For the past year I’ve been fortunate to be involved with the folks from Cengage Learning in working on a book series that has collected dozens of GameDev.net articles into 4 books for mass-market publishing. We at GDNet have know the Cengage folks for several years already, but this was my first chance to work with them on a project like this. It’s certainly been one hell of a ride, and it’s not quite finished yet! The last book won’t be on shelves until February, barring any delays, so we still have a little ways to go. Still, the first title, Business and Production: A GameDev.net Collection, is due for immenent release early next month, which means I get to show off this snazzy cover image you see below.
I’ve already blasted this out to my social feeds, GDNet Journal and GarageGames .plan of course. I figure might as well do it here too seeing as I haven’t updated this thing in a while, although I have been copying over lots of previous GDNet Journal entries – I just recently finished copying all of 2006.
When all is said and done I will write up a full report of my experience making this collection, so stay tuned for that!
It'll be great to see this, and the other books, on the shelves of bookstores. With all the articles on GameDev.Net, it's good to know I can soon read them offline, on paper, just as easily as online. And the bonus book-only articles are another treat!
BTW, Amazon lists you and John as authors, not editors, despite the cover image (which they don't have, yet).
Yea Chris, Amazon does that for some reason. *shrug* Same with Game Design Perspectives, which I contributed to but it's just FDL listed as author, when he was really the editor.
That said, I *did* write an original piece for this book and updated two of my old articles 😛 So it's partially accurate
Good job, Drew (and John), for putting it together and making it happen. A congrats – welcome to the book club. 🙂
It'll be great to see this, and the other books, on the shelves of bookstores. With all the articles on GameDev.Net, it's good to know I can soon read them offline, on paper, just as easily as online. And the bonus book-only articles are another treat!
BTW, Amazon lists you and John as authors, not editors, despite the cover image (which they don't have, yet).
Yea Chris, Amazon does that for some reason. *shrug* Same with Game Design Perspectives, which I contributed to but it's just FDL listed as author, when he was really the editor.
That said, I *did* write an original piece for this book and updated two of my old articles 😛 So it's partially accurate
Good job, Drew (and John), for putting it together and making it happen. A congrats – welcome to the book club. 🙂