Update 31 - The Last Update crpgbook.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/anito.jpg 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 PDF to include the proofread text, and made some changes for it to work better as an ebook:
DOWNLOAD THE LATEST VERSION HERE ▪ The font colour was changed, so that accessibility / high-contrast mode works now (I had no idea this would cause issues, sorry);
▪ Clicking on the table of contents or the cover art gallery now takes you to the review page;
▪ A few games had screenshots in the wrong aspect ratio or with the wrong scaling applied, they’re now fixed.
▪ Some screenshots had been converted to CMYK, I restored all of them to the RGB originals, so colours are much more accurate:
crpgbook.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/cmyk.png There are some small content changes too:
due to new findings, I’ve re-written part of the PLATO RPG section, Nox & Anito: Defend a Land Enraged were added to the book, and I changed the layout of the non-English RPGs page to squeeze in ناناولهپ صرع / Age of Pahlevans and Свод Равновесия: Бельтион / Beltion: Beyond Ritual.
crpgbook.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/beltion.jpg To be clear, this is 99% the same as the hardcover version that was released by Bitmap Books in August. Please understand that we will not make a new print of the hardcover version just to add these changes.
Finally, this is the last big update to the CRPG Book. Yes, we could always add more games, as well as post-2019 games. But the book is already way too big, and the goal was to make a curated overlook, not a full catalogue or a collection of modern reviews. I’m happy to stop here.
I want to focus on personal stuff now, maybe finally get my “Online RPGs / MMOs / MUDs around the world” project going. But that will take years, don’t expect anything soon.
Thanks again to everyone who supported the project – it’s crazy to think it all began with
a Best RPGs list, almost 10 years ago...
