Lone Hero
Lone Hero is the title that you obtain for clearing all 100 floors of Heaven on High. It’s optional content in the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV. It’s a very difficult challenge that players can undergo by themselves or with a group. Completing the challenge alone provides a greater level of difficulty and rewards players with exclusive items and titles that they can use to show off that they’ve mastered the content.
The Challenge
This is a very text heavy project and it currently all lives scattered across Google Docs. It’s for a very niche but dedicated audience, but hopefully by organizing all the information into one cohesive book it will make it easier for new players to attempt and complete the challenge. The biggest challenge here was in making the information cohesive and compact while still making it visually appealing to the playerbase.
Competition
World of Warcraft
Guild Wars 2
Second Life
Other up and coming MMORPGs
Moodboard
Sketches
Mid-Process Thoughts
This project is extremely type-heavy and it’s all important information. Not much can be spaced out without the content losing its meaning; the goal of this book is to be informational, so how do I organize all the body copy in a way that is both pleasing to look at, but doesn’t space it out too much to where if someone needs to glance at it quickly, they would have to flip through too many pages?
Finding a balance between each spread proved to be the biggest challenge to overcome.
Final Look
Reflection
This project was a great learning experience. I had worked with making books before, but never one as massive as this one, or one without so much body copy. I learned that working with this amount of copy is certainly a challenge that requires prior planning, and moving forward I will work on planning out my spreads during the sketching phase even further. I went into it with only loose sketches and adjusted my spreads accordingly while I was working on InDesign, but I feel like there are plenty of ways to streamline the process even further. I would like to plan out and work on more books in the future that I can hold physically.