Publishing on Demand for Games
I’ve started to dabble in “publishing”, which sounds sophisticated to my world paradigm, but it’s actually within mainstream grasp.
Publishing on Demand for books is becoming easier and you can have your book online within 48 hours if it’s in a Word Doc (Kindle Direct Publishing). That’s pretty accessible – no need for high-end software or a hard-to-acquire account with a printer such as Lightning Source – and the barriers between your creativity and sharing it with the world are becoming smaller.
In my quest to publish my own books, I stumbled upon a similar Print on Demand model for games.
Publish your own games? I never imagined that such a thing was possible.
Real tangible games in the form of board games and card games. By the way, stumble is my euphemism for a distraction from writing a first set of children’s chapter books!
All of this to say that if you’ve ever thought of creating a game or are looking for a creative distraction from writing, maybe this is new to you too!
My New Favourite Stock Image Site
By day I create application eLearning for a global company (Amadeus IT) and occasionally need stock images. Buying stock images becomes expensive and often I simply need a pretty image as a background for a course menu or a lesson’s last page. This type of image helps break up the sea of application screenshots that make up the bulk of our eLearning.
While looking for free images for a home project, I stumbled upon a site with nothing but public domain images. These images can be used commercially and don’t need attribution.
It’s not Getty images and you won’t find model sets, but you can log in with your Google account and find many top quality images in varying sizes.
