Announcing PJN Magazine (UPD)

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UPD: Added a survey so I can obtain some first impressions. Make sure to fill it out!

I’m proud to announce that Pokéjungle.net will get its own self-published professional magazine! It’s an idea I came up with a month or two ago and I wanted to make sure it’d be possible for us to do it. I also wanted to wait until after the launch for XY, as it will involve lots of input from the community! Let’s start with the general information first.

General information

PJN Magazine (PJNM) will be a professional looking magazine released two or three times a year available in both digital and printed editions. Page count will be big enough for substantial articles but will also be kept reasonable to keep the price down. Price is as of yet undecided, but will be kept to a minimum seeing as the magazine is intended to be non-profit. The content consists of articles which normally wouldn’t be placed on the site, with a big focus on community and behind-the-scenes stuff.

I’ll now explain it in more detail, but keep in mind these are all subject to change seeing as we’ll use a lot of community input to give the magazine shape.

Release timing

We chose a scarce release for a number of reasons. First, it gives us enough time to write the magazine so we wouldn’t feel a deadline rush, so we can give it all the care it deserves. Second, it would become expensive to buy all printed editions rather quickly, and we’re not here to suck all of your (or your parents) money out of your pockets. And as a last bit, we want to give it a special feel by it being a sort-of limited release, making it feel more likely a luxury product for our truest fans rather than a business.

Price

We don’t intend this to be a profit-making product. Therefore, we want to keep the price down as much as possible. There are however some costs involved in putting together the content and especially in assembling the printed edition. Self publishing is relatively expensive, and we also must keep international shipping in mind. However, we still aim it to be nearly the same price as a normal magazine you buy in shops. If there will be a mark-up, we will try to get your input on it, and rest assured it will be very small (<$2). I can promise the first digital edition will be distributed free of charge to give you a feeling of the quality.

Printed Edition

PJNM will be printed on the same stuff your usual gaming magazine is printed on, in full color. We think we found a way of doing this at reasonable price. We will update with more specifics closer to printing release.

Content

PJNM won’t feature the normal news you can usually read on the site. Instead, if it features news, it will be in the form of thought out opinion articles. The magazine is intended to be read anywhere, anytime, something you can pull up years later and still enjoy reading. We’ll have articles on lots of older and obscure games from the Pokémon franchise. We also want to take this opportunity to get you to know the staff a bit more. The big outlook is mostly planned out already, but I’ll keep most of it under the wraps, and it will get trickled out in further announcements regarding the magazine.

FAQ

Who is part of the team?

PJNM will be led by Daedardus (Editor-in-chief), with moving second in charge and responsible for design. The rest of the PJN staff will be responsible for providing content, and of course Pokéjungle who gave his approval for the project.

Can I contribute?

If you mean writing your own article, we’re not sure on that yet. It mostly has to do with silly copyright laws and we don’t want to get hit by copyright trolls trying to pull down the magazine. This also means we’re not sure if we can feature fan-art. We’ll communicate more on that later. But rest assured, you can help along with the general shape of the magazine and we will greatly appreciate your input.

When can we expect the first issue?

Somewhere around January/February 2014.

Will you feature ads? Can I promote my business in the magazine?

You probably can’t. We don’t want to make a profit and while it’s true ads could keep the price down, we still want to deliver the best experience to the readers. The magazine is totally intended as fanservice from my part, and I believe fanservice shouldn’t involve $$$. However, I may have a cool idea in my head, stay tuned for more info :).

Will the magazine contain a picture of the rare and elusive Daedardus?

Yes. No. Probably. Maybe. I don’t know.

This idea sucks. Pokéjungle is the worst fan site there is and I hate all the staff.

That’s fine. You can read our competitor’s magazines in the meantime.

More info pls

Soon. Like next week soon.

UPD: You can fill in a (short) survey here. I’ll use this data in an upcoming post, which may take a week however. Stay tuned! 😉

~Daedardus~ on behalf of the whole PJN staff.

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1,596 thoughts on “Announcing PJN Magazine (UPD)”

  1. What I want for pokemon Z ( warning, extremely unlikely)
    A new part of kalos has been discovered! It is the area east of kalos, where it is more of an industrial place, with many coal mines, and even a town devoted to one. But when team flare catches wind of it, they band together again, to search for rare minerals in the coal mines. At first it seems like a little excavation, but turns into much more. They want to wipe out the whole population of east AND west kalos, except now not even team flare members will be safe. The ultimate weapon Lysander created runs on the minerals he collected in east kalos, and will basically wipe kalos off the map. No one will survive, except Lysander and his new partner Zachary, (who has been secretly leading this whole time) created a special way of protection for just Themselves. But when Zachay ditches lysander, and so not even lysander can escape, everyone is faced with doom. That’s when Zygarde, whom you hear many tales about and even see at one point, jumps out of the ground and demolishes the machine. He then challenges you to a battle, where you MUST catch him. Zachary then sends out his team to attack lysander, but suddenly your zygarde rescues lysander and banishes zachary from the kalos region forever. Then you beat the E4 and such. 🙂 (I’m sorry if this is terrible)

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  2. Thanks to the stat calculator regidudeam provided, my Mega Mawile has:

    29 HP IVs
    18 Attack IVs
    31 Defense IVs
    26 Special Attack IVs
    23 Special Defense IVs
    21 Speed IVs

    Pretty nice!

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  3. In preparation for Pokemon Bank on December 27th, I’ve spent an entire 24 hours away from X/Y to complete Pokemon Emerald (Genuinely did not rush through this playthrough). I have all 3 Hoenn starters on my Emerald in which I’ll be sending to Platinum, then to Soul Silver and finally to Black 2 so they’ll be ready to transfer to X/Y on the 27th.

    To commemorate this, I’ve thought up a little event with a catch, or battle giveaway as such. I’ll be breeding them like crazy and If you want one of these Hoenn starters you must win against me in a battle. There will be a few rules of course to make winning a bit easier.

    1. The type of match will be a single battle with each person using only 3 Pokemon.
    2. Mega Evolution’s are banned.
    3. Items are also banned.
    4. Legendary Pokemon are excluded from being used.

    There’s no time limit to this, but it’ll be over once all the starters have been handed out. I’m tempted to have 3-5 of each starter available as prizes as I don’t really know the outcome of who will win. If you do end up losing your free to challenge me again until you’re able to win. I’ll come up with a chart or something to show who goes first later down the line, but for now, I’ll leave it.

    Bear in mind I don’t exactly know when I’ll have everything ready for this but I’ll be sure to keep you updated about it. For now though, please add my FC and let me know yours in the comments so at least some things are ready beforehand.

    Name: Ashley (I’m a boy xD)

    FC: 5069-5339-6138

    Well with that out the way, what do you think. Should I maybe do this again if it goes well?

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  4. Drasna is smart as f**k! I used my Protean Greninja against her Altaria and used Ice Beam, turning me into Ice before I attack, and OHKO it. She sends out Noivern and uses Flamethrower and nearly kills my Greninja! O.O

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  6. @regidudeam:disqus Here’s my Chesnaught’s IVs 😀

    24 HP IVs
    26 Attack IVs
    25 Defense IVs
    23 Special Attack IVs
    26 Special Defense IVs
    21 Speed IVs

    I think this is pretty great!!

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  14. It looks like a lot of people are finding shinies. Can someone please tell me why? Is there a new way to increase your chances that I’ve overlooked? Or are people just finding tons of hordes and getting lucky?

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  19. Does any one have a snorunt? I really need one and there is no time to explain! And every one on gts has some super unreasonable request for one.

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  20. Does anyone have two heart scales and a Dusk stone to trade? I really need them, but all I have are two luvdiscs and honedge…

    1349-5096-5450

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  21. wow, I’ve been away from here for a while now, anyways I know this is offtopic but does anyone know the type of pokemon I have for my Friend Safari and what pokemon you find in it, my name on 3ds is Den and my code is 0645-5869-4598

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  23. I can’t wait to say I got the first edition of PJN Magazine! ^_^ If I ever meet some of you guys (staff) I need you to sign it! 😛

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