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I've been making zines for years now, and during that time I've generally had to figure out how to make more complex zines on my own, as almost all of the resources and templates that are freely available are for simple mini zines. Now that I've gotten a hold of Affinity Publisher and it's starting to get popular as an affordable alternative to InDesign, I decided to make a bunch of templates so p…

At the start of (nearly) every Clone Wars episode is a Jedi Proverb related to the plot. It's displayed in the same classic style (blue text with a black background) as "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." Recently, while marathoning the later seasons of the show, I opened a fortune cookie and realized that the fortune inside would be right at home at the start of an episode. Thus a ver…

A one-page zine that illustrates the final lines of dialog from one of my favorite characters in my favorite game, Outer Wilds. Spoilers! Please don't read this zine if you haven't played or watched Outer Wilds and there's the slightest chance you might! It's up to you of course, but it spoils the ending. (Plus the imagery won't make much sense.) Pictures of the zine are censored for spoilers. Min…

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My laptop broke so I made an activity zine all about it.  You play the role of someone trying to help me recover after my computer broke, designing a new background for me, helping me remember my search history, and putting lots of stickers all 'round my laptop. Just print horizontally on the short end and stitch it together!For more detailed folding instructions:The zine is intended to be folded …

One day I was messing around on the Zine Idea Generator and got a prompt that I couldn't get out of my head: "Make an erotic zine that that catastrophizes about media that awakened your sexuality." I wasn't comfortable doing an erotic zine, but after rerolling the first part of the prompt a few times I settled on: "Make a single-page zine that catastrophizes about media that awakened your sexuali…

I am about to go on a journey. If I ever come back home—I definitely won’t be the same.But, that’s still a few days away. Today, I’ve got packing to do, family to wish good-bye, friends to have last drinks with, and lovers to give promises...that I probably can’t keep. Wanderlust is a storytelling game for 2-4 Players. You work together to tell the story of a single protagonist—The Wanderer—who i…

This is issue 1 of Dispatches from VR (DFVR), a zine series about my experiences getting into virtual reality as a disabled person. DFVR includes reviews of hardware and accessories, overviews of apps and games, and write-ups of VR events, all with a focus on accessibility for my specific disabilities. Issue Contents Letter from the Author: Why Virtual Reality?Hardware: Meta Quest 3App: Virtual …

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This is two different things:A one-shot game about going to a potluck, an event with other queer people, for the first time, and literally fighting your anxieties.A hack of Bolt with only 6 pages of rules for playing fantasy-themed games, designed for the one-shot.Both come in the following formats:A zine-themed PDF.An actual printable zine for each, using 5 pieces of paper printed double-sided fo…