Thanks/thoughts

["Karol" <karol@...>]

In reply to Toren's post:

Thank you very much! I do feel very appreciated, and I also honestly wish I had the time to do more, the piecepack community means a
lot to me and I do enjoy helping. I hope in the future to have time to help more. When I was first introducted to piecepack, I
thought "WOW what a good idea!", I felt it had great potential - it is so amazing that we [the community] have over 60 games for
this little set and the creativity displayed by the folks creating them [games] is impressive.

Thoughts:

During the contest I was thinking of a way to make piecepack into a puzzle something that could be like those little ones I played
with as a child, I had some notes and planned to develop after the contest to see if it would even work - then Easy Slider slid
across my email and I thought "How cool is that! the game I was thinking of made into a piecepack game and I didn't even have to do
or say anything!" Ideas crop up in different people at the same time without the people interacting - I am VERY glad that Ron and
Marty had the idea and ran with it. This type of thing happens to me and others I know from time to time, we'll have a notion and
put off research and development and then next thing we know someone has the product in stores!  [It happened when James and I
independently came up with the same logo, it also happened when Electronic Waffle developed an idea (of his own) that Dave and I had
on the back-burner, it also happened with a couple of dog toys now available.] I guess some folks could be mad at themselves, but I
just think "how cool is that!" - and each time it happens I think "next time an idea strikes I need to develop it quickly!". [no one
has stolen "my" ideas in any of these cases - just got there before me.] It's nice to have the profits [of sold merchandise] but
it's also nice not to have the headaches involved with creation & marketing.

Thanks for letting me share my thoughts,
Karol

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toren" <toren@...>
To: <piecepack@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:21 AM
Subject: [piecepack] Re: piecepack.org/submissions


| Karol you are truly an angel, the dedication and time that you have
| shown to the piecepack community are incredible.  I think we all owe
| you a great amount of thanks for the work you do for us, the work we
| see and of course the work we don't.
|
| So from me and on behalf of the community...
| Thank You
|
| Toren
|
|
| --- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "Karol" <karol@m...> wrote:
| > We have updated the homepage so that there is a link within the
| announcement about contest winners to Mike's original post sent to
| > this group. 2 of the 16 entries have been polished and resubmitted -
|  San Andreas and IceFloe are now featured with the other games
| > on the games page. Other games will be added as they are submitted
| (spell check and proofread them please), please also remember
| > that I need authors to resubmit not simply email me with the
| changes (I simply don't have the time I did during the contest right
| > now to go back and forth -I'm not trying to be mean - I've had to
| hire out my usual proofreading b/c of time and also b/c I know my
| > limitations - after seeing the games week after week, I see what is
| supposed to be on the page instead of what is, an adaptation
| > that helps with my dyslexia but hinders proofreading when I become
| desensitized to the material.
| >
| > I just wanted to make sure for those of you that keep an eye on the
| pages that we are MOVING the games off of the preview when
| > polished versions are put up, I will let the group know when all 16
| have been moved as opposed to updating every time one is. I will
| > also let authors know privately if my professional editor finds any
| errors or has any suggestions since she will be proofreading the
| > games as they are in the MG rulebook (I don't anticipate that she
| will find many but if she does I will share - plus I can't really
| > change [content] of the games in the rulebook w/o permission in the
| case of most of them if not all).
| >
| > Thank you authors for all your hard work! I do appreciate it very
| much!!
| >
| >
| > Karol
|
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