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    • #4229
      Aphra K
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      well I think this is an event…the book is finished!! …

      only stuff like pics and indexing left..

      off home to me bed though as off to Vancouver for DIGRA early tomorrow morning..see some of you there…

      big celebration some time in my future!!!

      Aphra.

    • #22107
      Anonymous
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      Congratulations Aphra!, I cant wait to buy a copy then pimp some more copies to everyone I know.

      I’ll either shake your hand in August be it in Dublin or Dundee !

    • #22108
      Anonymous
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      Congratulations, Aphra!

      Looking forward to picking up my copy. The publishers gave you any idea of a release date?

      Have a good time in Canada. :D

    • #22110
      Anonymous
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      Fantastic! Congrats!!!!

    • #22111
      Aphra K
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      thanks

      they ain’t fast about turning it around ..it will be just before or just after christmas…the perfect stocking filler!

      Aphra.

    • #22112
      Anonymous
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      Fancy another promotional tour of DCU for it? :D

    • #22114
      Anonymous
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      congratulations.

      whats it called again?

    • #22115
      Anonymous
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      congrats, Aphra

      What will you do now with those long winter Coleraine eveings?

    • #22117
      Anonymous
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      Nice one Aphra!

      Are you planning on writing another one in the near future?

      Mal

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      Anonymous
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      big congrats Aphra .. that’s a acheivement that you can be really happy with.

      looking forward to it 8)

    • #22145
      Anonymous
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      What is this book?

      Unless it makes me popular with the ladies I don’t want it(and lets face it what hope has it! of doing that)

      Congrats with the book.

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      Anonymous
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      lol, I think we could all do with one of them. Now if you could just write say a 200 pages on your approach I’m sure you’d have a best seller on your hands.

      [/quote:6ae49e1483]

      prime time summarised the basic gist just before christmas ;)

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      Anonymous
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      Any links to the post? I think I’m going blind. When are we going to get a serach function on this forum :cry:

    • #22173
      Aphra K
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      hi all..

      greetings from Vancouver – sometimes this academic lark isn’t too bad – over here for DIGRA – see the calendar..will post more as the conference progresses. There is an IGDA Vancouver meeting arranged to coincide with the event tomorrow night which should be good.

      I am hoping the book will be called Gamework/Gameplay although my editor didn’t know what gameplay was and will probably want me to add a sub-title ..that title was suggested in part by an earlier thread on gd.ie so there will be an appropriate acknowledgement in the opening of the book!!

      I think in paper back the book will cost around the twenty pounds mark – again I don’t have too much control over that.. it is a kind of standard academic type price and the target audience is undergraduate media and game studies students..

      I will however be looking for pics to illustrate sections of the book and may be in contact with some people about this when I get back. They will have to be in black and white in the text so that rules out really dark moody images…I am going to use both know well known screen shots with less well known images

      thanks for all your support tho…it might not be a really exciting read, not exactly Joyce, but it should be informative even for game devs who are not the main market..

      Aphra.

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      Anonymous
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      cool, look forward to getting my hands on a copy. Any chances of signed copies? :D

    • #22182
      Anonymous
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      Gameplay: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Joypad

    • #22216
      Anonymous
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      Congrats Aphra, as Fr. Ted might say “Good Luck with the book”!!

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      I am hoping the book will be called Gamework/Gameplay although my editor didn’t know what gameplay was and will probably want me to add a sub-title ..that title was suggested in part by an earlier thread on gd.ie so there will be an appropriate acknowledgement in the opening of the book!!
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      Hey that was partly my suggestion wasn’t it? I’m dead chuffed now. :D

      Congrats on finishing the book Aphra.

      I’m looking forward to:

      1) Reading it. Obviously.
      2) Getting copies for my students to inspire them – to demonstrate that Irish people can have an impact in the broader world.

      Irish apathy and negativity have been on my mind a lot lately.

    • #22260
      Anonymous
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      hi all..

      thanks for all your support tho…it might not be a really exciting read, not exactly Joyce, but it should be informative even for game devs who are not the main market..

      Aphra.[/quote:652922c9dd]

      well joyce wasnt particularly exciting i got 1 page into Ulysee down waterstones, turned and bought da vinci code, coz at least i could understand that book ;)

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      well joyce wasnt particularly exciting i got 1 page into Ulysee down waterstones, turned and bought da vinci code, coz at least i could understand that book ;)[/quote:71830af384]philistine :shock:

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      philistine :shock:[/quote:be692b644e]

      you say philistine i say realist. always good to know ones limits ;)

    • #22303
      Anonymous
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      Well done Aphra! Don’t forget to post the ISBN so I can grab a copy :wink:

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