Jeremy Parish

March bonus #3: Metroidvania Works book preview

Added 2024-03-18 14:21:51 +0000 UTC

Well... I finished text and layouts on the Metroidvania Works book this weekend. "Metroidvania Works" ended up being a working title only; the book will be called The History Metroidvania: The First Decade. Probably.

Anyway! The book needs to be copy-edited and proofed and revised, so I won't be posting the full thing here until that happens. But I am happy to share the first 10% of the book for you to look through, including the table of contents so you can get a sense of all the new material I've added. This book is by far the most heavily expanded and rewritten of all my video-to-print publications—aside from the entries toward the end of the book, whose videos were produced after I had a clear sense of direction for this publication, everything here has been rewritten from top to bottom. And I've added a ton of additional sidebars and full entries over the video series to better enumerate the relationship between RPGs, adventure games, action-RPGs, and platformers... that is, the bits and pieces that go to make up a metroidvania.

For now, please enjoy this preview. And don't worry about any errors you encounter. That's the copy editor's job. Let them earn their pay!