Yaztromo ha scritto:

La sua e' una recensione dopo una lettura in anteprima (l'autore e' un suo amico...).
Fai tu.

No appunto, non è che metta in dubbio la legittimità della cosa

Ho letto il paragrafo dove dice che il libro gli è piaciuto, ma ho saltato tutta la descrizione della trama e dei personaggi. Non voglio rovinarmi nessuna sorpresa.

Hello.

I am sorry to speak in English, not Italian, but no one on my team knows Italian.  This is Richard S. Hetley, the person managing the Kickstarter for The Way of the Tiger.

I am coming by to thank you for your interest!  Google Translate tells me that you have discussed our project since the "soft launch" in August.  I see questions and concerns, and I hope we have answered them for you.  I am also very, very grateful to those who are pledging to the project.

I saw in the magazine Fighting Fantazine that there is a lot of interest in "librogames" in Italy.  Even so, I was surprised to see a four-page thread about us in Italian!  I hope we satisfy your expectations, and I am glad for your support.

Sincerely,
Richard S. Hetley (for Megara Entertainment)

hello and welcome here Richard
oh.. if only you could understand at least the topic titles on the forum there are many more pages dedicated on The way of the tiger series, which was titled "Ninja" by the italian editor (hint hint )
one of the proposals I made to our admin, without and answer unfortunatelly, was to propose to you a translation agreement for book 0 and 7 with a very restricted distribution between who of us would have partecipated.. I hoped that some of them would have contacted you and check if there was any possibility for this.. but now that you stumbled upon us

Hello again,

It's really my obligation to understand the language of others.  I know a lot of Spanish, and I enjoy studying language in general, so I can follow either "not-so-perfect" English or Italian reasonably well.  I am just stuck speaking English myself!

Thank you Yaztromo, I have now looked at that section.  Ah yes, all these familiar authors!

Sabretooth, translation is a good idea but a little complicated.  Outside of English and Italian, I know The Way of the Tiger was translated into (and successful in) many languages in the 1980's.  You are the third person to mention it to us, so we know there is interest!  We would need a larger team for each new language: not just to do translation but to do native editing and catch what the translator missed, and also do a separate book layout for any change in text length.  However, that is to do the "perfect" job and then sell the finished product.  If you are talking about an "informal" job that doesn't go into print, then you should discuss it with our boss Mikaël Louys, or the rights holder Fabled Lands LLP (and Dave Morris).

Rygar, we know that electronic files are getting cheaper and cheaper these days.  In a sense, it is terribly unfortunate: books don't deserve to undersell themselves that badly.  Yes, someone buying a .pdf is mostly giving us "free funding," but everybody understands that from the start, and the funding doesn't just vanish: without the right prices, we couldn't afford to create the full-color illustrated books in the first place.  Remember that they don't exist yet!

You also mentioned book 6.  The authors were forced to end the series that way because of their publishers, which made a lot of people unhappy.  Part of our purpose in creating this new version is to improve book 6 and generally integrate it better with the series.  We hope to satisfy the fans.

Thank you yet again, everyone, for your interest.  Hopefully the project will meet your expectations!

Sincerely,
Richard S. Hetley

Whew, it's over!  Many, many thanks to those who backed or shared our project, because we met seven stretch goals!

If you missed the campaign but are still interested, you might keep an eye on our project updates or follow us on Facebook.  We now begin (continue, really) the long process of editing the books and filling them with art.  Your input would still be appreciated, and of course in the end all these books will go up for sale to the general public.

Thanks for your time these past few months, and here's to the future!