{"id":4172,"date":"2019-04-26T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T01:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T01:34:42","slug":"announcing-the-electric-zine-maker-about-my-new-art-tool-toy-game-thing-being-developed-the-direction-its-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/announcing-the-electric-zine-maker-about-my-new-art-tool-toy-game-thing-being-developed-the-direction-its-taking","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Electric Zine Maker! (about my new art-tool-toy-game-thing being developed & the direction it’s taking)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here it is. I’m finally announcing it in a blog post, proper!
\nIf you have been following me on Twitter, then<\/a> you’ve<\/a> probably<\/a> seen me<\/a> talk<\/a> about it<\/a>. I’m making a zine tool!
\nThis is called Electric Zine Maker.<\/p>\n

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It’s an art tool for creating zines.
\nIt will allow you to paint, write, and edit zines. It’s specifically targeted at the 8-page fold ones, but I’m open to adding more templates as soon as I have the hard parts of this finished.
\nThis grew out of a spur of the moment thing. I was fairly burned out (jaded?) after an unannounced collaboration falling through. It kind of stung and took the wind out of my sails. I started thinking about zines again, and remembered this prototype that I had. I asked on Twitter if there was interest<\/a> (linking to thread because all the “yes please!!!” are cute)… there was quite a bit of interest, so I decided to pursue this.
\nWorking on this is super encouraging. Just for the fact that it’s not necessarily a game project, but more of a strange tool. It feels fun. Like I’m kind of “giving back” by making something that’s intended to make art in.
\nThe mindset for designing this is also pleasantly different. It feels like fresh air.
\nSo, as you can imagine, I’m doing interesting things with this too… Here’s the plan…<\/p>\n

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I finished the texture pen today!!
Like the "Pattern Spray" you can load an image to draw with (instead of a solid color). It looks so cool when you load glitch art!
It works with transparent images, and you get this really cool layering thing going on!
I MADE A VIDEO OF IT LOOK! pic.twitter.com\/MBULtE4O4l<\/a><\/p>\n

— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n