A dashboard-style chart showing subscriber growth over time. Total subscribers have increased to 54 (up 440% from 10), and 90-day views have reached 356 (up 245.6% from 103). The line graph shows a steady upward trend from early January to late March.

Book progress - Launch Team Week 15: A new cover dropped and editing work is past the mid-point and we hit more than 50 people on the launch team! www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book progress - Launch Team Week 14: What authors did influence my writing? Wolfgang Hohlbein would be the first to name.
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Book progress - Launch Team Week 13: When considering to write a book, there's a few things I think people should consider first:
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Book progress - Launch Team Week 12: Releasing a book is slow. And fast. It is confusing:

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A studio portrait of a man holding several copies of the book Game Design: Impossible. He stands against a dark gray background and looks at the camera with a slight smile. Large text at the bottom of the image reads: “What’s better? Publisher? Self-Publishing?”

Book progress - Launch Team Week 11: I definitely do NOT feel like an expert on the topic, but since so many people have asked me how to market a book, here's what I learned: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book progress - Launch Team Week 10: I am already working on my next book. Writing has become something I enjoy way too much, apparently:

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Book progress - Launch Team Week 8. Today I'll give kudos to my editor Courtney Goldsmith. Great work last time and I except no less quality for this book.

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#booksky #gamedesignimpossible #writing #gamedevelopment #gamedesign #amwriting | Guido Schmidt 2nd Book Progress – Launch Team Week 7   Well, today I have some good news and some bad news.   The bad news is that the book release will take slightly longer than I hoped. My original goal was to ai...

Book progress - Launch Team Week 7. Today I have some good news and some bad news:

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Book progress - Launch Team Week 6, Justyna Fryczak, a UX Design Consultant who worked on the indie darling game "Hela". Women in Games Ambassador. Of course I had to have her in my book: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book progress-Launch Team Week 5, introducing the creator of RimWorld: Tynan Sylvester. We met during my work on my first book and kept contact. He agreed to an interview for the new one: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...
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Book progress - Launch Team Week 4, introducing the founder of Dragon Snacks Games: Michelle Menard and her journey about resilience, pride, and determination.

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Book progress - Launch Team Week 3, introducing the founder of Game Boost and another veteran of game development: Jenny Österlund

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Book progress - Launch Team Week 2, introducing the first industry veteran I interviewed for my book: Johan Andersson

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Book progress - I am starting up my Book Launch Team! Let us get this thing on the road:
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Book progress - ARC setup and release window. I am aiming to release the book mid-late March now. From next week you can sign up to help me launch it:
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Book progress - Only 1 out of 22 Todos left. Writing epilogues for my characters: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book progress - 4 out of 22 Todos remaining. This week I checked a meta study about diversity with interesting results: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book progress - 8 out of 22 Todos remaining. Big point this week was how company culture is easy when the money is plenty. But when it counts, things can turn ugly quite quickly:

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Book progress - Still 9 out of 22 Todos remaining. Mostly because I worked on my last interview and getting that into the book:
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Book Progress - 9 out of 22 Todos remaining. This week was mostly about the rationale for my framework:
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Book Progress - 14 out of 22 Todos remaining. Integrating feedback regarding balanced viewpoints is tricky, but very important: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - 20 out of 22 Todos remaining. And I am still looking for a female game creator to interview: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - One more interview to add from a female game creator perspective: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - A breather and new feedback. And acknowleding that, yes... sometimes shit happens: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - Wrapped up my last bits and pieces of notes, quotes, citations, and special thanks. Now we have to prepare the ARC: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - Finished editing chapter 5 out of 5. Plus the epilogue. It was a good week and I got a lot of things done: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - Finished editing chapter 4 out of 5. Some big reworks in there, but we are getting there: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - Editing chapter 4 out of 5. Giving my prose more space and (contrary to good practice) keeping the head-hopping mid-scenes: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - Fixed my plot hole and finished editing chapter 3 of 5: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Book Progress - I found a huge plot hole in the story part of my book. Hidden in plain sight I never realized this until now: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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