Accessible Gaming Quarterly Issue 5 Now Available

By: Jacob Wood, July 10, 2021 News

Front cover of AGQ Issue 5, featuring a color illustration of Darlene Lambert. Darlene is a post-collapse heroine whose story is detailed in this issue.We’re kicking off the second year of Accessible Gaming Quarterly with a stylish new color cover, and you can now get a copy of the first issue at DriveThruRPG.

Issue 5 of the zine delivers more great art, engaging essays, and a new Questions and Answers segment. There is also a bunch of creative content that puts disabled heroes in the spotlight and some new idea fuel for piratical prosthetics.

Inside this issue, you’ll find:

  1. “Questions and Answers with Accessible Games”
  2. “Do-it-Yourself Accessibility” by Justin Oldham
  3. “Character Snapshot: Darlene Lambert” by Justin Oldham
  4. “Accessibility, …
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Accessible Gaming Quarterly by the Numbers

By: Jacob Wood, April 5, 2021 Publisher Advice

When I launched the Kickstarter campaign for Accessible Gaming Quarterly, I set a budget of $1,000 per issue. At four issues for the first year, that meant a goal of $4,000 USD. I wasn’t entirely sure how reasonable that goal was, but I was confident in my ability to make it work as long as my assumptions weren’t wildly off base.

Now that all four issues have been published, it’s time to take a look at how I did. This analysis is as much for my benefit as it is for yours. I hope that by publicly announcing my costs and numbers, I can give you an insight into what it might take to produce a zine of your own someday. If nothing else, I feel I owe it to my backers to be transparent with where the money went.

Let’s dive in, shall we?

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Accessible Gaming Quarterly Issue 4 Now Available

By: Jacob Wood, April 2, 2021 News

Front Cover of AGQ Issue 104We’re excited to announce that Accessible Gaming Quarterly, Issue 4 (April 2021), is now available in both digital and print.

This issue rounds out Year 1 of the zine, and it is the biggest issue to date. Issue 4 includes 56 pages, plus additional battle maps you can download for Microsoft Excel. It’s also available in several formats: Vision Layers-enabled PDF, non-layered PDF, fixed and fluid ePub, and print. Pay once and get access to every version, so you can choose the best format for you without spending extra.

 

This fourth issue of the zine features eight articles, including:

  • “Going Online” by Jacob Wood