Ok I know its big, but it has to be for reading I think.

OOC: So here it is. Three solid days work. this took me friggin hours of InDesign CS5 use, and whilst Im not happy 100% with the cover, it's out there now, issue one. All articles scrawled by me except the Reckoner one (Troy), the Jakey one (shamelessly hoovered from Elliott) and the Infinite one (written by Infinite) Thanks to everyone who helped with suggestions and stuff.
Would I be being cheeky in asking for this to maybe be stickied so that I can keep all future issues near the top?

IC:



Feedback greatly appreciated cos as I say it took me ages. Cheers guys.

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OOC: I swear to god if people don't comment on this I will not ever visit this forum again (don't go on not comment on purpose so i can leave :(. This has to be the best magazine RP ever done, at least ever since I've been here on the forums. Truly amazing, From beginning to end, the e-mails, interviews, the stories, gossip, reviews. All well done.
Cheers to everyone who participated, great effort, this magazine is EPIC!


edit: DEF deserves to be stickied.

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OOC: Great job man its a fun read thats for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

erich:damn,i'd have liked to have seen that virbellum show.




ooc:yeah,thats by far the most impressive thing i've seen in years.my loins tingle just looking at it.

OOC: This was brilliant, if you don't make another one (and I think we can speak for all of us) we will hunt you down and force you to make another one.

OOC: For lack of anything better to say, I gotta go change my pants....

OOC: It really is amazing, It's incredibly realistic, I do hope you continue this because it's fucking huge for the roleplay. Things seem to be picking up with this and that Top20 chart thing, so well done, truly amazing, I could never have the patience to do this.

**jumps on board the Chaos Train**

Very well done, best magazine I've seen done on here since the one Birdie did many moons ago. MOAR!!

OOC: Thanks so much to everyone for the feedback on this. So great to see that people liked it.

This is the first time I have ever attempted a mag in Indesign, I actually have a degree in journalism and use this program all the time in my amateur life as an editor in a student publication, but I have only previously made newspapers with it, and mags are a whole lot more complicated design wise, hopefully Ill iron out all the little bits next time.

I plan to do one of these at the end of each month, so if people could get their news, review ideas or Feedback any time in the month leading up to it, that'd be outstanding!

On the subject of the reviews being too kind, I agree. I left that page kinda late, and didnt want to rip into people's work if it was gonna piss them off, but next month I'll just go for it. I'll also extend the album reviews and maybe just do two per page, cos putting one live review per page really worked length wise.

And god knows why the contents page and cover have size issues, I genuinely made them all tabloid sized on InDesign. The only other issue I need to iron out is the pics, some have come out a little stretched, but I didnt see that on the jpegs til they were posted here, it'll be cool next time.

Any ideas for new features or features to bin are also happily accepted.

Thanks again guys :D

OOC: Oh yeah, and just to say, thanks for using Mind in the magazine. RP is truly taking a turn for the better and I hope it keeps going in this direction. Yet again, beautiful.

Jason: 5 stars?! Wow! That's amazing! Thanks to all the guys at @Chaos for a brilliant read. And to Cally, thank you for being so kind to us, we're sending you a little something. (Ahem, the new album). Just don't leak it, mkay?