To be honest, do we even need a magazine.
Its been overridden with the email list and the forums of
audiogames.net and there is so much out there and so little.
Yes if you are in the middle of a project like me its all on but
don't take it the wrong way but there is basically f**ck going on.
Not actually the case but not as much as it was in the early days of the mag.
All or most dev news is outdated and the only sections I ever read
were game rescue unit, the imortal gamer, the dnd game stories though
of late these have been less humerous than usual but well.
Truth be told its been so long between an issue I have forgotten how
the mag went.
Vaguely I can remember an old dusty volume I read in the middle of
the zork dungeons of yesteryear with nothing to do one hot sunny day
on my old notebook I got for 300 zorkmids but now a days there is
almost to much and not much.
Many small projects, a few bigger ones.
what to cover.
One thing I was tempted to cover was the ifcomp2013 but the voting
site really had no access and I was tempted to blog about it on my
wordpress but I got caught on testing deathmatch and real life that
it never happened and in the scheme of things will never happen at
any rate due to many external conditions one of which is remodeling
of bits of our house which is enough disruption and some teeth things
and a few other things I won't go into here.
Yes I did at one stage miss the good old days with the good old mag.
However it may as well be the crappy crap a grue does not want to eat.
Its been so long with no mag and no regular schedual that I have lost
interest in the mag.
I aggree something needs to be done and I am happy to do a regular
schedual with the mag myself.
My thought though is if we are going to do this would to make it a
community effort to do the mag or at least have more than 1 person to do it.
And we should include those in the audio games forums where the real
hackers, crackers and small gamers and startup programmers and
project writers seem to live since this is where a lot of the
descussions are done.
I can't remember them off by heart but there are at least 5-30
hackers that do things right now that probably have the ability and
probably at least 5-10 hardcores and another 10 or so standard users
that could assist that are actually good.
there is an articles room, and I don't think there would be much
issue having a magazine room on there.
However, I will only aggree to help if there is going to be a regular
schedual that can be kept to no matter what real life things get in
the way which is why it needs to be more than just 1 person.
if not at least have the mag more than once a year.
I think we had it 4 times a year maybe twice a year though I'd like
it a bit more.
I'd also like some sort of cast or between issue things where things
could be covered that were not in the issues.
There are several sections that in my opinion can go.
Letters.
Tis section as far as I know is for anyone without the net or not on
the right places to get the mag.
A lot if not all are on the audiogames forum, some are on the list to.
There is no point having list mail in the letters section.
In fact anything mentioned on this list and the forums before mag
release really shouldn't be included.
Next the news from developer section.
Most news is either old by the time it appears on the magazine,
already read by people or both.
There is no real need for it to be honest.
While transfering stuff already online worked before it really does
not make any favour.
I used to read the mag and go this is good, next, next good good good read.
Its become
out of dat, crap, crap, verry crappy as usual, skip, skip.
Oh man why did I get the f**king mag this issue has barely an article
that is new.
I remember an issue where barely 3 articles interested me the last
few mags in fact.
If you read the issues audyssey 1-17 and then the issues after that
you will gradually notice as the net picks up things drop off and
things start to suck I don't mean in the short times where there was
nothing to write but constly when there was nothing to write, often
about 90% of the mag I had heard allready or hearded updated info, or
it was so old it didn't matter.
I'd like this to be fixed but to be honest we may have to change the sections.
gaming articles can be there, though there must be a way to get
access to all the dnd games should one want to listen or read the
logs and such of all these without the mag or maybe that could stay.
I know this may be a bit much with all the things going on but I'd
like something like game rescue unit and adam the imortal gamer to
come back, a comic strip which really made the game mag back then.
again there are loads on the forum that could probably write stuff
like this for the mag based on games game fan fiction swamp and
others and such.
And ofcause if for example a story has a campaign with it or
something that can be played it would rock even more.
There needs to be a release time set for when things come out and
that schedual kept to as much as possible.
I know we are puttering along but how material are we generating
worth magging about a month I wander.
vary little probably.
The mag needs a clear facelift but then again it may have run its course.
There are loads that have come on without the mag and are surviving without it.
I'll help if ever the mag comes back but its probably the shaddow of
myself hanging on to the past that keeps me thinking in that
direction than anything ealse really.
At 04:42 PM 10/29/2013, you wrote:
Hi Ken,
the Audyssey Magazine seems to be in limbo since issue 54. Ron has had
a number of personal issues that has had him put the magazine off
indefinitely. That said, if we don't see an issue in the next few
months I am tempted to take over the magazine and keep it going until
Ron can once again resume his roll as editor.
Cheers!
On 10/28/13, Ken Downey <kenwdow...@thepionear.net> wrote:
> I was moving some files around on my computer the other day and, in finding
> my folder for all the issues of Audyssey, I decided to look at a
few--of the
> oldest ones. Wow, have things come a long way! Those were the times when if
> you wanted to send a game to someone, you had to do it through the mail on
> floppy disk... Also, revisiting Adam the Immortal gamer was fun too.
> No issues have been out since 54 though? Any plans to start up again?
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