thread: 2008-10-02 : Fellow Publishers: Success? Failure?
On 2008-10-09, Levi Kornelsen wrote:
1. What's your name?
Levi Kornelsen.
2. What's your publishing company?
I don't have one. I have a website / brand / thing - Amagi-games.org - but it's not a company.
3. What game or games have you published?
Sanctum, 8-Bit Dungeon, Perfect 20, Hoard, The Far Towers, Microcosm, Dustbowl Prophets, Sea-Changed, and a whole fuckton of "drabbles" (one-to-three-pages things). Of those, Sanctum and Prophets were in-print locally only and for a short time, Hoard is on Lulu, and the rest are pure PDF.
4. When you first started publishing, what success did you hope for?
Gin, Glory, bags of Money.
5. Did you achieve it?
No, thank god.
6. What success do you hope for now?
First, to feel as if people are taking what I have, in whole or in part, and using it to entertain one another, in whatever way they want. Second, to overcome my own ego regarding the stuff I make, and recognise that I am not the bubble; I'm just part of the stream.
7. Have you achieved it?
The first, absolutely. I succeed daily.
The second, not even a little. I fail daily.
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 would likely refer them to someone with a metric of success matching their own, probably after blathering at them a bit. If their idea of success matched mine... I dunno.
