[SA] - Books, Magazines and Reading Material

[Draco122 412]

Something of which I wanted to bring up on, is the topic of texts within Standalone. Something which I could see people benefitting is the topic of text articles which players can grab and read, the purpose of which will teach those unfamiliar in a mechanic and give interesting tips, hints and perhaps guides and instructions on how something works.

Some areas which I believe would benefit in Standalone:

Medical Books - Medical texts which can describe elements of first aid and medical practices in addition to knowledge and information.

• Basic First Aid leaflets which could give players valuable hints in how to stop bleeding, how to ease pain and ways of decreasing the chance of further injury
  
• Intermediate Medical books or Magazines which can describe what items do and what items to look out for in addition to providing information on symptons for sicknesses and diseases in addition to what cures it.
  
• Advanced Medical texts which instructions for the player on life saving operations and medical practices (such as effective use of a Blood Transfusion)
  

Mechanics and Engineering - Information and knowledge into the repairing and mainteniance of vehicles, possibly even informing players of the world around them such as parts needed and what requirements are needed.

• Instruction manuals for vehicles and other machinery which can be found to give information on it's correct use. (Like the starting procedure for a diseal powered generator)
  
• Engineering magazines which give players valuable hints in keeping a vehicle in its best possible condition
  
• Books and magazines which give helpful ideas and instructions on how to modify vehicles
  

Guide Books - Information on specific topics such as flying a helicopter or plane, driving a car, or even telling how to operate a piece of equipment.

• Books which provide instruction or guides to a specific action. Examples include safe driving of a car, boat, plane or helicopter giving instructions on correct operation.
  

Firearm Books, Manuals and Magazines - Information on various firearm practicies from general, to mainteniance and repair to styles of shooting.

• Manuals for firearms teaching the player the best ways to repair and clean firearms for best use.
  
• Shooting magazines which give tips for someone using firearms, explaining the best way to use them
  
• Firearm lists or perhaps even guides telling what firearms are more likely to be found in an Eastern European setting
  

Survival - Guides and Books, explaining the fundamentals of Surviving in Nature

• Handy pocket books which provide brief explanations on survival, such as giving simple tips to survive
  
• Larger sized books which provide in-detail information on plants, animals and survival practicies such as woodland shelters, fires and best areas to survive
  

Military Textbooks - Books which describe tactics and stratergies on how to deal with oppenants in combat.

• Field Manuals given by soldiers giving some brief combat tips to survival in a combat situation
  
• Military textbooks which describe military manuevers and tactics in detail
  

Health & Fitness - Books which describe the best way to keep yourself fit and healthy.

• Magazines which provide helpful tips to giving the best out of the players body
  
• Books which provide health instructions on how to keep the players body clean, disease free and healthy
  

Food - Recipe books and magazines which give valued insight on how to properly prepare and perhaps even improve food.

• Magazines and Books which provide food recipes a player can create by finding specific food items and combining them at a campfire or stove. Could lead to unique bonuses by crafting unique food items.
  

Travel - Maps, Tourist guide leaflets and historical books which teach the player of areas to go to or perhaps look out for.

• Maps of different quality and age, older maps could just have main roads and not list backroads, newer maps could hold backroads, paths and survey maps could go into explicit detail on the surronding environment.
  
• Tourist guide leaflets, hikers pamplets and information sheets which could provide areas to explore and visit
  

Construction - Books teaching the fundamentals of crafting and construction.

• Instruction manuals on specific crafting recipes for players designing a specific item or entity
  
• Handy leaflets created during the Outbreak to craft simple but effective weapons/items
  
• Books on effective modification of vehicles, buildings or personal protection
  

Poetry - Some literature to keep a players mind focused or at ease.

• Some various forms of poetry books, could even be apart of a community challenge. Create unique poetry texts for Books in DayZ Standalone.
  

Fictional Stories - Fictional stories and books which can provide a source of entertainment in the Zombie Apocalypse

• Same as above, could be a community challenge to create fictional stories for the mod. Some mild entertainment during the Zombie apocalypse and adding a huge level of flavour to the game.
  

Backstory Texts - Newspapers, books and document texts describing the backstory and what actually happened before the player arrived.

• Newspapers which could describe the onslaught of what happened on Chernarus before and during the Zombie Apocalypse
  
• Books, which are rare and only a few published, which describe accounts of Survivors during the outbreak and documention on the Zombie Virus
  
• Qaurantine leaflets and handouts explaining the operation of the Qaurantine, perhaps even tips (though obivious ones) to avoid infection
  
• Super rare scientific/military documents which explain what the virus is, what it does and how it got released
  

[Clumzy (DayZ) 377]

All of the books would be written in Russian.

[SmashT 10907]

They are adding books. Rocket mentioned they have received thousands of submissions so far together with copyright expired books so hopefully we will see a great variety of genres, languages etc and not thousands of "DayZ stories"

Budding writer? Demo your work in DayZ? We thinking of putting books findable in game (eg fallout/skyrim). Email matt.lightfoot@bistudio.com

https://twitter.com/...150125450801154

Edited April 18, 2013 by smasht_AU

[Blondedash 403]

They are adding books. Rocket mentioned they have received thousands of submissions so far together with copyright expired books so hopefully we will see a great variety of genres, languages etc and not thousands of "DayZ stories"

https://twitter.com/...150125450801154

cool. Edited April 18, 2013 by The ammo guy

[SmashT 10907]

cool.

I'm sure they have talked about a diary/journal pen & paper system, this is more for books you would already find in someones house.

Aim is not to have zombie fiction so much as more general stuff.

All genres.

Any language at all. I'd love to has some writing in other languages especially German and Russian.

We also want to have some generic non-zombie books in game at the start. Not just books with "penis" written in them

Edited April 18, 2013 by smasht_AU

[Blondedash 403]

I'm sure they have talked about a diary/journal system, this is more for books you would already find in someones house.

I read that on twitter after I posted sorry.

[GOD™ 2795]

Chernarussian Playboy

[roykingtree 125]

All of the books would be written in Russian.

tbh I would actually prefer they be in cyrillic, would be fun to learn

[roykingtree 125]

I told my brother about this, he's submitting his Aesthesis classics journal.

[King Beans 2]

Nice, beans for you. I wanna read up on guns and first aid.

[victusmortuus 1074]

I'd love to write something and have it put into Dayz.

[DemonGroover 8836]

I'd like some light reading..

Tractor Weekly

Potato Farmer Girls

The Beards of Eastern Europe

AS50 Babes

[TIC 1050]

I'm sure they have talked about a diary/journal pen & paper system, this is more for books you would already find in someones house.

I heard Rocket talking about being able to use a pen and paper system. (Or it could be just art of them but I hope we can interact)

http://dayzmod.com/f...ghest-one-ever/

Our team of artists recruited from the community have been hard at work. The new male character mesh is being prepared, in line with the new skeleton, as well as a new template for clothing skinning. The new M4A1 has been committed with proxies that allow our new attachment system to be utilized along with the crafting system. "Also being worked on are a Gas Mask, Pilot Helmet, Mauser Rifle, pen/paper, mess tin, can opener - a huge amount of items are being developed while we wait for the programming tasks to be completed heading towards our first public release."

Edited April 19, 2013 by TIC321

[roykingtree 125]

We could get a google doc going of a collaboration of diarys. We would need to familiarize ourselves with Cherno history so that the storys corraborate each other though.

[Average Pegasus 646]

I hope to find some english/french book in good amount in all this Russian wasteland.

Edited April 19, 2013 by Average Pegasus