Games for an Ordinary Life is a ZineQuest art zine and funding ends on March 8!
Games for an Ordinary Life is a poetic art zine of short, sweet and dangerous ttrpgs, and funding ends in one week, on March 8th! It needs your support!
Games for an Ordinary Life is a poetic art zine of short, sweet and dangerous ttrpgs, and funding ends in one week, on March 8th! It's just over the 50% mark and can definitely use your support!
This delightful ZineQuest contribution came together as a sketchbook exercise during the 36 Word RPG Jam in which I drafted over 20 tiny games of all various styles during January 2025. The final collection will polish most of these games and publish them in a charming little A5 book.
The Games
Games for an Ordinary Life contains a wide range of styles including solo, duo and group games, games for storytelling, real-time games, autobiographical games, games from observation of the world, theater games and even a magnetic poetry game. You’ll find games like:
- Insatiable Mountain - a game about feeding a mountain that’s always hungry, and learning how you grow in real time.
- Spin Out - a semi-autobiographical game about spinning out of control in a car on an icy highway in Iowa.
- (Un)Fortunately, Fate - a spin on the classic theater game “Fortunately, Unfortunately.”
- Baby Dragon - a game about being a baby dragon
- Reveal Your Heart Quest - a magnetic poetry game that lets you build a new game each time you play.
- .. and more!
There's even a reward tier to get your own magnetic poetry copy of Reveal Your Heart Quest - such a cool thing to have on hand!
The Art
In addition to the poetic games, Games for an Ordinary Life will also include original linoleum block prints that I will design and create after the campaign. This artwork will be produced in A5 as well, in the style of the cover art seen above - which is itself an original linoprint.
You can read more about the development of this zine and a deep dive into some of the games in my blog and visit my itch.io page for some other games included in the collection as well.
About the Author
Hi! I’m Jacob Wolf Lefton, an actor, writer and artist living in Berlin, Germany. I've been playing tabletop roleplaying games for over 30 years, since I was a very small child. I've got several games I’m excited to develop coming soon and this is a first step down the road of realizing them in the world.
Among my many other adventures, I'm involved in producing and performing actual play and ttrpg stories both live with my Berlin-based comedy troupe Tales Held Dear and online with the new podcast The Witches of Wederra Keep.
