Indie Press Revolution is today joined by Adventure Retail in carrying Things We Think About Games at GenCon. If you’re at the convention, save yourself shipping and handling by picking up a copy at the show.
Indie Press Revolution is at the Forge at booth, #1939. I’m having trouble tracking down a map of the hall to point you at Adventure Retail, but if you see the Steve Jackson Games banner, or the Atlas Games signage, you’ll have arrived at the right place.
Will’s Update!: The book is also now appearing in listings at Amazon (though they may not stock it until the orders start to come in).
And, since the book is now reaching readers via Gen Con, we’re anxious to know what you think. Drop us a comment on the book’s own page, or start sharing what you think about games.
Yeah I saw it there. It tempted me. And now, post White Wolf party it calls out to me in a way that I cannot deny. Chalk up another sale at the Indy Press booth for you today 😉
I have a copy of Things We Think About Games, and I’d like to quote directly from the book on my philosophy of gaming blog. Can I legally do this? If it’s not legal, would you guys mind? Some of your stuff I thought was useful and really interesting, some kinda vague, and some I disagreed (slightly) with. I’d like to quote directly when this would be useful.
http://philosophyofgames.blogspot.com/
We’re not opposed to focused quotes of reasonable length for purposes of review or critique, naturally. The nature of the text means it’s a fine line between “some” quoting and “a lot,” though. We’d ask you to find a polite middle ground that lets you speak your mind without giving our book away.
Regardless, we’re glad to hear that you grabbed a copy and are interested in writing about it. Thanks!
Thanks. I only quoted a bit, and paraphrased some. I wrote a mini-review that mostly talks about the 29th point you make in the book, though I plan on challenging Pat Harrigan on rpg games not being capable of having literary qualities.
mini-review here: http://philosophyofgames.blogspot.com/2008/08/things-we-think-about-games.html
For my money, that’s just the right balance of quoting, paraphrasing, and weaving together our Thoughts and yours.
Bloggers in general overuse the long blockquote; this is just the thing.
I don’t mind using long quotes in academic papers, but blog posts in general don’t need to be that length, and also because your book is full of shortly written “koans” quoting a sentence or a paragraph is the equivalent of quoting a whole page in a sense – which unless I’d planned on heavily discussing that single page, that just didn’t seem worth doing. I do plan on discussing more from your book, but just in separate posts. Do you guys have any future publications planned?
Aww man, I would have looked up the book if I had known it was at GenCon.