Index & Writing for July
Jul. 2nd, 2006 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aI've been pretty absent from other things these last few weeks. Not many journal entries here, fewer reviews & I've been largely letting my prepped Gone Gaming articles run out. The reason? The RPGnet Gaming Index.
It's now available here in a v.2 beta release:
http://index.rpg.net
The idea? A general catalog of every roleplaying supplement ever. And for the last few weeks I've been rolling it out, adjusting the system, adding entries, and generally making sure its release goes well.
The results so far are good. My autostats tell me: "It currently contains 1412 books, 1557 editions, 150 game systems, and 1572 authors." One of my benchmarks for success has been the 1991 sourcebook, Heroic Worlds. It contains, by my guess, about 3600 books and it claims 250 role-playing systems (though I think it uses a looser definition than I, since I'm not really counting one-off systems). So, we've got half of the volume of Heroic Worlds after almost three weeks of release. Not bad.
I've got a few elements to finish up the beta-2 rollout on Monday, and then I'm going to step back from the project a little bit. Rather than trying to do everything, I'm going to focus on just one element at a time. Next week it's going to be ratings & ownership since that aspect of the index has been lagging a bit.
And that'll give me time to work on other stuff. (Next week: the start of a brand-new ad system for RPGnet.)
Partially because of the index release eating up lots of my free time, and partially because I didn't set good goals for June, I didn't get a lot of freelance writing done then. I finished up my outline for the revised Elf book, a third of the third Lovecraft Country comic and that was about it.
So this month, goals, namely:
It's now available here in a v.2 beta release:
http://index.rpg.net
The idea? A general catalog of every roleplaying supplement ever. And for the last few weeks I've been rolling it out, adjusting the system, adding entries, and generally making sure its release goes well.
The results so far are good. My autostats tell me: "It currently contains 1412 books, 1557 editions, 150 game systems, and 1572 authors." One of my benchmarks for success has been the 1991 sourcebook, Heroic Worlds. It contains, by my guess, about 3600 books and it claims 250 role-playing systems (though I think it uses a looser definition than I, since I'm not really counting one-off systems). So, we've got half of the volume of Heroic Worlds after almost three weeks of release. Not bad.
I've got a few elements to finish up the beta-2 rollout on Monday, and then I'm going to step back from the project a little bit. Rather than trying to do everything, I'm going to focus on just one element at a time. Next week it's going to be ratings & ownership since that aspect of the index has been lagging a bit.
And that'll give me time to work on other stuff. (Next week: the start of a brand-new ad system for RPGnet.)
Partially because of the index release eating up lots of my free time, and partially because I didn't set good goals for June, I didn't get a lot of freelance writing done then. I finished up my outline for the revised Elf book, a third of the third Lovecraft Country comic and that was about it.
So this month, goals, namely:
- Complete my card game article for Knucklebones
- Write 20,000 words of the elf-book
- Finish & revise LC #3
- Get ahead of Gone Gaming again, and start looking at Bruno Faidutti articles for release around mid-August