12 Years in Azeroth
'16-Present

Frontmatter: Title Page

• Layout inspired by Thomas Malthus' 1798 treatise on the principle of population
• Structured and written in the style of early 20th century ethnographic works in anthropology and sociology
• Device independent interactive book accessed via anything that runs a browser or can read a PDF

Frontmatter: Preface

• Authored using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
• Look and feel designed to approximate the printed page

Frontmatter: Figures

• Dynamically generated figure list using JavaScript, CSS, and custom HTML tags
• Internally hyperlinked to referenced illustrations, tables, and charts

Frontmatter: World Map

• Yggdrasil redux - mythical Nordic tree and cosmological map

Frontmatter: ToC

• Dynamically generated table of contents using JavaScript, CSS, and custom HTML tags
• Internally hyperlinked to referenced chapters and sub headings

Interstitials

• Periodic meta-reflexive dialogic encounters
• With apologies to Gregory Bateson

Avatar

• Interactive animated 3D portraits
• Rendered using JavaScript and WebGL
• Linked to from within the written text

NPC

• Repurposed 3D models, datamined from the gameworld
• Reanimated in Blender
• Rendered using JavaScript and WebGL

Print Ready PDF: Preface

• Print ready PDF, auto-generated from HTML/CSS website
• Layout remains nearly identical to Web
• Supports dynamically generated content, headers, footers, alternating and controlled pagination, page breaking, page sizing, margin setting, crop marking, embedded fonts, background images, and much more

Print Ready PDF: Figures

• Dynamically generated and internally hyperlinked figure list

Print Ready PDF: ToC

• Dynamically generated and internally hyperlinked table of contents
• Can be printed on demand, sent to a printing house, or read as a PDF in the browser, on an ebook, or using a mobile phone