James Kay is a veteran game developer in Japan — as well as founder of Score Studios — and he’s now planning on turning the long-running blog he wrote “anonymously,” Japanmanship, into a book.
Kay talks about his plans for the book in this post on his studio’s blog, and here’s where he describes what Japanmanship represented for him:
Though I sometimes used it to vent steam, generally it was a sober look at the ins and outs of game development, especially for a foreigner like myself. It soon became clear it was turning into something of a guide for people who have similar ambitions to those I once had; to work in games in Japan. It has lead to some commissioned writing gigs for magazines, on-line and on paper, and has put me in touch with a great bunch of people, both interested onlookers and other industry insiders alike, some of whom I had to pleasure to meet in real life. Mostly it helped me keep my sanity and perspective; writing nasty, hatefull bile is no use to anyone and it often forced me to reevaluate my positions on certain subjects and figure out things are usually not as bad as we think. Though I’ve long stopped writing the blog, I am glad I did it back in the day, only good things have come of it.
Plans so far are to go the print-on-demand route at first, with of course an e-book version as well (Score Studios is an iPhone game/app developer).
By the book, Japanmanship [Score Studios]
