An experiment: First-look Anatomy of Games features
Added 2014-11-19 16:20:13 +0000 UTCYouTube makes it pretty easy to share hidden content, but it's far more difficult with a WordPress blog. It's either hidden to everyone except administrators or hidden behind an ugly password protection lock. Either way, not cool. But, I'd like to start sending out Anatomy content to you folks in advance of its publication, like I do with YouTube videos. Since I can't just share a link, I decided to export tomorrow's Anatomy update as a PDF. It's not the idea way to share, but hopefully it does the trick for the moment? Please let me know what you think. If it's too much trouble to read this way, I'll just go back to posting publicly and sharing the link. So here's the seventh part of Final Fantasy VI, which will go live on the site tomorrow. Yea? Nay?
Comments
Wow, perfect. Thanks so much for the link! Here's the post for those who would prefer to read it on the site: <a href="http://2-dimensions.com/2014/11/19/the-anatomy-of-final-fantasy-vi-7-m-m-m-m-magic/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://2-dimensions.com/2014/11/19/the-anatomy-of-final-fantasy-vi-7-m-m-m-m-magic/</a>
Jeremy Parish
2014-11-19 18:12:59 +0000 UTCThere's a WordPress plugin that lets you hide posts so they don't show up on the blog, but are accessible by URL. It looks pretty easy to use: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-hide-post/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-hide-post/</a>
Ira Malinich
2014-11-19 17:48:39 +0000 UTCIt requires like 5 minutes of work — no trouble at all.
Jeremy Parish
2014-11-19 17:09:39 +0000 UTCDo you have any suggestions for an alternate solution? I don't want to gunk up the site with password-protected posts no one can read, and posting the raw text and images here wouldn't work.
Jeremy Parish
2014-11-19 17:09:22 +0000 UTCIf it's not any more time consuming, then I'm all for it, but if it's tedious to do, then I'm fine with reading these when everyone else gets 'em.
Kevin Galloway
2014-11-19 17:06:30 +0000 UTCI appreciate your additional comment on how to locate the PDF. The format works just fine for an early release.
takeshikitano3
2014-11-19 17:04:29 +0000 UTCLooks great and I have no problem downloading a PDF for the content. If it puts no undue burden on you I'd say, for me, this is a great idea.
Dave Kelly
2014-11-19 16:41:33 +0000 UTCNay, too complicated and pdf is a format you can't read good on a mobile device for example.
Niels Kobschätzki
2014-11-19 16:31:32 +0000 UTCIn case it isn't immediately obvious thanks to the weird layout this site uses, the PDF is in the upper right above the update text. And sorry about all the link crap at the end of the PDF... no easy way for me to scrape that out of the file.
Jeremy Parish
2014-11-19 16:22:37 +0000 UTC
