Hey ZOEFans!

Thanks for following along with ZOEFan.net's newsletters, interviews, and fancraft. I hope you've enjoyed the content. To help improve ZOEFan's offering in 2016 it would help me greatly to better understand ZOEFan's audience.

For that, I've set up a survey over at surveymonkey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YDVF5NT 

It's been a fun 2015. There's a lot moving and shaking over at ZOE, DG and others in 2016 and I hope to be here with you boosting their signal. 

Happy Holidays!

Seth, Link Master General 

ZOE launches The Gamers: The Series with "Season 0"

The Gamers: The Series is back with Newmoon's Story

How do you produce great content without a studio or a network backing you?

One way is to build a passionate fan-base to patron your production -- and that's exactly what Dead Gentlemen Productions and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment aim to achieve. With the announcement of a 5-episode "Season 0", DG and ZOE are pulling out all the stops to build enough support through their Patreon campaign to keep production moving with monthly episodes of The Gamers: The Series for Season 1 and beyond.

Most role-playing gamers will recognize the highly quotable cult classic: The Gamers. If you are among the uninitiated, stop what you are doing right now and watch the full movie from 2002.

Production quality has improve immensely over the last 13+ years and sequels have followed (among them Dorkness Rising, Hands of Fate, and Humans and Households), but this "Season 0" is the first to return to the characters introduced in the original and how they've been surviving IRL.

Season 0 Episode 1 focuses on Newmoon and the struggles of being an elf in modern America.



If you want to keep the series in production, please join their Patreon campaign.

Game on!
~Seth, Link Master General

JourneyQuest: Dark Sword Awakens

The last 24 hours have been interesting. With facebook introducing the lightsaber meme for everyone's profile picture, I thought it would be fun to have Perf holding Kylo Ren's...

"Gods, I've missed violence!" - Sword of Fighting

When I posted this to my facebook page it brought up an un-anticipated dialog...

So, I pulled the JourneyQuest episode Douggie mentioned (JQ1 ep.5) and enlisting the power of fiverr to hire grizzlyharris to do the f/x. BOY HOWDY! did he do an amazing job, with a super quick turnaround. It was less than seven hours between when he accepted it at 9pm and when he sent the final version (at 4:10am)

To flesh it out I used:

• Camtasia2 for all my video/audio editing,
• The Crawl Creator at StarWars.com (using Camtasia2 to screen capture the video, the sound was dreadful but I was cutting that out anyway),
• Photoshop CS6 for the title, intro, and credit boards, and
• The JQ1 soundtrack performed by Steve Wolbrecht.

I hope you enjoy it and May the Farce be with You! --LMG

P.S. Thanks to Douggie Sharpe (The Potato Pope) for putting the idea into the universe, and Christian Doyle for wishing it to be a thing. grizzlyharris for the quick turn-around, and not least -- Jeremy Spray and Kathy Digby who jumped in for moral support.

Two Months!

The Kickstarter to fund JourneyQuest season 3 launches January 18!
www.renewjourneyquest.com

Around the ZOEverse: Aug 26, 2015

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"On this day, Honor has been gloried."

TOP STORY -- #RenewJQ at 98%

After a recent post on the Dead Gentlemen Productions Facebook page, the #RenewJQ sign-up campaign has climbed to nearly 4,100 of the 4,200 email target. The goal of this is project since it launched last October is to help ensure JQ has the fan support to launch and achieve the needed funding goal of $420,000. As previously mentioned, things are already in the works to launch the JQ3 campaign on Jan 18, 2016. If you love the show and are willing to support it with your dollars, please sign up.

Seattle Web Fest 2016
Submissions are now open for the 2nd Annual Seattle Web Fest which will take place at the Northwest Film Forum on March 12th, 2016. On August 25th, SWF held a Summer Showcase featuring a number of ZOE and related shows (among them The Collectibles, The Coffee Table, JourneyQuest, Chop Socky Boom).

The following are news items by ZOE and affiliated productions published Aug 4-25. Do you have ZOEverse news? Send it to zoefannet@gmail.com, post it to our facebook page, or tweet it to @zoefannet with the hashtag #ZOEVERSE. If we use it, we'll credit you in the post.

Zombie Orpheus Entertainment

ZOE has been busy this month prepping and filming a new sketch comedy for their Patreon patrons. Ben Dobyns and Steve Wolbrecht provided some behind the scenes footage via Hang w/ which you can watch here, here, and here (note: if viewed on a desktop, the videos are rotated 90 degrees). Patreon patrons also received a backer advance screener to The Gamers Live 2015 (filmed at GenCon). If you've not backed at even a $1/mo you should -- the first 10 minutes alone are worth it.

Critical Success Productions

A new set of Standard Action auctions are up for bid including a number of "D21" T-Shirts. Follow these, future and past auctions on their Standard Auctions page.    

Also, pre-orders for the Standard Action, Season 3 DVD are still being accepted. If you didn't get your copy or need to stock up for the holidays you can still get your pre-order in.
 

Dead Gentlemen Productions

Dead.FM Episode 15 released on Aug 17th which features a story of Don paying way too much for beer. DG has been working on the Demon Hunters RPG as well as brainstorming ideas on what to do with the Brotherhood Membership Cards. Don also announced that he "wrote the first ever checks to the Dorkness Rising investors. More than 11 years they've been waiting. This feels really good." This comes from the copious work they've done over that time as well as their successful blu-ray re-release.



Thanks for reading!

Link Master General

Around the ZOEverse: Aug 4, 2015

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TOP STORY -- ZOE at GenCon2015

Fans and Cast unite. Photo Credit: Zombie Orpheus

Not only was it a record-breaking year for GenCon, it was also a pretty successful year for ZOE. Their booth drew a lot of traffic, their events were well attended, and rumor has it that Gamers: Live will be released into the wild in the near future.

At the Gen Con Film Festival, ZOE received Best Series for Humans & Housholds and in association with Lynnvander, Inc., Best Gamers Film for The Gamers: Natural One. Congrats guys! 

ZOE photos from GenCon2015 can be seen here, here, here, here, and here :). If you have more to share, drop a link in the comments.

The following are news items by ZOE and affiliated productions published the week of July 28-August 3, 2015. Do you have ZOEverse news? Send it to zoefannet@gmail.com, post it to our facebook page, or tweet it to @zoefannet with the hashtag #ZOEVERSE. If we use it, we'll credit you in the post.

Zombie Orpheus Entertainment

In addition to a successful GenCon, ZOE also released the trailer for Attacking the Darkness and premiered it at GenCon to a very favorable audience response. ZOE also recorded a number of short (1-2 minute) videos live from GenCon which are available to Patreon supporters (Must be a patron to access the link). 
 

Dead Gentlemen Productions

Dead Gentlemen also had a busy GenCon, running a number of RPG sessions using there newly released beta of  RPG Demon Hunters, A Comedy of Terrors. Remember you can download the whole thing for free. "If you like Fate Core and Fate Accelerated, you'll be right at home with this system." This is beta so they welcome your comments, questions, and concerns -- if you have any, please post them to their G+ Discussion Community,  their facebook page or you can send a direct email to Don Early at don.early@deadgentlemen.com. Don also hosted an informative RPG Workshop to give you a great sense of the game.

Kinetic Energy Productions

Transolar Galatica's video game, Robot Rundown, had a recent review of their android version at SuperGameDroid. The game is only $.99 and can be had on a number of platforms.

Romeo's Foe Studios

Sarah and Jeff were busy promoting Gamer Chick and Chaldea at GenCon. You can catch them from GenCon on Mario's podcast This Just In From...

And that's your news from Around the ZOEverse,
Link Master General

P.S. This week, #RenewJQ broke 3,800 fans ready to renew JQ3! Onward! 

Around the ZOEverse: Jul 28, 2015

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Click to go to download the whole damn book

TOP STORY -- DemonHunters RPG GenCon Prerelease Beta
Dead Gentlemen Productions has released the beta of their new RPG Demon Hunters, A Comedy of Terrors in time for GenCon, but no worries if you aren't going to GenCon because you can download the whole thing for free. "If you like Fate Core and Fate Accelerated, you'll be right at home with this system." This is beta so they welcome your comments, questions, and concerns -- if you have any please post them to their G+ Discussion Community,  their facebook page or you can send a direct email to Don Early at don.early@deadgentlemen.com. Don also hosted an informative RPG Workshop to give you a great sense of the game.

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#RenewJQ climbs to nearly 3,800
Although they've announced that the JourneyQuest Season 3 Kickstarter will launch on Jan 18, 2016, it is still vital to the success of the Kickstarter that the #RenewJQ campaign reach at least 4,200 willing to pledge $100 or more when it launches. Link Master General is a bit obsessed with the JQ universe (as can be seen here, here, here, and here) and is happy to report that pledged email signups are closing in on 3,800. If you can commit, please sign up on the RenewJQ Email List. If you can't please help spread the word by screening seasons one and two with your friends, making your own JQ fan creations (if you do, please send a link to LMG!), and/or share your ideas with other fans on how to boost JQ's signal.

Carolina Game Tables - Sign up to win a free Game Table!

Jodi and Clint Black of Beautiful Brains Books and Games have a special place in your LMG's heart, and I hope you'll find their upcoming venture, Carolina Game Tables, worth checking out and supporting. Clint is not only brand manager for Pinnacle Entertainment's Savage Worlds RPG, he also maintains a multi-generational furniture business. What a great way to combine his interests! From now through August 10th you can sign up to win a free game table (there are caveats, click the link for details).

The following are news items by ZOE and affiliated productions published the week of July 21-27, 2015. Do you have ZOEverse news? Send it to zoefannet@gmail.com, post it to our facebook page, or tweet it to @zoefannet with the hashtag #ZOEVERSE. If we use it, we'll credit you in the post.

Zombie Orpheus Entertainment

Thanks to Patreon support, ZOE released this month's spot-on comedy/satirical sketch Conversations with My Internet Troll (featuring Lisa Coronado and Nathan Rice). If you've ever spent any time reading the comments on social media you can relate. Patreon patrons are also able to access this month's live comedy improv courtesy Hat Trick Pony which explores family game night, and patrons can also expect exclusive video updates and Hang With broadcasts while they are at GenCon -- and ZOE is doing plenty of things GenCon.

Critical Success Productions

Tara Pratt (Wendy, Standard Action) recently shared her gifts for magic and maniacal laughter in this 1-800-GOT-JUNK commercial. Fans will also recall her pointing sorcery in this Dannon Yogurt commercial.

Dead Gentlemen Productions

In case you missed it, The Gamers: To Be Continued short launched last week. DG also gave a shout out to their friends at Two Bards Productions (Scott C. Brown and Andy Dopieralski) who released the a 50's educational style short Unit Testing: Is It Enough?

ElGoodTimes Productions

And At hinted that the next episode of The Mayor will be coming soon. Part One Preamble and Part Two $! are available on ZOE's YouTube channel.

Moon Bullet Studios

Todd Downing and "The Collectibles" get a mention in this weeks City Living Seattle.


Onward!
Seth Davis, Link Master General

P.S. Will you be posting pictures from GenCon of ZOE and affiliates caught in the wild? Of fans in cosplay? Please add #ZOEfan to your post and I'll try to collect the photo links in a future issue of ZOEverse.