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A GameDev.net Collection

December 17th, 2008 · 8 Comments · GameDev.net, Personal

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!

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8 Comments so far ↓

  • Chris Charabaruk

    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!

  • Chris Charabaruk

    BTW, Amazon lists you and John as authors, not editors, despite the cover image (which they don't have, yet).

  • Gaiiden

    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

  • Kevin

    Good job, Drew (and John), for putting it together and making it happen. A congrats – welcome to the book club. 🙂

  • Chris Charabaruk

    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!

  • Chris Charabaruk

    BTW, Amazon lists you and John as authors, not editors, despite the cover image (which they don't have, yet).

  • Gaiiden

    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

  • Kevin

    Good job, Drew (and John), for putting it together and making it happen. A congrats – welcome to the book club. 🙂

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