And now I’m going to install it again.
Bloody good read, bloody good read…

Also to all of you who have the book, don’t miss the little disclaimer on page 4.

Really wasn’t a turn-based fan until now. Never ‘got’ Civ but reading someone putting a lot more soul into a game compelled me to spend monies. Good work, Mr. F.

Congrats on landing the Spore review!

Pod: yep, it’s me. I believe I mention the fish headed monster, but he is not pictured.

Nice read, and I loved the fact that you kept to your initial plan, and didn’t stray from it at all. The last move you played was a great move though, I have to say.

So, thanks for the nice short reading, but thanks even more for the exposure to what I’m going to call the ‘whoa, strategy sounds fun for once’ effect. Hell, I might even buy the game if I can’t find someone to borrow it off first (I’m one of those wary gamers who doesn’t buy something unless they’ve completed it, or I trust the developers with my life).

Keep up the good game-narrating!

Sam: Yes! Thanks! It is my secret hope that someone out there will know what “Peary! Noooooo!” is a callback to.

Liam: Yay. If you can run Guild Wars okay, I’d be surprised if you couldn’t run Spore.

Sorry, am I making it too obvious I’m still suffering from TF2 withdrawl?

You’re good at making friends. Maybe Google will be your friend.

What fictional genre is GalCiv II’s setting?

The only problem I have with the book is the poorly printed images. Pictures of graphs lack the contrast to make out the lines and labels. I don’t think that will stop anyone understanding what is going on as the text is descriptive and, more importantly, entertaining. Though theres nothing like a good graph…

More of this please.

:D

Hopefully every time an entry goes up online, you will alert us.

Also, this is the only time I will ever feel sad not to be british. My being Canadian, in Canada, stops me from getting any of your wonderfull magazine and Plan B.

Except Football Manager.

My only complaint is that you’re making GalCiv sound awesome. I’ve not tried it, but I’m sure that after fifteen minutes of play, I would have lost about 16 games of it, snarled, thrown the disc out the window and loaded up a shooter instead. I just can’t GET strategy, and it’s made worse by your making it sound awesome. Bah!

I think it has been done in the right way, this way people can appreciate it more by having a hard copy of it, always good. Also it should drive up sales of the mag as people will have read the first couple of blog entries on the website and will want to read the rest of it as soon as they can.

I too would have read it all in one go but for work =[

Do you have any more GalCiv Space Bunny plans?

“It was so evil, it might just work.”

To be honest, I might have cut that entirely if it had been me editing it. But my last sentence of Day 8 is missing, and that was:

“On the other hand, fuck you in your stupid beardy face you crinkle-browed alien twat.”

Again, sorry about those, I didn’t have a chance to see it after it had been edited.

Chris: Thanks a lot, I didn’t expect anyone to say that.

Iain: If we’d put it all on the website first, it wouldn’t have been a desirable enough free gift: most people don’t value something that’s already available for free online. We considered serialising it in the mag, but it would have taken up one page every issue for three years.

I’m impressed and rather flattered that you read it in one go. Being too compulsive is a nice problem for a book to have.

But apart from that this was a magnificent read, it beats the original one you did, but only by a little! Both are amazing pieces of work, and I hope to see more like this in Gamer soon. =]

The question I have to ask is who made the decision to turn regular updates on a blog into one chunk, to be first released in book form? The reason I object is your humour seem to be limited by this. Previously you referenced pictures throughout, but the small nature of the black and white pictures this time made this impossible, and sadly limiting. I was also disappointed, for one entry (day 11), ends mid sentence, beginning the next page on the next entry.

The reason I complain about this is that it reduced the impact of the quest for peace. Because all of the entries were available at once, I could not help myself but to read them all at once. This restricted the effect. Releasing 31 separate entries all together made the tale of Klasnikorlax less immersive, and the story seemed smaller scale that previously, purely because I read it as one.

Sorry to leave such a long comment, and I don’t mean to moan about such a magnificent free gift, but surely releasing these entries on the site first would boost visitors and raise the profile of the magazine. I still love the free book, (I printed out the original to keep safe because it was so great), but I don’t understand why it was decided to give the Plan B book out first, and release it on the blog later.

I don’t know how much choice you had in this decision, but it ended up with your name on the front. I don’t mean to sound ungracious either, because it is a wonderful free gift. My main point remains, Thank You.