Poll: Would you be interested in this book?

[Shaderrow]

So, I recently semi finished a novel I've been working on. I have however a massive amount of editing to do before I would allow anyone outside of a few friends to read it.

So I want to take time between editing sessions and write something else, I have a few chapters written in a book that has the basic premise: It's a collection of stories about online gaming communities and the rather crazy stuff they get up to.

I've assembled enough information to easily fill out the book. EVE online, World of Warcraft and other MMOs have some amazing tales to tell and I would love to cover them. I'm including maps, diagrams and sketches to further flesh out these stories.

So would anyone want to read this? I think core gamers would appreciate something like this, any feed back is welcome.

Thanks.

PS: If you have any stories of communities banding together to do some crazy in-game events, send me a link to an article.

 

[BARQ]

So would these stories entail semi or fully fictionalised accounts of player's experience of the game worlds or focus on the stories of the people who play them? The idea is interesting but we need more detail in order to give some feedback. You may need permissions if you're going to reference real games by name throughout your work though.

 

[Shaderrow]

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I mean to cover the in game events in this book. Think for instance of the Blood Plague indecent in world of warcraft. Or the many, many crazy events in EVE online like Burn Jita event to combat the implementation of microtransactions in the game

 

[BARQ]

Alrighty then, so in that case you'd be researching the events that took place and writing how people banded together to survive/exploit the situations, yes? It's an interesting idea on a conceptual level but I imagine you'd need to be putting a lot of work into it.

How are you setting it out? You said it was a novel, but that generally implies that the content is primarily fictional or at least adapted from the main source, being online game events and their players. Have you ever read 'World War Z'? I can see what you've described working well in that kind of recount-based storytelling.

 

[Shaderrow]

Sorry I was talking about antoher book entirely when I mentioned the word "novel". I've spent weeks now doing researcg for this and have a fairly amount of info regarding events.

I'm not planning to write it in exactly the style of World War Z, but it will be similar.

 

[Tayh]

Besides Eve and Wow, what other games are you covering?
Have no interest in those two games, so it'd take something else to entice me to read that book.

 

[Shaderrow]

I also have stories from Ultima Online, Guild Wars, Civilization and Everquest