{"id":806,"date":"2016-10-07T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/?p=806"},"modified":"2016-10-07T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:21:32","slug":"an-explosion-of-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/2016\/10\/07\/an-explosion-of-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"An explosion of activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September and October has been crazy with activity! Here\u2019s what\u2019s happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Released my first \u201comnibus\u201d which contained the first three novels, two novelettes, and two prologues from the next two novels<\/li>\n<li>Won one a <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Readers\u2019 Favorite <\/strong><\/span>award in the youth: science fiction category for D\u2019mok Revival: New Eden<\/li>\n<li>Incorporated the award emblems into the D\u2019mok Revival: New Eden cover<\/li>\n<li>Released the ebook edition of D\u2019mok Revival: New Eden on Amazon<\/li>\n<li>Finalized printing details of D\u2019mok Revival: New Eden with lightningpress.com<\/li>\n<li>Planning out the D\u2019mok Revival: New Eden launch party details (tentative: Nov 2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But as they say, \u201c<strong>That\u2019s not all!<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An oldie but goodie has come back on the radar. My board game concept, <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>HoverDome<\/strong><\/span>, which simulated the hover bike racing action mentioned in D\u2019mok Revival: Descension, and experienced by readers in D\u2019mok Revival: New Eden, is back on the table (literally).<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I\u2019m attending a board game designer\u2019s workshop at Game Universe, a local game store. I\u2019m going to present the concept, do some playtesting, and hopefully evolve a few elements.<\/p>\n<p>THEN, in two weeks, I\u2019m attending a three day board game designer workshop in Madison. I\u2019ll get to review it with fellow designers, playtest with folks off the street, and present it to board game publishers!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so excited! In fact, since D\u2019mok Revival: New Eden is out there, I can reference it directly as a cross-promotional opportunity, and provide more context about how this game came about.<\/p>\n<p>So, tonight I\u2019m going to do some quick enhancements to the paper prototype. I\u2019m really looking forward to tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But wait!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Progress on <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Weun Academy<\/span> <\/strong>is still moving forward. The slow progress is due to focusing a lot of time on the omnibus, and New Eden\u2026 But I\u2019m always looking into the WA universe and seeing what\u2019s going on. This continues to build pieces for me to stitch together and understand, in preparation for my next \u201csit down\u201d writing session.\u00a0 It seems like every few hours I\u2019m experiencing things that make me think, \u201cThat should really make it in WA.\u201d\u00a0 Actually, there&#8217;s been plenty of things that have made me think, &#8220;This would be great for <span style=\"color: #800080;\">WA2<\/span>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the plan is to target next summer to release Weun Academy. That\u2019s actually a lot closer than you may think.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September and October has been crazy with activity! Here\u2019s what\u2019s happened: Released my first \u201comnibus\u201d which contained the first three novels, two novelettes, and two prologues from the next two novels Won one a Readers\u2019 Favorite award in the youth: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/2016\/10\/07\/an-explosion-of-activity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[110,111,112,106,107,109,70,108],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-post","tag-board-game","tag-hoverdome","tag-new-eden-release","tag-october-2016","tag-readers-favorite-award","tag-science-fiction-award","tag-weun-academy","tag-youth-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmokrevival.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}