thread: 2008-10-02 : Fellow Publishers: Success? Failure?
On 2008-10-02, Judd wrote:
1. What's your name?
Judd
2. What's your publishing company?
Paka's Thread Games
3. What game or games have you published?
Dictionary of Mu.
ooh! And I contributed to a boxed set called the Fury of Shadows.
4. When you first started publishing, what success did you hope for?
I wanted my geekery to pay for itself.
5. Did you achieve it?
Yeah, I did.
6. What success do you hope for now?
Hope for?
I'd love for George Lucas to read Dictionary of Mu and track me down. At that point we'd have a gluten-free lunch on him and he would apologize for the prequels and offer me untold hundreds of thousands for the rights to make a film based on the Dictionary of Mu.
7. Have you achieved it?
Not yet.
8. If a hopeful new RPG publisher came to you and asked you for your wisdom, to help her set reasonable expectations for her own games' success, what would you tell her?
I'd ask what her most pie-in-the-sky goals would be and say that however unrealistic those goals might be, she should go for it. But in self-publishing at the moment there are safe ways to go about those goals so that they do not have to mortgage their house or sell grandma's pearls.
And I'd give them my e-mail in case they wanted to discuss anything else.
