#tiltfive

The next chapter

With Troll Bridge finally out and on the big screen, my next big thing is the world's first holographic book. It'll be our late summer 2020 and exclusive to the Tilt Five platform.

Years in the making

It's a project about 6 years in the making. I had to end various iterations because the platforms just weren't right for it. Closest I ever came to something that wasn't a crap experience was the iBook on iPad. The result was a semi-working interactive book that crashed way too many iPad models. It was all JavaScript which has to be dumped regularly or it'll gunk up the system. With an iBook that wasn't possible, so the devices got slower and slower until the iBooks app crashed. Wrong platform. It was way too modal anyway. You would have needed two iPads with the book synced between them to even make it useful.

Holography first

With Tilt Five all of that is gone. A clean slate and finally I can do it right. A vast open space that doesn't require modality at all. I can format and shape it the way it needs to be and not be constrained to some fixed way of doing something. It's immensely liberating.

It'll also be a whole lot more work, but that's always the case for the good stuff. Nothing of value is ever going to be easy.

Interested enough to help?

If you want to help this project along, there's a way! I set up shop with Bonfire. You can read more about it here. Why this and not Kickstarter? If I don't trust Kickstarter, how can I expect you to trust me using them to raise money? With too many projects, backers never receive anything. That's not tolerable. If you have my back, you have to have something in your hands ASAP! That's non-negotiable.