In a way, rejections always help make a game better, because the author thinks that if the game has been rejected because it was not good enough, and sometimes because the rejecting publisher has interesting comments on why he rejected the game and how it can be improved. Stefan Brueck is especially good at that, and has probably helped improve several games which were later published by other publishers !

I have tested the game some time ago and I had a lot of fun! Absolutely recommended. And if Fun Forge is going to have outstanding components and artwork as in Pony Express, even more recommended.

Emanuele

Thanks for the comment, Bruno! I’ve seen the same thing when writers receive rejections from their queries to editors and publishers; sometimes the rejection note includes a key or comment that sends the pitch in a new and better direction.

The challenge, of course, is deciding when the editor is offering sage advice and when the editor is off his rocker. Sometimes that’s not always clear!

Eric

Publisher’s comments are often helpful but, of course, they are not always right.

This reminds me of a letter I read recently in a French literary magazine. It was Malcolm Lowry’s answer to the publisher who had just rejected his submission of Under the Volcano, and who had deared to make comments and suggest some cuts and rewritings.

I had great fun trying to imagine the reaction of the publisher receiving this long letter about how he dared to ask for cuts and changes in such a literary masterwork, in a book that will be remembered for centuries and which he didn’t really understand…
Well, it happens that, this time, the author was right !

Thanks for reminding me about Under the Volcano, Bruno. I’ve read most of the works of David Markson, who’s a huge fan of Lowry, but I’ve never got to the mentor. Time to do that once I finish my current Vonnegut kick…

Eric