Project Athena Reviews

Brendan Drain over at Massively.Com was nice enough to give a positive boost for Project Athena.

Also, here are the comments on the Eve Online forums, and Scrapheap Challenge forums.

Link to original post.

Introducing PROJECT ATHENA

Over two years ago I started writing "Kirith's Fighting Spacecraft" articles for the Eve Tribune starting with the Caldari Caracal. After 23 articles covering 5 ship hulls for each faction and 3 pirate hulls I decided to pull them all together and publish it as a single document. Realizing my limitations I called for help in the graphics and layout department and some great volunteers stepped up to help me turn my words into something better.

So today I'm proud to announce the release of Project Athena (PDF document, 64 Mb so please right-click and choose 'Save Link As'), ninety pages of ship classes and historical events as imagined by me while attempting to remain compatible with the known Eve history as much as possible.

Its free to download from my website and any ISK donations would be welcome and distributed amoung the volunteers who helped make my vision come true.

Enjoy!

Alternate download link:
http://download77.mediafire.com/ymfc1ezyjw4g/quum2nmimjj/Project+Athena.pdf

NEW: Mirrored on Eve-Files:
http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1006/ProjectAthena%5B1%5D.pdf

Screenshot Contest Submissions

Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry or two.

The winning entry is....

Winner is being emailed to arrange ISK delivery.

Project Athena Cover Art Screenshot Contest

Project Athena is nearing completion and we need a cool high res screenshot with lots of starships on it for the cover art.

So I'm having a contest to solicit screenshot submissions, the higher the res the better, from you my readers. If your screenshot is selected you will be paid 50 million ISK.

Submissions can be emailed to me at kkodachi@gmail.com and will be accepted until downtime next Friday. Winner announced the week after.

Thanks!

Project Athena

Next week, providing the illnesses are past and things get back to normal, I plan to write the final Fighting Spacecraft article of Series V. That means I will have 23 articles (5 for each faction and 3 pirate), each around 2000-3000 words, detailing made up histories about ships in New Eden.

I figure its a good time to take those disparate articles and turn them into some more concrete. Enter Project Athena (greek god of knowledge amoung other things). The reason I'm calling this a project is because I want to do more than just copy and paste the articles into a MS Word doc and add a table of contents; I want to go through the older articles and do minor updates (especially redoing the older graphics), I want some proofreading / editing done by someone else, and I want to make the resulting document pretty like the Quarterly Economic reports from CCP.

Ultimately I want a PDF document that looks like it was semi-professionally done. And this is where I need help; I can do most of the work easily but someone else with better skills in publishing something like this would be an incredible boon. The goal is to be able to freely distribute a product that people enjoy, and accept donations (in ISK) for the effort.

So, to recap, I'm looking for the following volunteers to help with project Athena in March:

Editor: to review the text of the complied document to correct any grammatical errors, suggest areas requiring rewriting.

Graphic Artist:  to massage layout of document, adding graphics/title page/etc to make the document look "professionally done". Also will consider ideas to replace current graphics in the articles.

If you are interested, email me at kkodachi@gmail.com and we'll talk. If you have examples of your work, that would be great.