The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
The CRPG Book Project
Sharing the History of Computer Role-Playing Games
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How to define RPGs and CRPGs? And why the title of my book doesn’t make sense anymore :(
As the editor of The CRPG Book, I feel qualified to answer what are CRPGs, RPGs, JRPGs and WRPGs in a very clear, concise and precise way: It depends.
Update 31 – The Last Update
It has now been two months since the Expanded Edition of the CRPG Book was published by Bitmap Books, and I m very happy to share that we made £8,754 since, bringing us to a total of £31.599 raised for charity. A huge thanks to everyone who supported the project! I also finally finished updating the Continue reading Update 31 The Last Update
Update 30 – The expanded hardcover print is out!
The Expanded Edition brings 156 pages extra pages, 65 new game reviews, several new articles, a lot of revised content and a glorious cover art gallery! It also goes beyond the usual CRPG canon, exploring more French, Korean Chinese-only RPGs, RPG Maker titles and online RPGs!
Update 29 – The expanded edition is released!
The CRPG Book Expanded Edition brings 156 pages extra pages, 56 new game reviews, several new articles, a lot of revised content and a glorious cover art gallery! The total: 685 pages! You can freely download it here: DOWNLOAD THE CRPG BOOK PDF The road so far Eight years. It’s been now eight years since Continue reading Update 29 – The expanded edition is released!
Update 28 – Three years later
It s been now a bit over 3 years since the CRPG Book was released as a PDF, back in February 2018. In this time, the PDF had over 160,000 downloads, while the hardcover book sold out and raised £18,473 for charity. I m extremely happy with how things turned out, Bitmap Books even asked for a Continue reading Update 28 Three years later
Update 27 – One year later…
After almost one year of silence, I m back with two updates: First, Bitmap Books and I just did the second donation of royalties from the CRPG Book to the NGO Vocação: £5,998 pounds (33,096 Brazilian reais). This brings us to a total of £18,473 pounds donated, or 91,100 reais! And we have the receipts: Second, Continue reading Update 27 – One year later
Update 26 – Three great news!
I m back with three wonderful news: The hardcover book raised ￡12.475! All this money is being donated to Vocação, a NGO in Brazil that helps children and teenagers in poor communities get access to better education. It s a lot of money, equivalent to 64 minimum wages in Brazil! The updated proofread PDF of the Continue reading Update 26 Three great news!
Update 25 – You can buy the book now! :D
Finally, the physical, hardcover version of CRPG Book is on sale!
Update 24 – Moving the screenshot gallery
Since I began working on the CRPG Book in 2014, I took thousands of high quality .png screenshots of all the games included in the book. I also got a lot from contributors and from the amazing CRPG Addict, and uploaded all to Flickr. Unfortunately, Flickr recently announced that they will reduce the upload limit Continue reading Update 24 Moving the screenshot gallery