Past my related work at Japanese PBM/TRPG company.
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, September 14th, 2013 at 09:02 PM (8118 Views)
Before leaving from my Blog entry in BL. I would like to share what I did.
Long long ago, I worked in part time at Japanese Play-By-Mail(PBM)/Table talk Role Playing Game (TRPG) company as just a game master. This company's final objective is publish TRPG for Japanese TRPG market. However, main income was came from PBM. My game master's work was recieve and read 20-60 playe's action at this month, I wrote pseudo-novel (because Plots/Scenerio, Non player character's setting/Machines setting were my original, but player character's behavior was decided by player. It means like a visual novel with multi-player version, I don't know such VN is there or not there). I worked 3years by for cheap cheap money but that was good experience how to write novel. Finally, that company could published a TRPG for Japanese market (left side photo) and sold result was fail. Published mastering results for player was so-so(right side in photo) and monthly subscription fee was good. However, by an executive of low caliber, income would decrease year by year, then this company was bankrupt completely. I was not surprised because my friend was leader of account of this company and I warn him with one book that was easy to calculate your company is OK or not OK at finantial condition. He said to me, "Should I do it now?" It means he would not like such calculation. My answer was "No,no, but I recommend you should it in near future". My estimation, he never done. Oneday, I got a short message at my mobile phone from him, he said "My company was bankrupt". I think "hey, I already warn you at least 2 years ago!", but I sent him "It was sad news but you should do your best". All of them passed, just only published objects are keeping by pesonal level.