{"id":155,"date":"2008-08-08T01:21:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isabout.wordpress.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2020-01-02T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:25:32","slug":"arkenstone-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arkenstonepublishing.net\/isabout\/2008\/08\/08\/arkenstone-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkenstone website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arkenstone Publishing now has an <a title=\"Arkenstone Publishing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkenstonepublishing.net\/\">English-language website<\/a>. I made it in a couple of days while learning to hack WordPress, so it&#8217;s not very complex or anything. Hopefully it&#8217;s just stable enough to serve while we&#8217;re at Gencon. Ideally, I didn&#8217;t screw up anything with the Paypal buttons either, so we can start taking in orders on our games.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Orders? Yes, I&#8217;ll be taking orders for <a title=\"The game of Living Dead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkenstonepublishing.net\/zombiecinema\">Zombie Cinema<\/a> and <a title=\"The System of TSoY Lives!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkenstonepublishing.net\/solarsystem\">Solar System<\/a> now from European customers. I&#8217;ll be back from Gencon by the 20th, so that&#8217;s when I&#8217;ll ship any orders that hopefully amass meanwhile. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m very happy with the cost of shipping stuff from Finland, but at least the option is there now.<\/p>\n<p>(The cost of shipping has sunk one particular product plan I had, it seems: I&#8217;m told that shipping five copies of Solar System at once costs around twenty euros; it&#8217;s apparently cheaper to ship them one by one, which is bizarre to say the least. So no bulk discount sales for me, it seems.)<\/p>\n<p>After Gencon I&#8217;m also going to expand that website. That&#8217;s easy with the WordPress framework, at least. I&#8217;ll need to write some articles about the zombie game, at least. Hmm&#8230; to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A common &#8220;shop&#8221; page that collects both products on one page. I might also put up some other indie games while I&#8217;m at it. (As the dear reader might know, Arkenstone retails indie games in Finland; no reason not to sell them to Europe as well now that I made that website, I guess.)<\/li>\n<li>A strategy article. I need to write about how you keep your character alive in <em>Zombie Cinema<\/em>, and how a group creates a successful story. Cover tricks (such as scenes without characters), nuances (order of play and how to manipulate it) and basic techniques familiar from other games (secondary characters, say).<\/li>\n<li>A variant or two. Zombie Cinema is simple to wary, but perhaps I could encourage it a bit by putting up some variant boards and cards. <a title=\"An American catastrophe movie\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_Impact_%28film%29\">Deep Impact<\/a> and <a title=\"A classic of crime movie\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reservoir_dogs\">Reservoir Dogs<\/a> have come up as potential topics; we&#8217;ll see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But that&#8217;s all a problem for later. My train is leaving in two hours for Helsinki, and I&#8217;ve yet to do any packing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkenstone Publishing now has an English-language website. I made it in a couple of days while learning to hack WordPress, so it&#8217;s not very complex or anything. Hopefully it&#8217;s just stable enough to serve while we&#8217;re at Gencon. 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