Thinking Out Loud About the Darkness Beneath Megadungeon
Mar 23, 2022 11:06:38 GMT -6
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Post by calithena on Mar 23, 2022 11:06:38 GMT -6
I'm trying to think of how to handle the art for a more polished project like this. It would be awesome to just do it with volunteers, but it would also be cool to create a more polished look, hire an artist or two and a cartographer and pay them money to make it look good. Our simple layout supported the eighties 'zine feel but for a 'pro' version it might make sense to get a more polished layout too.
I am thinking it might be good to do this as a kickstarter (indiegogo, whatever) to generate interest and revenue so we could pay for art, cartography, and maybe even layout. Technically the Darkness Beneath submissions were pre-approved to eventually be published this way - that's the only FO! content we kept the right to republish, and only in the format of a stand alone megadungeon book - but conceivably we could try to get some money to authors too.
Another money idea would be, if the kickstarter went well, to randomize the authors and artists in Fight On! #1-14, set aside money for them - say if we raised $1000 make it four prizes of $250 each or something like that, I'm just spitballing - and then do a livestream where we roll d1000 on the author and artist table and award prize money appropriately. This would be a nice bonus for people who donated their articles to our 'zine if it worked out.
I'm prepared to put some real time into finishing the dungeon and also sharing some cool framing material that hadn't made it into the 'zine so far. Well, if people have ideas for what they'd like to see, post them here!
I am thinking it might be good to do this as a kickstarter (indiegogo, whatever) to generate interest and revenue so we could pay for art, cartography, and maybe even layout. Technically the Darkness Beneath submissions were pre-approved to eventually be published this way - that's the only FO! content we kept the right to republish, and only in the format of a stand alone megadungeon book - but conceivably we could try to get some money to authors too.
Another money idea would be, if the kickstarter went well, to randomize the authors and artists in Fight On! #1-14, set aside money for them - say if we raised $1000 make it four prizes of $250 each or something like that, I'm just spitballing - and then do a livestream where we roll d1000 on the author and artist table and award prize money appropriately. This would be a nice bonus for people who donated their articles to our 'zine if it worked out.
I'm prepared to put some real time into finishing the dungeon and also sharing some cool framing material that hadn't made it into the 'zine so far. Well, if people have ideas for what they'd like to see, post them here!
