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Star Charts Cover Art
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:41 pm
by Tyrel Lohr
For those that haven't seen the artwork yet, here is the current artwork for the Star Charts book:
http://www.vbamgames.com/starcharts_cover2.jpg
I have set a hard deadline for the end of the month to get this book released. Here's to hoping I make that deadline!
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:07 am
by Charles Lewis
You know, that cover without the text would make fantastic wallpaper.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:12 am
by MarkG88
I agree with Charlie, it is wicked cool.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:49 am
by murtalianconfederacy
Damn, only a tenner too. Lessee, could I afford it...
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:55 am
by Emiricol
That is really a fantastic cover.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:33 pm
by mwaschak
Charles Lewis wrote:You know, that cover without the text would make fantastic wallpaper.
<Low whistle>
Yeah, that is nice!
Tyrel, could make some of our prettier arts into wallpaper
?
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:18 pm
by Tyrel Lohr
"You are can have wallpaper?"
I will see about getting it converted into a wallpaper and see what happens. The spine line may be an issue, but then I might be able to fix that, too -- the Persian astrolabe in the background isn't a solid object, so it would take some tweaking, but I will see what I can do.
The price of the book should end up in the $19.95 range for print, or around $10 electronic. I won't know for sure until I have everything in the book. There is a chance it may bloat up a few bucks on the print version, simply because of print costs.
Re: Star Charts Cover Art
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:17 pm
by japridemor
Tyrel Lohr wrote:I have set a hard deadline for the end of the month to get this book released. Here's to hoping I make that deadline!
Not wanting to jostle your elbow, but.....jostle, jostle... any news on a release date yet?
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:58 pm
by Tyrel Lohr
I got distracted around the holidays, but I am working on finishing the book up (finally). I originally had the draft setup in Microsoft Word, but started running into stability issues with the document (too much artwork makes Word go wonky), so I have spent the last two evenings porting it into InDesign CS. So far I haven't had any real problems doing so (knock on wood).
I still have some star systems left to generate, and some additional supplementary text to write up. All in all, I would say half of the book is completely finished... it is just the *other* half that is going to take some time to get prepped and ready to go. It is getting there, however, and I am optimistic for a near-term release (though I have been saying that for awhile now).
