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amnesiac
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I've finally finished taking the content of my game design course and turning it into a book, "Paid to Play: The Business of Game Design".

It's a small book (I am very, very impressed with authors who have written big books!), but it's chock full of good information, if I say so myself. And laid out in a very helpful, step-by-step fashion.

You can get more info here...
http://www.gamedesigncentral.com/inventors/book.htm

If you need testimonials:
- Of my students or people I have consulted with, and who have kept in touch with me, I know of 9 games released and 5 deals signed this year.
- Also, two ladies who took my very first class back in 2002, this year won the Toy and Game Inventors Expo award for Rising Stars, and they have a game, In A Pickle, selling in Wal-Mart and Target which has surpassed 600,000 units.

I hope during my lifetime to help several others get started on the path to that kind of success!

- Keith

Katherine
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Game design book

Hi Keith,
you "contact" email address is flicking back as spam. What is the cost and freight outside the USA for your book?

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shipping cost

Just add the book to your cart, then at the cart select your country and the page will calculate the shipping

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amnesiac wrote:I've finally

amnesiac wrote:
I've finally finished taking the content of my game design course and turning it into a book, "Paid to Play: The Business of Game Design".

Congrats, Keith!

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Ordered... sounds great!

Ordered... sounds great!

amnesiac
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Outside US Shipping

I have found a more financially sound method of shipping; Priority Mail International Flat Rate (envelope). That cost would be $10.95 for Canada and Mexico, and $12.95 for everywhere else. It's about a 7-10 day delivery.

It'll take me a little time to get that shipping option programmed into the shopping cart, hopefully by end of next week. If you want to order sooner, I can call you or you can call me with your c/c info, and I can ship immediately.

Keith Meyers
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VeritasGames
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Why is there a $9.95 discount

Why is there a $9.95 discount version? What's that for? What's the difference.

seo
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Discount

It explains it on the site: it is for current and former clients/students. For a second I thought the offer would include BGDF memebers too, but sadly it doesnt. :-(

I'm buying the book anyway, but I'll wait those few days so you can implement the new shipping option.

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Good Work!

Look forward to reading it:)

Willi B
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Please update us on the new

Please update us on the new shipping when it becomes available. Thanks!

amnesiac
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Economic International Shipping Alternative Available

the Priority Mail International Flat Rate is available ($10.95 Canada/Mexico and $12.95 everywhere else). But I don't have a way to test it since I don't have credit card from out of the US.

So I hope someone outside the U.S. will give it a try, and call/email me if they have any troubles.

- Keth
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keith@gamedesigncentral.com

the book link is here...
http://www.gamedesigncentral.com/inventors/book.htm

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Proble with non-USA VISA

I get this error:

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- ERROR -
PROBLEM PROCESSING PAYMENT

The response from the payment server was:
The transaction resulted in an AVS mismatch. The address provided does not match billing address of cardholder.

Please use your back button to return to where you left off to correct this problem.

Thank You.
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I checked twice and the address is the same I use all the time to pay for my domains and webservers. Please let me know if that can be fixed, so I try to buy the book again. A nice alternative would be PayPal.

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I am quite interested in

I am quite interested in getting this...

does anyone who has already bought it want to forward a review and inform us what they thought of it & if they found it helpful, informative etc.

Cheers!

amnesiac
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Book Review

I sent a copy to www.boardgamenews.com, and Joe Huber ended up reviewing it.

Here's the link to that review...
http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/comments/book_revie...

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I read it a few weeks ago.

I read it a few weeks ago. It's fairly light reading, and the place where it stands out is that it covers the design end and the business end roughly equally (whereas most books focus on one and only touch briefly on the other). however, its short length means neither is covered extensively.

it has more useful information than Toy and Game Inventors Handbook (which maintains its bottom-of-the-barrel status), but it definitely doesn't surpass Peek's Game Inventor's Handbook for useful-information-saturation level (which is another book that has dated info, lol), or Rules of Play for hardcore design breakdown. I make the same comparison the other reviewer does with Tinsman's Game Inventor's Guidebook- both feel more like long essays than short books, and Tinsman has a heavier focus on business end, and very little on the design end, so Paid to Play definitely picks up the slack there.

Some of the information feels dated- 40 card magic decks outside of limited format tournaments haven't really existed in almost 15 years, and the book definitely has a heavy american market slant to it (which is fine, though most serious board game designers -i think- in the past couple of years have tended to look at euro-marketable games just as much, if not more). and there is a distinct copy-editing issue, because there's a misspelled or missing word every couple of pages.

but none of my criticisms really discount the useful parts of the book, and again, going back to the comparison to Tinsman's book, both are good primers- and since Paid to Play covers the design end a little more evenly, if you're only going to read one, that's where I'd point you at.

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Hey Guys thanks for the

Hey Guys

thanks for the responses ~ I already have Brian Tinsmans The Game Inventor's Guidebook from 2003 (altho` I`ve just noticed that hes got a newer version out [2008]) which I found very informative and its a book that I dip into now and again when I get the game board designers blues for a bit of inspiration and motivation.

I like to be as well informed as possible especially as I want to go down the self publishing route and will most definitely add this book to my collection within the not too distant future

Thanks again!

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congrats on the book! This

congrats on the book! This title has been in my mind for a while and have been curious about reading it. Every time I'm in Barnes and Noble and thinking about game design books (I haven't found any there in stock.), "Payed to Play" comes to mind.

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