Recently I started playing Morimens. It is a Lovecraftian horror visual novel/deckbuilder/gatcha game. Sounds wild? Oh yes. At first I wasn’t sure if this would be something I enjoy, but the story and the worldbuilding sucked me in. I never expected that a pretty obscure little game would consume me so much. My friend Caerme also got into it, and since she is a working convention vendor, we decided to make a very last-minute project for the upcoming con.
I still can’t believe we made it on such short notice! This is basically a love letter to the game. Caerme wrote the entire text. I made the layout and the graphic design elements. A few weeks ago I decided to experiment with mark making. The goal was to build a library of textures in black and white that I can use for different zine projects. Little did I know that these textures I made would come in handy so soon. I was leisurely chipping away at leaf prints, stencil stamping, and just collections of running ink blobs. I think I used almost every texture I had prepared so far.
Since I am currently not in the best drawing mood, I made the illustrations using a stamping technique. A cleaning sponge had to give its life for this, but it was well worth it. I really enjoyed stamping those character shillouettes. Especially the cover. All the other elements that were way too fragile to cut out were drawn in Affinity Designer, like the silver key on the back or the realm icons.
All in all, it was a very fun project! Have fun flipping through the finished zine. (Also yes, we’re obsessed with this game; don’t mind us.)
Zine details:
- format: A6
- page count: 28
- paper cover: 180 g/ms Koala double-sided matte photo paper
- paper inside: 120 g/ms Xerox copy paper