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Fantastic fanzine guys, keep it up. Will there be a club feature in every issue?
I love the skin reviews. I got steklo, black-in2 and Flex. :thup:
The idea about the set-piece designer is great. Maybe SI will look at it and put it into FM09.
Originally posted by varun↕§☺☻♫:
Fantastic fanzine guys, keep it up. Will there be a club feature in every issue?
Yep. We're aiming to have at least one club guide in every issue. We'll try to cover a mix of clubs from around the world. If you have any suggestions for clubs you'd like to see covered, just let us know. (Or maybe you'd like to write a club review for us?
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I love the skin reviews. I got steklo, black-in2 and Flex. :thup:
Expect more of the saem in Issue Two. Three more stonkers for you to try out.
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The idea about the set-piece designer is great. Maybe SI will look at it and put it into FM09.
Agreed. It'd be a great addition to the game and something that a lot of people have been asking for. Hopefully it's already on their list of future developements.
Playmaker. I know you're involved with this but not sure how much so not sure if you can answer this.
Why hs the magazine been produced in it's current format?
I mean why is it a file that needs to be downloaded and viewed on acrobat?
For me to view it comfortably, I have to magnify it to 200%. When I do this I am only able to view half the eidth of the screen at any one time and the overall effect of the production is pretty much lost.
Would it not be possible to have the presentation done on a website that is clearer to see and easier to navigate?
Maybe it's just a question of cost and or resources so please don't take this too much as a negative.
The reason I mention this is that although I downloadec this a couple(ish) of weeks ago, (on the day it was first posted up here), I have given up after about 5-6 attempts to read it.
Sorry if this is a bit negative, and just so I finish on a positive I'll say that I absolutely loved the content ans will be downloading the next issue and struggling through it again.
Thanks for the feedback Jimbo. I've replied to your mail as well (or I will do shortly).
I'm surprised you have to go up to 200%, it displays quite nicely at 100% on my screen. I'm running at 1280 - is your resolution higher/lower/the same?
The format will probably stay the same, at least for now, but that is not to say it won't change later. It has enabled us to market the fanzine in a different way than if we were a website.
Also Chris is they guy who puts it all together once we have written the articles. He puts in a lot of work (there would be no fanzine without him) and the format is one that he is comfortable with producing (and presumably has the software for). I'm sure you will agree that struggling to read it in this format is better than nothing to read at all. I hope you agree anyway!
Behind the scenes we have put some work into improving the process of producing the fanzine, so we need to get a feel for how that works before we can even think about other alterations. For the moment it is a case of going with what we know works.
Thanks for the reply, (I haven't checked my mail yet).
Yeah, I don't have the best of monitors so maybe that's partly the issue, (and the fact that I like to sit back nice an comfortably rather than hunch up over the screen).
Of course I agree that anything is better than nothing, and this first effort is significantly better than nothing.
Jimbo, thanks for the feedback - part of the reason I chose to go for a PDF is that almost everyone can open the file. Some of the images and especially screenshots need to be visable and dropping them into another type of document would make this impossible
Also, the ability to print the fanzine and read it was key - I didn't want people to be playing the game and then having to stop playing to read articles, when the game is loading etc its great to have a hard copy to look at. So really the fanzine it designed to be read onscreen and printed to read when the computer is off. Don't know about you but I can't sit a read a whole fanzine on a screem - my eyes are killing after a few pages!!
At the moment I don't have the software or the knowhow to add this file on the web as a viewable file, something like 'the catflap' but it would be great to be able to get this done in the future. So in the future issues you may see a web version of the 'zine!
Thanks for the comments though, issue two is well on the way so more suggestionsare welcome - we need your help to make this even better!
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