eZine: Please Decide

[Ellie]

I'm getting a bit tired of asking this to be honest, and it's probably a small thing, but can we decide on this please?

How often should the eZine be released?
Do you feel it is currently long enough?
Any other comments?

The options for releasing are either two-weekly, or monthly. Both are fine by me.

Also whether you're happy with the eZine in general. Do you think it's a good feature, or is it a little bit crap? Don't hold back.

 

[Toams]

In my opinion:

I feel that the ezine should be montly.
For it to be monthly would allow for some more depth and lenght in individual articles.
I feel that currently the articles are (not all) pretty shallow compared to what they could be.

Two weekly could do too, but I'd rather have 2 weeks of content gathering, 1 week of formatting and additional content things, and one week of checking and perfecting.

Also I feel it should be either in .pdf with a nifty web viewer, or web-formatted.
Examples of the latter:

http://www.polygon.com/2013/2/17/399305 ... ok-preview
http://alistapart.com/article/demystifying-design
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/28/32702 ... ch-profile

 

[Ellie]

Ok. So long as we have articles coming in, it shouldn't be a problem. And yeah it will give us more time to find things to include, and make sure nothing's missed off the forums.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

Monthly - since that's how magazines work (right?).

I liked reading the last one, it was fun! I wouldn't mind seeing more.

How do articles come in by the way? o.o

 

[Fusty]

Monthly would be cool. But do whatever you think is best, since you appear to be doing all the work for this.
Also on the subject of whether I'm happy with the zine I'd say yes, I think it's great you're doing so much to get this community active again. A regular thing like the E-zine is just what this site needs!

 

[Byron]

Monthly.
Also, I think it is long enough. To be honest, I always end up reading a bit of an article in a magazine and then just skip the rest of it and look at all the pictures... I don't know why.
But yeah. You're doing a good great fantastic amazing job. Keep at it and we'll keep reading it (Or in my case, I'll keep looking at the pictures.)

 

[Cait]

: Monthly, with tips on game creation like variables and puzzle creation. o.o sigh, I know I could use that, and if it got big enough: Q&A for questions. Heck, you could have game reviews: indie and big companies. My two cents.

 

[Byron]

: Monthly, with tips on game creation like variables and puzzle creation. o.o sigh, I know I could use that, and if it got big enough: Q&A for questions. Heck, you could have game reviews: indie and big companies. My two cents.

If we have eventing tuts, I could help. I'm somewhat okay with events.