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I am working on a game called Deep Space Balloon Race, it's about Deep Space Balloon Racing.

I am doing all of the layout in LaTeX and I ma hoping read and look like a regular local history book. My goal is that if this were sat on a shelf next to all the other local history books someone might pick it up and believe it were a real book. Now I am under no illusion that that would actually happen as the subject matter is so far fetched, but it would not look out of place.

I have already written a chapter on the history of how the space faring balloon was invented and am now working on a short history of deep space balloon racing.


For the curious this is what my WIP looks like, I will add a few pictures in due course.

Torn between adding tables inline with the text or putting them all in an appendix at the end.

...and now I'm really intrigued about the history deep space balloon racing. I mean, aside from how the heck does it work, I'm dying to know why balloons in the first place.

I've never actually seen LaTeX layout work in practice, so thank you for this screenshot, too.

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I have gone a little over the top on the lore to be honest but it has been rally fun writing it. There a family feud and everything.

I am considering adding an appendix with a list of texts published by the Institut de recherche sur l'exploration interstellaire, an entirely invented institute founded by the creator of interstellar balloon travel.