Re:Game Engine Black Books Update
by Maro on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:36PM
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I wonder if Quake will happen.
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He is working on that at the moment. I wish he did some crowdfunding.
Re:Game Engine Black Books Update
by fabiensanglard on Friday May 17, 2019 @07:10PM
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It is hard to setup. A lot of printer will agree to print a batch of 1000...and ship it all to me. Then i will have to figure out how to ship to each individual, deal with lost parcels, import taxes, shipping fees and all that :(.
Ideally i would like a printer which let everybody pre-buy a copy and ship to each customer when it is ready. I don't think this exist yet.
What you want is a fulfillment service. You have the printer print 1000 copies, then ship all of those copies to the fulfillment service's warehouse. Orders go through the fulfillment service's system and they ship directly to customers. They take a small cut from each purchase. This is standard practice, as far as I know.
Maybe talk to the guys at bitmap books. They do Kickstarters for their retro gaming books, they really care about the print quality of their books and it always shows. The colours are always vibrant and the pixel art is crisp.
They also get a fulfilment house to dispatch their books so they don't have to.
Maybe if you drop them a message they might be able to point you in the right direction
https://unbound.com/how-it-works seems to suggest they handle this. Perhaps email them?
Re:Game Engine Black Books Update
by ehaliewicz2 on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:48PM
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I'm pretty sure that a Quake black book is in the works.