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Hello and welcome! Intro yourself here if you want!

A topic by World Champ Game Co. created Feb 04, 2024 Views: 297 Replies: 10
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Hey gang, I am Adam Vass (he/they), I make games as World Champ Game Co. since 2016 but have been making zines since I was a kid. I play bass in a band called La Dispute. I love horror movies, heavy music, coffee, and my dogs Frankie & Beans. 

I'm thinking of making some illustrative/sketchy/collagey art stuff this month as well as hopefully a little zine of my pick-up-and-play ttrpg rules that always exist in my head for emergencies. I'm also working on a bigger book project of vampire punks called Blood Borg thats crowdfunding in April but this little zine experiment will be a nice way to relax from that while also being creative :)

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greetings I am Jonesy. I do fine art, illustration and graphic design. I only recently been making TTRPG things but it provided me with an outlet for me to make stuff that I can actually print myself. I make a lot of wired paintings and illustrations both digitally and by hand. I love most music with a special love for punk, weird avant-garde shit and things like that. I also gravitate towards horror, especially surreal horror. Art wise I tend to favor surrealism, outsider art and lowbrow art so stuff like Robert Williams, Ed Roth, Camille Rose Garcia, etc.

I used to join in with art groups that gather and draw shit but haven’t done so since the pandemic. I figured this might be fun since I have a handful of zines that are mostly finished but I need to…. You know…. Finish. 

I’d like to do some more hand made stuff and maybe try my hand at doing some more comic related stuff

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Hey, Im Emily (she/her). I really love bookbinding, and have been making papercraft things since I was little. I think zines really fit the direction my personal projects have been going recently, and wanted to make something to start that creative process. I really like collage, and have been making collage posters for the past year or two, so I think I will incorporate collage heavily (gotta use up all my saved materials right).  I also really enjoy layout - I do graphic design and layout for TTRPGs a lot, but I think I'd like to try out some funky layout with minimal text, really lean into an artsy side of graphic design. 

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Hi, I'm DB (he/they)! I got into making and putting out TTRPGs pretty recently, and I have been keeping up a regular TTRPG/improv/alltheotherthings sort of blog. I mostly do writing and design things for TTRPGs--making silly little mechanics and forms that can lend themselves to telling stories with some friends. I recently ramshackled one of my first zines together for another game jam, and whew, even doing layout for text can be something else.

I'm looking to write up a short little game about traveling through a multiverse/multiple timeline situation like in Everything Everywhere All At Once, modeled after a resolution mechanic I made called the quantum die.

Besides that, I'd be open to teaming up and working with some folks! I think it would be cool if art could inspire a game and a game could inspire art that could inspire a game that could inspire--I think you get my point.

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Lovely to meet you all! My partner, Angel, and I make TTRPGs, lyrical games, and yes zines too :D In fact, we have almost 50 zines now, many of which are free in digital form!

We're partaking in Zine Month for the very first time with our first crowdfunding campaign together! We're making 16 zines throughout February for a self-created challenge. While I've promised most of those as temporary exclusives, a few will release before this jam ends and we'll gladly get em in! 🥳 

I'm a trans gal with rage issues, bipolar, and suddenly discovered I'm an extrovert when I shed my previous gender, but can barely escape the house as I live with someone who has a bad immune system. Plus we both had Covid once and YIKES.

Despite all of that, we're positive, uplifting creators who enjoy giving people tools and encouragement to rock their lives 🤘 

And I just wanna add I LOVE THIS JAM!

- ✨Beth

Hi! I'm Ada (aka Tiny Mice Society) I use she/her pronouns, I'm usually a 2D artist, but back in december I kind of fell in love with the concept of ttrpgs, and ended up joining a jam to make one. Though I never ended up finishing it, I had a lot of fun developing and planning it, so I decided to join another jam together with this one, as I am a multimedia artist that has fallen into the rabbit hole of trying new crafts.

For this jam I hope to bind the game I am working on for the "Your Friend in Witchcraft" jam! I am most excited to brainstorm the zine during breaks from working on that game as I like to be able to choose between projects to work on while still being able to finish them. Though I do have a terrible track record of not finishing jam entries, I am determined to not do so this time as everything is within my skill set (in comparison to a traditional game jam with coding and such).

AH! Sorry for rambling, but I just want to mention that I think my zine will include letters and handmade postcards :)

Nice  to meet you all!

- Ada 🌱

HostSubmitted(+1)

this sounds awesome, welcome! As a little trick, something I’ve done in the past is submit an unlisted or unfinished itch game to a jam and finish it past the deadline, it’ll still show up as a submission later when you’re ready but takes some of that time pressure away. I recommend it to anyone interested in making something that doesn’t think it’ll get done this month! 

Oh, that's an excellent tip! I've left more than a few jams because I didn't think that I would finish in time, and this gets some of that pressure off for sure.

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Hiiii, I'm Meadows (they/them) and I'm so excited to do this! In my day job I'm a potter and play around in the mud! To be honest I'm so new to itch.io and I have no idea what a jam is but I stumbled in and I'm glad to be here. Oh, I do teach zine workshops regularly, and recently we've been making single sheet 16 page zines. It's been fun. I'm working on a literary zine that I'd like to publish annually too, so that's SOOOOO cool. No idea what I'm doing though. :D I'm hopeful to finish the first draft of it sometime soon, and in the meantime I have some illustrative zines I'm working on too. 

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Hello! I'm Nealyboy (he/him). I'm a middle school history teacher, and advisor to my school's D&D club. I just submitted my zine, walkmage.  I was printing out a lot of great indie RPGs for my kids, trying to show them what's available outside of name brand role playing.  I had the idea that I wanted to give them something  super portable they could play at lunch or after school, while  waiting for a ride. I showed the kids some coin-flip based games, but it turns out most kids these days don't carry change. So that got me thinking about other mechanics to replace dice, and how a person would even run a portable game anyway. I ended up with something I liked.  I play tested it at the mall and around my neighborhood and had a blast. 

It was cool to see other folks in this game jam playing around with diceless games and walking around. 

HostSubmitted

I’m excited to check this out, I saw the submission come through and thought that was a really clever subject to write about