Comments on: Errors Creep In https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/ Award-winning & New York Times-bestselling author and game designer Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:24:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Philip Reed https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-48428 Sun, 09 May 2004 08:12:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-48428 It’s some strange curse we all must suffer. Each and every time I pick up a product after it comes back from the printer I instantly flip to a mistake.

Some of that may be that we’re too critical of our own work. A lot of it’s probably just the fact that, like others, I’m completely sick of a product during the last weel before it goes to print.

]]> By: Scott https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-48427 Wed, 05 May 2004 17:48:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-48427 No apology needed you guys did a fantastic job (besides that’s all water under the bridge by now):)
Horace Black

P.S. But for the love of everything holy please change this font (I think my eyes are blury).

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-48426 Wed, 05 May 2004 12:31:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-48426 Hi Horace: Sorry about your repurchase, but it illustrates my point. Gamers are willing to forgive a lot if the product rocks despite glaring errors. Of course, we corrected those errors as soon as we could too, which didn’t hurt.

Jeff: I know what you mean, brother. I usually hate a product right before it goes off to press. I’ve been working on it nonstop, and I’m sick to death of it. It’s hard to have an objective eye at that point.

]]> By: Jeff Mackintosh https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-48425 Wed, 05 May 2004 08:11:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-48425 There are so many stories I could relate on this topic, but my favourite is such a simple one and one I’m sure you can relate to. When getting a book back from press, a friend was fanning through the book – you know, flipping pages so fast you get nothing more than a pleasant breeze on your face. Well, as the pages were flashing by, with that heady smell of printer ink blowing in my friend’s face, time suddenly froze and his eye caught a typo on one page.

It’s mind-boggling how one’s eye can immediately find the mistakes when you’ve finally gotten a few weeks away from a book while it’s at press. It’s also annoying because it would have been better for your eye to catch that before it went to press, but it rarely seems to work that way…

It’s that thing about not being able to see the trees for the forest. We get so close to our work towards the end of the process that we come next to blind. Errors that would normally be obvious suddenly blur into the background. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to wipe your memory of the process so that you could look at it with fresh eyes?… Oh, if only I had that much control over my brain… 🙂

]]> By: Scott https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-48424 Tue, 04 May 2004 23:08:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-48424 Gosh, I remember getting the 1st run copy and it’s the only game that I ever went out and bought the second printing because of all the errors. However, the game was and is still Brilliant and I’ve been a fan every since, just played a session tonight and I won’t stop till they pull the rules from my cold dead hands:)
Horace Black

]]> By: Scott https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-138 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-138 Gosh, I remember getting the 1st run copy and it’s the only game that I ever went out and bought the second printing because of all the errors. However, the game was and is still Brilliant and I’ve been a fan every since, just played a session tonight and I won’t stop till they pull the rules from my cold dead hands:)
Horace Black

]]> By: Jeff Mackintosh https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-139 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-139 There are so many stories I could relate on this topic, but my favourite is such a simple one and one I’m sure you can relate to. When getting a book back from press, a friend was fanning through the book – you know, flipping pages so fast you get nothing more than a pleasant breeze on your face. Well, as the pages were flashing by, with that heady smell of printer ink blowing in my friend’s face, time suddenly froze and his eye caught a typo on one page.

It’s mind-boggling how one’s eye can immediately find the mistakes when you’ve finally gotten a few weeks away from a book while it’s at press. It’s also annoying because it would have been better for your eye to catch that before it went to press, but it rarely seems to work that way…

It’s that thing about not being able to see the trees for the forest. We get so close to our work towards the end of the process that we come next to blind. Errors that would normally be obvious suddenly blur into the background. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to wipe your memory of the process so that you could look at it with fresh eyes?… Oh, if only I had that much control over my brain… 🙂

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-140 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-140 Hi Horace: Sorry about your repurchase, but it illustrates my point. Gamers are willing to forgive a lot if the product rocks despite glaring errors. Of course, we corrected those errors as soon as we could too, which didn’t hurt.

Jeff: I know what you mean, brother. I usually hate a product right before it goes off to press. I’ve been working on it nonstop, and I’m sick to death of it. It’s hard to have an objective eye at that point.

]]> By: Scott https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-141 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-141 No apology needed you guys did a fantastic job (besides that’s all water under the bridge by now):)
Horace Black

P.S. But for the love of everything holy please change this font (I think my eyes are blury).

]]> By: Philip Reed https://www.forbeck.com/2004/05/04/errors-creep-in/#comment-142 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://box19.bluehost.com/~forbeckc/?p=67#comment-142 It’s some strange curse we all must suffer. Each and every time I pick up a product after it comes back from the printer I instantly flip to a mistake.

Some of that may be that we’re too critical of our own work. A lot of it’s probably just the fact that, like others, I’m completely sick of a product during the last weel before it goes to print.

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