere's a rough draft of our upcoming book! Below are a few things that we would like your help with, once you have had a chance to look at the book. While the book is missing final formatting, the texts are complete. Can you make sense of the story? Or what do you understand the story to be?
We think that we have explored most of the non-violent avenues of the system, but we might have overlooked some things. Are there options that we have not illustrated that you think would add to the story, and if so, which character type would it be attached to, in your opinion.
Could you upload the pdf on your e-reader(Kindle, etc) and tell us if it displays clearly? What do you think of the book, the layout, the cover? Would you read it, is it suitable for children?
We need help translating the texts into french, russian and Japanese. If you think that you can help with that, please let us know!
We're looking forward to reading your feedback :)
Comments
One small thing I noticed was that "notes bearing your handwritting" should probably be "handwriting". The only other thing I noticed was that all of the animals have very similar ear-shapes. For some reason my brain fixated on ear-shape for helping to distinguish the animals and sometimes I'd get mixed up based on ear-shape haha. Otherwise very cute -- loved it!
2017-05-15 13:49:29 +0000 UTCJust to double check, that page is Chapter 7, right?
Matej 'Retro' Jan
2017-05-13 06:44:20 +0000 UTCOh that last image thats missing is just the desk, pen and paper alone on the page with the words "And you?". We'd like people to think about what they would do in such a situation. Thanks so much for all the info! We got iBooks and will use it for the release.
Hundred Rabbits
2017-05-12 20:59:56 +0000 UTCJust had a go with the book now. Page 44 is showing a missing image, so my chapter VII is incomplete. <a href="http://imgur.com/6dmgTb7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/6dmgTb7</a> I'll reserve to comment on the story since I'm probably missing the last chapter. I'm sensing a parallel story or Memento-like resolution. What I can say though is: 1. Text adventure/choose your own adventure setup immediately pulled me in (personal favorite). 2. Art is super lovely!
Matej 'Retro' Jan
2017-05-11 22:38:48 +0000 UTCQuick answer for how it displays in my e-reader (using iBooks on an iPad Pro): like any other PDF, it only shows up one page at a time, even when you rotate your iPad to landscape. on macOS (in Preview) you can go to View>Two Pages, but on iOS this is not an option (it's been unanswered feature request for over 5 years). Anyway, if you had the extra time, you could use iBooks Author to create a release specifically for iBooks store: <a href="https://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/</a> The software itself should be pretty straight-forward and just making the book shouldn't be too much work. I'm not sure how this matches your release plans though and it'll take extra time to setup a release through Apple (it took me about an hour to fill out iTunes Connect with all the legal info, but I have no experience actually releasing a book—according to their FAQ you don't even need an ISBN, although it is recommended <a href="https://www.apple.com/itunes/working-itunes/sell-content/books/book-faq.html)." rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.apple.com/itunes/working-itunes/sell-content/books/book-faq.html).</a> Sorry if this is an overkill in information. I tried to google some for you since you're on that dial up internet. :)
Matej 'Retro' Jan
2017-05-11 22:29:31 +0000 UTCAny feedback would be greatly appreciated :), whether it be about the art, text, book layout, clarity of the concept and story etc.
Hundred Rabbits
2017-05-11 21:53:20 +0000 UTC
