Coming to Kickstarter Tomorrow: NF's First Book! (Patreon)

We're doing it! After more than a decade of producing fine magazines, we're finally expanding to also encompass book publishing!

NF Books will allow us to revisit topics and themes we've touched on in past NF Magazine issues, and go into much more depth and detail than the normal magazine format usually allows. To this day, our single most popular issue is still "Thank You, Mr. Iwata" from 2015, published shortly after the legendary Satoru Iwata passed away that summer. That issue celebrated his life and achievements, but only about 30 pages or so got to focus on that topic -- since it was still a normal NF issue too, it also had to include things like a preview of Yo-kai Watch and our review of Super Mario Maker. Well, no more sharing the page count!

The all-new book "The Impact of Iwata" will pack 220+ pages with an in-depth look back at his incredible career, covering all the well-known high points of his tenures at HAL and Nintendo (like the time he swooped in and saved EarthBound with his ingenious programming skills) to much lesser-known facts and stories that we didn't get a chance to include in that NF issue eight years ago. It will blend text together with screenshots of his work, quotes from the man himself and colleagues who worked alongside him, and beautiful full-color illustrations to introduce each of 16 different chapters -- bringing back some great art first seen in 2015, as well as dozens of pieces of brand-new art newly commissioned just for this book!

It's coming to Kickstarter tomorrow, May 30, 2023, starting at 1:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific! The campaign will go live at this URL:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nfpublishing/the-impact-of-iwata 

NF Patrons, I'm crossing my fingers and counting on your support! If you're signed up for a Nintendo Force Magazine subscription, then you're one of our most dedicated fans -- and you're surely one of the people whose lives have been impacted the most by the great Satoru Iwata! So please support this new project! 

And spread the word to friends, family and all your extended social media contacts too! If we're able to hit the minimum funding goal quickly, we'll be able to move into stretch goals to make the book even better for everyone!

Thanks in advance, everyone! 

~ Lucas M. Thomas