Warp Zine Issue 6 Out Now!

Go read it! Check it out here: https://louisvillemakesgames.itch.io/warp-zine-6

I wrote the pixel art piece. This Warp Zine has my favorite Ward and Zina to date, though

Warp Zine Issue 5 Out Now!

Click here to access Warp Zine issue 5!

You'll probably see a familiar pink axolotl through the issue. Good. Behold her.

I don't know what to write for the next one. I'd like it to be an activism something or other, but I gotta decide.

Warp Zine 4 Out NOW!

Hey! All the cool kids are reading Warp Zine, are you? Read it here!

I irritated them for a printable version this time, in case you like to read yours on paper, or print yours out and take them to little libraries like I do.

Game Harvest 2025

Just making sure you wish you developed games in Kentucky: all us Kentucky Developers got together and showed off our games to the public during the fancy fancy event Game Harvest, put on by Louisville Makes Games. We held it in an art musem, because we're art ~

So that's us, and all our little booths, before we turn the lights off. You can see Makealotl Music over on the far left!

You can see Makealotl even better here:

And on the left of that picture, you can see Vaporwave Battler running too.

I gave out stickers! That was fun, I love giving stickers to people.

I got to talk to a tonnnnn of people, too, and watch them play both Note Nab and Vaporwave Battler. It was also excellent to talk to my fellow dev pals, get ideas, and play with their games as well. I walked off with so many ideas, you guys, I have so many ideas now.

My list of ideas for me for next year:

• Get little yard sale signs -- you know, the neon cut out ones? -- to give people a call to action about the game ("Buy on Itch.io!" or "Visit Delia on the web!"). Also use the signs to mark the stickers as free
• Reprint my buisness card holder, it busted right before
• Maybe Game Harvest specific builds that reset or give directions after a time so my booth needs less babysitting
• Headphones. I brought purple ones for Makealotl Music just because Delia has purple headphones and I think I'm funny, and I noticed they got used when the bands were playing really loud. They're just 5 Below headphones, I think another pair of cheapies would be a fine investment.

"How Do I Start Learning Game Development?"

This was my entry for Warp Zine Issue 3. I think it's worth looking at again, so here it is, reposted:

Too many people want to learn development, but don't really know where to start. This infographic is your jumping off point. If you try it and it doesn't work, at least you tried -- come tell me, so I know to change my infographic and set you on a better path!

Warp Zine #3 Out Now!

Warp Zine #3 is out NOW! You can check it out by clicking here

you'll never guess who was a contributor ~~~

Page 4 needs some explanation -- everyone on the Kentucky Developer's discord submitted games they gave up on making. Get it? They're dead games.

Warp Zine 2 Out NOW!

That was fast. It honestly felt like no time at all, yeah?

Click here to read Warp Zine Issue 2!

I actually wrote a feature on Vaporwave Battler that got included. But you should check everyone else's stuff out too.

Weird Marketing Tactics

I'm not sure if this is dumb or not, don't roast me. I've been thinking about other things that can go into little free libraries, ever since I saw a tiktok where some artists made tiny tiny paintings and left them in their libraries. So art is one, right? My husband's work place put together a bunch of children's stem kits to distribute in little free libraries. Hm.

To my little feral self, zines are a perfect fit in little free libraries. I'd love finding a zine in a little free library. (I actually did find one, I took it, it was awesome.) So I got a bunch of small posters printed at the public library, and I've been distributing them in little free libraries. If it's a library close to a place of buisness, I assume it's got more people coming in and out and I drop double.

Pictured: one of my drops. The bottom thing I'm pointing to is a flier for Warp Zine, the top thing is one of my husband's stem kits. I deliver a bunch by bike and have to drive the rest around town. My city's bikeable if you're creative, but it's 1) large and 2) not entirely safe to bike to every single place I'd need because cars go vroom. Those are my bike gloves in the picture, I'm not cool enough to just walk around with fingerless gloves.

So the obvious marketing benefit is that people are getting sent to the latest issue of Warp Zine, right? Right now, that's free advertising for anyone who's featured in Warp Zine. It could be me someday soon! But I still want to give Kentucky Developers some good karma out there.

I'm trying to think of other cool stuff to drop in little libraries, it seems like it could go hand in hand with indie dev stuff. Given that this blog is probably gonna hit video game fans, my two indie dev ideas are either direct advertisements for games or, if you're developing something narrative based, developing some comic zines to go with the story and drop those in little libraries. Get creative, and then leave me ideas in the comments, because right now I'm super into this idea.

Warp Zine Issue 1 Available NOW!

Hey! The Kentucky Developers have put out their new zine, Warp Zine Issue 1! You should come see:

Click here to read it! I already mentioned my tutorial ~~. I'm in particular excited over the world building article. I don't want to spoil too much, go read!

Warp Zine Issue 0

Y'all! The Kentucky Game Developers published their own zine! You can read the first issue right here on Itch.io! I'm so proud of them.

Then they asked me to submit to the second issue, and help edit it too, and I'm like hol up becaue I'm only so smart 😵‍💫

But we did it, and you can see the next issue right here

This is what I made, I made a Godot tutorial (you can guess why they asked me, Queen Princess of Open Source,). Since it's a zine I wanted it to have that sick zine aesthetic, so I typed everything out, then cut and paste it up. Zine making takes more glue than I thought it would.