Progress Report – Saturday, October 24, 2015
It's looking like the book will not launch in October. While the book is close to completion, I feel that the next version of Hype should launch first. When will that be? Perhaps "Soon".
I still have one whole chapter (Publishing) to finish and I'm currently working on wrapping up the "Examples" chapter this weekend. If Tumult doesn't launch the next version of Hype soon, I'll probably just keep adding stuff to the book until they do. Although, I am getting anxious to just launch the book already. This project has been more difficult than I thought it would be and it's taking a lot longer to create than I thought it would.
Perhaps the hard work will make this community proud. Recently, I was looking at the book on my iPad Air 2.
With "Scrolling View" turned on, and the iPad Air 2 in Portrait orientation, the book feels seamless. The pages swoosh by, but then there's an interactive example. It feels like Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Hype projects run right on the page. I think it's pretty cool. This is similar to The Interactive Stencyl Textbook, but that's a fixed layout. The new ePub template is better suited for multiple devices.
If you're commuting to work or sitting at your desk, hopefully the book is versatile enough. Someday "soon", someone could be on a bus or train and swooshing through the pages. Students could be in classrooms, working on examples from the book. That's pretty exciting!