I am pleased to announce that the 'Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D' has been translated to Korean!
It was a surprise to be contacted by Hanbit Media, almost three years after the release of the English version. I had never heard of them and I did not know what to expect.
I remember struggling when I wrote the Wolf3D Black Book. Not because I could not find the words but because I had the greatest difficult in arranging text and drawings in an elegant way. I like to explain things with visuals so much that I used more than a hundred figures in the book.
At times it felt like no matter what I tried, there were always gaps at the bottom of some pages. I ended up releasing the GEBBWOLF3D with a bunch of these issues, telling myself it was "not too bad" and "to be expected".
When I worked on the DOOM Black Book, my skills had improved. Typesetting was not an after-thought but an integral part of the redaction process. I clearly remember anticipating how drawings would appear several pages in advance. I ended up producing something that to this day I am still proud of.
After I shipped the GEBBDOOM, I picked up the GEBBWOLF3D again, flipped through the pages and felt ashamed. What was once "not too bad" was now unbearable. I painfully fixed the issues but left the exercise with the belief that arranging drawing to achieve visual elegance is just as hard as writing words.
