AGQ Issue 9 and Year 2 Anthology Now Available
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Accessible Gaming Quarterly Year 2 Financials
May 23, 2022 Publisher AdviceThe final issue of Accessible Gaming Quarterly, Year 2 has shipped. Now that issues 5 through 8 have been released, it’s time to take a look back at the year and see how we did.
Like last year, we started with a budget of $4,000 USD, which translated to $1,000 per issue. This time around, we added ePub as an additional file format for digital editions of the zine. We also hit a +$500 stretch goal to add ePub to previous issues (1 through 4), but since that applied toward last year’s issues I’m not going to include the stretch goal funding in my budget analysis.
For reference, our Kickstarter campaign raised $5131 from 166 backers (an average of $30.90 per backer).
If you would like to compare our numbers to last year’s, check out our previous post in this series: Accessible Gaming Quarterly by the Numbers.
Costs Per Issue
Let’s begin by looking at …
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Organizing Your Files to Send to Layout
May 17, 2022 Publisher AdviceIntroduction
“Dude, this is way more prepped than I am used to. It’ll definitely speed the process up and allow us more time to get particular with all the details.”
This is the response I received from Todd Crapper, the production designer behind Survival of the Able, after sending him the files for the book. If you had read any of my past posts about laying out a PDF, or perhaps this guest post from Ruben Smith-Zempel, then you may have an understanding of what a big process it can be. Anything a designer can do to make the process run smoother is a huge boon.
What did I do that elicited such a response?
Let’s talk about how I organized my files to prepare to send them to layout.
Manuscript
The entire manuscript for Survival of the Able is only about 38,000 words long. As complete RPGs go, I’d say that’s on the low to …
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Accessible Gaming Quarterly Issue 8 Now Available
April 23, 2022 NewsAccessible Gaming Quarterly Issue 8 (April 2022) is now available in digital and print.
This issue rounds out the second year of the zine with Q&A, essays, character profiles, and creative ideas to spice up your games. Articles include:
- “Questions and Answers with Accessible Games”
- “Leggo My Lego” by Richard Bennett
- “Dungeons and Dragons and Faith” by Travis Peterson
- “Armond the Penguin Wizard,” written and illustrated by Linus Andersson
- “Learning from Your Mistakes” by Justin Oldham
- “Simulation is Too Simple” …
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Accessible Gaming Quarterly Year 3 Kickstarter
February 2, 2022 News
We launched Accessible Gaming Quarterly, the world’s first zine dedicated to accessibility and inclusion in TTRPGs, in July 2020. Since then, the zine has been a big success and has struck a chord with hundreds of readers.
In 2021, we kicked off the second year of the zine to add more great content and continue the discussion of disabilities in gaming.
Now, with seven published issues and an eighth on the way, we’re launching the Kickstarter campaign to fund a third year. With its success, we’ll fund four more issues of content created by and for disabled gamers.
You can be part of the process.
You can help make a difference.
Because that’s what we’re …
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End-of-Year Update, 2021
December 24, 2021 NewsHappy Holidays, everyone.
It has been a busy year here at Accessible Games. Sometimes, I get so busy I forget to come back and post an update about what’s been happening around here.
If you have followed any of our recent Kickstarters, you’ll have an idea of what has been happening. Survival of the Able successfully funded at 129% and work on the game is well underway, Accessible Gaming Quarterly is about to drop Issue 7 in January, and I have been working behind the scenes on some projects I can’t talk about yet.
This year has seen a lot of successes. Accessible Gaming Quarterly Year 2 and Survival of the Able both exceeded their funding goals, which has really helped drive us forward. Their successes give me confidence that there are people out there who wisht o support diverse voices and marginalized communities, and in particular disabled gamers.
On that note, the Everyone-Games …
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Survival of the Able at Everyone-Games
September 30, 2021 NewsSurvival of the Able has Risen Again on Kickstarter
September 29, 2021 NewsThey’re hungry.
But they have no idea who they’re messing with.
Survival of the Able, the game about disabled people working together to overcome a zombie plague, is now infecting Kickstarter.
Join us at http://www.bit.ly/SotAKSLive if you want to survive.
About Survival of the Able
In Survival of the Able, you’re a disabled person living in a European almshouse when the Black Death comes to your town. Little is known about where the plague originated or how to stop it, but those who die from it are rising again—and they’re hungry for flesh. …
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Rising Soon – Survival of the Able
September 25, 2021 News Publisher Advice
On Kickstarter September 28th through November 1st, 2021
Coming Soon – Survival of the Able Kickstarter
September 15, 2021 NewsSurvival of the Able is returning from the dead to invade Kickstarter.
Todd Crapper (Broken Ruler Games) and I are teaming up to re-launch the campaign at the end of September. It will run through the month of October and finish on the Day of the Dead, November 1st.
You may remember Survival of the Able from the interviews, podcasts, and articles I have post about the game before. In short, it’s a game about people with disabilities working together to overcome a zombie plague.
You will play as a person with …
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