SideQuest launched today. It’s a project to gamers discover RPG zines and for their creators to promote them.
Inspired by and not competing with Kickstarter’s ZineQuest, SideQuest is intended to be a cross-platform campaign where participating designers and publishers show the logo and promote each other’s projects. The website makes it easy for fans to find the zines and for the designers to pool resources.
Marc Strocks, the founder, told the press;
I was excited for ZineQuest but didn’t see any community form between participants. I created a Discord server to help people network and lift each other up. We don’t need corporations. We work together to show what indie resources can do.”
The project has attracted interest from some notable names in the indie RPG scene, including D. Vincent Baker. Vincent added;
My first games were zines, my current games are zines, we should all be making zine games, buying them, trading them, playing them all the time. Zine games are great for first-time designers testing their wings, old-time designers trying to learn new tricks like me, and everybody in between. I especially love to see an indie project like SideQuest picking up the ZineQuest baton. Love it!”
LUMEN and Slayers creator Spencer Campbell is also involved. He said;
SideQuest represents everything I love about the indie RPG scene: an opportunity for a wide variety of designers to show off their amazing work, and the community lifting one another up together.”
SideQuest is a project from the game development incubator Zine Creators Workshop. The ZCW helps projects go to print.
Creators and publishers interested in SideQuest can sign up here and the hashtag #SideQuest2021 used to track discussion on Twitter and Instagram.
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