New Illustrated Children's Book by a Game Writer

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New Illustrated Children's Book by a Game Writer

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Steve Ince, one of our esteemed members, who was employed by Revolution Software, where he worked on titles such as Beneath a Steel Sky, the Broken Sword series, In Cold Blood and Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado, has just released an illustrated children's book and it is out for the Kindle.
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Well done, Steve Ince. Glad to hear you are still creating things.
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He's still pretty active - as well as game writing he's been making comics:
https://www.crow-girl.com/
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He does all his own artwork. It is amazing.
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I like his cartoon style. I remember when he was working on Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso years ago.
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Thank you for posting this and for the kind words by everyone. Although I love making games, some stories have to be told in other ways.
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Great job once again Steve!
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By the way, if any of you read the book and like it, a review on Amazon will be greatly appreciated.
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I plan on buying it as soon as I load Kindle on my IPAD. I don't want to read it on my little Paperwhite.
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The illustrations work quite well on the paperwhite but will be better on the iPad, certainly.

I've attached a couple of the internal illustrations for people here to see.
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I posted it on Revolutions Discord page. But most of them are bug fixing BASS2 at the moment.
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Thanks.
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I bought this book today from Amazon US and there is a $2.00 promotion on it. The cost was $1.47. I would say go for it.

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Is the book digital only?
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Yes right now but I think Steve is working on a hard copy.
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