Hey everybody, I just wanted to give a quick update! I just finished recording and editing my play-through of the cassandra protocol, and I will be streaming it at 6pm CET/noon ET today! Learn Alicia's tragic story about how she tried to save her spaceship from a cataclysmic event. The VOD will also be available on my YouTube channel if you can't make the Twitch livestream. :)
We only have six days to go until the end of Zinetopia! Shocking how quickly the time has passed. There are still two stretch goals that remain; can we hit them before the timer runs out? At €2.5K, I'll add 100 community copies to each of the core six games' itch.io pages when they go live, and at €3K, I'll commission an artist for some spot art pieces for the one-pagers that are as yet unfinished. :D
There are eight projects remaining in Zinetopia that have yet to be funded, and many of them are so close to their goals!
Hey there, friends! I'm sure that many of you are being bombarded with emails from BackerKit for Zinetopia and didn't want to flood your inboxes too much in the first couple of days. Thank you, everyone, for backing, sharing, and/or supporting this project!
A couple of small updates for you:
Since we blew past the two stretch goals I'd planned, I've chatted with fellow Zinetopia creators and come up with some new ones.
At €2.5K, I will add 100 Community Copies of the Vol. 2 Bundle games to their Itch.io pages when they are published for those who can't otherwise afford to buy games! I love the idea of paying it forward, and community copies are a great way to do that. 💕
At €3K, I will commission spot art for the as-yet-unnamed "rivals who are secretly in love" game, as well as for one other game. I'm talking to an artist friend about this right now, and I'm very excited about it!
Next, it's poll time! Attached to this update, you'll see the first poll to decide on the theme of one of the games I'll be writing. Backers can still send in your memes, emojis, or weird concepts by commenting on any of these update posts (or tagging me on social media, not sure if BackerKit supports image comments!) I'll pick my favorites, and if there are enough, I'll put them to a poll as well for y'all to vote on!
That's all from me for now. Be sure to check out some of the other incredible projects and games that are on offer for Zinetopia. I admit, I've already backed 11 of them (though, you probably got emails about that. 😂)
Y'all continue to stun and amaze me with your enthusiasm for this project! I woke up this morning to, once again, blowing past a stretch goal! This means that not only will I be writing an extra one-pager for y'all, but it will also be printed and included in all physical backers' orders! I only had the two stretch goals planned, and will have to give some thought to what more we can do. 🥰
I love to share some of my process/thoughts about gaming and TTRPGs in these, because I don't think players who aren't also creators always get to see that side of things. I've been vending at a lot of conventions here in Europe over the last year and change. Something truly surprising and joyful for me happened at these cons: People would buy my one-pagers and then find a table or bit of floor space to sit down with their friends and play my games for a half hour or an hour, then come back and tell me how much they enjoyed being chaotic geese or writing potion-themed poetry! It was such a cool experience, and I am so happy to continue to share that love of gaming and roleplaying with you all.
I'm on my way home from a trip to the U.K. at the moment, so this is not the best photo in the world, but I wanted to show off the finished folders for this project to you all! The colors are mostly accurate to real life and are soft-touch. (When I tell you that people pet my folders at conventions, I'm not joking. 😂) I've also updated the design of the Vol. 1 folders to say "Volume #1."
Just a reminder: if you haven't yet, backing the project in the first 48 hours (so... the next 10 hours or so, if I did my math right) will also get you the Early Bird one-pager, which is indeed Early Bird-themed! 🤭 I couldn't resist, the prompt idea was right there.
That's all from me for now. I'll update you all soon with our next stretch goal to unlock! 💕
I'm so excited to say that not only did we hit the project's goal in less than four hours last night, but we're SO CLOSE to hitting that first stretch goal of an extra freebie digital one-pager for all backers!!
Thank you so much for all of your support on this project. I started writing one-pagers in December 2023, but it was really only in the past year or so that I started writing them more frequently. I've talked a bit about this on BlueSky (and in the EUphoria Discord server), but one of the things that I really love about one-page games is that they force me as a writer to really home in on what is most important for the game to enable a table to roleplay as these unique characters, whether they're cryptids, frogs, romcom protagonists, or something else entirely! And as players, you're given all the elements you need to create a story together around a table, but you don't need to spend hours preparing for a session or building your character, learning intensely detailed mechanics, and more.
Not only that, but one-pagers let you get really weird with themes and mechanics. Which is just plain delightful. 😂
I'm going to put out a poll in the next couple of days for our first backer-inspired one-pager, but feel free to leave a comment with your suggestions for what you would like to see written for this campaign! Games that are in the works or completed so far are:
Mischief of Magpies — the game I wrote for the Zinetopia exclusive digital zine (for when you back 5+ projects)
Early Bird — for those of you who back the project in the first 48 hours!
Well, I Heard a Rumor — an improv game of rumors
stichomancy — a game of divining the future through books on your shelf
The Cassandra Protocol — a sci-fi solo journaling game where you are the only person aboard a spaceship who knows it is doomed, and no one believes you
And a couple of as-yet-unnamed games, including the cryptid office worker game inspired by the project's cover art and a food-themed game for backers of both my project and TTRPGkids' Mystery Snacks!
With only €47 to go til we hit the first stretch goal, I think it's a good bet that we'll be hitting that soon. Send me your weird and quirky ideas, your moodboards and strings of emojis! I gain inspiration for these games from the oddest of places, and I'm excited to share that creative process with you!
Hello friends! We’re officially one week from launch, and I’m so excited to share this one-page TTRPG bundle with y'all.
The bundle includes six all-new one-page TTRPGs, presented in a beautiful folder for safe-keeping. Not only that, but you can even help inspire some of the games! I'll be putting out some polls during the BackerKit campaign to gauge what people are interested in me writing, and you can also leave comments with ideas for as-yet-unwritten concepts you've been dying to play or want to see my creative spin on. I get inspiration from the strangest things, so you can share a moodboard, some poetry, or even a string of emojis, and I very well may turn them into games! 😉
This project is really coming together now, with three games already fully written and layout completed, and I have four more in varying states of completion. (Don't worry—the math maths, I promise! With all the bonus games and stretch goals involved, I'm writing ten new one-pagers for this campaign! 🫨)
These games span a wide range of vibes and mechanics, from dice to cards to even pulling books from your own shelves to divine your future. Whether you’re rivals secretly falling in love or cryptids trying to survive a normal workday, there’s something here for you.
If you’re new to one-page TTRPGs, they’re rules-light, zero- or minimal-prep games that are perfect for parties, last-minute hangouts, and times when you just want to play a quick game. One-page games are so much fun because the pared-down mechanics and prompts really put the roleplay aspect of TTRPGs into the forefront of your games and force you to think outside the box. They can also be anywhere from solo player to 8-10 players, depending on the game!
Just to give you a little peek behind the curtain, the game I'm working on right now is a one-page solo journaling game that I've named The Cassandra Protocol. It uses the Second Guess System SRD by Gamenomicon, which in turn was inspired by Wretched & Alone (my beloved)! In this game, you’re the only one aboard a spaceship who knows the ship and all its crew are doomed (Cassandra-style, and tragically unbelieved). You document your time aboard the ship, trying to get anyone to help you stop what is to come...or at the very least, believe you. I saw this SRD on itch the other day and just had to write something using it, so I hope you'll love it as much as I do! 🥰
One last bit of news: I’ve also been announced as a stretch goal writer for TTRPGkids’ BackerKit project, Mystery Snacks, so if you want even more writing from me, definitely check that out too! (Not to mention the fact that if you back both our projects, you'll be getting a bonus one-page TTRPG from each of us because we're cross-collab partners! 😲)
Thank you again for all the excitement and support. One week to go til launch day!
