Shadomain Studios is the part of Shadomain dedicated to helping other designers and writers succeed in project creation. Our staff has degrees in visual design and illustration, work experience in management and project management, experience in game design, editing, proofreading, publishing and crowdfunding. If you need any help getting your game finished, let us know and we’ll work with you to achieve success.
Editing and Proofreading
Layout and Design
Project Planning
Writing and Game Development
Playtesting
Editing and Proofreading
Developmental Editing
We’ll read and discuss places your manuscript could be improved to get your big picture ideas across, including ideas that need further explanation and places where you can cut some of the exposition. Looking at your manuscript from this high level perspective is an important part of writing and is often done early in the process.
Copy (aka line) Editing
We’ll review your manuscript and review it and suggest changes to maximize readability. That includes things like spotting word repetition and ensuring you use the best word to get your information across. This step is important during the later development phase.
Proofreading
We’ll check your manuscript for mispelleted words, typos and mismatched tenses. This is usually the final step before moving your manuscript on to final layout.
Layout and Design
In layout we take your manuscript in whatever format it’s in (e.g., Microsoft Office, Google Docs) and create a ready to print or read PDF document. We use applications such as Adobe InDesign and Affinity Publisher to create high quality documents.
Layout can be difficult and time consuming as it requires more than just knowledge of a software program. We have decades of education and experience in typographic design, page layout and building templates. We understand what drives the need to use a single or multi column layout, what the optimal line spacing is, and how to choose a highly legible font and when and where to implement fun display fonts.
We can compose and design your book’s cover or company’s logo.
Project Planning
As a professional project manager, I know how to break down the big ideas into manageable pieces, and break those pieces into manageable tasks. We’ll help you build an effective schedule and show you how to track, modify and manage to achieve successful results.
Whether you’re planning a Crowdfunding campaign for your next project, or you just want to learn how to avoid procrastinating on whatever you’re doing, our experience will help you succeed.
Writing and Game Development
We’ve written everything from crowdfunding stretch goals and blog posts for other company to full on published games.
If you’ve got a great idea for a game but aren’t used to building the mechanics of games, we can help create your projects. We have experience developing with many different open systems that can be used to support your game.
Playtesting
Playtesting is an important part of game development. You can get an idea for how people perceive your games, and how your manuscript is understood by game masters and players. We can organize playtesting and get you managed feedback. Not all feedback is actionable, so we’re here with advice on how to filter the feedback you receive.
