#oneaday Day 107: The MoeGamer Compendium, Volume 1

Morning folks! Couple of things to share with you today.

Firstly, you may have received an email about upcoming changes to Patreon. Apparently there has been the usual misinformation and rage flying around about this elsewhere on the Internet (having ignored Twitter completely for a week now, I have remained blissfully unaware) but I wanted to reassure you all that the proposed changes will have no impact on either me or you.

Patreon already takes a cut of what you kindly pledge to me — that's how they operate as a business, they're not a charity! — and thus if I see any changes at all to my income, they will be minor at best, particularly as a small creator without any large reward tiers. Likewise, you kind Patrons shouldn't see any changes either; your continued support is very much appreciated, and is always invested into something that will be useful for my projects, be it equipment, software, operating costs or simply new games to cover!

Short version: nothing to worry about here.

Right! Onto the second, far more exciting thing. And that is that The MoeGamer Compendium, Volume 1 is now available, including a compilation of the Cover Game features from 2016! My proof arrived much earlier than anticipated and I'm very happy with it, so it is my great pleasure to announce that it is now available to purchase at this link. I will be officially announcing and promoting this more actively starting next week, but feel free to share the link with anyone you know who may be interested.

The book is available in softcover and hardcover imagewrap variants, as well as a PDF electronic version. Here's a look at the hardcover version:

It's a weighty old tome — about a kilogram, to be exact. I won't lie, it's extremely satisfying to hold that in my hands and recall that it represents just a fraction of what I've created over the course of the last few years.

The hardcover version has a matt imagewrap on the outside. There was the option of creating one with a removable dustjacket, but that would have bumped the cost up a bit — and since it's a substantial book already I didn't want to get too extravagant.

Here's the back cover. It has an ISBN and everything. It's a real book!

Inside, you'll find each "chapter" begins with a colour page like this, featuring some artwork from the game or series in question. Since the book is primarily a collection of the feature articles, do note that these are the only pictures! While I'd have loved to make a fully illustrated book, that would have bumped up both the page count and the cost considerably.

Instead, the main content is presented in this nice readable font that I think looks rather pleasant. The articles themselves are mostly unchanged from their original form on MoeGamer, though in the case of those that made heavy use of references to images and video, I've made some minor edits to make them fit with the text-only format. I also haven't included the RPG Maker MV feature from 2016, since the majority of that consisted of image-heavy tutorials. Perhaps at some point in the future I'll expand my RPG Maker content and do a full, illustrated book on just that.

And here's evidence that it is indeed a chonker. 394 pages of chonk, to be exact, and something I'm very excited to have on my shelf. As with most things I do, I've primarily done this for my own gratification — and as a means of having a nice "hard copy" of my work should, God forbid, anything happen to WordPress or MoeGamer — but I'm very happy to make it available to you fine folks and the broader general public. I'm not expecting to sell many (any?!) copies but the option is there — plus the small profit I make on each book is another way you (and perhaps your friends and family!) can support my work on MoeGamer and Atari A to Z.

Thank you, as always, for your kind support! There will be more of these books coming in the very near future to cover 2017, 2018, 2019 (when it's over!), regardless of how this one sells, and perhaps some other collections of articles too. If there's anything on the site you might be interested in seeing collected together into a book, please let me know — now I've got the basic template set up it's pretty straightforward to put more together.