Jonah Yu Map by Tiger_T
Shaenon: This is one of the more unusual fan art submissions we’ve gotten. One of the prose stories Jeff wrote as a bonus for Kickstarter backers is “You Are Jonah Yu,” a choose-your-own-adventure story starring Jonah and Nera.
The story originally came to readers in an electronic format with links, but reader Tiger_T printed it out and was unable to use the links, “which is why I got on my PC again, followed all the links and made a list. Of course it wasn’t a very nice looking list and after a short time that really bugged me, so then I tried constructing a flow diagram from it. Soon that got an ugly mess too, so I tried some other things.”
Eventually this led to the development of the attractive map design you see above. It reminds me of the maps that mad-genius cartoonist Jason Shiga draws when he plans out his incredible choose-your-own-adventure comics. Thank you so much, Tiger_T, for applying strong information design to our bonus story material! We’re incredibly impressed.
Channing: I was amazed and touched to receive this in-depth analysis. It makes it look like something really intricate and cerebral, instead of a story where, at one point, a microwaved piece of lasagna takes over the world using time travel.
I feel as if I should be rolling dice to move ahead.
That’s what I was thinking. It would make an interesting board game.
I thought that it was a con map, at first. Find us in booth 250.
For those of us who came late to the Skin Horse party, is there a way to obtain this story? I’m happy to pay, but, well, not willing to pay $1000 🙂
I realize the “$1000” price must have been a way to distribute it via Gumroad but keep it exclusive for Kickstarter backers. I’m just wondering if, over 6 years later, the exclusivity might be… loosened?
Ha ha…yes, that price was a Gumroad workaround.
“You Are Jonah Yu” was included in an ebook of Skin Horse stories we made as a bonus in last year’s Kickstarter. We can make that available for ebook purchase if there’s enough interest.
I would pay for it individually, but if it’s included as a bonus yet again in the *next* Kickstarter, that’ll work for me.
Choose-Your-Own— …er, Non-Trademark-Infringing-Pickable-Path stories are my jam.
Ebook purchase sounds like a good option.
I would love it as an ebook!!! Ive wanted to read it for so long. I want to know all the cool ways to die!!