A Tourist's Guide to Hyrule
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A free travel fanzine (well, travel fanbook, I guess) to the realm of Hyrule as depicted in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I made this as an exercise in cartography, how to use publishing software, virtual photography, and as an excuse to play through BotW a third time.
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- v2 update - now readable in browser!12 days ago
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Hi! This fanbook is very interesting, I've never seen fanbooks in the format of tourist guides before. And it is very well made.
I would like to ask your permission to show a couple pages at a conference. I'm a PhD student studying fanzines, and yours is very interesting. You don't have to say yes, but if you do, I can show the pages and credit back the book in several ways:
1) give full title of the book (and appropriate credits, of course) + link to this page;
2) give only the full title;
3) show the pages 'anonymously', without giving the title of the book, if you don't want possible attention.
Again, you can say no, it's not an issue.
Please go ahead with full title + credit + link. I would also appreciate it if you could send over the talk or presentation or whatever it is that it's being presented at! I'm always interested to see what other zines are up to and the context in which this would appear!
Thank you for considering my request!
It was a presentation at a book studies conference. My presentation was on some observations about fan-produced books based on video games (for example, projects with 50+ contributors are not that rare, whereas in traditional publishing that would be out of the ordinary).
Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time to show off pages from your book, but I did mention it as an example of non-anthology book, and listeners were most impressed that fan-produced books can take such interesting forms.
Always wanted to read something like this as a BOTW player. Love it!