Jacek Wesołowski
I had a wonderful wholesome little adventure yesterday.
So, it so happens that I wrote a game design book. It sold well, so I wrote another. That other book has a companion in the form of a monographs of an old open world adventure/RPG game called "Gothic".
"Gothic" is a classic, it plays well even today, and also has a notoriously obsolete UI (designed before it was obvious that mouse is for camera controls). So overall a very interesting case study.
Jacek Wesołowski
So I have this tiny store on the web where I sell my books. The books are in Polish, and so is the store, because we're too small to have them translated and published abroad.
So imagine my surprise when one day I got not one, but four orders for a copy of the book about "Gothic", all from abroad, made on the same day, and even at the exact same hour in some cases.
My first thought was this was either a package redirection scam or someone hacked into other people's bank accounts.
Jacek Wesołowski
Well, no.
It turns out "Gothic" fandom still exists and there's even a Discord server. Someone learned about the book somehow, told their friends, and now some of them want it as a collector item.
I mean, it is nice to find someone with a shared appreciation of something, but also just imagine, you made a game 25 years ago, and some people still like it enough that they want a book about it in a foreign language.
Jacek Wesołowski
@keul It's an old PC video game. Here's the Mobygames entry for it: https://www.mobygames.com/game/3785/gothic/
Luca Fabbri
@jzillw forgive my ignorance. What you mean with "Gothic"
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