I‘ve had a game-related linocut series idea for a while, so maybe this is the right venue for it? Either way, I think this is a pretty fantastic project, and I’m glad it's going to happen!
I‘m really excited about this! I have no clue how I’d contribute, but I'm really jazzed to see what happens.
For the record my resume includes:
No work experience requiring any creative or investigative writing
No work experience with any graphic design
No higher education in any subject that relates to printed media
Creating a lot of poorly spliced together video game related images (see profile pic and below)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/943512896183345205/991383654876061826/image0.jpg
I love this idea!
It would be nice to participate, but I’ll need to look out for the concept or idea to be able to help you properly. Also, English is not my forte, although I like the additional challenge.
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I’ll contribute. The most fitting is this thing I am still the only one talking about: Maple Story is secretly Wonder Boy in Monster World all along
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Late to the party, but is this still a thing that is going on in peoples’ minds? The Algorithm deemed to present me with https://youtu.be/5XX62AQZJL0?si=eUA09IP0-62jflMb last week, and combined with the pencil recs in this thread: Journaling, hobonichi techoing and stationery fetishism I started thinking that I might want to make my own zine…
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I’d love if it happens. I still got an article written and would love to write more
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It’s… well…
To try and speak fairly if a little harshly, it’s not dead in the water. Or at least, it’s not dead in any way that truly matters. I still believe this community has a dynamite zine in them.
But I ran out of motivation to really get things off the ground, and I think it’s fair to say that I don’t really think they got off the ground in any meaningful sense.
I take no ownership over the idea though and if anyone wants to take what was started or even scrap everything and start over, I’d be first in line to support them. I just don’t want to take it upon myself.
@KingTubb 's piece is awesome by the way, I loved it and I can’t think of the game that is its main subject matter without thinking about the premise of their article.
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Thanks!
And I’m always down to write some more. Might just start posting them here, who knows
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This is cool and I would be interested in participating but good lord does that Discord server look complicated/intimidating.
The way I’ve seen similar things work in other contexts is to have everyone’s submissions revolve around a given topic for each individual issue. That gives everyone something to aim for and the potential audience some sense of what they are looking at.
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Yeah, I’m generally interested in providing some writing for something like this but the labyrinthean discord spooked me so much I didn’t look further into it, haha.
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I’d be interested in contributing, especially if there’s unified theming per issue as mentioned above.
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i think the discord is less intimidating than it seems, (basically, it’s split into sections based on what the involved people’s job would be, with a simple system for approving ideas), but it sure does have a lot of channels to acquaint yourself with, heh
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Anyone who wants to get something going should hit up Lunarchivist on Discord, they were the one most recently interested in getting things up off the ground again.
also Lunarchivist is contactable on the Insert Credit-Adjacent Dirtbag Zone Discord server. Invite link here: IC-Adjacent Dirtbag Zone
Oh man, id be so happy to draw something and or write a short essay for a zine.
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I’d be super stoked to sign up to provide some art or writing and then probably not have the motivation to finish.
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I am interested in contributing, and I think that, while as conventional of an idea as it seems, @tombo’s idea of putting a theme to work around always works, specially at the beginning of a fanzine.
Also, this is a note to have a look at other fanzine and what people are cooking.
PS: Maybe it’s my case, but I feel overwhelmed and I have no idea where to start from a fanzine since I’m quite new to this, so…
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I’m always game. Made zines since I was a kid, I can do art and write ups or whatever. Unified theme would be a huge help.
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I want to throw together a clasic ‘Are you stupid!?’-era magazine page ad for that indie game Great God Grove with the author’s emphatic ‘go for it!’, would that game with it’s message about how art is good in an of itself fit into the zine or should I insted focus on a game more specific that’s more of a community focus?
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