Something a little different for this week!
So, something you may or may not know is that before the Alex Verus series, I used to write a fair amount of material relating to computer and role-playing games. Sometimes this took the form of campaign journals, sometimes it took the form of guides. Once I shifted over to being a professional author, I mostly let this fall by the wayside – any spare writing time was funnelled into my current book instead.
But I’ve still got some interest in the topic, and for various reasons last year I spent a lot of time playing an indie strategy game called Against the Storm. I enjoyed it enough that I ended up coming up with notes and tips for it, and this year, with Inheritance of Magic #3 finished, I finally got around to organising those ideas into a general strategy guide. I’ve put it in the “Other Writing” section.
I doubt I’ll make a habit of doing these sort of guides, but I did enjoy revisiting the field as a sort of break. It’s fun to do a bit of writing from time to time where I don’t have to constantly focus on plot and characters – guides are a lot easier to write than novels!
Next week is going to be another Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft article, this one on Light sigls. After that, we’ll be getting into the release week for An Instruction in Shadow!
Just gone done looking into this and it looks very promising especially with the expansion coming out!
Few quick questions have you ever played city builder games like Zeus Master of Olympus/the Caesar series or the Frostpunk series?
And what games did you write the campaign journals and guides for? I remember reading and writing a few for Gamefaqs fun memories even though the there was only small text to read!
I played the older SimCities for a while then picked up Cities: Skylines when it came out. Still enjoy that game. Haven’t played any citybuilders apart from that.
Most of my campaign journals and guides were for D&D 3.5 or Pathfinder.
I’ve played (and am still playing) a good bit of D&D myself all the way from the post-chainmail manuals and including 3.5. I was wondering where your material can be found or was it for your personal use/campaign?