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A new fanzine / magazine idea - Anyone interested in contributing?

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drventure:
I'd second the comment about contributing to the Wiki here.

For reviews, you'd be hard pressed to find anything much better than Mamezach's site

http://mamezach.blogspot.com/

Awesome set of reviews there.

Short version, I'd love to see new info on the hobby, in whatever form. Truthfully though, I can't imagine subscribing to a magazine for it. There's just soooo much really good info out there already.

Vigo:
 :woot I can see the picture.




--- Quote from: Simon_G on August 09, 2012, 02:49:23 pm ---Well that killed that thread then.... :banghead:

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You got an uphill battle gaining traction with this. In the recent years, Gameroom was run well by a veteran member of the community here and had a lot of support. It even couldn't keep afloat. I did subscribe to it, but I'm not so sure I would have if there was no printed material. Lets just say for me to shell out money to subscribe, I would have to feel I am getting my money's worth. That is harder to do without printed material.

If you get something going, I would be happy to contribute a bit with writing or that kind of support. I'm sure others would as well. I think you would need to put something out there before anyone gets too excited.

Howard_Casto:
Yeah don't misunderstand  if you want help, we'll help if you want to try out an issue or something.  We just want you to understand that there are some major hurdles to producing something like that, you aren't going to make any real money, and it isn't going to be easy.

Getting into this hobby is like owning a boat.... the two days you are happiest and have the most money in your pockets is the day before you buy your boat and the day after you sell it. 

That doesn't mean it can't be worthwhile, but I'm just saying....

Simon_G:
Thanks guys,

I appreciate the support.

I have been down this road before, writing the RetroRevival fanzine some years ago (in fact issue 4 was well received, some 4000+ downloads and was 100% free, even managed to get some financial sponsorship) so I am fully aware of the effort needed to get it off the ground.  I have some decent InDesign skills, a strong vision of what I want to offer and what direction I think the idea should take, just cannot produce 60+ pages of content on my own, which is why i need others to be involved too.

I am a competent writer, can tackle most things with my knowledge, and can see the benefit of something like this, however, like everything in this niche people seem very dubious about new projects, especially as most of them never actually get out of the planning stage.

So, I'll leave it at that.  If anyone wants to come on this journey with me, then please feel free to PM me and we can discuss matters in private, otherwise, I'll knock something up and see if that generates some interest.

Thanks again.



shponglefan:

--- Quote from: Simon_G on August 06, 2012, 06:44:10 pm ---Although I would love to see something like this in print, I cannot see how it would be possible given the extortionate cost of printing here in the UK.  With this in mind, the publication would initially appear in PDF format, with the idea of including multimedia capabilities down the line (videos of gameplay, audio etc) and maybe even publication on the Apple NewsStand or iBooks.  A printed version has not been discounted, but to begin with I cannot see the financial benefit in doing so.
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Having read a few of your posts in this thread, I can appreciate what you want to do.  And IMHO, it would be nicer if there were better central repositories for some of the information out there.  But to be blunt, a PDF magazine style format isn't the right way to go about it.

In this day and age, a blog-esque website (if it's just articles) is the way to go.  The other option would be a video series; actually a retro gaming/emulation/arcade series could be awesome.  But also a crap-ton of work.

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