2o2p - Layout begins

Updates.

My two designers (Lunatikzx and BrokenDesign) are working on some of the fully edited content to put together issue #2 pages.  The amount of content is fairly significant because this is a stepping stone to greater things.  Issue #1 was our initial "resume" to what 2old2play can produce where issue #2 will be "you didnt think we could do it again, well now we did it better."

The content easily pushes 70 pages in Microsoft Word.  Once its put in the magazine the font will be reduced but photos will be added so it will probably be pretty close to my estimate.  Ive still holding out for a few more columns (already estimate 1 page each), a BF2 review, and a few other articles.

Some things have been pushed to issue #3 to go along with what others are already working on for that issue ("History of gaming").  So if anyone was worried about us finding content its NOT a problem.  Issue #2 (and all future issues) will also contain a crossword puzzleand a word search on gaming terms to keep you busy (youll probably have to print those pages out though to do it right).

So over the next week Ill be getting the rest of the articles (I hope) and getting them out to the editors.  I think next month Im going to make the due date May 25th to give us some breathing room for the editor peer reviews.  BrokenDesign has worked a lot of hours into the new section schemes that will be in the magazine so that each area is framed with imagery to match its content.  Luna has some of the final edits (but I have many more to give him) so that he can start positioning them into the pages and get us rolling for a release on May 8th.  We should be on track to reach it but it will be tight :)

Illustrations by BATMANKM look fucking awesome.  No other terminology will do it justice...thats just the way it is.

Im also hoping to get back my interview questions I sent to Stardock Entertainment (www.stardock.com).  I got them to do an interview for us in issue #2, and hope to get more companies to work with us in the future issues.  This will go well with the Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lord review also within this issue.

Oh, side note, anyone that posted photos of their game rooms, tvs, 360s, projectors, etc.  Ive probably got enough for two issues so if you do not see yours in this issue youll find it in the next issue.  Ill see how that goes when the content is put in and we can figure out just how much space theyre all going to take.

If your still looking to contribute for issue #3, read through some of my prior blogs on the history of gaming, and come up with some ideas.  More on that later.

CodeMonkey