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Hi, we are trying to reach out to ask you to provide a printable page with multiple of your game to fit the requirements of the jam.  As is, this isn't easily printable to hand out to trick-or-treaters. 

It can be multiple business sized copies front and back on one side of the page that can be cut and folded in half and taped to be handed out. Or double-sided print (multiple business sized cards on one sheet).  We'd love to keep it in the jam and bundle, but as formatted currently, we will be removing it from the jam.  Just trying to give you time to see this message first.

Thanks,
Angel

Hi! I wanted to reach out to you but Discord says you're not accepting friend requests and I can't DM you without friend requesting you. Can you send me a friend request at BethMakesGames (or just DM me?) or send an email to bethandangelmakegames@gmail.com? Thanks :D

- ✨Beth

Is this open to tabletop/TTRPG/analog games too? I'm an analog creator who would love to toss some work in to help out :D

I love this so much! Do you plan to share on Reddit? I typically share my new games and stuff over there, but wouldn't want to post it if it's already being posted there. For this bundle, I could see sharing to onepagerpgs (I know at least two of ours are and I'm sure we're not the only ones) and GameDeals (they generally do video games but will accept special tabletop stuff too).

I'll utilize my Itch emails too, as those are a super powerful tool for us, and we'll share on our Patreon and server. Both of those are fairly small so I doubt they'll do much lol but I love sharing awesome stuff like this there

ROFLMAO good to know. That email is still quite new (we just made it like a few months ago and haven't used it much) so hopefully gmail learns it's not spam soon 🤣 

That's terrific news!!! I'm looking super forward to it, thanks for the details and the answer. I shared it in our Discord server and another person said she's looking forward to it too :D 

I hope your travels go well

Hi :D I'm sorry to have to do this, but we had to remake the bundle and we need approval again as someone had to be removed. Can you please approve the bundle here --> https://itch.io/b/2626/free-zine-week-2024 

If you have any questions, let me know :D

- ✨Beth

Hi :D I'm sorry to have to do this, but we had to remake the bundle and we need approval again as someone had to be removed. Can you please approve the bundle here --> https://itch.io/b/2626/free-zine-week-2024 

If you have any questions, let me know :D

- ✨Beth

Hi :D I'm sorry to have to do this, but we had to remake the bundle and we need approval again as someone had to be removed. Can you please approve the bundle here --> https://itch.io/b/2626/free-zine-week-2024

If you have any questions, let me know :D

- ✨Beth

There's an Electric Zine Maker version of this (both zines) that you can read right in your browser, no printing is required (you can use a blank piece of paper rather than printing the booklet if you'd like). 

This is two 4-page zines (in 4-page format) which makes it all, technically, one page since each is one page and together it's equivalent to one page back-and-front. And one is kind of a "character sheet" as it's a fill-in-able one for making your support critters :D

There's an Electric Zine Maker version of this that you can read right in your browser, no printing is required :D

This is an 8-page zine (in 4-page format) which makes it, technically, one page front-and-back.

Hi! I just wanted to say that this jam is super awesome and I'm so sad I won't be able to enter. Our life went kinda wild the last couple of weeks with sudden, overwhelming housework, and I've been spiraling in depression for over 5 weeks now. Angel and I are both huge zine fans, though, and I really hope you run another Sunday Zine Club jam!!!! The challenge you're taking on to make a zine every Sunday is super fun, and we'd love to take part in future jams since we're missing this one :D

- ✨Beth

Yay! Thank you. *fingers crossed* that the last person approves too.

~Angel

No worries, it happens, please don't feel bad! :D Plus we're still waiting on two people anyway lol. If they don't approve I'll need to remake it and have it re-approved. I'll let you and everyone know if that's the case :)

- ✨Beth

Yay! Thanks so much! 3 to go! *fingers crossed*
~Angel

Hi there :D I emailed you to approve the bundle and it's supposed to go live but you haven't approved yet. You can search for an email from cataclysmicknight@gmail.com for details, or just go to this link and approve it --> https://itch.io/b/2614/free-zine-week-2024

The bundle is supposed to launch tomorrow but can't until everyone approves, and I still need 5 approvals including yours :D

- ✨Beth

Hi there :D I emailed you to approve the bundle and it's supposed to go live but you haven't approved yet. You can search for an email from cataclysmicknight@gmail.com for details, or just go to this link and approve it --> https://itch.io/b/2614/free-zine-week-2024

The bundle is supposed to launch tomorrow but can't until everyone approves, and I still need 5 approvals including yours :D

- ✨Beth

Hi there :D I emailed you to approve the bundle and it's supposed to go live but you haven't approved yet. You can search for an email from cataclysmicknight@gmail.com for details, or just go to this link and approve it --> https://itch.io/b/2614/free-zine-week-2024

The bundle is supposed to launch tomorrow but can't until everyone approves, and I still need 5 approvals including yours :D

- ✨Beth

Hi there :D I emailed you to approve the bundle and it's supposed to go live but you haven't approved yet. You can search for an email from cataclysmicknight@gmail.com for details, or just go to this link and approve it --> https://itch.io/b/2614/free-zine-week-2024

The bundle is supposed to launch tomorrow but can't until everyone approves, and I still need 5 approvals including yours :D

- ✨Beth

Hey there :D I sent an email through the Itch system to approve it, but the number of people emailed didn't match the number of people who submitted... it was off by one, which is hopefully just you lol

Here's a link to approve :D https://itch.io/b/2614/free-zine-week-2024

Oh my goodness, this is so cute and fun! I love your artwork and the whimsy in these pages. And I can totally relate to this too: I often feel like "is it okay to like these things?" and I have to remind myself that, like... yeah, absolutely!

- ✨Beth

You're so welcome! You're so creative and clever, I love seeing what you come up with

Oh wow, this really nails my feeling with games (especially video games) when I'm depressed. When I'm not depressed I get sucked into whatever fantasy world I'm in; but when I'm depressed, a game is a chore that requires an education to understand. Go here. Do this thing. Get powerful enough to go do that. The grind that I normally love becomes work, and the whole point of the game is to AVOID WORK.

This is really epic, well done!

- ✨Beth

Hi! Sorry for the contradiction in the way our rules are worded, we just edited them. The way itch bundles work we are pretty sure we will not be able to get an itch listing added to the bundle if it doesn't have something that can be downloaded. So even though electric zine maker creations count, the actual EZ file (png or pdf) that was created also needs to be included in the listing to be able to add you to the bundle. 

Thanks,
Angel

Yay! I'm so glad, and that's a super clever use of it! I could totally see summoning a critter who's a huge fan of you and wants to keep track of the awesomeness you accomplish, so they encourage you to write down the good things you did and that happened throughout your day. Just the positive, happy side, so when you go back through and read it you skip all the negative stuff :D

- ✨Beth

OMG LOL this is hysterical and I only know Hatsune Miku by name and nothing more 🤣🤣🤣 This is so charming and clever and fun and whimsical and honestly probably a lot more relatable than it should be 😅 

Also, and I will never stop thinking this: HECK YES FOR SOME TRANSMASC LOVE! And the use of "xe"! We love to see it.

- ✨Beth

I love this! It's so raw and relatable omg. I've been spiraling in depression since the 13th and... yeah... I totally get this. 

Thank you for taking the time and energy to make this and put it out into the world 🧡 

- ✨Beth

YES! OMG one of the biggest, most powerful things I heard was that originally, the test for whether someone "is actually trans" was dysphoria. Then they discovered a better test is whether there's euphoria when using the proper name/pronouns/etc. That the new test was able to validate and encapsulate far more people. And all of that, of course, is allowing others to label people anyway lol but still

I'm so glad you could relate! And yes, my goodness, mania and just generally throwing myself into my work kinda shove dysphoria and all of my frustrations in life to the side, where they slowly pile up and jump out of the corner like "SURPRISE!" when I settle down. 

Thank you so much for your comment, and it's lovely to meet you! 🧡 

- ✨Beth

Awesome, thank you so much!!!! I'm gonna start writing out some notes right now 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Hey Derek! We REALLY enjoyed this game, or at least reading it (we haven't played it yet). Honestly I think it was my favorite game of the jam: it really nails the vibe of being a photographer in a war zone, has interesting places to push your luck, and I LOVE that you actually draw the photos you take.

Would you be open to the idea of us making a hack of this game, perhaps as a journalist or something? It could then be cooperative, where one person plays as the photographer and the other the journalist, or could be solo. I haven't thought much about it lol but I LOVE this system and I think it'd be so cool to make something based on it. I have no idea when I'd do it, but it's always nice to have ideas on the shelf ready to be worked on for jams or challenges or whatever.

If not, that's 100% okay, there's literally no pressure and I wouldn't feel any less awesome about this game or your work :D 

If you want to answer more privately, feel free to email us at bethandangelmakegames@gmail.com

- ✨Beth

HECK YES, exactly that! And you're right: book stores still have a similar magic. You pick up a book with a cool cover, you read the back to see what it's about, and then buy books you won't read for years 🤣🤣🤣 

I'm also so glad that the video game hunt is relatable :D

- ✨Beth

Hi, maybe my voice cut out on stream? As that is not what our thoughts were at all. I said a lot of systems can feel intimidating to beginners but what I liked about your Thirty Moons system is that it was user friendly and explained things in a very simply way for people unfamiliar with TTRPGs. That you could run this without having GMd before.
~ Angel

Aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww this is so wholesome and sweet and amazing, and made even more awesome with the behind-the-scenes story. I love it. I love the prompts. I love the art. I love being a pocket girlfriend to my partner 🧡 

- ✨Beth

For the Ludum Praxi jam (a 72-hour game jam to practice for Ludum Dare), I made Their Shadows Awaken. It's a prequel to Their Shadows Slumber with a totally different system, using a deck of cards that you build throughout the game. This is a deckbuilding roguelike game where each death just means one fewer engineer, but you'll be upgrading your ship and your Loothook (deck) will be upgraded throughout the game!

Only the first Star Chart (map) is available now, but you can dive in and try it out! It's free until I finish it (maybe one day). You also can't de-age yourself yet (how you can make engineers survive longer), upgrade your ship, etc.

I also wrote a very in-depth postmortem piece about it here as well if you're curious :D

And I'll be answering questions about it as part of our first Beth and Angel Show, this Thursday (tomorrow) at 7:30 pm Eastern! Feel free to reply to this email to ask anything in case you won't be there. The show will be on our new Twitch channel, and the recording will be on our YouTube channel 🥳 

Have an awesome day :D