Scrolls?
Kevin Vito:
I don't plan on using this for my own game, but I wanted to just ask...
What sorts of hurdles would one run into if they published their game not in the form of a book, but in the form of a scroll that comes inside a plastic tube? (Or possibly a wooden tube for a special edition?)
Eero Tuovinen:
I've been thinking on this as well at some idle moments. Could be quite cool. No concrete data, though, aside from the possibility of making your own scrolls by hand for a limited edition.
Clyde L. Rhoer:
I would try researching to find suppliers who service the Jewish community, as they use scrolls for their religious services. At least based on my small bit of knowledge gleaned from a cultural program I was involved in as a 6th grader. There might be solutions there.
Seth M. Drebitko:
When trying to find info on scroll making I did find the site http://www.bcreativecalligraphy.com/winvite.html. For about 8 dollars you can get one of their kits with the stuff to make scrolls in it. With the kit you could get a better idea of what materials you could use bulk order them and then hand bind them. They seem like they may possibly be a bit simpler to do than hand binding actual books. The only three problems I see are as follows:
1. The "book" will be awkward to read if it is long as one would have to scroll a bunch to fund a specific part.
2. It seems more likley to be damaged.
3. The materials will be more expensive, like silk paper.
Cost wise I think this option might serve best as a special limited edition hand bound by yourself and then numbered. You could put say 100 out a year (or less) which would build peoples desire to obtain them before their gone for another entire year. What ever you decided it will surley prove interesting and I will keep my eye out for it.
Andy Kitkowski:
Just to note, I have no solid data for you guys. Just wanted to pop in to say it has been done before, so presumably it is doable.
(about 7-8 years ago there was an indie circle which produced an RPG which came in PDF form, or in the form of three scrolls for something like $8.00 total for all three. This was in Japan, though. And while i have the PDFs floating around here somewhere, I've never been able to find them to ask where/how they did the scrolls).
I imagine if you contact a company in the west that can do poster prints (in other words, a huge plotter printer or something) there's a chance they can cut the paper into scrolls, but it's probably going to be expensive.
-Andy
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